The Buchanan County guardian. (Independence, Buchanan County, Iowa) 1858-1864, 1860-05-23


resentatives of the Republican electors
of the United States, in Convention as
sembled, in the discharge of the duty
we owe to our constituents and our coun-
try, unite in the following declarations ::
lst. That the history of the nation du-
ring the last four years, fully established
the proprety and necessity of the organ
ization and perpetuation of the Republi-
can party and that the causes which
called it into existence are permanent in
their nature, and now, more than ever be-
fore, demand its peaceful and constitu-
tional triumph.
Cd. That the maintenance Of the prn-
ciples promulgated in the Declaration of
Independence and embodied in the Fed
eral Constitution, that all men are created
equal 4; that they are endowed by their
Creator with certain inalienable rights,
that among these are life, liberty, and the
pursuit of happiness that 10 secure these
rights governments are instituted among
men, deriving their powers from the con-
sent of the governed, is essential to the
preservation OF our Republican institu-
tons and that the Federal Constitution,
the Rights of the States, and the Union
of the States must and shall be preserv-
ed.
Sd. That to the Union of the States
this nation owes its unprecedented in
crease in population, its surprising de-
velopment OF material resources, its rap
id augmentation of wealth, its happiness
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hold in adherence all schemes for Dis
union, come from whatever source they
may and we congratulate the country,
that no Republican member Of Congress
has uttered or countenanced the threats
of Disunon so often made by Democrat
ic members, without rebuke and with ap
plause from their political associates !;
and we pronounce those threats of Dis
union, in case of popular overthrow
of their ascendancy, as denying the Vi
tai principles of free government, and
as an avowal of contemplated treason,
which it is the imperative duty of an in
dignant people sternly TO rebuke and for
ever silence.
4th. That the maintenance inyiolate OF
the Rights of the States, and especially
the right of each State to order and con-
troll its own domestic institutions accord
ing to its own judgement exclusively, is
essential to that balance of power on
which the perfection and endurance of
our political fabric depends and we de-
nounce the lawless invasion by armed
rcs Ct Aatsg a aa Ct what p pr
among the grayest of crimes.
9Th. That the present Democratic Adj
ministration has far exceeded our worst
apprehensions, in its measurless subserv-
lency to the exactions of a sectional in
teiest, as especially eyinced in its despe-
rate exertions to force the infamous Lee
compton constitution upon the protesting
people of Kansas ; in constituting the per-
sonal relation between master and servant
to involve an unqualified property in per-
sons; In It's attempted enforcement, ey-
erywhere, on land and sea, through the
Intervention of Congress and of the Fed
eral Courts, of the extreme pretentions
OF purely local interest; and in its gen
eral and unvarying abuse of the power
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9th. That the People Justly view with
alarm the reckless extravaganza which
peryades every department of the FEEDER
al Government; that a return to ripid
economy and accountability is indispen-
slble to arrest the systematic plumber of
the public treasury by favored partisans;
while the recent startling developments
of frauds and corruptions at the Federal
Metropolis, show that an entire change
of administration is imperatiyely de-
manded.
18th. That the new dogma that the Con-
stitutlon of its own force, carries Slavery
into any or all of the Territories of the
United States, is dangerous political
heresy, at variance with the explicit pro-
visions of that instrument itself, with
contemporaneous exposition, and with
legislative and judicial precedent; is rev.
dictionary in It's tendancy. and subyer-
siye of the peace and harmony of the
country.
9th. That the normal condition of all
the territory of the United States is that
of freedom That as our Republican
fathers, when they had abolished Slavery
in all our national territory, ordained that
no person should be deprived of life, lib
'Frty. or properly, without due process of
plaw, IL becomes our dnty, by Legislation.
whenever such Legislation is necessary,
to maintain this provision of the Consti-
tuition against all attempts to violate it
and we deny the authority of Congress,
of Territorial legislature, or of any indi-
viduals, to give legal existence TO Slay-
cry in any Territory Of the United
States.
9th. That we brand the recent reopen
ing Of the African Slave trade, under the
cover of our National Flag, aided by per
versions of judicial power, as a crime
against Humanity, and burning shame
to our Country and Age; and We call
upon Congress to take prompt and efiici
ent measures for the total and final sup
preston of that execrable traffic.
10th. That in the recent yetoes, by
their Federal Governors, of the acts of
the Legislatures of Kansas and Nebraska
prohibiting Slavery in those Territories.
We find practical illustration of the
boosted Democratic principles of Non