The Kanzas news., 1859-05-28
The osawatounie Convention---skiss
BRIGHT

day, May seth and 2sth. was. from all &C.
counts that have reached as. complete
success. Though The weather was bad the
roads bad and the streams swollen by the
rains till they were well nigh impossible,
delegates were present from nearly every
county in the Territory. They knew that
the interests of great cause required their
presence, and they went No ordinary
occasion could have called together such an
assemblage of the best minds and the best
hearts in Kansas. We have not get re-
ceiyed the official report of the proceedings.
but it suffices us to know that they were
characterized by an earnest seal for the Re-
publican cause. and by the utmost harmony
and good feeling on the part of all who par
ticipated in the discussions. The Platform
finally agreed upon was adopted unani-
mously, and the announcement of its ad-
option was followed as We learn by twelve
enthusiastic cheers. The platform is in fact
worthy of such emphatic appreciation,
While it is strictly and distinctively Re-
publican in every feature, it is yet Sc broad
ly catholic and liberal that even professional
fault-6nders will be at their wits end to
find aught against it. Every plank is of
solid oak, and the joiner work. of the best
description. We solicit for it careful Pc
rusal and candid judgment.
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WHEREAS, Since the organization of the
Territory of Kansas, the Democratic Party
has been. in control of the Legislature and
Executive Departments of the Government
-and
WHEREAS, 1t has used those powers
which should have been exerted to foster
and sustain, only to oppress our people; vi
olated every principle it claimed to advocate;
protected aud supported invasions by for
eign mobs, which burned our. towns, plum
dered our houses, wasted our sustenance,
destroyed our presses and murdered our
people; evinced total disregard of popu-
lar rights and settled determination to
force the institution of negro slavery upon
US; attempted to put in execution laws
which. for injustice, cruelty, and fraud.
have scarcely been paralleled in history
of the most barbarous ages; supported
that creature of infamous usurpation the
Lecomplon Constitution, by Federal bayo-
nets in Kansas and by official patronage and
Executive corruption at the National Capt.
tai; made an inyidious and disgraceful dis
tinction between Free and Slave Constitu-
tions by offering us br,be 10 enter the I'm
ion under the former without Representa-
tive population, and refusing us admission
under the latter until we had population
of 90, 600; appointed corrupt and obnoxious
judicial and executive officers over US, whose
partisan sympathies and partial decisions
have prevented the administration of JUS
tice; and by long train of abuses. and
usurpations proved itself the bitter foe OF
the people of Kansas and the enemy of pop
ular rights everywhere-and
WHEREAS, The Republican party has on
all occasions eyinced devotion to popular
rights aud an attachment to the best inter
ests of the nation, that deserve our appro-
val; and has by its adherence to the princi-
pies of the Fathers of the Revolution, and
its earnest support of the cause of Freedom
in Kansas, won our appreciation and graft
tude; and
WHEREAS, We believe the time has come
for the reople of Kansas. 10 take position
and affiliate with a party National in its or
ganizaLion and objects,
lst. RESOLVED, That we the people of Kan
sas in delegate convention assembled, do
proceed to organize the Republican Party
and declare our principles as follows:
Cd. ResoiUed, That we affirm that the on
ly true basis of Free Governments and of
popular rights for all countries and times,
is to be found in the great seif-evidenL
truths enunciated by Thomas Jefferson and
the Fathers of the Republic in the Declara-
ton of Independence.
Sd. RESOLVED, That while we declare our
submission to the Constitution and laws of
the United States, and disclaim all control
over slavery in the States in which it exists,
we hold that the Constitution does not car
ry slavery into the Territories, but that it is
the creature of special enactment and has
existence only where supported by it, and
we reprobate and condemn the perversion of
the power of the Supreme Court of the Uni
ted States to sectional demands and party
purposes.
4th. ,Resolved, That with the founders of
the Republic, we believe that governments
derive their just powers from the consent of
the governed, and that it is proper that the
people of an organized Territory should be
permitted to select their own officers and
enact their own laws. free from Congress
ionai or Executive control.
5th ResolUed, That Freedom is national
and Slavery sectional. and that we are inflex-
IDLY opposed TO the extention of Slavery 90
soil now free.
9Th. ResolUed, That we condemn the Ad-
ministration for It's feebleness and impoten-
cy in the enforcement of tie law prohibit
ing the importation of African slaves into
the United States and demand such further
legislation by Congress as viii forever sup
press the inhuman traffic.
7lh. Resolved, That the Wyandott Consti-
tutional Convention be requested to incor-
porate in the Bill of Rights of the Consti-
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