The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1860-10-22
National Republican Platform,
las AMENDED AND ADoPTED.l

the United States, in Convention assem-
bled, in discharge of the duty we owe to
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-
zation and perpetuation of The Republican
party, and that the causes which called 1t
into existence are permanent in their ma
ture, and now, more than ever before, de-
mand its peaceful and constitutional tri-
umph.
Q. That the maintenance of the princi-
pies 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 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 governed essential to
the preservation Of our Republican institu-
tions; and that the Federal Constitution.
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
nation owes its unprecedented increase in
| population. It's surprising development Of
material resources, It's rapid augmentation
OF wealth. its happiness ut home and lis
honor abroad and we hold i'm adherence
all schemes for Disunion, come from W hat
ever source they may And we congratu.
late the country that no Republican mem
ber 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 wedenounce those threats
of dlsunion, in case Of popular overthrow
OF their ascendancy, As den, ing The vital
principles of a free government, and as an
ayowal OF contemplated treason, which it
is the imperative duty Of an indignant Peo-
pie sternly to rebuke and forever silence.
| 4. That the maintenance lnviolate Of the
rights OF the States, and especially the
/ night OF each Stale to order ard control it's
own domestic institutions according TO It's
own judgment exclusively, is essential to
that balaDce of powers on which the per-
fecton and endurance Of our political tab
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.
/ 8. That the present Democratic Admin
istration has far exceeded our worst ap-
prehenSions, In IFS measureless subservi-
ency TO the exactions of sectional inter-
est, as especially evinced in its desperate
exertlons TO force the infamous Leconpton
Constitution upon the protesting people Of
Kansas; In constituting the personal rela
1 ton between master and servant to in
volve 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 purely local
interest; and in its general and unvarying
abuse OF the power entrusted to il by con-
tding people.
8. That the people justly view with
alarm the reckless extravaganza which
pervades every department OF the Federal
Government that return 10 rigid econ
omy and accountability is Indispensable to
arrest the systematic plumber oil the pub
lic treasury by favored partisans while
the recent startling developments offrauds
and corrup,ions al the Federal metropolis,
show that an entire change Of adminisira-
tioa is lmperatively demanded.
Z. That the new dogma that the Con-
stituiion, OF its own force, carries Slavery
| mt all r. A. IT, a.
United States, is dangerous political her
esy, at variance with the explicit proyi-
sions Of that instrument itself, with CO.
temporaneous exposition. and with legis-
la,ive and judicial precedent is revoIu-
uonary IN Its tendency, and subversive oi
the peace and harmony of the country.
8. That the normal condition Of all the
territory Of the United States, is that Of
freedom That as our Republican fathers
when they had abolished slavery in all our
national territory, ordained that ono per
son should be deprived of life, liberty. OF
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 I; and We
aeny tne authority of Congress, Of a ter
ritorial legislature, or of any individuals
to give legal existence TO slavery in any
Territory of the United States.
0. That We brand the recent re opening
OF the African slave trade, under the GOV
or OF our national Gag, aided by perver
sions 9. judicial power, as crime agains
humanity and burning shame 10 ou
country and age and we call upon Con
gress 70 take prompt and efficient meas
ures for the total and anal suppression 0
that execrable traffic.
10. That in the recent vetoes, by thei