The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1860-05-21

| thc IhlcaRo 1oHSentOHs ~ is SUNNI In eV@
cry plank and timber and will do to stand
on till the 'scrack Of DOOM No wonder
that each section was adopted with tremen-
dous bursts of applause.
Resolved, That we, the delegates rspresen-
tatives Of the Republican electors OF the
United States, in Convention assembled, in
discharge OF the duty we owe to our constis
uents and our country, unite in the follow
ing declarations
i. That the history OF the nation during
the last four years, has fully established the
propriety and necessity OF the organisation
and perpetuation of the Republican party,
and that the causes which called il into az
istenoe are permanent in their nature, and
now, more than ever before, demand ito
peaceful and constitutional triumph.
2. That the maintenance of the principles
promulgated in the Declaration Of Indepen.
dence and embodied in the Federal Constitu-
ton, is essential to the preser walton of our
| Republican Institutions, and that the Fede-
raj Constitution. the Rights OF the States,
and the Union Of the States must and shall
be preserved.
8. That to the Union of the States this
nation owes it's unprecedented increase in
population,its surprising development of ma
: terial resources, it's rapid augmentation Of
wealth. it's happiness at home and its honor
abroad; and we hold in adherence oil
schemes for Disunion, come from whatever
source they may; And we congratulate the
country that no Republican member Of Con-
gress has uttered or countenanoed the threats
IF Disunion 80 often made BY Dem ocratic
{ members, without rebuke and with applause
from their political associates and we de-
nounce those threats OF disunion, In case OF
u popular overthrow of their asoendaney, as
denying the vital principles OF free govern.
ment, and rs an svewal OF contemplated
treason, which it 10 the imperative duty Of
an indignant People sternly TO rebuke and
forever silence. XII
4. That the maintenance invioate OF the
rights OF the States, and especially the right
of each State TO order and control it's own
domestic institutions according to its own
; Judgment exclusively, is essential to that
/ balance of powers on which the perfection
and endurance Of our political fabric de.
i ponds and we denounoe the lawess inva-
sion by armed force of the soil of any State
. or Territory, no matter under what pretext,
as among the gravest of crimes.
7 5. That the present Dem ocratc Admins
. tration has far exceeded our worst apprehen-
= sions, in its measur eless subserviency to the
i exacsions OF sectional interest, ~ especial
~ evinced in it's desperate exertions TO force
a the infamous Lecompton Constitution upon
!. the protesting people OF Kansas in oonstru.
ing the personal relation between master and
J servant to involve an unqualified property
4 in persons; Ia its attempted enforcement, ev-
o erywhere, Oh land and sea, through the in.
: tervention OF Congress and of the Federal
: Courts, OF the extreme pretensions OF a pure.
y ly local interest and in it's general and un-
varying abuse of the power entrusted to i,
e by con6ding people.
!. G. That the people justly view with ALARM
: the reckless extravaganza which pervade.
= every department OF the Federal Government
o that a return to rigid economy and account
10 ability is Indispensable to arrest the syste
Il matte plumber of the public treasury by ia
vored partisans while the recent startling
" Developments OF frauds and corruption a
= the Federal metropolis, show that an entir,
change of administration 10 imperatively de
;. ma nded.
Z. That the new dogma that the Const
tuition, of its own force, carries slavery int
& any or all of the Territories OF the United
!. States, 10 a dangerous political heresy, a
:. variance with the exploit provisions of tina
instrument itself, with contemporaneous ex
T. position, and with legislative and judicia
70 precedent; is revolutionary in it's tendency
L. and subversive of the peace and harmony O
+. the country.
8. That the normal condition of all tb,
"a territory of the United States is that of free
y dom. That as our Republican fathers, whe
l. they had abolished slavery in ell our nation
>. al territory, ordained that "no person shal
be deprived of life, liberty, or property
y without due process of law" it becomes ou
l. duty, by legislation, whenever such legisla
81 ton ia necessary, TO maintain this provision
>. of tho Constitution against all attempts {,
violate it; and We deny the authority o.
' Congress, OF q territorial legislature, or Of
J. any individuals, TO give legal existence Il
N slavery in any Territory of the United
NJ States.
9. That we brand the recent re-openin,
~ of the African slave trade, under the cove
of our national flag, aided by perversions O
judicial power, as crime against humanit,
and burning shame to our country and age
and we call upon Congress to take promp
Ok and fhcient measures for the total and Gna
cd suppression of that execrable traffic.
an 10. That in the recent vetoes, by thei
Federal Governors, of the acts of the Legis
latures Of Kansas and Nebraska, prohibitin
y. slavery in those Territories, We find prac
4 teal illustration of the boasted Democrat
principles of Non Interv ention and Popula
sovereignty empouleu III the h6nsas-N eorat
ka bill, and demonstrate Of the deceptio
and fraud involved therein.
no IL. That Kansas should, Of right, be- in
ty mediately admitted as q State under the cor
stitntion recently Termed and adopted by b,
people, and accepted by the House of Repr
w sentatives.
he IL. That while providing revenue for II
support Of the general government by duti
upon imports, sound policy requires such
Ike adi ustment of these imposts as to encoural
In the development Of the industrial interes
NV Of The whole cluntry; and we commend tn
- policy of national exchanges, which secures
the working men liberal wages, to agriou
ture remunerating prices, to mechanics ar
'"' manufacturers an adequate reward for the
es- skill, labor and enterprise, and to the matte