St. Cloud Democrat. [volume] (Saint Cloud, Stearns County, Minn.) 1858-1866, 1860-06-28
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REso1vRD, That We, xhed acknowledgement
tatiyea Of tAeiRepublican electors Of the: Uni
ted States, in Convention assembled. I'M the
discharge Of the duty I'VE ,SYeto our constitu-
ents and our country, unite in the following
az That lie history . Of tie nation, during
the last four Years. S mas fully established the
proopriety and necessity Of athe organization
and perpetuationt of the Republican party
and that the causes Which called it into exis-
tencg ARE permanent in their Mature, and now,
more than ever before, .demahds its peaceful
and constitutional triumph: Hass afI t"af,J 1fo2
2. That the maintenance of the principles
promulg gated inthe Declaration of independence
and embodied II, the Federal Constitution, tho
right to life, liberty and the pursuit of'hsppi'
mess, is essential TO the preservation Of eur
Republican institutions 3 aiia that the Federal
Constitution, the Rights Of TIE States, and The
Uniol Of the States must and shall be preserved,
iol s. That tothe Union of the States this nation
ewes its unpreced ented increase in population,
It's surprising Development Of material resour
ces, its rapid aug lion Of wealth. its hap
ipiness 1T home and its honor abroad; and we
hold in abhorrence' NIL schemes for Disuni0n,
come from whatever source they may And We
congratulate the country that ~ Republican
member Of Congress has uttered orconntenan-
ced the threats IF. Disunion 50 often made by
Democratic members, without rebhke and with
applause FROM their POLITICAL associates and
we denounce those threats Of disunion, I'M case
of popular overthrow Of their ascendency
as denying the vital principles Of free gov
eminent, and as avowal: Of cont emplated trea-.
son. which it is the: Imperative duty Of I'm
indignant People sternlyt rebuke and forever
silence n ~. y - Z ~ =! Ao'N>>- !
4. That The, maintenance i1nviolatc of the
Rights Of the States and especially the right
of each State to order and control its own
domestic institutions according to its own
jud gnent exclusively, is essential to that bal
once Of powers on which. the perfection and
endurance Of Our political fabric depends and
We denounce The lawless invasion by armed
force Of the soil Of any State or Territory, no
matter under what pretext, asi among the gra-
vest of crimes. r,i :, 80
S. That the present Democratic Administra-
ton has lar exceeded our worst approximations,
in its measJre1ess snbseryiency to the exactions
of sectional interest, as especially evinced
in its desperate 'exertions to force the infamous
Lecompton Constitution. upon the protesting
people of Kansas; In constituting the personal
relation between master and servant to involve
attempted enforcement, everywhere. on land
and on sea, through the intervention of Con-
gress and of the Federal Courts, of the extreme
pretcnsions Of purely local interest; in it's
general and unvarying abuse of the power
Entrusted to it by a confding people.
6. That the people justly view with alarm
the reckless extravaganza which pervades ev-
cry department Of the Federal Government;
that a return to rigid economy and. accounta-
bility is indispensable to arrest the systematic
plumber Of the public treasury by favored
partisans; while the recent startling develop,
ments Of frauds and corruptiens at the cderal
Metropolis, show that an entire change of
administration is imperatively demanded.
7. That the new dogma that the Constitution,
of its own force, carries slavery into any or
all of the Territories Of the United States, is
a dangerous political heresy, at variance with
the explicit provisions of that instrument it.
self, with contemporancous exposition, and
with legislative and judicial precedent; is
revolutionary in its tendency, and subversive:
Of the peace and harmony Of the county.
8. That the normal condition of all the ter
ritory of the United States is that of freedom!
That as our Republican fathers, when they
had abolished slavery in all our national ter
ritory, ordained that emo person should be
deprived of life, liberty or property, without
due process of law" it becomes our duty, by
legislation, whenever such legislation is neces.
sary, to maintain this provision against oil at
tempts to violate it; and we deny the authori-
ty Of Congress, of a territorial legislature, or
Of any individuals, to give legal existence to
Slavery in any Territory ofthe United States,
8. That we brand the recent re-opening of
the African slave trade, under the cover Of
our National Flag aided by perversions Of ju-
dicial power, as a crime against Humanity and
a burning shame to our Country and Age; and
we call upon Congress to take prompt and ef-
fcient measures for the total and final sup
preston Of that execrable traffic.
10. That in the recent yetoes, by their Fed
eral Governors, of the acts>of the Legislature
of Kansas and Nebraska, prohibiting slavery
in those Territories, we find a practical illus
tration of the boosted Democratic principle Of
Nom Intervention and Popular Sovereignty
embodied in the Kansas Nebraska bill, and
demonstration Of the deception and fraud in
volved therein. '' ,'.+ - 49, -
II: That Kansas should Of right be immedi-
ately admitted as State under the Constitu-
tion recently formed and adopted by her people
and accepted by the House of Representatives
r., That while providing revenue for the
support Of the general government by duties
upon imports, sound policy requires such an
adjustment Of these imposts as to encourage
the development of the industrial interests Of
the whole country; and we commend that
policy Of national exchanges, which secures
to the working men liberal wages, to agricul.
ture remunerating. prices, to mechanics and
manufacturers an adequate reward fer their
skill, labor and enterprise, and Ito the nation
commercial prosperity and independence.
8 :, 13.s That we protest against; any sale or
alienation to others Of, the Public Lands held
by actual settlers, and against any view Of the