The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1858-07-03


Tho Convention met ut 8 O'Clock. The
committee on preamble and resolutions re-
ported rs follows: go.
WHEREAS, We the representatives Of the
Republicans of Iowa, being again permitted
to assemble in State Convention, we deem
this fitting occasion to briefly express our
views of national and State policy and to
affirm our adhesion to the principles OF Con-
stitutional Liberty, for which we have been
long and earnestly contending. We believe
this Republic specially ordained by onr
forefathers, for the free homes of the me-
chanic, the operative and the farmer, and
we their descendants are determined that
it shall be preserved aud administered Tor
our common welfare; and that tho great
problem of the ability OF the people to gov
ern themselves shall be clearly solved, In
the onward progress and prosperity OF our
Republican Constitution; manifesting to the
nations of the earth that the free spirit Of
this nation is unconquered and unconquera-
Bile. Therefore,
/. Resolred, That the principles laid
down in the Philadelphia Platform, adopt.
ed on June 18th, 1856, are founded upof
the Constitution of the United States, are
consonnnt with the teachings Of Christian
ity, and are most heartily endorsed by this
Conv ention.
2. Resolved, That in the contest now waging
between Freedom and Slavery, our sympa-
thies are wholly and strongly with the form
er-that We have no truce to offer, no mercy
to ask-that with US the watchword is VIC
tory or death.
5. Resolved, That the effort made to ex-
tend the area Of slave territory on this CONT.
nent by the Democratic party, is contrary to
the spirit Of the age and the genius of our
institutions.
4. Resoived, That by the passage Of the
English swindle for the admission of Kansas
into the Union under the infamous Lecomp-
ton Constitution, whereby m unjust dis
elimination is made in favor of Slave and
against Free States in the amount of popula-
ton required to form State Government,
the so-called National Democracy have
proven their devotion to Slavery extension,
their opposition to the interests of Free La
Dor, and their total disregard of the popu-
lar will. ..
5. Resolved, That the new doctrines Of
the so called Democratic party originated by
Chief Justice fancy, in the bred Scott de-
cision and carrying Slavery into our nation
nj territory has no foundation in the Federal
Constitution, is at war with the verities of
our history, civil and judicial, and is calcu-
lated to tolerate the cnslaving Of our race
in all the States.
6. Resolved, That we view with satisfac-
ton the course of those who, without re-.
spect to party feeling and in defiance of the
threats and in scorn of the brides and cor
rupting influences of the Buchanan admin
istration, boldly, and as frcemen fighting
for frcemen's rights, opposed with all their
might the passage Of the Lecompten eonsti-
tuition and the English bill swindle through
Congress, and we trust that amoag the peo-
| pie there viii continue the same stern oppo-
sition to the encroachments of the slave
power, which they have recently so gallantly
manifested before the nation.
7. RESOLVED, That VIC look forward hope
fully to that good time not far distant,
when it shall be deemed legitimate, proper
and constitutional for this government to
extend its protecting care over free labor,
the commerce and industrial interests of MI
| the country instead If bending its whole
energies and treasure for the ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
Of slave holding aristocracy in one section
Of the Union.
8. Resolred, That the corruption which
stalks abroad at MONDAY, pervading
every department Of the Nationaf Govern.
meRt, the gross and Shameless use Of Presi-
dental power and patronage to influence the
actions OF Congress, the astounding increase
in national expenditures in time of peace
and universal financial embarrassments, lin.
volying ~ it does debt of forty I've
millions Of dollars, and an expenditure OF
nearly one hundred millions Of dollars Dur
| ing a single financial wear y hr;n0gn~ unon
.hs government tho burning p., dse4sc sps y
bankruptcy and threatening the onerous- bur.
thcns Of direct taxation, demand 4 solemn,
earnest protest from Us IN behalf Of the peo.
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