The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1860-06-19
National Republican Platform,
fAs AMENDED AND ADOPTED. 4


bled, in discharge Of the duty we owe to
our constituents and Or country, unite in
the following declarations
/. That the history of the nation during
the last four years, has fully established
The propriety 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
| lure, and now, more than ever before, de-.
mand It's peaceful aud constitutional tri-
umph
z, That the maintenance of the princi-
Piles 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 inalienable rights
that among these are lie, 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 essential to
the preservation Of our Republican insiiiu-
tons; and that the Federal Constitution,
| the Rights OF the States, and the Union of
). That TO the union Of the States this
ration owes its unprecedented increase in
population, It's surprising development of
material resources, It's rapid augmentation
Of wealth, its happiness at home and IFS
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 disnnlon, IN case Of q popular overthrow
OF their ascendancy, as denying the vital
| principles Of o 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
| a. That the maintenance invioIate OF the
| rights oil the States, and especially the
! right OF each State TO order and coa,rol 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
rio depends; and VT denounce the law
less invasion by armed force of the soil Of
any State or Territory, no matter under
what pretext, as among the gravest of
crimes.
s. That the present Democratic Admin
istration has far exceeded our worst APP
prehenslons. IN its measureless subsersi-
eney 10 HE exactions Of sectional inter
est, as especially evineed in its desperate
exertions 10 force the Infamous Lecompton
Constitution upon the protesting people OF
Kansas IN constituting the personal rela-
ton between master and servant to in
yolve an unqualified property in persons
IN It's attempted enforcement, everywhere,
on land and sea, through the Intervention
Of Congress and of the Federal Courts, OF
the extreme pretensions Of purely local
interest; and in It's general and unyarying
abuse OF the power entrusted 10 ii by con-
hdlng people.
6. That the people Justly view with
alarm the reckless extravaganza which
pervades every department OF the Federal
Government that a return TO rigid econ
omy and accountability lis indispensable TO
arrest the systematic plumber OF the pub
he 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 imperatiyely demanded.
z. That the new dogma that the Con-
stltutlon, of its own force, carries Slavery
into any or all OF the Territories of 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
lative and judicial precedent is revolu
tionary in It's tendency, and subversiye of
the peace and harmony of the country.
g.. 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 s'no per-
son should be deprived of life, liberty. or
property, without due process of law" it
becomes our duty, by Legislation, whenev
er such legislation is necessary. to main
tain this provision of, the Constitution
against all attempts 70 violate IL, and we
deny the authority of Congress, of ter
rltorial legislature, or of any individuals,
to give legal existence 10 slavery in any
Territory Of the United States.
8. That We bran d the recent re-opening
of the African slave trade, under the Gov
er Of our national flag, aided by perver-
slons 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
islatures OF Kansas and Nebraska. prohib-
iting Slavery in those Territories, we find
apractical illustration OF the boas.ed Dem