Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1856-08-12
THE REPUBLICAN, PLATFORM.


This convention Of delegates assembled in pursuance
of call addressed to the people If the United States
without regard to past political differences divisions
who opposed to the repeal of the Missouri Compro
mise to the policy of The present Administration; to the
extension Of slavery into free territory; in favor the
admission of Kanzas Free State; of restoring the
ton of the Federal Government to the principles wash
ington and JeIson and for the purpose of presenting
candidates for the Offices Of President and Vice President
do
/ Resolpe That the maintenance of the principIes
promulgated in the Declaration Of Independence and
embodied in the Federal Constitution are essential to the
preservation Of our Republican institutions; and that the
Federal Constitution, the rights Of The States, the
union Of the States, shall be preserved
2. Resoiued That, with cur Republican fathers,
hold to be self evident tr1h that all men en3owed
with the inanabe right Of life, liberty, and the pursuit
Of happiness aad that the primary ohes and ulerior
design Of federal government were to those
rights to all parties within its exclusive jurisdiction; that
our Republic fathers when they had abolished slave
cry in all national territory, ordained that person
shall be deprived Of lie liberty property without due
process Of law becomes our dulyto mauain this pro-
vision Of the Constitution against a attempts to violate
it for the purpose Of establishing slavery in the United
States by positive legislation prohibiting its existence
extension therein; that deny The authority Of Con-
socation Of individuals to give legal assistance to slavery
in any territory Of the United States, while the present
Constitution shall be maintaiaed
8. ResO}Usd, That the Constitution coBers upon Con-
gress sovereign power the territories Of the United
States for their government; and that in the exercise Of
this power it is boh the right aud tae duty Of Congress
to prohibit in the territories those twin relics of barbars
polygamy and slavery.
Res0Iped That while the Constitution of the United
States ordained and established by tho people or
der to form perfect un0n establish justice insure
domestic tranquility provide for the defence, and
secure te 9ssgs o. Sf't t ana contains ample pro
Of every citizen the aearrt ", I7 ~ ana property
people Of Kanzas have been haudulenty and violently
taken from them:
Their territory has been invaded by an armed force;
Spurious and pretended legislative. judicial and
utve officers have been get over hem BY whose usurped
authority. sustained by the military power of the govern
men tyrannica and unconstitutional laws have been
enacted and enforced;
The rights Of the people to keep and bear arms have
been infrnged
Test oatls Of an extraordinary and entangng nature
have been imposed condition Of exercising the rights
of suffrage and holding office;
The right Of an accused person to a speedy and public
trial by an impartial jury has been denied;
The right Of the people to be secure in their persons,
houses papers, and effects against unreasonable searches
and seizures, has been violated;
They have been deprived Of life liberty, and property,
without due process Of law;
That the freedom of speech and of the press has been
abridged;
The right to choose their Representatives has been made
Murders robberes, and arsons, have been iastgatei
and encouraged, and the offenders have been allowed to
go unpublished;
Thai all these things have been done with the knowI-
edge sanction and procurement Of the present Admins
traton and that for this high crime against the Coastiu
ton, the Union and humanity, we arraign that Admnis
raon the President his advisers, agents, supporters
apologls ana accessories either before after the facts
before the country and before ihe wo-ld and that it is
our fixed purpose to bring the actual perpetrators OF these
atrociOus outrages, and their accompces to sure and
condgn punishment hereafter.
5. ResoiUed, That Kanzas should be Immediately
mitted STATE Of the Union, with hr present free
sttuon at tile most e45tual way Of securing
her citizens The enjoyment Of the rights and privileges
which they ntited and OF ending the civil strife
raging in her Territory.
6 Resolued That The hghwaymans plea that might
makes right embodied 10 the 0stend circular, was in eve
ny respect unworthy Of American diplomacy and would
bring shame and dish1unr any government that