St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1860-09-06
THE
SEVERAL POLITICAL PLATFORMS
THE REPUBLICAN CREED.


THE REPUBLICAN CREED.
CANDIDATES
For President-Abraham Lincoln, Of
Illinois.
For Vice Presidem-H Hannibal Ham.
lin, of Maine.
Below is the Platform adopted at
the National Convention, recently hol.
den at Chicago:
Resolved, That we, the delegated
representatives of the Republican
electors of the United States, in Cou-
vention assembled, in discharge of the
duty we owe to our constituents, and
our country, unite in the following
declaration
l. That the history of the nation
during the last four years, has fully
established the propriety and neccssi-
ty of this organization and that the
causes which called it into existence
are permanent in their nature, and
now, more than ever before, demand
its peaceful and constitutional tri-
umph.
2. That the maintenance of the
principles promulgated in the Declar-
alton Of Independence and embodied
in the Federal Constitution, that all
men are created equal that they are
endowed by their Creator with certain
InaiiiaGlc rights that among these
are life, 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 govcrned--is es-
sential to the preservation of our Re
publican institutions and that the
Federal Constitution, the Rights of the
States. and the Union of the States,
must and shall be preserved.
3. That to the Union of the States
this nation owes its unprecedented in
crease in population, its surprising
development of material resources, its
'apid augmentation of wealth, its hap
)incss at home and its honor abroad i
. nd VIC hold in adherence all schemes
or Disunion, come from whatever
ource they may. We congratulate
he country that no Republican mem !
er of Congress has uttered or coun- .
,nanced the threats of Disunion so
ten made by Democratic members,
ithout rebuke and with applause
ON their political associates and
denouncc those threats of dis. !
non, in case of popular overthrow
their ascendency, as denying the {
tai principles Of free government, i
I'd as an avowal of contemplated
cason, which it is the imperative du-
of an indignant people sternly to t
buke and forever silence.
4. That the maintenance invioate q
the rights Of the States, and especi.
ly the right of each State to order I
nd control it's own domestic institu-
ons according to its own judgment '
xclusively, is essential to that bal +
nee of powers on which the pcrtcc- L
on and endurance of our political
.bric depends ; and we denounce the
.wless invasion by armed force of the :
oil of any State or Territory, no mat .
r under what preteXt, as among the {
ravcst of crimes.
5. That the present Democratic Ad- +
Illustration has far exceeded our c
orst apprehensions, in its measure 4
IS subserviency to the actions of >
sectional interest, as especially "
'inced in its desperate exertions to n
rec the infamous Lecompton Consti- n
ton upon the protesting people of !;
.nsas in constituting the personal a
alton between master and servant Il
involve an unqualified property in s
sons in its attempted enforce a a
mt, everywhere, on land and sea,
ough the intervention Of Congress
of the Federal Courts of the ex-
me pretensions of a purely local in
est; and in its general and unva.
ng abuse of the power entrusted to
y a confiding people.
That the people justly view with j..
rim the reckless extravaganza Il
CHI pervades every department of IA,
Federal Government that re- .,
to rigid economy and accounta- s.
ty is indispensable to arrest the b
tematic plumber of the public N
,sury by favored partisans ; while !,
recent startling developments of te
Ids and corruptions at the Federal n
ropolis, show that an entire change W
administration is impcratively de- 10 10
,dcd. f.
That the new dogma that the lie
stitntion, Of its own force, carries )
iery into any or all of the Terrific
OF the United States, is danger
political hcresy, at variance with
explicit provisions of that instru- -
itself. with contcmporancous ex
ton, and with Legislative and iu-
al precedent; is revolutionary in NJ
tendency, and subversive of the
&c and harmony Of the country. [
That the normal condition Of all q
territory of the United States is
of freedom. That as our Repub- -
fathers, when they had abolish,
slavery in all our national terrific
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