The Kansas herald of freedom., 1859-04-02

pursuant 10 previous notices auu PtVSeeu-
ed to business by electing E G. Jewell.
ESQ.,, President Aaron Decker, Vice
President; David R. Cobb. Secretary.
On motion of J. G. Burnet. Esq. a com
mittee Olive was appointed to report res
olutions. VIZ: Prot. W, R Griffith, Joseph,
Oakley, J. c. Burnet, R. N. Jacks, Capt.
H. C. Moore.
The Convention adjourned an hour for
dinner. 81
The hour having arrived, the ConyeD-
ton resumed business. and the committee
on resolutions made the following report !:
WHEREAS, it is proper, in any political
organization presenting itself Cor the sup
port Of the people, to Indicate the princi-
piles constituting its basis Of action. we,
Republicans of Bourbon county, in Mass
Convention assembled, in order to effect
a preliminary organization of the Repub-
lican party in said county, do resolve as
follows
Resolved, That, in our opinion. the time
has come for the Republican party to as
sumo distinct organization and, there
fore, it becomes the imperative duty OF
every lover of free principles. and free
institutions, to contribute the weight Of
his influence to advance this movement.
Resolved, That the surrender of our vast
national Territories to slavery would at
once be national crime, national dis
aster, and q national shame; and that
every American, whether in the North or
in the South, who lives, or whose posteri-
ty must live by any other industry than
that of enslaved, benighted. imbruted hu-
man. chattels; every one who does not re-
gard those who live by honest, muscular
exertions, as necessarily the ''mud-sills Of
society" has deep personal interest in
the triumph Of our cause.
Resolved, That our attitude of active,
positive, resolute resistance to slavery ex-
tension, is that Of our Revolutionary Fa-
theirs, and the founders of this Republic /;
that our doctrine and practice OF legisla-
tive prohibition of slavery in the Federal
Territories was first propounded by
Thomas Jefferson, and heartily approved
by George Washington, together with a
great majority of the distinguished pa
triots and statesmen of the South as well
as of the North; and that we, as their
descendants and admirers. cannot, without
dishonor, take lower ground in opposi-
ton to the spread ofslavery, than they de-
liberately assumed, and untinchingly
maintained throughout all the earlier his
tory Of our government.
Resolued, That, in thus proclaiming our
determined and unalterable repugnanca to
the extension of slavery, we disclaim all
unkinG feeling or ungenerous purpose
towards our brethren of the South we
disclaim all intent or wish to war upon OF
harm them we insist that they have no
right to regard, as invidious or hostile, our
persistence in policy which their fathers
first traced out for our fathers and them
selves; and we hold that the true interest
and enduring honor Of every portion Of
the ccnfederacy, require the conservation
of every remaining acre of national Terri.
tory to the uses of free labor and free men
RESOLVED, That the dicta propounded BY
the Supreme Court of the Republic in
the bred Scott decision, making every
square mile of the Federal Territory pri
ma facia slave Territory, by increasing
the facility with which such extension
may be effected, decpens the obligation
resting upon Us, to resist the extension ol
slavery; and despite such dicta of the
Supreme Court, We affirm the power o.
Congress to exclude slavery from the Ter
ritories Of the United States.
Resoived, That the attempt Of the Ma
tional Administration to force the Le
compton Constitution and slavery upor
the people of Kansas-an instrumen
never authorized by her people, but in
dignantly repudiated as usurpation ant
fraud-and the attempt to discriminate
between the population Of slave holdin,
and non-slsveholding State, by seeking
to admit a State with slavery with les
population than State without slavery
was anti-republican in principle; dan
gerous to the peace and harmony Of tn
country unjust in itself aud insulting t.
every free State in the Union, and at va
rance with the whole spirit OF our con
stitntion and people.
Resolued, That we deem the early ad
mission of Kansas into the Union as
State, as a measure most eminently cal
culated to develope the resources. and t
promote the general welfare, prosperity
peace and consequent happiness of he
people; and that it thus becomes tn
duty of all good citizens to labor to secur
this result, by uniting in the efforts abou
to be made for the accomplishment o
that object.
, RESOLVED, That the financial policy o
the present Federal Administration, mad
up as it is of ruinous prodigality in ex
penditure, coupled with utter neglect t
balance that expenditure by any oihe
resource than borrowing, deserves the un
qualified reputation Of every considerat
, citizen; and we call upon our rulers :
stop the incurring of millions after mil
lions of debt, by some comprehensive an'
adequate system Of finance, before the ma
ton drifts heedlessly and hopelessly int
bankruptcy.
Resolved, That it is eminently desirabl
that our national domain should be &C
quired by pioneers and actual settlers
: rather than by monopolists and specula
tors and to this end, we urge upon Con
gress the immediate passage of a genera
Homestead Law; and that all publ
: lands shall be open to unimpeded settle
,, ment for at least ten years before they ca
be purchased on speculation, or acquire
by any but an actual settler.
Resolved, That, as a means Of nations
defence. and as measure eminently ca
culated to promote the national Interests
and the general welfare ofour whole cour
ltry, it becomes the imperative duty {
our government TO secure the location
completion and establishment Of Q gran
trunk railroad from some central point o
the Mississippi or Missouri river, to soon
: port on the Pacific; and that we urg
upon Congress speedy and efficient lee
islation for the accomplishment Of 8
beni6cent result.
D Resolped, That the Amnesty Bill, pas.
ed by the recent Legislature, and az
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