The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1858-06-05
Re,ubliceni.ua in Nebsasha.

Rspublicanism In Nebsasha.
The Republicans Of Nebraska met in Ter
ritorial Convention, for the first time, at
Omaha, on the 9th Of May last. The
Convention was not large one, but the
utmost harmony prevailed throughout. The
Republican says call the counties were rep
resented, we believe, with the exception of
L'eau qui Court, Cass, Pawnee and Richard
son. 1t was business meeting of some Of
the best men of Nebraska, to consult to-
gether rs to the w;sest course to be pursued
by Republicans in the future. The proceed
ings of the Convention, although spirited,
were entirely harmonious; and characterized
by the utmost good feeling" The resolu-
tions adopted, have the ring Of the true
metal, and are free from that conventional
clap-trap, which is too often corollary Of
political assemblages. We subjoin them for
the perusal of our readers, and as evidencing
that our neighbors over the ''Big Muddy"
are not call Democrats" of the old Hunker
school:
/. That in view of the alarming position
of the present National Administration,
which claims for the Executive of the United
States the authority to force Territories into
the Union as States with institutions repug-
nant to the people thereof; and also in con-
sideration Of the fact that the friends of that
Administration are forming party organi-
cation in this Territory to support this
odious assumption Of power; it is our duty,
as Republican citizens of Nebraska, to or
ganize for the purpose of meeting the issue
thus forced upon US, and to vindlcate the
right of a people Ola Territory, when APP
plying for admission as State, "to regulate
their own institutions in their own way"
2. That we re-afirm the platform of
principles adopted by the National Republic
can Convention at Philadelphia, in June,
1856, so far as the same are applicable to
the present exigencies of the country, and
that we array ourselves under the banner of
the party then organized.
4. That, with Republicans everywhere,
we endorse the great doctrines of the Dec
laration of Independence, and the Constitu-
ton of the United States, and declare it to
be our unalterable determination to support
those bulwarks of our prosperity, and
wherever they have been departed from, to
restore them to their original purity, MS
maintained by the founders Of our Republic.
6. That the Territories are the common
property of the people, subject solely to the
laws Of Congress under the Constitution of
the United States, and therefore no institu-
ton which Congress may not constitutionally
establish, can have rightful existence within
their borders.
6. That the attempt of any State to es-
tablish its local and peculiar institutions in
any Territory, is an Infringement, not only
upon the right of the people therein, but
upon the rights of all the States and the
local laws of Virginia and Kentucky, which
reduce portion Of their population to
Slavery, ought to be as imperative in any
Territory as the school and tax laws Of New
York and Ohio.
7. That the action of the Administration
in regard to the Lecompton Constitution is
act, and of the Constitution Of the United
States. 1t violates the Kansas Nebraska
act and its boosted principles of popular
sovereignty, by its attempt to force laws
upon free people in direct opposition to
their will. 1t violates the Constitution of
the United States by using splendid brides
Of profit and covert threats Of loss to ac-
compish the same purpose.
s. That Free labor and Free Speech, in
herited from our ancestors and guaranteed
to US BY the Constitution, are our inalienable
rights, and that we will vigorously oppose
the introduction Of any institution in our
Territory that degrades Free Labor or for
bids Free Speech.
9. That the attempt of the present Ad-
minis.ration to affirm Slavery as already
legally existing in Kansas, is a base attempt
TO violate the rights privileges and solemnly
and using the extra judicial opinion of
Judge fancy in delivering the decision of
the Supreme Court in the bred Scott case, is
gross attempt to corrupt the Constitution
of the United States, and degrade the digni-
ty and virtue of the Supreme Court.
10. That the repeal of the Missouri
Compromise, taking back the consideration
which Freedom received for permitting
Slavery in Missouri, thus compelling Free
men to fight second time for territory once
soemnly dedicated to it, on an entirely new
principle, wiz: so-called popular soverei gnty,
was an outrage upon the sentiments of the
North-an act of the grossest bad faith, and
forced upon us contrary to our wishes and
votes.
IL. That we are in favor of the appro-
priation of lands by the General Govern
ment, for the purpose of building the Grand
Pacific Railroad, and all the branches of
said road which may be necessary for the
convenience and benefit of the country.
II. That we are in favor of the Home
stead bill, which has been recently introduced
into the Senate of the United States, dona-
ting one hundred and sixty acres of the ma
tional domain to the actual settlers thereon,
as Homestead, aud that we condemn the
late action Of Democratic Congress in
deferring this Bill and the Pacific Railroad
to another session.
i3. We will extend the right hand of
fellowship to all who are opposed to the
present Administration, in its attempt to
force Slavery into new Territories, and
bride free. men to vote in opposition to prin-
ciples previously avowed and honestly held.
IA. We are opposed to all Banks ofIssu,
whose bills and deposits are not safely Sc
cured from mlsmanagement or fraud.
Is. That we are in favor of one general
act of Congress under which all Territories
may be organized on the same basis, and do
all their own local legislation, until their
application to Congress as States with
Republican Constitution, which has been
approved by the people of such States APP
plying for admittance, and when admitted
US States, it shall be on uniform basis,
l6. That the Republicans be requested
to organize societies wherever practicable in
their respective counties, to act in cooper
alton with the neutrality-suspicious..
Trying to Make 1t Pleasant all Round.
The passage of the Kansas bill imposes
new duties upon the retained organs of the