The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1860-10-16
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 proprlety 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
lure, and now, more than ever before, de-
mand its peaceful and constitutional tri
umph.
z. That the maintenance of the princi-
Piles promulgated in the Declaration of In
dependence and embodied in the Federal
Constitution, "That all men are created
equal tha, they are endowed by their
Creator with certain inalenable 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 d"--is 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.
,. That to the union Of the States this
nation owes it's unprecedented increase in
population, its surprising development of
material resources, It's rapid augmentation
of wealth, lis happiness at home and its
| honor abroad and We hold in adherence
all schemes for Disunion, come from W hat
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 of popular overthrow
Of their ascendancy, as denying the vital
principles OF free government, and as an
avowal Of contemplated treason, which il
is the imperative duty Of an indignant Peo-
| pie sternly TO febuke and forever silence.
4. That the maintenance inviolate of the
rights OF The States, and especially the
right Of each State to order and control its
own domestic institutions according to its
own judgment exclusively, is essential TO
that balance of powers on which the per-
fecton and endurance OF our political tab
ric cepends; 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.
5. That the present Democratic Admin
istration has far exceeded our worst ap-
prehensions, in IFS measureless subseryi-
ency 10 the exacuons of sectional inter
est, as especially evinced in its desperate
exertions TO force the infamous Lecompton
Constitution upon the protesting people OF
Kansas in construlng the personal rela-
tion between master and servant TO in
volye an unqualified property in persons
in 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 it by a con-
tidlng people.
s. That the people Justly view with
alarm the reckless extravaganza which
pervades every department OF the Federal
Government. that return to rigid econ
omy and accountability is Indispensable to
arrest the systematic plunder oil the pub
| lie treasury by favored partisans while
the recent startling developments offrauds
and corruptions al The Federal metropolis
show that an entire change of administra.
tion 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 proyi
sions of that instrument itself, with CO
temporaneous exposition. and with legis
lative and judicial precedent is revolu
tonary in It's tendency, and subversive o
the peace and harmony OF the country.
8. That the normal condition OF all th,
territory of the United States, is that o
freedom That as our Republican fathers
when they had abolished slavery in all ou
national territory, ordained that mo per
! son should be deprived of life, liberty. o
property, without due process of law
becomes our duty, by legislation, whenev
er such legislation IS necessary. to main
tain this provision of the Consututio
!. against all attempts to violate it and W
deny the authority of Congress, of tel
ritorlal legislature, or of any individuals
to give legal existence 10 slavery in an
Territory of the United States.
8. That we brand the recent re -openin
of the African slave trade, under the CO,
er Of our national flag, aided by perve
sions Of judicial power, as crime again
humanity and burning shame TO o,
country and age and we call upon Coz
gress to take prompt and efficient mea
. ures for the total and final suppression
that execrable traffic.
10. That in the recent vetoes, by the
A. Federal Governors, of the acts OF the Lee
: islatures of Kansas and Nebraska, prohi
=. iting Slavery in those Territories, we iii