The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1856-08-21
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OF the National Republican Party.
Adopted at Philadelphia.

Rrso1vEp. That the maintenance of the prin
cinles promulgated in The Declaration OF indie
nendence and embodied III the Federal Con-
sltitution, are essential to the preservation OF
orr republican institutions; and that the Fed
oval Constitution, the rights of the States, and
the Union of the.States, must and shall be pre-
served.
RESOLVED. That, with our Republican fathers,
we hold it to be a self-evident truth that all men
are endowed with inalienable right to life, lib
ertv, and the pursuit of happiness, and that
the primary object and ulterior design of our
Federal Government were to secure these rights
to all persons within its exclusive jurisdiction
that as our republican fathers, when they abol-
ished slavery in all our National Territory,
ordained that no person shall be deprived of
life liberty or property without due process ssof
law, il becomes our duty tc maintain this pro
vision of the Constitution against all attempts
10 violate it for the purpose of establishing
Slavery in the United States, by positive leg
islation- prohibiting its extension therein;
that we deny the authority of Congress. or of a
Territorial Legislature, or of any individual OF
association of individuals to give legal exist
ence to slavery in any Territory of the United
States, while the present Constitution shall be
maintained.
RESOLVED, That the Constitution confers
upon Congress sovereign power over the Ter
ritories of the United States for their govern
ment. and that in the exercise OF this power
it is both the right and the duty of Congress to
prohibit in the territories, those twin relics OF
barbarsm, polygamy and slavery.
RrsolyEp. That while the Constitution OF
the United States was ordained and established
by the people, in order ''to form more perfect
Union, establish Justice, insure domestic tran
guilty, provide for the common defence, to
promote the general welfare. secure the bles
sings of liberty, and contains ample provis
ions for the protection of the life, liberty and
property of every citizen, the dearest consti
tutional rights of the people of Kansas, have
been fraudulently and violently taken from
them;
Their territory has been invaded by an armed
force;
Spurious and pretended Legislative, Judi
cial and Executive officers have been set owe
them by whose usurped authority, sustained
| by the military power of the Government ty
rannical and unconstitutional laws have beer
enacted and enforced;
The right of the people to keep and bear ARM
| has been infringed;
Test oaths of ar extraordinary and entang
ling nature have been imposed as a condition
of exercising the right of suffrage and holding
office;
The ri ght of an accused person to speed,
and public trial by an impartial jury has beel
denied;
The right of the people to be secure in thei
unreasonable searches and seizures has bee
violated;
They have been deprived of life, liberty an
property without due process of law;
That the freedom of speech and of the pres
has been abridged;
The right to choose their representatives ha
been made of no effect;
Murders, robberies, and arson have been in
stigated and encouraged, and the offender
have been allowed to go unpunished;
That all these things have been done with tn
knowledge, sanction and procurement of tn
present Administrations and that for this hig
crime against the Constitution, the Union an
humanity, we arraign that Administration, th
President, his advisers, agents, supporters, az
biologists and accessories, both before the couI
try and before the world, and that it is our fixe
purpose to bring the actual perpetrators {
these atrocious outrages and their accompllce
to a sure and condgn punishment hereafter
RESOLVED, That Kansas should be immed
ately admitted as State of the Union, Wit
her present Free Constitution, as at once tn
most effectual way of securing to her citizen
the enjoyment of the rights and privileges
which they are entitled, and of ending the civ
strife now raging in her Territory.
RESOLVED, That the highwayman's plea, ths
might makes right, embodied in theOstend ci
cular, was in every respect, unworthy of Amer
can diplomacy, and would bring shame All
dishonor upon any Government or people tn;
gave it their sanction,
RESOLVED, That railroad to the Pacif
Ocean by the most central and practical
route is imperatively demanded by the inte
ests of the whole country, and that the FEEDER;
Government ought to render immediate and eff
cient aid to it's construction. and as an auxilia
ry thereto, the immediate construction of a
emigrant road on the line of the railroad
RESOLVED, That appropriations by Congres
, for the improvement of river and harbors of
National character, required for the accomm,
dation and security of our existing commerce
are authorized by the Constitution, and justife
by the obligation of the Government to prote
the lives and property of it's citizens.
RESOLVED, That we invite the affiliation an
cooperation of men of all parties, howev'
differing from us in other respects, in thesuppo
of the principles herein declared; and belize
ing that the spirit Of our institutions, as well
the Constitution of our country, guarantees iii
erty of conscience, and equality of righ
among citizens we oppose all legislation in
pairing their security.