The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1859-11-02
ResOIusi0ns of the Republican
state Convention.

DIR. Partridge, from the Committee on
resolutions reported the following:
RESOLVED, That this convention re-
afirms the principles embodied In the
resolutions adopted by the Republican
State Convention, held at Madison on
the 18th day of July, 1854; and, also,
the principles promulgated by the resolu-
tious of the Republican National Consen-
ton, held at Philadelphia on the 18th
alay Of June, 1855; and that in the main
tenauce of these principles is to be found
sure guaranty for the preservation OF
the liberties of the people the reserved
rights of the States, and the intes rity OF
the Federal Union.
Resolued, That the repeated and con-
tinued aggressions of the Slave Power
upon the rights of free labor and the true
principles of the Constitution, as exhibit
cd in the atrocious doctrines of the bred
Scott deciaion--in the arrogant demand
for the re-opening Of the African Slave
Trade-and in the clamor for the enact
ment, by Congress, of Save Code for
the Territories, force upon us, in common
with the people of the Free States. the
necessity of renewed, united, and unre-
hitting efforts in behalf of Freedom, Free
Labor, and Free Soil.
RESOLVED, That the corruption and ex-
trayagance Of the present National Adj
ministration, as evinced in the liberty of
members Of Congress to vote for the
Lecompton Constitution, and to betray
the people, as shown in tho contracts for
the army and navy, and in the Wiilet's
Point and Fort Smelling fraud; and as
proven by a bankrupt treasury, demand
at the hands of the people change Of
rulers, and the reform of the abuses
which pro-slavery misrule has inflicted up
on the people.
Resolved, That the reckless disregard
ofths rights of naturalized citizens by the
administration of James Buchanan, as
exhibited in the letter Of Gen. Cass to Mr.
LeClere, calls for orr unqualified repro
baton; and that we claim for every cti-
zen, whether native or adopted, from
whom we exact allegiance protection
aohile abroad
Rssolued, That the peculi1r feature
now contained in the Constitutions OF
Massachusetts, and South Carolina, which
requires, before the right OF suffrage can
De exercised by the foreign born, resi-
dence of two years after naturalization
meets our united condemnation.
Resolved, That the Indifferent and pro-
scriptive spirit of sham Democracy, which
in some of the 30 called Democratic,
States, makes property instead Of man
hood, the basis Of suffrage, and which in
| the leading Democratic State of South
Carolina excludes every man who is not
"the owner of ten negroes" from the
right of holding Office, is a reproach to
the age in which we live; and is opposed
alike to the theory Of our government,
the spirit of our institutions, and the right
of mai.
7Sesolved, That we cordially approve
of and endorse the course OF our Senators
and Representatives in Congress, in main
tanning the principles of the Republican
Party, and generally promoting suck
measures as have for their objects the adj
vancement of human rights and in oppos-
ing the extravaganza and prohigacy Of the
Democratic Administrations of the Feder-
al Government