The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1860-10-04
National Republican Platform.
[As AMENDED AND AD0PIED.1

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our constituents and our country, unite in |
the following declarations
l. That the history of the nation during
the last four years, has fully established
the propriety and necessity Of the organi-
cation and perpetuation 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 promulgated in the Declaration of In
dependence and embodied in the Federal
Constitution, THAT all 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
rights, governments are instituted among
men, deriving their just powers from the
consent OF the governed lis essential 10
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.
5. That to the union Of the States this
nation owes Its unprecedented increase in
population, It's surprising development Of
material resources, its rapid augmentation
Of wealth, It's happiness at home and its
| honor abroad and We hold in adherence
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 disunlon, in case Of popular overthrow
Of their ascendancy. As denying the vital
principles of free government, and as an
ayowal Of contemplated treason, which it
is the imperative duty Of an Indignant Peo-
pie sternIy to rebuke and forever silence
4. That the maintenance iuyiolate Of the
rights OF the States, and especially the
right OF each State TO order aud control its
own domestic institutions according to It's
own jud dgment exclusively, is essential 10
that balapce Of powers on which the per-
lection and endurance Of our political tab
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 grayest Of
crimes
o. That the present Democratic Admin
Iisuation has far exceeded our worst ap-
prehensions, in its measureless subseryi-
ency to The exactions of sectional inter
est, as especially eyinced in its desperate
exertions 10 force the infamous Lecompton
Constitution upon the protesting people of
Kansas In constituting the personal rela-
ton between master and servant to In
volve all unqualified property In persons !,
In its attempted enforcement, where,
on land and sea, through the Intervention
Of Congress and OF the Federal Courts, oil
the extreme pretenslons of a purely local
interest and in its general and unyarying
abuse OF the power entrusted to il by con
fiding people.
6. That the people justly view with
alarm the reckless extravaganza which
pervades every department OF the Federal
Goyernme mt, that return to ngld econ
omy and accountability is indispensable TO
arrest the systematic plunder of the pub
lie treasury by favored partisans; while
the recent startling developments offrauds
and corruptions at the Federal metropolis,
show that an entire change Of administra-
ton 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 a dangerous political her
of fbn rnif
sions of that instrument itself, with CO.
temporaneous exposition, and with legis-
latlve and Judicial precedent is reyolu.
tlonary 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 o
freedom That as our Republican fathers
when they had abolished slavery in all oui
national territory, ordained that mo per.
I son should be deprived of life, liberty, OF
property, without due process of law i
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 W,
deny the authority os Congress, Of 6 Ter
ritorial legislature, or of any individuals
to give legal existence 10 slavery in All,
Territory Of the United States.
8. That we brand the recen, re re-openiny
of the African slave trade, under the COY
: er Of our national flag, aided by perver
sions OF judicial power, as crime agains
humanity and burning shame 10 on
country and age and we call upon Con
gress to take prompt and efficient meas
> ures for the total and final suppression 9
that execrable traffic.
TO- That in the recent yetoes, by thei
1. Federal Governors, of the acts of the Leg
: islatures of Kansas and Nebraska, prohib