The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1860-10-09
National Republican Platform.
rAs AMENDED AND AD0PIED.1

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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 organl-
cation and perpetuation of the Republican
party, and that the causes which called it
into existence are permanent in their ma
lure, and now, more than ever before, de-
mand Its peaceful and constitutional tri-
umph.
z. That the maintenance of the princi
Plies 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 inalenable 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 goyerned"-- essential 10
the preservation of our Republican lnstitu-
lions 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, its surprising development Of
material resources, Its rapid augmentation
OF wealth, It's happiness at home and It's
| honor abroad and we hold In abhorrence
all schemes for Dlsuuion, 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 disunion, in case of a popular overthrow
OF their aseendancy, As denying the vital
principles of free government, and as an
arowai of contemplated treason, which it
is the imperative duty of an indignant Peo-
pie sterHly to febuke and forever silence,
4. That the maintenance invioIate OF the
rights OF 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 balaDee of powers on which tue per
feetion and endurance of our political fab
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 gravest of
crimes
| 3. That the present Democratic Admin
istratlon has far exceeded onr worst ap-
preheasions, in It's measureless subservi-
ency TO The exactlons of sectional inter-
/ est, as especially erinced IN It's desperate
exertions TO force the Infamous Lecompton
Constitution upon the protesting people of
Kansas IN construlng the personal rela
ton between master and servant to in
yolve an unqualified property in persons J,
IN its attempted enforcement, everywhere,
on land and sea, through the Intervention
of Congress and of the Federal Courts, OF
the extreme pretenslons of a purely local
interest; and in lis general and unvaying
abuse Of the power entrusted to it by con-
fding people.
6. That the people justly view with
alarm the reckless extravaganza which
pervades every department OF the Federal
Government that return to rgld econ
omy and accountability is Indispensable to
arrest the systematic plumber OF the pub
lie treasury by favored partisans; while
the recent startling developments offrauds
and corruptions al the Federakmetropolls,
show that an entire change of administra-
tion is imperatiyely 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
esy, at variance with the explicit proyi-
sions of that instrument itself, with CO.
temporaneous exposition. and with legis.
latiye and Judicial precedent is revolu.
tionary in its tendency, and subversive o
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 oul
national territory, ordained that mo per.
son should be deprived of life, liberty, OF
property, without due process of law" i
becomes our duty, by legislation, whonev
er such Legislation is necessary. to main
tain this provision of the Constitution
. against all attempts to violate ii and W,
deny the authority OF Congress, of ter
rltorial legislature, or OF any individuals
to give legal existence TO slavery in an,
Territory of the United States.
8. That we brand the recent re e-openin.
of the African slave trade, under the GOV
er Of our national flag, aided by peryer
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 Q
that execrable traffic.
10. That in the recent vetoes, by thei
/. Federal Governors, of the acts Of the Leg
islatures of Kansas and Nebraska, prohib