The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1860-10-31
National Republican Platform.
rAs AMENDED AND ADOPTED. ]

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 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.
G. That the maintenance of the princi-
plies promulga ated 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 goyerned"-is essential TO
the preservation Of our Republican institu-
tius, and thai the Federal Constitution,
| the Rights of the States, and tie Union Of
the States must and shall be preserved
3. That 10 the union Of the States this
nation owes ITS unprecedented increase la
population, It's surprising development Of
material resources, It's rapid augmentation
Of wealth, It's happiness at home and its
honor abroad and We hold in abhorrence
all schemes for Disunion, 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. ol popular overthrow
Of their asoendancy, As denying The vital
principles OF free government, and as an
arosal Of contemplated treason, which it
is the imperative duty OF an indignant Peo-
pie sternly TO iebuke and forever silence
4. That the maintenance inyiolate Of the
rights oi the States, and especially the
j nght OF each State TO order and control It's
ON domestic institutions according TO It's
own judgment exclusively, is essential 10
that balance Of powers on which the per-
fection and endurance of our political lab
nc depends; and We denounce the law
less Invasion by armed force Of the soil of
any Slate or Territory, no matter under
what pretext, as among the gravest OF
cnmes.
8. That the present Democratic Admin
istration has far exceeded our worst ap-
prehensions, in It's measureless subservi-
ency TO the exactons Of sectional inter-
est, as especially eyinced in its desperate
e1ertlons 10 force the Infamous Lecompton
Constitution upon the protesting people of
Kansas; in construlng the personal rela-
tlon between master and servant 10 in
yolse an unqualified property in persons !;
III It's attempted enforcement, everywhere,
on land and sea, through the Intervention
OF Congress and of the Federal Courts, OF
the extreme pretensions of a purely local
interest; and in It's general and unyarying
abuse of the power entrusted to il by con
tiding people.
s. That the people Justly view with
alarm the reckless extravaganza which
pervades every department Of the Federal
Government that u return 10 rigid econ
Iomy and accountability is indispensable to
arrest the systematic plunder OF the pub
lic treasury by favored partisans; while
the recent startling developments offrauds
and corrupuons at the Federal metropolis,
show that an entire change of adminisira-
| ton 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 dangerous political her
esy, at variance with the explicit provi-
sions Of that instrument itself, with CO..
temporaneous exposition. and with legis-
ative and judicial precedent is revolu.
tionary 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 oil
freedom That as our Republican fathers,
when they had abolished slavery in all our
national territory, ordained that mo per
son should be deprived of life. liberty, Oh
property, without due process of law" il
becomes our duty. by legislation, whenev-
er such Legislation is necessary. to main
tain this provision of the Constitution
against all attempts to violate it ; and W.
deny the authority of Congress. Of ter
= nvoriai Legislature, or OF any individuals
to give legal existence TO slavery in any
Territory Of the United States.
8. That we brand the recent re -open min.
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
I, ures for the total and final suppression (
that execrable traffic.
10, That in the recent yetoes, by the
!. Federal Governors, OF the acts Of the LEG
islatures of Kansas and Nebraska, prohll