Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1856-08-21
THE REPUBLICAN, PLATFORM.

This convention Of delegates, assembled in pursuance
of call addressed to the people Of the United States
without regard to past political differences divisions
who opposed to the repeal of the Missouri COmpro-
mise; the policy of the present Administration; the
extension of slavery into free territory; in favor of the
@ 5sI0n OF hanzaS as Free State; OF restoring the
t3a Of the Federal Government to the principles of Wash
ngon and Jeeson and for the purpose of presenting
c dates for the Offices Of President and Vice President,
L Rssoles, That the maintenance Of the principles
promulgated in the Declaration Of Independence and
embodied in the Federal Constitution, essential to the
preservation Of our Republican institutions ana that the
Federal Constitution, the rights Of the States, and the
union of the States, shall be preserved
q ReSoiU8d That, with Republican fathers, we
hold IL to be self evident truth that all men are endowed
with the inaienabe right of life liberty and the pursuit
Of happiness and that the primary object and Interior
design Of federal government were 20 secure those
rights to all parties within its exclusive jurisdictions that
Republican fathers when they had abolished Slave
cry all national territory, ordained that person
small be deprived OF life, liberty property, without due
process Of law becomes duty maintain this pro-
vision Of the Constitution against all attempts to violate
it for the purpose of establishing slavery in the United
States by positive legislation, prohibiting its existence
extension therein hat we deny the authority Of Con-
Eress, of territorial legislature of any individual
socaton of individuals give legal assistance slavery
in any territory of the United States while the present
Constitution shall be maintained.
3. ResOiUed, That the Constitution conters upon Con
gross sovereign power the territories of the United
States for their government and that in the exercise Of
this power it both the right and the duty Of Congress
to prohibit in the territories those twin relics of barbarsm
poygamy and slavery.
L. ResoiUed, that while the Constitution of the United
States ordained and established by tina people in
der to Storm perfect union, establish justice insure
domestic TRANQUILITY provide for the common defence and
the blessings Of liberty and contains ample pro-
visions for the protection Of the e liberty and property
of every citizen, the dearest constitutional rights Of the
people Of Kan2as have been raudulenty and violently
@ssiS territory mas Been inyaded ny an srspel force;
Spurious and pretended legislative, judicial and exec
uye officers have been set over them, by whose usurped
authority sustained by the military power OF the govern
ment tyrannical and unconstitutional laws have been
enac, cd and enforced;
The rights of the people to keep and bear arms have
been infringed;
list oaths Of an extraordinary and entapglng nature
have been imposed condition OF exercising the rights
Of suffrage and holding Office;
The right of accused person to speedy and public
trial by an impartial jury has been demsdj
The right of the people to be secure in their persons,
hous papers and effects against unreasonable searches
and seizures, has been yiolatedi
They 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 robberies and arsons have been instigatei
and encouraged and the offenders have been allowed to
go unpunished;
Thai all these things have been done with the knowl
edge sanction and procurement Of the present Admins
traan and that for this high crime against the Cotu
l0n the Union, and humanity arraigo Stat Admins
Lratan the President s advisers agent5 supporters,
apo ss and accessories either before or after the facts
beore the country before the world and that it is
xed purpose bring the actual perpetrators Of these
atrocious oarages and their accomphces, to sure and
condgn punishment hereafter.
5 Resolved, That Kanzas should be Immediately
itted State of the Un0n with her present Tree con-
siuou as at the most eeCtual way Of securing to
her citizens the enjoyment of the rights aad PRIVILEGES 10
ahcb they entitled, and OF ending the CIVIL srie now
raging in her Territory
s Resolvea, That The hiIhwayman's plea that might
makes right embodied in Tie otcd circular, was in eve
ry respect unworthy of America diplomacy, and would