The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1860-10-06
National Republican Platform.
rAs AMENDED AND ADoPTED.l

the United States, in Convention assem-
bled, IN discharge of the duty we owe TO
our constituents and our country, unite in
the following declarations
/ That the history of the nation during
the last four years. has fully established
the propriety and necessity Of the organl-
cation and perpetuation of the Republican
party, and that the causes which called il
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-
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 inalienable rights
that among these are lite, liberty and the
pursuit of happiness; that to secure these
rights, governments are instituted among
men, deriving thelr just powers from the
consent of the governed d"--is essential to
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.
3. That TO the union Of the States this
nation owes its unprecedented increase in
population, It's surprising development Of
material resources, It's rapid augmentation
OF wealth, lis happiness at home and its
honor abroad and We hold in adherence
all schemes for Disunion, come from what
Gxa ska.f "A
late the country that no Republican mem.
Der of Congress has uttered or counte-
nanced the threats Of Disunon so often
made by Democratic members, without re-
buke and with applause from their political
associates and we denounce those threats.
Of dlsunlon, 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
is the imperative duty Of an indignant Peo-
pie sternly TO rebuke and forever silence.
4. That the maintenance inviolate Of the
rights OF the States, and especially the
night Of each State to order and control its
own domestic institutions according to It's
own judgment exclusively, is essential to
that balaDce vi powers on which the per
tectlon and endurance of cur political Tab
ric cepends; and We denounce the law
less invasion by armed force of the soil Of
any %'ate or Territory, no matter under
what pretext, as among the gravest Of
crimes.
8. That the present Democratic Admin
istratlon has far exceeded our worst ap-
prebenslons, In It's mea>ureless subseryl-
ency 10 the exactIons of sectional inter
est, as especially eyinced IN its desperate
exeftions 10 force the infamous Lecompton
Constitution upon the protesting people of
Kansas IN constituting the personal rela-
ton between master and servant 10 in
yolve an unqualified property in persons
in It's attempted enforcement, everywhere,
on land and sea, through the Intervention
Of Congress and of the Federal Courts, of
the extreme pretenslons of purely local
and in It's general and unyarying
abuse oi the power entrusted to il by con
fiding people.
6. That the people justly view with
alarm the reckless extravaganza which |
pervades every department Of the Federal
Government that return 10 rigld econ
omy and accountability is Indispensable To
arrest the systematic plumber OF the pub
lie treasury by favored partisans; while
the recent startling developments offrauds
and corruptions al the Federal metropolis, |
show that an entire change of administra-
ton is impcratiyely 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 a dangerous political her
esy, at variance with the explicit proyi- |
sions of that instrument itself, with CO.
exposition, and with legis-
latiye and judicial precedent is revolu.
tonary in its tendency, and subyersiye 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 oil eur
national territory, ordained that "no per-
son should be deprived of life, liberty, or
without due process of law" it
becomes our duty, by legislation, wheney-
"a sucH itSlsidlioh - necessary. 10 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 10 slavery in any
Territory Of the United States.
8. That We brand the recent 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.
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