The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1857-08-27
che Eiaiforn> Of tire Republican
Earty.

TIE following IS the plaIorm adopted at
Columbus by the Republican State Ccn2en-
ton:
Invoking earnestly the favor Of God, and
relying confidently upon the intcl cliigencc,
and patriotism and discriminating justice of
the people, We the delegates Of the epub.
lican party in State Corven,ion assembled
submit to the candid and enlightened judy.
mcnt of the jreeman of Chlo the following
declaration of Republican principles and
measures: ..s@ :,
|. We adhere to the platform odorted by
the Republican, Convention held at Phiaf
deIphia in I77G, anI reaffirmed in June 1856,
and soIemnly consecrate our political and
moral powcrS to support. its doctrines. ,
2. We maintrin the Union of the States,
the Rights Of the Safes and the Liberties of
the people. !.
g. We submit checrfuliy to the iesiti.
mate and constitutional exercises OF the pow.
ers Of the Federal government. but we pro-
test against the arrest and vexatious prose.
cutions, under wris of Federal Commission
ers, of our Jud Les, Sheriffs, Justices OF
Peace and private citizens, for acts required
by State law as oppressive, tyrancal, and
unwarrantable.
4. We insist that the lawful process by
the State Courts for the maintainance oI
right, and the prosecution and punishment o.
crime committed with the limits of Ohio aDc
against her sovereignty, shall be executed
without the let or hindrance by federal offi
| cials.
s. We deny the right Of the federal author
| tiles under the color Of Flu ,itive Slave act
or any other act, to suspend The writ of ha
beas corpus, or defeat its due execution ant
operation in this State.
| 6. We condemn tn. doctrines of the ma.
jority of the Federal Supreme Court in the
Dred Scott case, as anti cons titutional, anti
! republican, anti. democratic, incompatible le
with State rights and destructive of persona
security. , = - p 20.
Z. We regard slavery as a. great evil ant
wrong, ever aggressive, constantly mis-
chievorS, and ro.rectiveIy fatal both tc
Union and Liberty; and we therefore ear
nest!y oppose Us extension OF encourage
ment by the Federal Government -
8. We concur with vast majority Of ths
people of the free States, and with respec,
tuble portion OF the people cfthe slave States
| in reBrobation of the action of the Fedora
Government, under the control Of the slave
power, in breaking down barriers agains
slavery extension provided by the wisdom o
our fathers, and in forcing Slavery into free
Territory Under the fraudulent pretence O
the Nebraska Kansas Bill, in disregard o
settled national policy and plain constitutions
al provisions. -, ~. D.., -. "a.
= 8. We adhere cordially to the doctrine @
Popular Sovereignty as taught in the DeclaI
alton of independence; but condemn as
, gross perversion of that doctrine the moder
( pretensions that one portion of communil
may rightIully enslave another. -,
10. We hold to the old fashioned MOTTO
of our Fathers, Ga fair days wages for a day
8 work." and repudiate with scorn the sent
+. ment that slavery is the natural and norm
i, condition of the laboring man." and will n
: sist as antirepublican end unjust every a
tempt, by whomsoever made, to degrade tt
v free labor OF free men here and elsewher
d and proclaim as one of the leading objec
n of the Republican party in seeking to pr
:. vent the further spread OF slavery, 10 secu
to the free white labor OF thu country its ju
ts reward and it's full social and polite
10 rights.
!. IL. We condemn without qualifcatic
the embtzzlement Of the public moneys r
Gently discovered, and we demand the prom
le and rigorous enforcement of the Jaws in I
re punishment Of every person implicated in
9. same.