St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1860-07-26
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REPUBLICAN PLATFORM.


the National Convention, recently hol
den at Chicago:
Rcwlrd, That we, the delegated
representatives of the RepublIcalI
electors of the United States, IN con-
yention assembled, in discharge OF inc
duty we owe TO our constituents anu
nmr cnnntrv. unite in the following
declaration
l THAT the history Of the nation
dur;uo the last four years, has fully
established the propriety and necessl-
~ of this organization and that the
causrs Which called it into existence
are permancnt in their nature, and
NOW more than ever before, demand
IFS pcacerul and constitutional tri-
umph.
That the maintenance Of the
principles promulgated in the Deciar,
alton of independence and embodied
in the Federal Constitution, that all
men are created equal ; that they are
endowed by their Creator with certain
inaiIiabIc rights that among these
are life, liberty, and the pursuit OF
Lapuincss that to secure these rights,
Governments are instituted among
men, deriving their just powers from
,be consent of the govcrncd-is cs-
scntial to the preservation of our Re-
publican institutions ; and that the
Federal Constitution, the Rights of the
States, a.l the Union Of the States,
must and shall be preserved.
g. That to the Union of the States
this nation owes its unprecedented in.
crease in population, its surprising
DEVELOPMENT of material resources, its
randi augmentation of wealth, its hap.
pincss at home and its honor abroad
and we hold in adherence all schemes
for Disunion. come from whatever
source they may. We congratulate
the country that no Republican mem
Der of Congress has uttered or coun-
tenanccd the threats of DiSunion so
often made by Democratic members,
without rcbukc and with applause
from their political associates and
we dcnounce those threats OF dis
union, in case Of a popular overthrow
Of their asccndency, as denying the
vital principles of free government,
and as an avowal of contemplated
treason, which it is the imperative du-
ty of an Indignant people stcrnly to
rcbukc and forever silence.
A. That the maintenance inviolate
Of the rights of the States, and especl-
ally the right of each State to order
and control its own domestic institu-
tons according to its own judgment
exclusively, is essential to that bal
ancc of powers on which the pcriec
ton and endurance of our political
fabric depends and we denounce the
]awless invasion by armed force of the
soil Of any State or Territory, no mat
ter under what preteXt, as among tht
gravcst of crimes.
5. That the present Democratic Ad
ministration has far exceeded ou
worst apprchcnsions, in its measure
less subscrvicncy to the actions OF
a sectional interest, as especially
WINGED in its desperate eXertions to
Drcc the infamous l.ecompton Consti-
ution upon the protesting people OF
Kansas in constituting the personal
citation between master and servant
to involve an unqualified property in
persons in its attempted enforce
mcnt, everywhere, on land and sea,
through the intervention of Congress
and of the Federal Courts of the cx-
trcme prctcnsions of a purcly local in
tcrcst and in its general and unva-
rying abuse of the power entrusted to
it by confiding people.
&. That the people justly view with
alarm the reckless extravaganza
which pcrvadcs every department of
the Federal Government that a re-
turn TO rigid economy and accounta-
bility is indispensable to arrest the
systematic plumber of the public
treasury by favored partisans while
he recent startling developments of
frauds and corruptions at the Federal
metropolis, show that an entire change
of administration is impcrativcly de-
mandcd.
7 That the new dogma that the
Constitution, of its own force, carries
Slavery into any or all Of the Terrific
les Of the United States, is danger
Gus political heresy, at variance with
The explicit provisions of that instru-
ncnt ITSELF with contemporancous ex-
position, and with legislative and ju-
dicial precedent is revolutionary in
its tendency, and subversivc OF the
peace and harmony of tire country.
s. That the normal condition of all
the territory of the United States is
that of freedom That as our Repub-
lican fathers, when they had abolish
ed slavery in all our national terrific
ny, ordained that "no person should
be deprived of life, liberty, or proper
ty, without due process of law" it
becomes our duty, by Legislation, when
ever such Legislation is necessary, to
maintain this provision Of the COnsti-
tuition against all attempts to violate
it and we deny the authority Of Con-
gress, Of territorial Legislature, or
Of any individuals, to give lega! OK
tension to slavery in any territory of
the United States.
Q. That we brand the recent re-
opening Of the African slave trade,
under the cover of our national flag,
aided by perversions of judicial pow
cr, as crime against humanity and
burning shame to our country and
age; and we call upon Congress to
take prompt and efficient measures
for the total and final suppression of
that eXecrablc traffic.
10. That in the recent vetoes, by
their Federal Governors, of the acts
of the Legislature of Kansas and Ne.
braska, prohibiting Slavery in those
Territories, we find practical illus
tration of the boosted Democratic
principle Of Non-intervention and Pop
ular Sovereignty embodied in the
Kansas Nebraska bill and n domo,-