The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1860-06-05
National Republican Platform.
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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 ii
into existence are permanent in their ma
ture, and now, more than ever before, de-
mand its peaceful and constitutional tri-
umph.
2. 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 that they are endowed by their
Creator with certain inalienabc rights
that among these are lite, liberty and the
pursuit OF happiness tina. to secure these
rights, governments are instituted among
men, deriving their just powers from the
consent of the governed" lis essential to
The preservation of our Republican institu-
tons; 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 its unprecedented increase in
.popuiaiion, IT'S surprising development of
material resources, It's rapid augmentation
OF wealth, its happiness at home and its
honor abroad and We hold in adherence
allschemes 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, withoutre-
buke and with applause from their political
associates and we denounce those threats
OF disunion, in ease OF a popular overthrow
OF their ascendancy as denying the vital
principles Of q free government, and as an
ayowal OF contemplated treason, which it
is the imperative duty of an indignant Peo-
pie sternly 10 rebuke and forever silence
4. That the maintenance inyiolate of the
rights OF the States, and especially tie
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-
fec!ion and endurance of our political TAB
rics depends; and we denounce the law
less invasion hy armed force OF the soil OF
any State or Territory, no matter under
what prese1t. as among the grayest OF
crimes.
s. That the present Democratic Admin
lstraiion has far exceeded our worst ap-
prehensions, in its measureless subservi-
ency to the exactlons of a sectional inter-
est, as especially evinced in its desperate
exertions to force the infamous Lecompton
Constitution upon the protesting people of
kansas In constituting the personal rela-
ton between master and servant TO in
volve 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 oi
the extreme pretensions Of purely local
interest: and in its general and unvarying
abuse of the power entrusted to ii by a con-
tidlng people.
6. That the people justly view with
alarm the reckless extravaganza which
Ipervades every Departmental the Federal
Government that return TO rigid econ
omy and accountability is indispensable to
arrest the systematic plunder OF the pub
lie treasury BY favored partisans while
the recent startling developments offrauds
and corruptions at The Federal metropolis,
show that an entire change of administra-
ton is imperatively 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-
latiye and Judicial precedent is revolu-
tionsry in its tendency, and subversive d
the peace and harmony Of the country.
q, That The normal condition OK all the
territory of the United States, is tn at Of
freedom : That as our Republican fathers,
when they had abolished slavery in all our
national territory, ordained that "no per.
son should be deprived Of life, liberty, o,
property, without due process of law,r il
becomes our duty, by legislation, whenev-
er suoh legislation is necessary. to m ain
tam tins provision of the Constitution
against all attempts to violate IL; and wt
deny the authority of Congress, Of ter
ritoral Legislature or 9. sSy :sidiiis it,u AIS
/ to give legal existence 10 slavery in any
Territory Of the United States.
8. That we brand the recent re-openinp
of the African slave trade, under the GOV.
er Of our national flag. aided by rerver-
sions o! judicial power. as crime against
humanity and a burning shame 10 our
country and age and we call upon Con-
gress to take prompt and efficient meas
ures Tor the total and final suppression d
that execrable traffic.
| 10. That in the recent yctoes, by their
Federal Governors, Of the acts OF the Leg
islatures OF Kansas and Nebraska, prohIb-
lting Slavery in those Territories, we find