The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1860-11-10
National Republican Platform.
[As AMENDED AND ADoPrED.J

tiiG ~ uilsu DahLens All CulfSuuOH hsSSul~
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 organi-
cation and perpetustion Of the Republican
party, and that the causes which called it
into existence are permanent in their ma
ture, and now, more than ever before, de-
mand its peaceful and constitutional tri-
umph.
z. That the maintenance Of the princi-
pies promulgate in the Declaration 0. In
dependence and embodied in the Federal
Constitution, THAT ali men are created
equal that they are endowed by their
Creator with certain inaienable rights
that among these are lite, liberty and The
pursuit OF happiness that to secure these
rights, governments are instituted among
men. deriving their just powers from the
consent of the governed"---is essential 10
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 10 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 abhorrence
| all schemes for Dlsunion, 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 so often
made by Democratic members. without re-
buke and with applause from their political
associates and we denounce those threats
of dlsunion. in case OF popular overthrow
OF their ascendancy, as denying The vital
| principles OF free government, and as an
ayowaI 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 oil The States, and especially the
| night Of each State to order and control its
own domestic institutions according to its
own judgment exclusively, is essential to
that balaDce OF powers on which The per
fection and endurance Of our political fab
rlc depends and we deneunce the law
less invasion by armed force Of the soil of
any State or Territory, no matter under
what preiext, as among the grayest of
crimes.
o. That the present Democratic Admin
istration has far exceeded our worst ap-
prehensons, In IFS measureless subservl-
ency 10 The exactions OF q sectional inter
est, As especially eyinced in its desperate
exertions TO force the infamous Lecompton
Constitution upon the protesting people of
Kansas; in construIng the personal rela.
tion between master and servant to in
solve an unqualified property in persons /;
in its attempted enforcement, everywhere, |
on land and sea, through the Intervention
of Congress and of the Federal Courts, of
the extreme pretensions of a purely local
interest; and in its general and unvarying
abuse of the power entrusted to it by a con
tding people.
s. That the people justly view with
alarm the reckless extravaganza which |
pervades every department OF the Federal
Government that return TO rigid econ
omy and accountability is Indispensable to
arrest the systematic plunder ol the pub
llc treasury by favored partisans while |
the recent startling developments offrauds
and corrupuons at the Federal metropolis,
show that an entire change of administra-
tioR is imperatively demanded.
Z. That the new dogma that the Con-
stitution, of its own force, carries Slavery
into any or all OF 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
lative and judicial precedent; is revolu-
tionary 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 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, whenev
er such Legislation is necessary. to main
tain this provision of the Constitution
against all attempts to violate it; and we
avny inc auinority Oh congress, OF ter
ritorial 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 TO 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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