The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1860-10-29
National Republican Platform,
fAs AMENDED AND ADOPTED

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
L. That the history of the nation during
the last four years. has fully established
The propriety and necessity OF the or giant
cation and perpetuation Of the Republican
party, and that the causes which called ii
into existence are permanent in their ma
lure, and now, more than ever before, de-
mand its peaceful and constitutional tri-
umph.
e That the maintenance of the princi-
pies promulgated in the Declaration of In
dependence and embodied in the Federal
Constitution, That all ruen are created
equal thai they are endowed by their
Creator with certain inaIenable rights !;
that among these are lie. liberty and the
pursuit OF happiness thai 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 institu-
tioils and that the Federal Constitution,
the Rights of the States, and the Union of
the States must and shah be preserved.
3. That TO the union Of The States this
nation owes its unprecedented Increase in
population, its surprising development of
material resources, its rapid augmentation
OF wealth. Its happiness at home and its
honor abroad and We hold In adherence
all schemes for Uisunion, 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 50 often
made By Democratic members. without re-
huke and with applause from their political
associates and we deBounce those threats
of dlsuniou, lnecass OF popular overthrow
of their ascendancy, As denying the vital
| principles OF free government, and as an
arowaI of contemplated treason, which it
is the imperative duty of an indignant Peo-
Pile sternfy 10 rebuke and forever silence
| 4. That the maintenance inviolate OF the
nights OF the States, and especially the
| right of each State to order and control its
own domestic institutions according 10 its
own Judgment exclusively, is essential to
that balance Of powers ON which the per-
feetion and endurance of our political lab
ric depends; and we denounce the law
less invasion by armed force of the soil of
any State or Territory, no matter under
what pretext, as among the grasest of
crimes.
8. That the present Democratic Admin
istTapVn has far exceeded our worst ap-
pTehenslons, In It's measureless subseryi-
ency 10 the exactions of sectional inter
est, as especially evinced in its desperate
exertions 10 force the infamous Lecompton
Constitution upon the protesting people of
Kansas; in constituting the personal rela-
tion between master and servant to in
volve an unqualified property in persons
10 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 unvarying
abuse OF the power entrusted 10 il by CON
fiding people.
8. That the people justly view with
alarm the reckless extravaganza which
pervades every department OF the Federal
GoyerIment; that a return 10 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 corrnpuons al the Federal metropolis,
show that an entire change of administra-
ton is lmperatively demanded.
z. That the new dogma that the Con-
stilution. OF its own force, carries Slavery
into any or all oil 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-
lsiive and judicial precedent is revoiu.
tionayy in It's tendency, and subversive of
the peace and harmony OF the country.
8. 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 .'no per
son should be deprived OF life, liberty, or
property, without due process of law" it
becomes our duty, by Legislation, wheney-
er such Legislation ls necessary. to main
tain this provision of the Constitution
against all attempts to violate it: and we
deny the authority of Congress, of ter
ritorlal Legislature, or Of any individuals,
to give legal existence TO slavery in any
Territory ofthe United States.
9. That we brand the recent re re-opening
of the African slave trade, under the COW
er 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-
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
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