The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1860-05-24
REPUBLICAN PLATFORM,

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h principle, relieved OF all subterluge or dot
r BILE dealing for political effect, and mu,
!. commend itself to every American cilize
l. whose mind is untrammeled by party pre-
It udices. We ask for il careful peruss
by every reader of the "Pioneer::"
Resolved, That we, the delegated re
present ntatves Of the Republican elector
3 Of the United States, ia Convention as
sembled, in the discharge of our duty W
owe to our constituents and our country
unite in the following declarations:
LIST. That the history Of the nation du
ring the last four years has fully estab
lished the propriety and necessity of tn,
organization and perpetuation OF the Re
publican party, and that the causes which
called it into existence are permanent il
their nature, and now, more than ever
demand it's peaceful and constitutional
triumph.
3D. That the maintenance Of the
principles promulgated in the Declaration
Of Independence, and embodied in the
Federal Constitution, is essential TO the
preservation of republican institutions,
and that the Federal Constitution, the
rights of the States, and the union Of the
Suites, must and shall be preserved.
Sd. That to the union of the States this
nation owes its unprecedented increase
in population. its surprising develope-
ments of material resources; its rapid
augmentation Of wealth; its happiness at
home and its honor abroad; and we hold
in adherence all schemes for disuuion,
come from whatever source they may,
and we congratulate the country that no
Republican member Of Congress has ut.
tered or countenanced the threats of dis
union SO often made by the Democratic
members Of Congress, without rebuke
and with applause from their political
associates; and we denounce those threats
Of disunon in case of popular over
throw Of their ascendency, as denying
the vital principles of free Govern ment
and as an avowal of contemplated trea
son, which it is the imperative duty Of an
indignant people sternly to rcbuke and
forever silence.
4th. That the meintainance inviolate
Of the rights Of the States, and especially
Of each State to order and control its own
domestic institutions according to its own
judgment exclusively, is essential to that
balance power on which the perfection
and endurance Of our political fabric
depends; and we denounce the lawless in
vason by armed force Of the soil Of any
State or territory, no matter under what
pretext, as one Of the gravest Of crimes.
9th. That the present Democratic
Administration has far exceeded our
worst apprehensions in its measureess
subserviency to the exactions Of Sec
tional interest, as especially evinced in its
desperate exertions to force the infamous
Lecompton Constitution upon the protes.
ting people Of Kansas, constituting the
personal relation between master and
servant to involve an unqua lied property
in persons, in its attempted enforcement
everywhere, on land and sea, through
the Intervention of Congress and Of the
Federal Courtss, OF the extreme pre,en
sions ofa purely local interest; and in its
general and unvarying abuse Of the
power intrusted to it by confdIng
people.
9th. That the people justly view
with alarm the roaless extravas ance
which pervades every department Of the
Federal Government. That return to
rigid economy and accountability Is in
dispensable to arrest the plunder Of the
public treasury by favored psrtsaus,
while the recent startling developments
Of frauds and corruption at the federal
metropolis shows that an entire change
Of administration is imperatvely deman-
ded.
7th. That the pew dogmn that the
Constitution Of its own force carries Slav.
cry into any or all the territories Of the
United States, is dangerous political
heresy, at variance with the explicit pro-
visions of that instrument itself. with
conte mporaneous exposition, and with
legislative and judicial precedents; that it
is revolutionary in its tendency aud sub
versive Of the peace and harmony ofthe
country. #r -..
9th. That the normal condition Of all
the territory Of the United States is that
Of freedom; that as our Republican fathers
when they had abolished slavery in all
Of 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 legisla-
lion, whenever such Legislation is neces-
sary to maintain this provision of the
Constitution against all attempts to vic.
late it; and we deny the authority Of
Congress. or Territorial Legislature, or
Of any individual. to give legal exis.
lence to slavery in any territory Of the
United States. .y
9th. That we brand the recent REQ.
nenino of the African Slave Trada undor