The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1860-06-15
National Republican Platform.
las AMENDED AND ApoprHB.l

II
the United States, In Convention assem-
bled, in discharge of the duty we owe TO
cur constituents and our country, unite In
the following declarations t a
|. That the history of the nation during
the last four years. has fully established
The propnety and necessity of the organi-
cation and perpetuation Of the Republican
party, and that the causes which called it
into existence are permanent in their ma
ture, and now, more than ever before, de-
mand its peaceful aud constitutional tri-
umph.
z. That the maintenance OF the princi-
pies promulgated i'm the Declaration of In
dependence and embodied In the Federal
Constitution, THAT all men are created
equal that they are endowed by their
Creator with certain inalienabIe rights !;
that among these are lite, liberty and the
pursuit of happiness that to secure these
rights, governments are instituted among
men. deriving their just powers from the
consent Of the governed lis 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 preserved.
5. That To the union nf the States this
nation owes It's unprecedented increase in
population, It's surprising development of
material resources, It's rapid augmentation
OF wealth, lis happiness al home and its
honor abroad and We hold in adherence
all schemes for Disunion, come from what
ever source they may And we congratu-
late the country that no Republican mem
Der of Congress has uttered or counte-
nanced the threats of Disunion SO often
made by Democratic members, without re-
buke and with applause from their political
associates and we denounce those threats
OF disunlon, IN case OF a popular overthrow
OF their ascendancy, as denying the vital
principles OF q free government, and as an
ayowal Of contemplated treason, which it
is the imperative duty of an indignant peo-
pie sternly TO rebuke and forever silence.
4. That the maintenance inviolate of the
rights OF The States, and especially the
right of each State to order and control its
own domestic institutions according to it's
own judgment exclusively. is essential to
that balance of powers on which the per-
fection and endurance Of our political fab
ric depends ami we denounee the law
less invasion by armed force of the soil of
any State or Territory, no matter under
what preiext, as among the gravest OF
crimes
6. That the present Democratic Admin
istration has far exceeded our worst ap-
prehensions, III its mcasureless subservi-
ency 10 the exacllons OF sectional inter
est, as especially evinced in its desperate
exertions TO force The infamous Lecompton
Constitution upon the protesting people of
Kansas. in constituting the personal rela
tlon between master and servant TO in
volye an unqualified property in persons
in its attempted enforcement, everywhere,
on land and sea, through the Intervention
Of Congress and Of the Federal Courts, OF
the extreme pretensions of a purely local
interest; and in its general and unvarying
abuse OF the power entrusted 70 il by a con-
fiding people.
6. That the people Justly view with
alarm the reckless extravagance which
pervsdes every department OF the Federal
Government that a return to rigid econ
omy and accountability is Indispensable to
arrest the systematic plumber Of the pub
lie treasury by favored partisans while
the recent startling developments offrauds
and corruptions al the Federal metropolis,
show that an entire change of administra-
ton is imperativeiy demanded.
z. That the new dogma that the Con-
stitution, of its own force, carries Slavery
into any or all or the Territories or the
United States, is dangerous political her
esy, at variance with the explicit provi-
sions of that instrument itself, with CO.
temporaneous exposition. and with legis-
lalive and Judicial precedent is reyolu-
tionary in its tendency, and subversive of
the peace and harmony Of the country.
5. 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 per-
son should be deprived Of life, liberty. or
property, without due process OF law il
becomes our duty. by Legislation, whenev
er such legislation is necessary. TO main
tain this provision OF the Constitution
against all attempts to violate it /; and we
deny the authority of Congress. Of ter
ritorial Legislature, or OF any individuals,
to give legal existence 10 slavery in any
Territory OF the United States.
9. That we brand the recent re opening
Of the African slave trade, under the coy
er of our national flag, aided by peryer-
sions OF judicial power, as crime against
humanity and burning shame 10 our
country and age /; and we call upon Con-
gress to take prompt and efficient meas
ures for the total and final suppression of
that execrable traffic.
10. That in the recent vetoes, by their
Federal Governors, Of the acts Of the Leg
islaturcs Of Kansas and Nebraska, prohib-
lting Slavery in those Territories, we find
a rractical illustration nj fha haactaI nam-