The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1860-10-13
National Republican Platform.
[As AMENDED AND ADOPTED

Ah~ ~ hiNIa JthbsEt III NfUEsGutIOu ASSRIl~
bied, in discharge of the duty we owe to
our constituents and our country, unite in
the following declarations
l. That the history of lhe nation during
the last four years, has fully established
the rropriety 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 and constitutional tri-
umph.
<. That the maintenance of the princi.
pies promulgated in the Declaration Of In
dependence and embodied in the Federal
Constitution, That ali men are created
equal that they are endowed by their
Creator with certain inalienable rights .
that among these are lite, liberty and the
pursuit OF happiness that to secure these
nights, governments are instituted among
men, deriving their ust powers from the
consent of the governed d''--is essential 10
the preservation Of our Republican institu-
tions; and that the Federal Constitution,
the Rights Of the States. and the Union of
the States must and shall be preserved.
). That TO the union Of the States this
ration owes It's unprecedented increase in
population, Its surprising development Of
material resources, its rapid augmentation
OF wealth, It's happiness at home and its
honor abroad and we hold in abhorrence
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 Dlsunlon so often
made by Democratic members, without re-
buke and with applause from their political
associates and We denounce those threats
OF dlsunion, in case of a popular overthrow
OF their ascendancy, AS denying the vital
principles OF free government and as an
avowal OF contemplated treason, which it
IL thennperatise duty OF an indignant Peo-
pie sternly to rebuke and fore, ef silence.
a. That Tie maintenance inyiolate Of the
rights OF the States, and especially tie
night OF each Stale TO order and control its
own domestic institutions according to It's
own Judgment exclusively, is essential to
that baiaDce OF powers on which the per
lection aud endurance Of our political tab
ric cepends; ard We denounce the law
less Invasion by armed force Of the soil Of
any Slate or Territory, no matter under
what pretext, as among the gravest Of
crimes
b. That the present Democratic Admin
isIanon has far exceeded our worst APP
prehensions, in its measureless subservi-
ency 10 the exactions of sectional inter
est, as especially eyinced in its desperate
exertlons 10 force the infamous Lecompton
Constitution upon the protesting people Of
Kansas in constituting the personal rela-
tion between master and servant To in |
solve an unqualified property in persons
IN its attempted enforcement, eseryw here, !
on land and sea, through the Intervention
OF Congress and of the Federal Courts, OF |
The extreme prete nslons of purely local /
interest, and IN its general and unvarying !
abuse oi the power entrusted TO it by con- |
iding people.
6. That the people justly view with |
alarm the reckless extravaganza which /
perysdes every department OF the Federal
Government that return TO rigid econ
omy and accountability is indispensable TO
arrest the systematic plunder OF the pub
nc treasury by favored partisans while
he recent startling developments offrauds
and corruptions al The Federal metropolis,
show that an entire change of administra-
ion is imperatiyely demanded.
z. That the new dogma that the Con-
OF It's own force, carries Slavery |
nto any or all Of the Territories OF the |
United States, is dangerous political her
ssy, at variance with the explicit proyi-
'lons of that instrument itself, with CO
exposition. and with legis-
alive and judicial precedent is revolu.
lonary in its tendency, and subversiye Of
he peace and harmony OF the country.
8. That the normal condition Of all the
errltory Of the United States, is that of
reedom That as our Republican fathers,
when they had abolished slavery in all our
rational territory, ordained that mo per-
son should be deprived of life, liberty, or
without due process OF law, it
becomes our duty, by legislation, whenev-
n such Legislation is necessary. to main
ain this provision of the Constitution
against all attempts to violate it and we
teIy the authority OF Congress, OF a ter
rltorial legislature, or of any individuals,
% give legal existence 10 slavery in any
Territory ofthe United States.
3. Thot we brand the recent re -open ming
Of the African slave trade, under the COW
sr of our national flag, aided by perver-
sions OF judicial power. as crime against
humanity and burning shame 10 our
country and age !; and we call upon Con-
sress TO take prompt and efficient meas
ires for the total and final suppression Of
hat execrable traffic.
10. That in the recent yetoes, by their
Federal Governors. of The acts of the .eo