The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1860-06-13
THE CHICAGO PLATFORM

ResolUed, That we, the delegated representatives,
Republican electors of the United States, in
Convention assembled i'll the discharge of the duty
owe to our constituents and our country, unite
in the following declarations:
LIST. 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 permanent in their ma
ture and now, more than ever before, demand its
peaceful and constitutional triumph.
3 That the maintenance Of the principles pro-
mulgated in the Declaration of Independence and
embodied in the Federal Constitution" That all
men created equal that they are endowed 10y
their Creator with certain inalienable rights that
among these life, liberty, and the pursuit of
happiness that to these rights, governments
instituted among men, deriving their just pow
from the consent OF the governed us essential
to the preservation of Republican institutions
and that the Federal Constitution, the Rights of
the States, and the Union of the States must and
shall be preserved.
g. That to the Union of the States this nation
its unprecedented increase in population, its
surprising development of material resources, its
rapid augmentation of wealth, its happiness at
home and its honor abroad; and we hold in alb
horrence all schemes for Dsunion, come from what
source they may: And We congratulate the
country that Republican member of Congress
has uttered countenanced the threats of Dis
union SO often made by Democratic members, with
ont retuke and with applause from their political
associates and we denOunce those threats of dis
union, in case of q popular overthrow of their as
tendency denying the vital principles of a free
government, and as an avowal of contemp ted
dignant People sternly to rebuke and forever ST.
Ience
4. That the maintenance nviolste of the Rights
of the States and especially the rightof each State
10 order and control its own domestic institutions
according to its own Judgment exclusively, is es-
sental to that balance of powers which the per
lection and endurance Of orr political fabric de-
ponds and we denounce the lawless invasion by
armed force of the soil of any State Territory
matter under what preteXt as among the graVest
OF crimes
s. That the present Democratic Administration
has far exceeded our worst approximations, i'll lis
measureIess subserviency to the eXaCtions of a
tiOnal interest, especially evinced in its desper
ate exertons force the infamous Lecompton Con
stituion upon the protesting people Of Kansas i'll
constituting the personal relation between master
and servant TO involve an unqualified property III
persons i'll its attempted enforcement, everywhere
on land and sea, through the Intervention of Con-
gress and of the Federal Courts, OF the extreme
pretensons of purely local interest and in its
general and unvarying ebuse OF the power intrusted
to it by n coniding people.
G. That the People justly view with alarm the
reckless extravaganza which pervades every depart
ment of the Federal Government; that return t.
rigid economy and accountability is indispensable
to arrest the systematic plumber of the public treas
ury by favored partisans; while the recent startling
Nelopmt nts OF frauds and cOrrupions at the Fed
! eral Metropolis, show that an entire change OF
administration is imperatively demanded.
7. That he new dogma That the Constitution, OF
its force, carries Slavery into any or all Of the
/ Territories of the United States, is IA dangerous
political heresy, at variance with the explicit pro
visions of that instrument itself with cOntempora
ncous exposition and with legislative and judicial
precedent; is revolutionary in its tendency, and
subversive of the peace aud harmony of the country
s. That the normal condition OF all the Territory
! of the United States is that of fri edom That a.
| our Republican fathers, when they had abolished
slavery in all our national territory, ordained that
90 person should be deprived of life, liberty,
property, without due process of law, ii becomes
duty, by legislation, whenever such Legislation
is necessary maintain this provision of the Con
stitution against all attempts to violate it; aud We
deny the authority of Congress- OF territorial leg
slature, of any individuals, TO give legal exist
ence to Slavery in any Territory of the United
States
Q. That We brand the recent re-opcuin, of the
! African Siave-TTade, under the cover of our Ma
tional Flag aided by pGrVersOns of judicial power
as a crime against Humanity and burning shame
to Country and Age; and we call upon Congress
take prompt and efficient measures for the total
and inal suppression of that eXecrable traffic
IL. That in the recent vetoes, by their Federal
Governors, of the acts of the Legislatures of Kan
sas and Nebraska, prohibiting Slavery in those
Territories, find practical illustration of the
boosted Democratic principle of Non Intervention
and Popular Sovereignty embodied in the Kansas
Nebraska bill, aud demonstI alton of the deception
and fraud involved therein.
IL. That Kansas should, of right, be Immediately
admitted a State under the Constitution recently
formed ana adopted by her people, and accepted by
/ the House of Representatives.
II. That, while providing revenue for the SUP
port of the general government by duties upon i'm
ports sound policy requires such an adjustment of
these imFOsts us to encourage the development of
the industrial interests of the whole country and
commend that policy of national exchanges,
which secures to the working liberal wages, to
agriculture reniHnerating prices, to mechanics and
manufacturers an adequate reward for their skill,
labor, and enterprise and to the nation commercial
prosperity and independence.
/ Is. That We protest against any sale alena-
ton to others of the Public Lands held by actual
/ settlers and against any view of the Free Home
stead policy which regards the settlers paupers
or supplianIs for public bounty; and demand
the passage by Congress of the complete and lis
factory Homestead measure Inch has already pass
ed the HOUSE.
! Il That the Republican party i opposed to any
Il Nr.4Vtg IIy..ri Il Itkss
le..isnt hy y. 1t b. LIS Of citIA >hip hith-
eric ,,cs.I al ili-- ar:s from f'reiYu lands
shall Ice nl.rd,, or impaired; an "a favor of Civ
! Ing 4 fu a., efficient prot CIri The rights OF
all clas,t- - ritY'-n E-thri HHtitr OF natural
/ iz~d, b, "a II iIuiic ~ a'':'"li.
10. That aIpI" rIhtt'.rss hy t''ns 50 for River
and HaTbOr iniPr rni~nt- 81 National character,
required TOR The accommodation aud ~rCn;itv Of an
existing commerce, hre authorize! by the Consti-
tuition, and justifie! ~ the obligation Of GOVera-
meut to protect the lives and property Gifts citizens.