The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1860-09-22
Natio | Republican Platform.
Resolved. That We, tlieadeleaAed req
resenkssiyes Of tbe Rspn1 jean elsctots tof
LAS AMENDED AND ADoPIED.1

bled, ~ discharge Of ths' dntyweowe to
our constituents and our country, unite in
thefoilowing declarations -
| That the history of the nation during
the last four years, has fully established
the proprety and necessity Of the organi-
cation and perpetuation of the Republican
party, and that the causes which called ii
into existence are permanent in their na-
ture, and now. more than ever before, de-
mand It's peaceful and constitutional tri-
umph.
2. 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 inalenable 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
8. That 10 the union of the States this
nation owes its unprecedented increase in
population, its surprising development Of
material resources, It's rapid augmentation
oi wealth, ITS happiness at home and It's
honor abroad and We hold in abhorrence
all schemes for Disunion, come from " hat
ever source they may: And we cpngratu-
late the country that no Republican mem.
ber OF Congress las 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 deDoHnce those threats
OF dlsunlon, IN case OF popular overthrow
of their ascendaney, as denying the vital
principles OF free government, and as an
asowai of contemplated treason, which il
is the imperative duty Of an indignant Peo-
pie sternly To rebuke and forever silence.
q. 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 balaDce Of powers on which the per
tectlon and endurance Of our political fab
ric depends and we dencunce 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.
8. That the present Democratic Admin
istratlon has far exceeded our worst ap-
prehensIons, IN ITS measureless subseryi-
ency 10 the exactions of sectional inter
est, as especially eyinced in it's desperate
exertions TO force the Infamous Lecompton
Constitution upon the protesting people of
Kansas. . IN construlngt the personal ,fela-
ton between master and servant to in
volve an unqualified property in persons
in ats attempted enforcement, esuywhen,
ON land and sea, through NE Intervention
Of Congress and of the Federal Courts, of
the extreme pretensions of purely local
and in ITS general and unyarying
abuse OF the powerenlrusied to ii by CON
hding people.
8. Thar the people justly view with
alarm the reckless extravaganza which
pervades every department OF the Federal
Government that return TO rigid econ
omy and accountability is indispensable to
arrest the systematic plunder OF the pub
lie treasury by favored partisans while
the recent startling developments offrauds
and eorruptlons al the Federal metropolis,
show that an entire change of adminlslra-
ton is imperatiyely demanded.
z. That the new dogma that the Con.
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.
exposition, and with legis-
lative and Judicial precedent; is revolu-
tonary in its tendency, and subyersive Of
the peace and harmony Of the country.
3. 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 Ano per-
son should be deprived of life, liberty, or
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 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 ofthe United States.
8, That we brand the recent re-opening
of the African slave trade, under the coy
er Of our national flag, aided by peryer-
slons OF judicial power, as a-crime against
humanity and a 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
Federai Governors, of the acts OF the Leg