The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1860-10-17
THE REPUBLICAN PLATFORM.


unito in the following declarations:
First: That the history OF the nation
during the last four years has fully estab-
lishcd the propriety and necessity of the
organization and perpetuation of the Re
publican party, anal that the causes which
called it into existence arc permanent IN
their nature anil now more than ever be-
fore demand its peaceful and constitution
nj triumph.
Second: That the maintenance of tho
principles promulgated in the Declaration
of Independence, and embodied IN the
Federal Constitution, Is essential to the
preservation of our republican institutions,
and that the Federal Constitution, the
rights of the States, and the Union OF
the States, must and shall be preserved.
Third: That to the Union of the States
this nation owes its unprecedented in
craaso in population; its surprising devel-
opment of material resources; its rapid
augmentation of wealth; its happiness at
homo and its honor abroad; and we hold
in abhoranco all schemes for disunion,
come from whatever source they may;
and we congratulate tho country that no
Republican member OF Congress has ut
tered or countenanced a threat of dlsua-
ion, SO often made by Democratic MEM
bers of Congress without rebube, and
with applause from their political asSocl-
atcs; and we deuounco those threats of
dsurion, in case of q popular overthrow
of their ascendency, as denying the vital
principles of free Government, and rs
all ayowal of contemplated treason, which
It is the imperative duty Of an indignant
people strongly to rebuke and forever
silence.
FOURTH, That the maintenance invio,
late Of the right of the States, aud espec-
ia'ly the right of each State to order and
control its own domestic institutions &C
cording to its own judgement exclusively,
is essential to TINT balance of power on
Which the perfection and endurance of
our political faith depends, and we de-
| nounco tie lnwless invasion by armed
forces Of any State or Territory, no mat
ter under what pretext, rs among the
gravest Of crimes.
Filth: That the present Democratic
Administration has far exceeded our
worst approximations in its measureless
subserviencv to the exactions of a section
al interest, as is especially evident in its
desperate exertions to force the infamous
Lecompton Constitution upon the pro-
testing people of Kansas-in constituting
the personal relation between master apd
servant to involve al unqualified property
in persons-in It's attempted enforcement
everywhere, on land and sea, through
| the intervention OF Congress and the Fed
oral Courts CT the extreme pretensions of
purely local interest, and in its general
and unvarying abuse of the power in-
trusted to it by confiding people.
Sirth: That the people justly view
with alarm the reckless extravaganza
which pervades every department of the
rigid economy and accountability is indis-
pensable to arrest the system of plumber
of the public treasury by favored parti-
sans: while the recent startling develop
ments of fraud and corruption ut the
Federal metropolis, shows that nm entire
change of administration in imperatiyely
demanded.
Seventh: That the new dogma that
Constitution of its own force carries Sla-
very into any or all the Territories of the
United States, is dangerous political
heresv. at variance with the explicit pro-
visions of that instrument itself, with con-
temporaneous exposition, and with legi>-
lative and judicial precedent, is revolu
tionary in its tendency and subversive of
the peace and harmony of the country.
Eigttk: That the normal condition Of
the territories Of the United States is that
of Freedom; that as our republican faith
ors. when they had abolished Slavery in
all our national territory, ordained that
no person should he deprived of life, lib
erty, or property, without the process of
law, it becomes cur duty, by legislation,
whenever such legislation is necessary, to
maintain this provision of the Constitu-
ton against all attempts to violate it; and
we deny the authority of Congress, of a
Territorial Legislature, or of any individ-
uals, to give legal existence to Slavery in
any Territory Of ths United States.
Ninth: That We br; nd the recent re-
opening of the African slave-trade, under
the cover of ovr national flag, aided by
perversions of judicial power, as a crime
against humanity, burning shame to
our country and age, and we call upon
Congress to take prompt and efficient
measures for the total and final suppress
ion of that execrable traffic.
Tenth: That in the recent vetoes by
their Federal Governors of the acts of the
Legislatures of Kansas and Nebraska,
prohibiting Slavery in those Territories,
we find practical illustration of the
boasted Democratic principle of non-in-
tervention and Popular Sovereignty, EN-
bodied in the Kansas and Nebraska bill.
and denuuciation of the deception and
fraud involved therein.
Eleventh.: Thut Kansas should Of
right be Immediately admitted as State
under the Constitution recently formed
and adopted by her people, and accepted
by the House of Representatives.
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