The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1860-09-13
National Republican Platform,
fAs AMENDED AND AD0PIED.1

Resolved, That we, The delegated rep
resentatiyes of the Republican electors of
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
| That the history of the nation during |
the last iour years. has fully established |
the propriety and necessity Of the organi
zation and perpetuation VI The Republican
party, and that the causes which called IL
INTO existence are permanent in their na-
ture, and now, more than ever before, de-
mand It's peaceful and constitutional tri-
umph.
g That the maintenance of the princi-
pies promulgated In 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 lnalienable 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.
3. That 10 the union of the States this
4 alton owes It's unprecedented increase IN
population, its surprising development of
material resources, It's rapid augmentation
Of wealth, It's happiness at home and It's
honor abroad and We hold in adherence
all schemes for Disunion, come from " hat
ever source they may And We congratu
late the country that no Republican mem
Der Of Congress has uttered or counte-
uanced the threats of Dlsunion SO often
made By Democratic members, without re-
buke and with applause from their political
associates +; end We denounce those threats
of dlsunlon, IN case Of popular overthrow
of their ascendancy, As denying The vital
principles of free government, and as an
avowal Of contemplated treason, which it
is the imperative duty Of an indignant Peo-
pie sterniy 10 rebuke and fores er silence
A. That the maintenance lnviolate OF the
nights oil the States, and especially tie
right OF each State To order aud control Its
own domestic institutions according TO Its
own Iudgme nj exclusively, II essential u
that balance Of powers on which he per
! fection and endurance OF our political lab.
ric depends; and We den unce the law.
less invasion by armed force of the soil o
any State or Territory, no matter under
what prelext, as among the gravest o
crimes.
S. That the present Democratic Admin,
istratlon has far exceeded our worst ap
prehensions, In lis measureless subseryi
ency 10 the exactions of a sectional inter
est, as especially eyinced in Its desperate
exeruuns 10 force the infamous LecomptoI
Constitution upon the protesting people o
! Kansas in constraing the personal rela
ton between master and servant to In,
volse an unqualified property in persons
: in us attempted enforcement, eseryW here
on land and sea, through the Intervention
of Congress and of the Federal Courts, o
the extreme pretenslons of purely loca
interest; ana ini its general and unyaryn.
abuse OF the power entrusted 10 IL by con
: hdins people.
6. That the people justly view will
alarm the reckl, IS Extravaganza which
D pervades every department of the Fedora
Government that return 10 rigid econ
omy and accountability is Indispensable t
arrest the systematic plunder OF the pub
lie treasury by favored partlsans; Will
the recent startling Developments offraud
and corruptions at the Federal metropolis
show thai an entire change of administra
> ton is lmperauvely demanded.
: Z. That the new dogma that the Con
!. stitution, of It's own force, carries Shaver
It into any or all oil The Territories of til
: United States, is dangerous political bel
" esy, at variance with The explicit prov
5, sions of that instrument itself, with CT
temporaneous exposition, and with legi'
aiiye and judicial precedent is revoI,
: tlonary in It's tendency, and subversve
the peace and harmony OF the country.
s. That the normal condition OF all ii
A. territory Of the United States, is that
: freedom That as our Republican father
: when they had abolished slavery in all o,
N national territory, ordained that 'no pc
% son should be deprived Of life, liberty.
property, without due process OF law"
: becomes our duty, by legislation, whene'
er SUCH Legislation Us necessary. TO mall
tain this provision OF the Constitute
- =. against all attempts to violate it and '
a, denv the authority of Congress. Of . te
ritonal legislature, or Of any individual
to give legal existence 10 slavery in al
e Territory of the United States.
8. That We brand the recent re-openir
= of the African slave trade, under the CO
er Of our national flag, aided by perve
sions o! judicial power, as crime again
humanity and a burning shame 10 Q
country and age and We call upon Go
gress to take prompt and efficient mea
ures for the total md final sunnression