Glasgow weekly times. (Glasgow, Mo.) 1848-1861, 1856-03-27
AMERICAN PLATFORM.

pTene DelllS IoT MS protecting care 'oucnSaIeu
to our fathers, in their successful Revolutionary
struggle, and hitherto manifested to us, their de-
scendants, in the preservation Of the libertes the
independence, and the Union of these States.
. 2. The perpetuaton of the Federal Union, as
the palladium Of our civil and religious liberties
and the only safe bulwark of American Indepen-
dence.
3. .Anlericdns must rule america, and to this
end, natiUe- born citizens should be selected for
State, Federal, and municipal Offices or govern
ment employment, In preference to all others;
nevertheless,
4. Persons born of American parents residing
temporarily abroad, should be entitled to all the
rights of native-born citizens but
s. No person should be selected for political
station, (whether Of native or foreign birth, )who
recognizes any allegiance obligation to any for
eign prince, potentate or power, or who refuses
to recognize the Federal and State constitutions,
(each within its sphere,) as paramount to all
other laws, as rules of political action.
8. The unqualified recognition and mainte-
nance of the reserved rights Of the several States
and the cultivation of harmony and fraternal
good will between the citizens of the several
States, and to this end, non-interference by Con-
gress with questions appertaining solely to the in
divdual States, and the non-intervention by each
State with the affairs Of any other State.
7. The recognition of the right of the native
born and naturalized citizens ofthe United States
permanently residing in any Territory thereof, to
frame the constitution and laws, and TO regulate
their domestic and social affairs In their own
mode, subject only to the provision of the Fed
eral Constitution, with the right of admission into
the Union whenever they have the requisite pop
ulaton for one Representative in Congress. Pro-
ptded altrays, that none but those who are citi-
zens of the United States, under the constitution
and laws thereof, and who have fixed residence
in any such Territory, ought to participate in the
formation of the constitution, or the enactment of
of laws for said Territory or State.
s. An enforcement of the principle that no
State Territory ought to admit others than cit
izens of the United States to the right of suffrage
or of fholding political office.
9. A change in the laws of naturalization,
making a continued residence of twenty .one
years, of all not hereinbefore provided for, an in
dispensable requisite for citizenship hereafter.
and excluding all paupers, and persons convicted
of crime, from landing upon our shores; but no
interference with the vested rights Of foreigners.
10. Opposition TO any union between Church
and State; no interference with religious faith, or
worship and no test oath for office.
IL. Free and thorough investigation into airy
and all alleged abuses of public functionaries ,and
a strict economy of public expenditures.
-. The maintenance and enforcement of all
cIoI
be repealed or shall be declared null and void by
competent judicial authority.
13. Opposition TO the reckless and unwise pol
, icy of the present administration in the general
management of our national affairs, and more es-
pecially as shown in removing "Americans'' (by
designation) and conservative in principle from
office, and placing foreigners and ulraists in their
places; as shown in trucking subservieney to
the stronger, and an insolent and cowardly braya-
do towards the weaker powers; as shown in re-
opening sectional agitation, by the repeal of the
Missouri Compromise as shown in granting I'M
naturalized foreigners the right of suffrage in
Kansas and Nebraska; as shown in the vacilla-
lating course on the Kansas and Nebraska
question; as shown in the corruptions which per-
wade some of the departments Of the government
as shown in disgrHcing meritoriods naval officers
through prejudice or caprice; aud as shown in the
blundering mismanagement of our foreign rela-
tions.
IA. Therefore to remedy existing evils, and
prevent the disastrous consequences otherwise re-
sulting therefrom, we would build up the "Amer-
ican party" upon the principles herein before
stated.
15. That each State Council shall have author
ity to amend their several constitutions so as to
abolishsh the several degrees, and institute
pledge of honor instead Of other obligations fol
fellowship and admission into the party.
49, A free and open discussion Of all politica
principles embraced in our platform.
GTThe Black Republicans, who had forced
themselves on the Convention, headed by FoRr