St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1860-08-16
poIitital.
THE
SEVERAL POLITICAL PLATFORMS
THE REPUBLICAN CREED.

THE REPUBLICAN CREED.
CANDIDATES
For President-Abraham Lincoln o
Illinois.
For Ticc Hannibal Ham
lin, of Maine.
PLATFORM
Below is the Platform adopted al
the National Convention, recently hol
den at Chicago:
Reso'rd, That we, the delegated
representatives Of the Republican
electors of the United States, in Con
vcntion assembled, in discharge of the
duty we owe to our constituents, and
our country, unite in the following
declaration
|. That the history of the nation
during the last four years, has fully
established the propriety and ncccssi
ty of this organization and that the
causes which called it into existence
are permanent in their nature, and
now, more than ever before, demand
its peaceful and constitutional tri
umph.
2. That the maintenance of the
principles promulgated in the Dcclar.
alton of Independence and embodied
in the Federal Constitution, that all
men are created equa! that they are
endowed by their Creator with certain
inailiablc rights ; that among these
are life, 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 es.
scntial to the preservation of our Re-
publican institutions and that the
Federal Constitution the Rights of The
States, and the Union of the States,
must and shall be preserved.
B. That to the Union of the States
this nation owes its unprecedented in
crease in population, its surprising
| development of material resources, its
rapid augmentation of wealth, its hap.
pincss at home and its honor abroad a;
and we hold i'll adherence all schemes
for DisuniOn, come from whatever
source they may. We congratulate
the country that no Republican mem
hcr of Congress has uttered or coun-
tcnanccd the threats of Disunion so
often made 10y Democratic members,
without rcbnkc and with applause
from thcir political associates and
we denounce those threats of dis
union, in case Of a popular overthrow
of their ascendcncy, as denying the
vital principles of a free government,
and as an avowal of contemplated
treason, which it is the imperative du-
ty of an indignant people sternly to
rcbuke and forever silence.
T. That the maintenance inviolatc
of the rights of the States, and especi-
ally the right of each State to order
and control its own domestic institu-
tions according to its own judgment
exclusively, is essential to that bal
ancc of powers on which the pertcc-
/ ton and endurance Of our political
fabric depends and we denOunce the
lawless invasion by armed force of the
soil of any State or Territory, no mat
( ter under what prctcxt, as among the
| gravcst of crimes.
s. That the present Democratic Ad-
ministration has far exceeded our
worst apprchcnsions, in its measure
| less subscrvicncy to the actions of
a sectional interest, as especially
cvinced in its desperate eXertions to
force the infamous Lecompton Consti-
tuition upon the protesting people of
Kansas in constituting the personal
relation between master and servant
to involve an unqualified property in
persons in its attempted enforce
mcnt, everywhere, on land and sea,
through the intervention of Congress
and Of the Federal Courts of the ex-
treme prctensions of purely local in
terest and in its general and unva-
rying abuse of the power entrusted to
it by a confiding people.
6. That the people justly view with
alarm the reckless extravaganza
which pervadcs every department of
the Federal Government that re-
turn to rigid economy and accounta-
bility is indispensable to arrest the
systematic plundcr Of the public
treasury by favored partisans while
the recent startling Developments of
frauds and corruptions at the Federal
metropolis, show that an entire change
of administration is imperatively de.
manded.
I. That the new dogma that the
Constitution, of its own force, carries
Slavery into any or all of the Terrific
rics of the United States, is a danger,
Gus political heresy, at variance with
the explicit provisions of that instru.
mcnt itself, with contenporancous cx,
position, and with Legislative and iu,
dicial precedent is revolutionary in
its tendency, and subvcrsivc of the
peace and harmony of the country.
s. That the normal condition of all
the territory Of the United States is
that of freedom. That as our Repub.
lican fathers, when they had abolish,
ed slavery in all our national terrific.
ry, ordained that "no person should
be deprived of life, liberty, or proper.
ty, without due process of law" il
becomes our duty, by Legislation, when,
ever such legislation is necessary, to
maintain this provision of the Consti
tuition against all attempts to violate
it ; and we deny the authority of Con
gress, of a territorial Legislature, OIL
of any individuals, to give legal eX
tension to slavery in any territory OF
the United States.
Q. That we brand the recent re
opening Of the African slave trade
under the cover of our national flag
aided by perversions of judicial pow
er, as crime against humanity and
burning shame to our country and
age and we cali upon Congress tc
take prompt and efficient measures
for the total and final suppression o
that execrable traffic