The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1860-05-30
TIE REPUBLICAN PLATFORM.

unite in the following declarations:
First: That the history Of the nation
during the last four yearshas fully estab-
lishcd the propriety and necessity Of The
organization and perpetuation of the Re
publican party, and that the causes which
called it into existence are permanent in
their nature, and now more than ever be-
fore demand its peaceful and constitution
al triumph.
Second: That the maintenance OF the
principles promulgated in the Declaration
of independence, and embodied in the
Federal Constitution, is essential to the
preservation of our republican institutions,
and that the Federal Constitution, the
rights of the States, and tie Union OF
the States, must and shall be preserved.
Third: That to tie Union Of the States
this nation owes It's unprecedented in
crease in population; its surprising devel-
opment Of material resources; It's rapid
augmentation Of wealth; It's happiness at
home and It's honor abroad; and we hold
in adherence all schemes for djsuuion,
como from whatever scarce they may;
and we congratulate the country that no
Republican monlbor of Congress has ut
tered or countenanced threat Of disun-
ion, SO often made by Democratic mem
bers of Congress without rebuke and
with applause from their political assoc
ates; ana we denounco those threats of
disunion, in case Of q popular overthrow
of their ascendency, as denying the vital
principles ofa free Government, and rs an
avowal of contemplated treason, which 1t
is the imperative duty Of an indignant
people strongly to rcbuke and forever
silence.
Fourth: That The maintenance inyic-
late of the rights Of the States, and es-
pecially the right Of each State to order
and control its own domestic institutions
according to its own judgment exclusive
", is essential to that balance Of mower
on which the perfection and endurance Of
our political roith depends, and we de-
! nounce tho lawless invasion by armed
forces Of any State or Territory, no mat
ter under what preteXt, as among the
| grayest Of crimes.
FJth, That the present Democratic
| Administration has far exceeded our
worst approhensions in its moasuroless
subserviancy to the exactons Of a sention-
al interest, rs is especially evident in its
desperate cxertions to force the infamous
Lecompton Constitution upon the pro
testing people Of kansas-in constituting
! the personal relation between master and
servant to involve an unqualified properly
in persons-~in It's attempted enforcement
everywhere, on land and sea, through
the intervention Of Congress and the Fed
craI Courts Of the extreme pretensions
of a purely local interest, and in its gem
cral and unvaryin9 abuse Of the power
intrusted to it by confding people.
Sixth That the people justly view
with alarm tho reckless extravaganza
which peryades every department OF the
Federal Government; that n return to
rigid economy and accountability is inds.
pensabla to arrest the system Of plumber
Of the public treasury by favored parti-
sans; while the recent startling develop
ments Of fraud and corruption at the
Federal metropolis, shows that an cntirc
change Of administration is impeFativoly
demanded.
.SspeaM: That the new dogma that
Constitution Of its own force carries Sla-
very into any or all tho Territories Of the
| United States, is DANCE ,ous political here
sy, at variance with the explicit provisions
OF that instrument Itself, with contempor-
apeous exposition, and with legislative
and judicial precedent, is revolutionary
in its tendency and subycrsive Of the
peace and harmony Of the country.
Eighth: That the normal condition of
the territories Of the United States is that
Of Freedom; that as our republican faith
ors, when they had abolished Slavery in
al cur national territory, ordained that
no person should he deprived cf lie, lib
erty, or property, without the process of
law, it becomes our duty, by legislation,
whenever such legislation is neco8sarv, to
maintain this provision Of the Constitu-
ton against all attempts to violate it; and
we deny tho authority Of Congress, of q
Territorial Legislature, or Of any individ-
uals, to give legal existence to Slavery in
any Territory Of the United States.
Ninth: That we brand the recent re-
opening Of the African slave-t trade, under
the cover OF our national flag, aided by
| pervorsions Of judicial power, as a CRIME
against humanity, burning shame to
our country and age, and we call upon
Congress TO take prompt and efficient
measures for the total and final suppress
ion Of that execrable traffic..
Tenth. That in the recent voioes BY
their Federal Governors Of the acts of the
Legislatures Of Kansas and Nebraska,
prohibiting Slavery in those Territories,
we find practical iiluatra ion OF the
boosted Democratic principle of non-:n-
Prevention and Popular Sovereignty, en-
bodied in the Kansas and Nebraska bin.
and denunciation Of the deception and
fraud involved therein.
Eleventh.: That Kansas should of
right be Immediately admitted as a State
under the Constitution recently formed
and ado pied by her people, and accepted
by the House Of Representatives,