Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1860-05-18

are men who would go forth with their lives in
their hands and unite with others in restoring
the government to the policy of the fathers.
| But they didn't come with a party organiza-
ton at their backs. When the committee con-
sidered that these delegates would be admitted
with full electoral vote, they feared that I'M
less this rule was adopted the nominees of the
party might be such as would not have ma.
jority of the votes represented actually having
republican votes to offer to the party, these
were the motives which influenced the COM
mittee's action.
Judge James of New York, on the part of
the minority, said the rule had already been
adopted by the convention, which gave 446
votes as full vote of the convention The
majority was therefore substantially a two
thirds vote-304 being only seven votes
short of two-thirds. This was the rule of DEM
ecratic conventions, and had been suggested
in order to carry out the democratic policy of
allowing the minority to rule the majority.
| (Great applause. If the majority report Civ
ing negative votes to twenty absent southern
states should be adopted, the same policy
would be initiated here, and to this he was OPP
posed. loud applause.)
w Ii. Mann of Pennsylvania, said he came
from state where the majority rules He
knew no reason why it should be otherwise
here. If the majority rule should not prevail it
would seem like a secret blow at a candidate
who had done no wrong loud and prolonged
applause.) This act, neither he nor any of
the gallant hearts from Pennsylvania around
him would allow. (Cheers, and loud cries of
"Question," "Queston.")
The vote by states was demanded. When
Pennsylvania was called she asked for time
Mr.. Goodrich of Minnesota, asked that the
representatives of the "people's party" of
| Pennsylvania be excused from voting. (Cries
of order, and hisses.)
Mr.. Reeder of Pennsylvania said that the
delegates from Pennsy lvania had found it nee
essary to retire to consult. He understood
some person to say that the peoples party"
of his state had no right to vote. He desired
to know the name of that gentleman. Cheers
and cries OF order.
Mr. Goodrich said he had not questioned
the right of the peoples party" to vote, but
the name OF the state having been called for
the fourth time, and the delegates being unable
to vote on their own proposition, he had asked
that they be excused from voting, out of feel
ings of humanity.
The vote was announced, and the minority
report was then read by Judge James, re.
curing majority of votes cast only to nomi.
nate, and was adopted by 331 ayes, 1870 nays.
Loud and prolonged applause.l The rules as
amended were then adopted
Judge Jessup, from the committee on reso-
lutions, reported the following =
PLATFORM.
Resolved, That we, the delegated represen-
tatives OF the republican electors of the United
States, in convention assembled, in discharge
OF the duty we owe to our constituents and our
country, unite in the following declaration:
First, That the history OF the nation during
the last four years has fully established the
propriety and necessity OF the organization
and perpetuation of the republican party, and
that the causes which called it into existence
are permenent in their nature and now more
than ever before, demand its peaceful and
constitutional triumph.
Second, That the maintenance of the prin-
ciples promulgated in the Declaration of
independence and embodied in the federal con-
stitution and the rights of the states, and the
union Of the states, must, and shall be preserv-
ed.
Third, That to the Union of the states this
nation owes its Unprecedented increase in pop
ulation, its surprising developments OF materi-
al resources, its rapid augmentation of wealth,
Its happiness at home and its honor abroad
and we hold in adherence all schemes for dis
union, come from whatever source they may
and we congratulate the country that no re-
publican member of Congress has uttered or
countenanced Il threat of dsunion so often
made by democratic members of Congress
without rebuke and with applause from their
political associates, and we denounce those
threats of disunion in case of popular over
throw of their ascendancy as denying the vital
| principles of a free government and as an
avowal Of contemplated treason, which it is
the imperative duty of an indignant people
| strongly to rebuke and forever silence.
| Fourth, 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 bal
ance of power on which the perfection and en-
durance of political faith depends and we de-
nounce the act Of lawess invasion by an arm.
ed force of any state or territory, no matter
under what pretext, as among the gravest of
crimes.
Fifth, That the present democratic admins.
tration has far exceeded our worst apprehen-
siOns in its measureless subseryiency to the
exactons Of sectional interest as is especially
evident in It's desperate exertions to force the
famous LecomptOn constitution on the protest
| ing people OF Kansas i'll constituting the per-
| sonal relations between master and servant to
involve an unqualified property in per-
| sons in its attempted enforcement OF every
where on land and sea, through the interven
| ton of Congress and the federal courts, of the
extreme pretensions of Il purely local interest
and its general and unvarying abuse of the
power entrusted to it by confiding people.
Sixth, That the people justly view with
| alarm the reckless extravaganza which per-
vades every department of the federal govern
ment, and Il return to a rigid economy and
accountability is indispensable to arrest the
system Of plumber of the public treasury by
favored partlsans, while the recent startling
| developments Of fraud and corruption at the
| federal metropolis show that entire change in
the administration is imperatively demanded.
Seventh, That the new dogma that the con,
stituton Of its own free force carries slavery
into any or all the territories OF the United
States, is a dangerous political heresy, at vari-
ance with the explicit provisions of that in
| strument itself, with contemporaneous eXposi-
ton, and with Legislative and judicial prece-
dent; is revolutionary in its tendency, and
subversve of the peace and harmony OF the
country.
| Eight, That the normal condition of all the
territories of the United States is that of free
| dom, and that as our republican fathers when
| they had abolished in all our national territory
ordained that no person should be deprived of
life, liberty, or property, without due process
of law, it becomes our duty, by legislation
whenever such legislation is necessary to main
tain this provision of the constitution against
all attempts TO violate, and we deny the au
thority OF Congress, if territorial legislature
or of any individuals, to give legal existence
to slavery in any territory OF the United
| States.
Ninth, That we brand the recent re-opening
of the African slave trade, under the cover OF
our national flag, aided by perversons OF jul
| dicial power, as a crime against humanity u
burning shame to our country and age, and we
call upon Congress to take promptand efficient
measures for the total and final suppression of