The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1860-07-24
THE CHICAGO platform

AMENDED ND ADOPTED.
ResoEced. That we, the delegated representatives
IS the Republican electors Of the United States, in
touVe2ti ot assembled in the discharge of the duty
We owe Il. our constituents and our country unite
ia the following declarations:
LIST. That the history of the nation during the
last four years, has fully established the prOpriety
and necessity of the organization and perpetuation
the Republican party and that the causes which
called it into existence permanent in their
ture, and now, more than ever before, demand its
peaceful and constitutional triumph.
2. That the maintenance of the principles pro-
mnlgs; in the FedSrai Gon-itation That ali
created equal that they endowed by
their Creator with certain inalienable rights that
among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit OF
happiness that to these rights, governments
are instituted among men: deriving their just pow
from tlIe consent of the governed lis essential
to the preservation Of oHF Kepu bcan institutions
and that tho Federal Constitution, the Rights OF
the States, a. the Union of the States must and
shall be preserved.
g. That to the Union OF the Staies this nation
owes its unprecedented increase in population, ito
surprising development of material resources, Ito
rapid augmentation of wealth, its happiness at
home and it's honor abroad ; and hold in ali
horrrnce all schemes for Dsunion come from what
ever source they may ana we cong atGiate the
country that Republican member of Congress
has uttered or cOuntepancrd the threats of Dis
union So often made by Democratic members, with
out rel'uke and with applause from their political
associates; and We denUunce those threats OF dis
uni n, in Of popular overthrow of their as
tendency AS denying the vital principles of free
government, and avowal of contemplated
treason, which it is the imperative duty of in
dignaUt People sternly to rebuks and forever ST.
Sence
4 That the maintenance inyioIate of the Rights
III the States, and especially the right of each State
order and control its domestic institutions
according its own Judgment exclusively, is
sential to that balance of powers which the per
lection and endurance OF our political fabric de-
ponds; aud denounce the lawles5 invasion by
armed force of tie soil of any State Territory,
no matter under what preteXt, as among the gravest
II crimes,
5. That the present Democratic Administration
has fur exceeded our worst apprehension, In its
to he
t"nal interest, especially evinced in its desper-
exertions to force the infamous Lecempt0n Con-
s5itntion upon the protesting peopie Of Kansas in
constituting the personal relation between master
aud servant to involve an unqualified property in
persons in its attempted enforcement, everywhere
on land and sea, through the Intervention of Con-
sress and of the Federal Courts, OF the extreme
preten-ions Of purely local interest and in its
general and unvarying abuse of the lower intrusted
10 it by y Coufding people.
g. That the People justly view with alarm the
reckless extravaganza which pervadcs every depart
Inent of the Federal Government; that a return to
rigid economy and accountability Is Indispensable
To arrest The systematic plundCr of the public treas
10y favored partisans while the recent startling
eIelopmt of frauds and corruptions at the Fed
rral Metropolis, show that an entire change OF
administration is imperatively demanded
:. That he new dogma that the Constitution, OF
ms own force, carries Slavery into all of the
Territories of the Tn ted States, ia dangerous
political heresy, at variance with the explicit pro
visions of that instrument itself, with cOntempora
exposition and with legislative and judicial
precedent; is revolutionary in its tendency, and
ubyersiye of the peace and harmony OF the country
5. That the normal condition Of all the Territory
81 the United States is that of freedom: That as
our Republican fathers, when they had abolished
slavery in all national territory ordained that
" person should be deprived OF life, liberty, or
kroperty, without due process of law" 1t becomes
Iur duty, by legislation, whenever such legislation
necessary, to maintain this provision OF the Con
titution against all attempts to violate it and We
deny the authority of Congress, Of territorial leg
stature, or OF any individuals to give legal exist
+nce to Slavery in any Territory of the United
States
o That brand the recent re-opening of the
African Slave-Trade, under the cover of Ma
riOua Flag aided by pcrversions Of judicial power,
rs a crime against Humanity and burning shame
Country and Age and we cal! upon Congress
10 take prompt and efficient for the total
and final suppression of that execrable traffic.
10. That in the recent vetoes, by their Federal
Governors, Of the acts of the Legislatures of Kan
aud Nebraska, prohibiting Slavery in those
Territories, find practical illustration of the
boasted Democratic principle OF Non Intervention
and Popular Sovereignty embodied in tho + ansas-
Nebraska bill, and demOnstI alton Of the deception
and fraud involved therein.
IL. That Kansas should, Of right, be immediately
admitted State under the Constitution recently
formed and adopted by her people, and accepted by
the House Of Represe ntatives.
~. That, while providing revenue for the sup
of the general government by duties upon i'm
ports, sound policy requires such adjustment of
ahcSe imEOst5 as to encourages the development OF
She industrial interests Of the whole country; and
commend that policy OF national exchanges,
which secures to the working liberal wages, to
agriculture recommending prices to mechanics aud
manufacturers an adequate reward for their skill,
tabor, aud enterprise and to the nation commercial
prosperity and Independence.
ID That protest against any sale aiena-
yoiI TO others of the Public Lands held by nctuAl
settlers, and against any view of the FIee Home
stead policy which regards the settlers paupers
or suppliants for public bounty; and demand
the passage by Congress Of the complete and salts
factory Homestead measure which has already pass
ed the House.