The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1860-06-30
National Republican Platform.
las AMENDED AND ADoPTED.l

our constituents and our country, unite in
the following declarations
/. That the history ofthe nation during
the last four years. has fully established
the propriety and necessity OF the organi-
cation and perpetusiion of the Republican
party, and that the causes which called it
into existence are permanent in their ma
lure, and now, more than ever before, de-
mand its peaceful and constitutional tn
umph.
g That the maintenance of the princi-
Piles promulgated in the Declaration of In
dependence and embodied in the Federal
Constitution, THAT all men are created
equal : that they are endowed by their
Creator with certain inalienable rights !;
that among these are lite, liberty and the
pursuit of happiness I, that to secure these
rights, governments are instituted among
men, deriving their just powers from the
consent of the governed lis essential to
the preservation Of our Republican nstitu-
tons and THAI the Federal Consultation,
the Rights Of the States. and the Union Of
the States must and sball be preserved
;. That TO the union of the States this
nation owes 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 abhorrcnce
all schemes for Disunion, come from y hat
ever source they may And we congratu-
late the country that no Republican mem
Der of Congress has uttered or counte-
nanced the threats Of Disunion so often
made by Democratic members. without re-
buke and with applause from their political
associates and we denounce those threats
OF disunion, in case of a popular overthrow
.of their ascendancy, ~ denying the vital
principles of free government. and as an
'asoHa of contemplated treason, which it
Is the imperative duty of an indignant Peo-
pie sterniy 10 febake and forever silence.
q. 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 It's
own judgment exclusively, is essential to
that balance Of powers on which the per-
fection and endurance of our political fab
rlc depends: and We denounce the law
less invasion by armed force of the soil OF
any State or Territory, no matter under
what pretext as among the grayest of
crimes.
8. That the present Democratic Admin
lstratlon has far exceeded our worst ap-
prehensions, In It's measureless subseryi-
ency TO the exactlons of sectional inter-
est, as especially evinced in Its desperate
exertlons TO force the infamous Lecompton
Constitution upon the protesting people Of
Kansas, in constituting the personal rela-
tion between master and servant TO in
volve an unqualified property in persons !:
IN Its attempted enforcement, everywhere,
on land and sea, through the intervention
Of Congress and OF the Federal Courts, Of
the extreme pretensions Of purely local
interest: and in Its general and unyarviny
abuse of the power entrusted to ii by a con-
hding people.
8. That the people justly view with
alarm the reckless extravaganza which
pervades every department Of the Federal
Government that return 10 rigid econ
omy and accountability is indispensable to
arrest The systematic plumber OF the pub
lie treasury by favored partisans while
the recent startling developments offrands
and corruptions at The Federal metropolis,
show that an entire change Of adminisira-
tion is imperatively demanded.
z. That the new dogma that the Con-
stituslon, Of its own force, carries Slavery
into any or all OF the Territories OF the
United States, is q dangerous political her
esy, ut variance with the explicit proyi-
sions Of that instrument itself, with Coz
temporaneous exposition. and with legis-
Ialive and judicial precedent is revolu
tionary in its tendency, and subversive Of
the peace and harmony of the country.
8. 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 our
national territory, ordained that "no per-
son should be deprived of life. liberty. or
property, without due process of law" it
becomes our duty, by legislation, whenev-
er such legislation is necessary. to main
tain this provision Of the Constitution
against all attempts TO violate it; and we
deny the authority Of Congress, Of ter
ritorial Legislature, or Of any individuals,
to give legal existence 10 slavery in any
Territory Of the United States. J.
3. na ..-t .s brand 81 al.l .4s seos.. a.-ops ninH
of the African slave trade, under the COW
er Of our national flag. aided by perysr-
sions Of judicial power, as crime against
humanity and burning shaDe 10 our
country and age; and we call upon Con-
gress TO take prompt and efficient meas
uress for The total and final suppression ol
that execrable traffic. ms 80 s*s
10. That in the recent vctoes. BY their
Federal Governors, Of the acts Of the Leg
lslalures Of Kansas and Nebraska, prohib.
iting Slavery in those Territories, we find
q practical illustration Of the boasted Dem
ocratic principle Of Non Intervention and
Popular Sovereignty embodied in the Kan.