The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1859-08-04


MINNESOTA REPUBLICAN PLATFoRM.-We
gave last week the nominations for Governor
and Congress made by the Republican Con-
vention of Minnesota, at st. Paul, on the 2lst
ult. The following resolutions embrace the
principal features of the platform adopted:
al. We maintain the Union of the States,
the rights of the States and the liberties of the
people. :. ],
90. Regarding Slavery as a great moral and
political evil, we oppose its extension beyond
the States in which it already exists-the re-
opening of the African slave trade-a slave
code for the Territories and while we disclaim
all interference with Slavery where it already
exists in the States, we demand the entire and
unconditional divorce of the National Govern
ment from any participation in this relic of
barbarism.i
"3 We prescribe no man on account of his
religion or place of nativity we oppose any
abridgement whatever of the right of naturali-
cation now secured by law to emigrants, and all
discrimination between native and naturalized
citizens, whether by amendment of a State
Constitution, as in Massachusetts, or by legis-
lative or Congressional action and we resist
with Indignation, as our fathers did in 1872,
the monstrous doctrine of the impressment of
American citizens by foreign despotisms, as re-
Gently proclaimed by the present Administra-
ton.
"A. We are in favor of granting the public
domain in limited quantities to be the free
homes of freemen lands for the landess
cersus niggers for the niggerless; and we hold
the present Administration to a strict account
ability for the defeat of the Homestead bill in
the last Congress-.
"5. We condemn the doctrine of the bred
Scott decision as anti-constitutional, anti-re-
publican, incompatible with State rights, and
as destructive of personal security.
Sc. We are in favor Of immediate and eff
cient National aid to a Pacific railroad by the
most practicable route.
"a. We hold that Congress ought to protect
the lives and property of our citizens by judi
cious appropriations for rivers and harbors.'
The 9Th resolution is for maintaining the
purity of the ballot-box. The 9th is a sweep
ing condemnation of the Administration for its
corruption, prodigalty, its issue of shinplasters
against all the maxims of the party, its Kansas
frauds and tyranny, its opposition to home
steads, its treachery in regard to the Pacific
railroad, &C., &C., &c. The 10th denounces the
State organization as fraudulent, and arraigns
the democratic" State Administration on
various counts. The 18th censures the FEEDER
eral Administration for ordering the sale of
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cuniary pressure. The 18th denounces the
fraudulent practice of the Black Democracy in
making the savage Indians vote in violation of
law The 18th and l4th refer to other local
abuses.
The Convention represented every county in
the State. A correspondent of the Chicago
Press and Tribune says / have never seen
fner-looking body of men, or more harmo-
NOUS Convention" He concludes as follows
:" As the boat leaves at 2.3O P. NJ, l will not
be able to give you all the names of the candi-
dates in this letter; but l will send them to
you tomorrow. Mark nay word, the ticket this
Convention will nominate will be elected from
top to bottom. The great ballotbex suffer,
Sam Medary, is gone to Kansas, and the
breech-clout voting is played out.
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