Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1860-06-01

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tween several gentlemen, the. vote on the
resolution was taken. and passed with but
some four or five dissenting voices.
On motion, 1t was en-
Resolved, That the proceedings Of this
meeting be published in the Valley Demo
crat and Rockingham Register, and the
lother Democratic papers Of the State be re-
quested to copy.
On motion, the meeting adjourned.
MASON BARE, Chm.
SAM'L T. WALKER, c,u
JNo. Fl. WARrMANN, oeoS
The Platform.
The following is the Platform adopted by
the Republican Convention at Chicago:
Resozued, That we, the delegated repre-
sentatiyves Of the Republican Electors of the
United States. in Convention assembled, in
The discharge Of the duty we owe to Our con-
stituents and our country, unite IN the fol-
lowing declarations: . .l...F.
LIST. That the history Of the nation during
the last four years has fully established the
propriet7 and necessity Of the organization
and perpetuation Of the Republican party,
and that the causes which called it
into existence are permanent in their nature,
and now more than ever before demand its
peaceful and constitutional triumph.
End. That the maintenance OF the prin-
lciples promulgated in the Declaration Of In
dependence, 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,
Bird. That to tie Union of the States this
nation owes its unprecedented increase Of
population; its surprising development Of
material resources; its rapid augmentation
of wealth;its happiness at home aud its honor
abroad; and we hold in adherence ali
schemes for disunion, come from whatever
source they may; and we congratulate the
country that no Republican member of Con-
gress has uttered or eountenanced a threat
Of d~isunion, 50 often made by Democratic
members Of Congress, with applause from
their political associates; and we denohnce
those threats of disunion, in case Of a popu-
lar overthrow of their ~ascendency, as deny
ing the vital principles Of a vital govern
ment and as an avowal of contemplated trea-
son, which it is the Imperative duty of an
indignant people strongly to rebuke and for
ever silence.
4th. That tla maintainance invio1ate 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 ezclusively,i is essentialto that
balance Of power on which the perfection
and endurance Of our political faith depends,
ard We denounce the lawless invasion by
armed force Of any State or Territory, nc
matter under what pretext, as among the
gravest of crimes.
9Th. That the present Democratic Nd
ministration has far exceeded our worst APP
prehensions in its measureless subserviency
to the exactions of a sectional interest, as is
especially evident in its desperate exertions
to force the infamous Lecompton. Constitu-
ton upon the protesting people of Kansas.
in constituting the personal relation between
master and servant to involve an unqualified
property in persons-in its attempted en-
forcement everywhere, on land and sea,
through the intervention Of Congress and the
Federal Courts, Of the extreme pretensions
of a purely local interest, and in its general
and unvarying abuse Of the power intrusted
to it by q confding people.
9th. That the people justly view with
alarm the reckless ex~travagance which per-
vades every department. of the Federal Gov
eminent; that a return to rigid economy and
accountability is indispensable to arrest the
of plumber Of the public treasury by
partisans; while the recent startling
developments of fraud ard corruption at the
Federal metropolis show chat an entire
of administration is imperatiyely de-
IN
It'll. That the new dogma that the Con-
of its own force carries Slavery into
any or all the Territories. of the United
States, is a dangerous political heresy, at
variance with the explicit provisions of that
instrument itself, With contemporaneous ex-
position, and with Legislative and judicial
precedent, is revolutionary in its tendency
and subversive of tie peace and harmony of
the country. a.
eth.s Fiat the normal condition of all the
territory Of the United Sstatesis that of Free
dom; that as our republican fathers, when
had abolished Slavery il nall our nation
al Territory, ordained that no person should
be deprived .of life, liberty and property,
process Of Law, it becomes our
duty, by legislation, whenever such legisla-
ton is necessary TO maintain this provision
the Constitution against all attempts to
it; and we deny the authority Of Con-
gress, of a Territorial Legislature, or of
any Individuals, to give legal existence to
in any Territory of the United
States. I
9th. That we brand the recent re-opening
Of the African slave trade, under the cover
Of our national flag, aided by perversions of
power, as a crime against humanity
) burning shame 70 cdr country and age,
and we call upon Congress to take prompt
and efficient measures for the total and final
of that execrable traffic.
10th. That in the recent vetoes by their
Federal Governors Of Che acts of the Legis-
O Kansas and Nebraska, prohibiting
in: those Territories, we find a prao-
sicaf illustration Of the boasted Democratic
of non intervention and Popular
Sovereignty, embodied in TIE Kansas and
Nebraska bill, and a denunciation Of the de-
and fraud involved therein.
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