The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1858-07-15

gress, which resulted as follows:
Col. S. r. Curtis =. ....92 votes.
Hon. John Edwards.... ....21
Hon. w. H. Sewers ...... ...... 10 &C
Total. 49,. .123
On motion Col. S. r. Curtis was nominated
by reclamation.
On motion Hon. Charles Foster, Hon. John
Edwards, and Hon. w. H. Sewers were APP
pointed Committee to wait upon Col. Curtis,
and inform him of his domination by the Con-
vention.
Mr.. Kilbourne from the Committee on Res
olutions submitted the following preamble and
Resolutions which were unanimously adon-
ted.
The Republican Convention for the LIST
Congressional district Of Iowa, adopt the fol-
lowing, mainly the resolutions OF contempt
rarv convention, as specific and satisfactory
expression of their sentiments:
I. We reatiirm our devotion to the Consti-
tuition of the COUNTRY, and re the Union of the
States, and will steadily resist all attempts for
the 'perversion of the one, or the disruption of
the other. We recognize the equal rights Of
all the States. and avow our readiness and will
ingness to maintain them, and disciaim all in
tention of attempting, either directly or indl-
rectIy, to assail or abrdge the rights of any of
the members of the Confederacy guaranteed
by the Constitution, or in any manner to inter-
Al. -.
ties where il exists. Nevertheless, we hold
that the Government was instituted for free
men, and that it can be perpetuated, and made
to fulfil the purposes Of its organization only
by devoting itself to the promotion of vir-
ture and intelligence among its citizens, and
the advancement Of their prosperity and hap
piness; and to these ends, we hold it to be the
duty of the Government so to reform the sys-
tenn of disposing of the public lands as to Sc
cure the soil to actual settlers, and wrest it
from the Craps of men who speculate in the
homes of the people, and from corporations
that lock it up il dead hands for enhanced pro-
fits.
2. Free Labor being the only true support
of republican Institutions, our Government
should maintain its rights; and we. therefore
demand the Improvement of our harbours and
rivers which freight the commerce Of the
West to market, and the construction of q
central highway to connect our trade with the
Pacific States, as rightful encouragement to
home industry; and, inasmuch as we now
compete in the markets Of the whole country
against the products Of upaid labor at depre-
ciating prices, it is therefore eminently unjust
that the National Administration should at
tempt by coercion to extend servile system
in the Territories, or by patronage, to perpet-
uate Slavery in the States.
3. The present Administration has proved
recreant to the trusts committed to it hands,
and by its extraordinary corrupt, unjust and
undgnifed exertions to give effect TO the orig
inal intention and purpose of the Kansas Me-
braska bill, by forcing upon the people Of
Kansas, against their will and in defiance Of
their known and earnest-expressed wishes, a
Constitution recognizing Slavery as one Of
their domestic institutions, it has forfeited all
claim to the support Of the friends Of tree men
free labor, and equal rights.
a. 1t is the duty OF the Government faith
full and diligently to execute all our treaty
stipulations, and to enforce all our laws FOR
the suppression of the slave trade.
s. That while we deprecate all interference
ON the part Of political organizations with the
action Of the Judiciary, il such action is lini-
ted to its appropriate spheres yet we cannot re-
frain from expressing our condemnation Of the
principles and TENDENCIES Of the extra judicial
opinions of a majority of the Judges Of the Su-
preme Court of the United States in the mat
tiers Of bred Scott, wherein the political heresy
is put forth, that the Federal Constitution ex-
tends Slavery into all the Territories of the
Republic, and so maintains it that neither Con-
gress nor People, through their Territorial
Legislature. CANDY law abolish 1t. We hold
that Congress possesses sovereign power
over the Territories, whilst they remain in q
Territorial condition and that it is the duty
OF the General Government to protect the Ter
ritories from the curse Of Slavery, and to pre-
serve the public domain Tor the occupation
Of free men and free labor. And We declare