The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1860-05-25
SAINT PAUL, FRIDAY, MAY %, 1860

tials as related to Texas. MIR. Wilmot, Of
Pennsylvania, moved an amendment by in
cluding Maryland, Kentucky and Virginia,
adding some remarks that were Extensively
construed by southern delegates.
Warm speeches were made by Palmer, of
Maryland, Blackey, of Kentucky and Others.
Mr.. Wilmot replied, and general specifica>
tions were made. when, finally the whole
report of the committee on credentials was
referred back by vote of 2651a to 1l2R.
The convention then adjourned until Pm.
The Convention met at three P. NJ. The
Committee on Credentials again reported,
giving Virginia "a votes, Kentucky, %,
Oregon, 5, Maryland IL, Texas 6. The re-.
port was adopted. The representation in
these states was cut down below the full
double electoral vote.
The report of committee on regulation
and rules was then taken from the table.
The second rule, giving delegates at large
four votes, and each Congressional district
two votes, except as modified by the COM
mittee on credentials, was amended by pro-
viding that no more votes shall be cast than
there are delegates present, and then
adopted.
On the fourth rule being read, which
provides that 304 votes, being majority of
a double electoral vote, shall be necessary
to nominate candidate, the minority of the
committee offered an amendment that ma
jOrity of the whole number of votes cast
shall be necessary to nominate. The
amendment was adopted, after discussion,
by vote Of ayes 33l to nays 13O.
The rule as amended was then adopted
and the committee reported series of reso-
lutions.
RESOLUTIONS AND PLATFORM.
Judge Jessup, Of Penn, said that he was
instructed by the committee to state that
the resolutions were adopted by them with
great unanimity. On one or two resolu-
tions there were few dissenting voices, but
the others were adopted with entire unanim-
ity. He then read the resolutions as fol-
lows:
RESOLVED, That we, the delegated represen.
tatives OF the Republican electors of the United
States, in convention assembled, in the dis
charge OF the duty we owe to our constituents
and our country, unite in the following delb-
eratons:
L. That the history of the nation during the
last tour years has fully established the proprie
ty and necessity of the organization and per-
petuatiOn of the Republican party: and that
the causes which called it into existence are
permanent in their nature, and now, more than
ever before, demand its peaceful and cOnstitu-
tional triumph.
2. That the maintenance of the principles
promulgated in the Declaration of lndepend-
ence, and embodied in the fe.eral constitution
10 ftoIf 0f De-,
can Institutions; and that the federal constitu-
tiOn. the rights of the States, and the Union of
the States must and shall be preserved.
3. That to the union of the states this ma.
ton owes its unprecedented increase in pOpu-
lation, its surprising development of material
resources, its augmentation of wealth, its hap
plness at home and its honor abroad and we
hold in adherence all schemes for dsunion,
come from whatever source they may; And
We congratulate the country that no Republican
members of Congress has uttered or cOuntenan
the cedthreats of disuniOn so often made by
Democratic members, without rebuke and with
applause from their political associates: and we
denounce those threats of disunion, in case of a
popular overthrow of their ascendency as de-
nying the vital principles of a free government,
and as an avOwal of contemplated treason.
which it is the imperative duty of an indignant
people sternly to rebuke and forever silence.
4. That the maintenance inviolate of the
IlSuto VI tuC otdtCs, duU especially Vi Tic TISuL
of each state to order and control its own do.
mestic institutions according to its own judg.
ment exclusively, is essential to the balance of
power on which the perfection and endurance
of our political fabric depends and we de-
nounce the lawless invasion by armed force of
the soil of any state or territory, no matter un.
der what pretext, as among the gravest of
crimes.
S. That the present Democratic administra-
tion has far exceeded our worst apprehensions,
in its measureless subserviency to the eXactions
of a sectional interest, as especially evinced in
its desperate eXertiOns to force the infamous
Lecompton constitution upon the protesting
people of Kansas in constituting the personal
relation between master and servant to involve
an unqualified property in persons; in its at
tempted enforcement, everywhere, on land and
sea, through the Intervention of Congress and
of the federal courts, of the extreme preten-
sions of parely local interest; and in its gen.
eral and unvarying abuse OF the power intrust-
ed to it by cOnfding people.
6. That the people justly view with alarm
the reckless extravaganza which pervades ev-
cry department of the federal government !;
that to return to rigid economy and accOunta-
bility is indispensable to arrest the systematic
plunder of the public treasury by favored par.
tiZans while the recent developments Offrauds
and corruptions at the federal metropolis. show
that an entire change of administration is i'm
peratively demanded.
Z. That the new dogma that the constitution,
of its own force, carries slavery into any or all
of the territories of the United States, is dan
gerous political heresy, at variance with the
explicit provisions of that instrument itself,
with contemporaneous exposition, and with
legislative and judicial precedent; it is revolu-
tionary in its tendency, and subversive Of the
peace and harmony of the country.
S. That the normal condition of all the terri.
tory o. the United States is that of freedom;
that as our Republican fathers, when they had
abolished slavery in all our national territory,
ordained that mo person should be deprived
of life, liberty, or property. without due pro-
cess of law it becomes our duty. by leglsla'
tion, whenever such legislation is necessary, to
maintain this provision of the constitution
against all attempts to violate it; and we deny
the authority of Congress, of territorial legis'
lature, or Of any individuals. to give legal ex.
istence to slavery in any territory of the United
States.