The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1856-08-28
PL A T. F @ r M
OF the National Republican Party,
Adopted at Philadelphia.

Adopted at Philadelphia.
| RFsoryrp. 7 hat the maintenance of the prin
ciples promulgated in the Declaration OF Inde
pendence, and embodied in the Federal Con
sstitution, are essential to the preservation o
our republican institutions; and that the Fed
eral Constitution, the rights of the States, ant
the Union of the States, must and shall be pre-
served.
RESOLVED, That, with our Republican fathers
we hold it to be self-evident truth that all mel
are endowed with inalienable right to life, lib
erty, and the pursuit of happiness, and tina
the primary object and ulterior design of ou
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 o
| life, liberty or property without due process. o
law, it becomes our duty tc maintain this pro
vision Of the Constitution against all attempts
to violate it for the purpose of establishing
Slavery in the Territories of the United
States, by positive egislation--prohibit
ing IFS existence or extension therein
that we deny the authority of Congress, or of
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
barbarism, pollyygamy and slavery: :,
the United States was ordained and established
bv 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 over
them, by whose usurped authority, sustained
by the military power of the Government, ty-
rannical and unconstitutional laws have been
enacted and enforced;
The right of the people to keep and bear arms
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 right of an accused person to 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 of no effect;
Murders robberies, and arson have been in
stigated and encouraged, and the offenders
have been allowed to go unpunished;
That all these things have been done with the
knowledge, sanction and procurement of the
present Administration; and that for this high
crime against the Constitution, the Union and
humanity, we arraign that Administration, the
President, his advisers, agents, supporters, ap-
biologists and accessories, both before the coun-
try and before the world, and that it is our fixed
purpose to bring the actual perpetrators of
these atrocious outraSes and their accomplices
to a sure and condign punishment hereafter.
RESOLVED, That Kansas should be immedi-
ately admitted as a State of the Union, with
her present Free Constitution, as at once the
most effectual way of securing to her citizens
the enjoyment of the rights and privileges to
which they are entitled, and of ending the civil
strife now raging in her Territory.
RESOLVED, That the highwayman's plea that
might makes right embodied in theOstend cir
cular, was inevery respect, unworthy of Ameri-
can diplomacy, and would bring shame and
dishonor upon any Government or people that
gave it their sanction,
RESOLVED, That railroad to the Pacific
Ocean by the most central and practicable
route is imperatively demanded by the inter-
ests of the whole country, and that the Federal
Government ought to render immediate and eff
cient aid to its construction, and as an auxilia-
ry thereto, the immediate construction of an
emigrant road on the line of the railroad.
RESOLVED, That appropriations by Congress
for the improvement of river and harbors of a
National character, required for the accommo-
dation and security of our existing commerce,
are authorized by the Constitution, and justified
by the obligation of the Government to protect
the lives and property of it's citizens.
RESOLVED, That we invite the affiliation and
cooperation of men of all parties, however
differing from us in other respects, in thesupport
of the principles herein declared; and believ-
ing that the spirit of our institutions, as well as
the Constitution of our country, guarantees lib
among citizens we oppose all legislation i'm
pairing their security.
Fremont endorses the above thus.
"You have been engaged. gentlemen,
in q cause that should draw to its sup
port all the Friends of Constitutional
Freedom. l have read the platform
which you have adopted, and have ex-
amined with care the principles it em
bodies. 1t is, at this time, like a second
Declaration Of Independence. I believe
in its truth, and can adopt it in all its
parts; and it will be my purpose, if the
voice Of the people shall ratify the nomi-
nations which you have made, SO to con-
duct the Government that these principles
thus avowed, shall become effective,
DE 4 ESyIn A rnI A GENI11