The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1860-08-02
CANDIDATES.

CANDIDATES.
President-STEPHE A. DOUG
LAS, of Illinois.
Vice President = HERSCHEL v.
JOHNSON, of Georgia.
THE BELL AND EVERETT PLATFORM.
"The Constitution, the Laws, and
the Union"
CANDIDATES.
President-JOHN BELL, of Ten
ncssee.
President = EDWARD EV-
ERETT, of Massachusetts.
Platform of the Republican Party.
Resolced, That we, the delegated
representatives of the Republican elec-
tors of the United States, in Conyen-
ton assembled, in the discharge of the
duty we owe to our constituents and
our country, unite in the following de-
claration
1. That the history of the nation
during the last four years, has fully es-
tablished the propriety 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 before, demand its peaceful
and constitutional triumph.
2. That the maintenance of the prin-
ciples promulgated in the Declaration
Of Independence and embodied in the
Federal Constitution that all men are
created equal that they are endowed
by their Creator with certain unaliena-
BILE rights; that among these are life,
liberty and the pursuit of happiness
that to secure these rights is essential
to the preservation of our Republican
institutions, and that the Federal Con-
stitution, the Rights of the States, and
the Union of the States must and shall
be preserved.
8. That to the Union of the States
this nation owes its unprecedented in
crease in population, its surprising de-
velopment in material resources, its
rapid augmentation of wealth, its hap
piness at home and its honor abroad;
and we hold in abhorrance all schemes
for Disunion, come from whatever
source it may; and We congratulate
the country that no Republican MEM
ber of Congress has uttered or counte-
nanced the threats of Disunion so Of
ten made by the Democratic members,
without rebuke, and with applause
from their political associates; and we
denounce those threats of Disunion in
case of popular overthrow of their
ascendency as denying the vital princi-
plies of free government, and as an
avowal of contemplated treason, which
it is the imperative duty of an indig-
nant people sternly to rebuke and for
ever silence.
4. That the maintenance inviolate of
the Rights of the States, and especially
the right of each State to order its
own affairs exclusively, is essential to
the balance of powers on which the
perfection and endurance of our politi-
cal fabric depends; and we denounce
the lawless 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 Adj
ministration has far exceeded our worst
apprehepsions, in its measureless SUBJ
serviency to the exactions of sectional
interest, as especially svinced in its
; desperate evertions to force the infam-
ous Lecompton Constitution upon the
} protesting people of Kansas; in con-
STRUNG the personal relation between
master and servant to involve an un-
qualified property right in persons in
! its attempted enforcement everywhere,
, on land and sea, through the interven-
, ton of Congress and of the Federal
Courts, of the extreme pretensions Of
, purely local interest; and in its gen.
eral and unvarying abuse of the pow
er intrusted to it by confding pco-
ple.
6. That the people Justly view with
. alarm the reckless extravaganza which
prevades every department of the Fed.
eral Government; that return of rigid
! economy and accountability is indis-
pensible to arrest the systematic plum
: der of the public treasury by favored
partisans while the recent startling
f developments of frauds and corruptions
at the Federal Metropolis, show that
: an entire change of administration is
imperatively demanded.
z. That the new dogma that the Con-
: stitution of its own force, carries slave
ry into any or all Of the Territories of
) the United States, is dangerous po-
litical heresy, at variance with the ex-
I plicit provisions of that instrument
, itself with contemporaneous exposi-
9 ton of its provisions and principles,
: and with legislative and judicial prece-
f dent; is revolutionary in its tendency
e and snbversive to the peace and har-
mony of the country.
Y 8. That the normal condition of all
Q the territory of the United States is
/ that of freedom: That as our Repub-
0 Iican fathers when they had abolished
slavery in all our national territory or
f dained "no person. should be deprived
: of life, liberty, or property, without the
e due process Of law" it becomes oar
duty, by Legislation, whenever such
legislation is necessary to maintain the
provision of the Constitution against
e all attempts to violate it; and we deny
: the authority of Congress- . terrific
: rial legislature, or of 51ividuals,