The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1860-06-13
National Republican Platform.
las AMENDED AND ADOPTED.1

the following declarations
/. That the history of the nation during
the last four years, has fully established
The propriety and necessity or the organi-
zation and perpetuatioii Of the Republican
party, and that the causes which called it
into existence are~permanent in their ma
tnre, and now, more than ever before, de-
msnd its peaceful and constitutional tn-
umph. go
2. That the maintenance of the princi-
pies promulgated In the Declaration of In
dependence and embodied In the Federal
Constitution, That oh 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 just powers from the
consent of the governed"--is 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.
3. That To the union of the States this
nation owes It's unprecedented Increase in
population, its surprising development Of
material resources, its rapid augmentation
OF wealth, It's happiness at home and It's
honor abroad and We hold in abhorrenee
all schemes for Disnnion. come from v hat
ever source they may And we congratu-
late the country that no Republican mem
Der OF Congress has uttered or coun.e-
ranra6 fba tbvamsu Zf n,~rySy.> y~f.xx0
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
avowai OF contemplated treason, which it
il the imperative duty of an indignant Peo-
pie sternly to rebuke and forever silence
4. That the maintenance inviolate of the
rights oi the States, and especially the
| right of each State to order and control its
own domestic institutions according to its
own judgment exclusively, is essential to
that balance Of powers on which the per-
fection and endurance of our political fab
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 gravest of
crimes.
s. That the present Democratic Admin
istration has far exceeded our worst ap-
prehensions, in It's measureless subsersi-
ency TO the exactions of sectional inter-
est, as especially evinced in its desperate
e5eFttens to force the Infamous Lecumpton
Constitution upon the protesting people OF
Kansas; in constituting the personal rela-
ton between master and servant TO in
volye 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 pretensions of q purely local
interest; and in its general and unvarying
abuse of the power entrusted toit by con-
fiding people.
6. That the people justly view with
alarm the reckless extravaganza which
peryades every department of the Federal
Government that return TO rigid econ
omy and accountability is Indispensable to
arrest the, systematic. plumber ot, the pub
lie treasury by favored partisans while
the recent startling developments offrauds
and corrnptions u the Federal metropolis,
show that an entire change Of adminis,ra-
ton is imperatively demanded.
Z. That the new dogma that the Con-
stitution, of iss own force, carries Slavery
into any or all of the Territories Of the
United States, is q dangerous political her
esy. at variance with the explicit provi-
sions Of that instrument itself, with CO.
temporaneous exposition. and with lcgis-
lative and judicial precedent: is revoiu.
tionary in its 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 il
becomes our duty, by legislation, wheney-
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 to slavery in any
Territory Of the United States.
3. That we brand the recent re-openine
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 a burning shame to oul
4 country and ARE and we call un0n Con.
gress TO take prompt and efficient meas.
ures for the total and final suppression ol
that execrAble traffic.
10. That in the recent vetoes, by theil
Federal Governors, Of the acts-of the Leg
islatures Of Kansas and Nebraska, prohib.
iting Slavery in those Territories, we find
apraclical illustration OF the boasted Dem
ocra,ic principle of Non Intervention and
Popular Sovereignty embodied in the Kan.