The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1860-08-23
Ibr Ottum(na GOurirr.
National u republican, Platform.
las AMENDED AND ADOPTED.

following declarations;
That the history of the nation during the last four
years, has fully established the propriey and neces
sity of the organization and perpetusion OF thu Re-
publican party, and that the causes which called il
into existence are permanent in their nature and
now, than eyer before, demands its peaceful and
constitutional triumph
2. That the maintenance of the principles promul-
gated in the Declaration OF independence and en-
bodied in the Federal Constitution That all men are
created equal that they endowed by their Creator
with certain nalienable rights that among these
life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness that TO
cure these rights, governments are instituted among
men, deriving their just powers from the consent of
the governed"s essential to the preservation Of
Republican institutions and that the Federal Const-
tuition, 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
It's unprecedented increase in population its surprs-
Ing development of material resources its rapid aug
mentaton of wealth, its happiness at home and its
honor abroad and we hold in adherence all schemes
for Disunion, come from whatever source they may :
And we congratulate the country that Republican
member of Congress has uttered countenanced the
threats Of Disunion often made by Democratic
members, without rebuke and with applause from
threats of dsunon, in of popular overthrow Of
their ascendency, denying the vital principles of
free government, and as avowel of contemplated
treason, which it is the imperative duty Of indig
nant People sernly to rebuke and forever silence.
That the maintenance inviolate CT the rights Of
the States and especially the right of each State
order and control its domestic institutions &C.
cordinE to its own Judgment exclusively, is essential
to that balance Of powers which the perfection and
endurance of our political fabric depends; and we
denounce the lawless invasion by armed of the
soil ofany State o.. Territory, matter under what
pretext, as among the gravest Of crimes
8. That the present Democratic Administration has
far exceeded our worst apprehensons in its measure
less subserviency to the exactons of sectional in
terest, as especially evinced in its desperate exer-
tions to force the infamous Lecompton constitution
upon the protesting people of Kansas in constituting
the personal relation between master and ser rant to
involve an unqualified property in persons in its at
tempted enforcement, everywhere, on land and sea,
through the Intervention of Congress and of the Fed
eral Courts, of the extreme pretensions of purely
local interest," and its general and unvarying abuse
Of the power entrusted to it by a confding people
D. That the people justly view with alarm the reck-
less extravaganza which pervades every department
Of the Federal Government; that return to rigid
economy and accountability is indispens abs to ar
rest the systematic plumber of the public treasury by
favored partisans while the startling devel
opments Of frauds and options at the Federal
metropolis, show that entire change of admins
tration is imperatively demanded.
Z. That the new dog that the Constitution Of its
own force, carries Slavery into any all of the Ter
rtores of the United States is dangerous political
heresy, at variance with the explicit provis ions of
that instrument itself, with cotemporaneous EXPOSE
ton, and with legislative and judicial precedent is
revolutionary in its tendency, and subversive Of the
peace and harmony of the country.
S. That the normal coEdtion of all the territory Of
the United States is that Of freedom That as our Re-
publican fathers, when they had abolished slavery
all our national territory ordained that "no person
should be deprived Of life liberty, property with
out due process it becomes duty by legs-
laton, whenever such legislation is necessary, to
maintain this provision of the onstiution against
all attempts to violate it; and deny the authority
Of ongress, Of territorial legislature of any in
dividuas, to give legal existence to slavery in any
Territory Of the United States.
.. That brand the recent re.opennp of the Afri-
can slave trade under the cover Of our national
aided by perversions of judicial power, as a crime
against humanity and a burning shame to our couu-
try and age; and call upon Congress to tax E
prompt and efficient measures for the total and final
suppression of that execrable traffic
TO- That In the recent v.toes, by their Federal Gov.
ernors Of the acts Of the Legislatures Kansas and
Nebraska, prohibiting Slavery in those Territories
we find practical illustration of the boosted Demo
cratic principle of Non-Intervention and Popular
Sovereignty embodied in the Kansas-Nebraska bill
and demonstration Of the deception and fraud in
volv ed therein.
II. That Kansas should, Of right be imme diatey
admitted as State under the Constitution recently
formed and adoptedb by her people, and accepted by
the House of Representatives
49, That while providing revenue for the support
of the general government by duties upon imports
sound policy requires such an adjustment Of these
imports as to encourage the development Of the in
dusrial interests Of the whole country and We com
mend that policy of national exchanges which Sc
cures to the working liberal wages to agriculture
remuneratng prices to mechanics and manufacturers
an adequate reward for their skill labor and enter
prise, and to the nation commercial prosperity aud
independence
l3. That we protest against any sale or alienation
to others of the Public Lands held by actual settlers
and against any view of the Free Homestead policy
which regards the settlers paupers or suppliants
for public bounty; and We demand the passage by
Congress of the complete satisfactory HON estead
measure which has already passed the House.
a. That the Republican party is opposed to any
change In our Naturalization Laws State egis-
lation by which the rights of citizenship hitherto &C.
corded to immigran from foreign lands shall be
abridged or impaired; and in favor of giving full
and efficient protection to the rights all classes of
citizens, whether native naturazed both at home
and abroad.
10. That appropriations by Congress for River and
Harbor improvements of a National character re-
qnired for the accommodation and security of an ex
isting commerce, authorized by the Constitutions
ndjustifed by the obligation Of Government to pro-
tect the lives and property of its citizens
10. That Railroad to the Pacific Ocean Is impera.
lively demanded by the interests of the whole
try; tkat the Federal Government ught to render
immediate and efficient aid in its construct ton and
that, as preliminary thereto, daily Overland Mail
should be promptly established.
II. Finally, having thus set forth our distinctive
principles and views invite the cooperation of all
citizens, however differing on other questions who
substantially a. rec with us In their afirmance and
support
SUPPLEMENTARY RESOLUTION
Resolved, That We deeply sympathize with those
men who lave been driven, some of them from their
native States AM others from the State of their adop
tion and exiled from their homes on account
of their opinions and We hold the Democra &c party
responsible for this gross violation of clause of
the Constitution which declares that the citizens Of
each State shall be entitled to al the privileges and
itnmunities of citizens in the several States
The Esongins Fsction os t,ac Sham
Democracy.
THE CANDIDATES
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