The Buchanan County guardian. (Independence, Buchanan County, Iowa) 1858-1864, 1859-06-30

Mr.. Jerome, from the Committee on
Resolutions, submitted the following re-
port, which was adopted by reclamation
amid great enthusiasm
RESOLUTIONS.
Possessing an abiding confidence in
the intelligence and patriotism of the
American people-an unwayering faith
in their devotion to the eternal principles
of liberty, as they came from the heads
and hearts of the fathers of the Republic,
and invoking the blessing Of Heaven up
on our efforts to maintain them in their
purity, we commend them most cordially
to the sympathy and support of the Re-
pubicans of Iowa and the Nation.
ReSolved, That we entertain an abid
ing confidence in the cardinal doctrines
contained in the Republican National
Platform, of 1856. and affirming the
same, we commend them anew to the
discriminating consideration Of the peo-
pie. aa.ztgrsvaA le s.aa
RESOLVED, That the sum of nearly one
hundred millions, supposed to be neces-
sary to support the government under
the rule of the Africanized Democracy,
is incompatible with all just ideas Of
simple, economical Republican govern
ment, and that the issue of National Shin
plasters to meet such demand, shows the
hopeless financial degeneracy of the pres
ent Administration. rf-.f.r
Resolued, That we condemn the prin
ciplc advocated by the Democratic par
ty, no prohibition of Slavery in the Ter
ritories, and proclaim as our principle, no
Interference with liberty by the Presi-
dent, by Congress or by the Federal
Court. ..
Resolued, We claim for citizens, ma
tive and naturalzed, liberty of cons
cience, equality Of rights. and the free
exercise of the right of suffrage We
favor whatever legislative and admins
trative reform may be necessary to pro-
f tect these rights, and guard against their
Infringement or abuse. and we oppose
, any abridgement whatever of the right
of naturalization now secured by law to
{ emigrants, and all discrimination be-
! tween native and naturaized citizens,
whether by the amendment Of State
Constitution or otherwise. And we cor
, daily approve of the action taken by the
Republican State Central Committee in
: regard to the amendment proposed by
, the Massachusetts Legislature to its Con.
stitution. a
Resolued, That the Republican party
will forever oppose the demand of the
: Southern Democracy for the enactment
of Slave Code for the Territories.
RESOLVED, That we look with horror
I upon the revival of the Slave Trade, and
view with alarm the apathy and abortive
attempts of the Administration and Jul
dietary in arresting and bringing TO trial
, and Justice those who have recently
been guilty of open infractions of those
laws OF our country which declare it pr
racy, and in sending such as have been
arrested to places for trial where indict.
ment was doubtful aud acquittal certain !;
5 and while we will oppose by every just
means the repeal Of those laws, we will
also insist upon their being hereafter
faithfully executed and enforced, even
though it involves the exercise of the
full power of the Federal Government.
Resolved, That we are in favor of
granting to actual settlers suitable por-
tons of the public lands free of charge !;
and we do most unquaifiedly condemn
the course of the Pro Slavery Democ-
racy in Congress, in opposing and de-
fearing. in the United States Senate,
the Homestead Bill, which was designed
to secure free homes for free people,
whether they were of foreign or native
birth.
Resolped, That the rights of citizens
ale equal, and they are equally entitled
TO protection at home and abroad, with
out regard to nativity or duration of do
micil /; and that the late refusal by the
federal government as expressed in the
late official communication of Lewis
Cass, Secretary of State, to guarnteo
against arrest and detention abroad of
naturalzed citizens on the ground of
their allegiance TO foreign power, is a
cowardly abandonment of the true and
f noble position hitherto occupied by our
government.
The following resolutions are respect
fully submitted as relating to state policy:
Resolved, That we re -assert as cardin-
al principles of Republication, the main
tenance of a strict economy in public ex-
penditures, and the prompt and faithful
discharge, by public officers, of their
public duties; and We congratulate the
people of Iowa, that the present State
officers are entitled to and enjoy their
confidence in the execution Of their Off
cial duties.
Resolved. That while our State tax
has been largely reduced, being less in
1853 than the preceding year, and less
the present year than in 1858, the in
creasing county taxation is becoming so
burdensome as to call imperalively for
reform in the system of County Admin
istration.
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