Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1860-05-24
CHICAGO CONVENTION
;, RfPubLIcAN PLATFORM.
G Re AT ENT HUsIAs SIN.

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Wehaye not rom for the proceedings of the
loOnrention at Chicago They were harnopiou.
and enthusiastic. The following is the Plat.
form adopted
judge Jessup, of Pennsylvania, from the
committee on Resolutions, reported the follow.
| ing:
| Resolved, That we the delegated representa-
| tyes of the Republican electors of the United
| States, in convention. assembled, in the dis
charge of the duty we owe 10 our constituents
and our country, unite in the following declara-
ton: ssss- g-.-.s.5..
| LIST. That the history of the nation during
the last four years has fully established the pro-
priety and necessity of the organization and
the perpetuation of the Republican party, and
that the causes which called it into existence are
permanent in their nature. and now, more than
ever before. demand its peaceful and constitu-
tional triumph =
3D. That the maintenance of the principles
promulgated in the Declaration of 1ndepend-
ence and embodied in the Federal Constitution,
are essential TO the preservation of our Repub-
lican institutions, and that the Federal Consti-
tuition, the rights of the States and the union
of the States, must and shall be preserved.
3d. That to the union of the States this na-
uoH y" % itS ehPieeeaenieu iAeieslse IN poPuia-
tlon' us surprising development OF material re-
sources its rapid augmentation of wealth, its
happiness at home and Its honor abroad and we
hold in abhorrenee all schemes for disunion,
come from whatever source they may, and we
congratulate the country that no Republican
member of Congress has uttered or countenanced
the threats of disunion so often made by Demo-
cratic members Of Congress, without rebuke,
and with applause from their political associates;
and we denounce those threats OF disunion in
case OF popular overthrow OF their asceHden-
cy, as denying the vital principles of free
government. and as an ayowal Of contemplated
treason which it Is the, imperative duty of an
indignant people sternly to rebuke and forever
silence. -
4th. That the maintenance inyiolate of the
rights of the states, and especially of the right
of each state to order and control its own do
nestle institutions, according to its own judg-
ment, is essential to that balance oil power on
which the perfection and endurance Of our DO
Htical fabrick depends, and We denounce the
lawless invasion, by armed force, of the soil
of any State or territory, under whatever pre-
text;
5th. That the present Democratic admins
tration has far exceeded our worst apprehen-
sions in its measureless subseryiency to the ex-
actions of sectional interest, as especially eri-
denced in its desperate exertions to force the
infamous Lecompton constitution upon the pro-
testing people of Kansas,-in constituting the
personal relation between master and servant to
involve an unqualified property in PERSONS
in lis attempted en- forcement, everywhere, on
land and sea, through the intervention of Con-
gress and the Federal Courts, of the extreme
pretensions of a purely local interest, and its
general abuse of the power entrusted TO it bv a
ecnfding people;
9Th. That the people Justly view with ab-
horrence the reckless extravaganza that pervades
every department of the federal government
that return to rigid economy and accountable
ity is indispensable TO arrest the systematic
plunder of the public treasury by favored par
tizans, while the recent startling developments
of frauds and corruption at the federal metrop-
oils show that an entire change of admin;stra-
tion is imperatively demanded.
7th. That the new dogma that the constitu-
tion of its own force carries slavery into any or
all the territories of the United States, isa dam
gerous political heresy, at variance with the ex-
plicit provisions Of that instrument itself, with
contenporaneous exposition, and with legisla-
tive and judicial precedent-is revolutionary in
its tendency, and subyersive of the peace and
harmony Of the country. .f.
: 9Th. That the normal condition of all the ter
ritory 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 person should be deprived of
life, liberty or property. without due process of
law. .it becomes our duty by Legislation, when
ever such legislation is necessary, TO maintain
this provision of the Constitution against all at
tempts to violate 1t, and we deuy the authority
of Congress of territorial Legislature, or of any
individuals to give legal existence to slavery in
any territory of these United States;
9Th. That we brand the recent re-opening of
the African slave trade under the cover of our
haliohal nag, aiueo oy PerVersions OF Jualelai
PoweI' as Cline 'is'nnsI hullianity' ourH =,
nis sna1lle 1 W our couhti5 aAu ase' anu we eaii
upon Oohgiess 70 ';Ike PIolnPt anu selacient
= measures lor tne .S!ai anu nh'n suppression OF
'naI ao,1 SAec, a. 1pie ti''no'
totr. 1hat Ii .ne resent fe'oss ny l!eir ieu-
elal oonefnors %i 01 ine ic's u .ne ieisia.uies
those Territories we find nracticsliIln
tion of tbe boasted Democratic Pripcinle of
non. intervention and nonular sorereipntv cm.
bod;ed in the Kansas n ebraska hill and dom.
an nstrst;on -of the Jecont;on and frand inrolved
herein. : > : ''-Se :. = :
1I,b Tb,t K.ns.s sbould of r;ob. be ;m,ne.
j;stoly odn,;ttod no St.te nnder tbe con st;tn-
-;o,, -v;soI, formed and odontod Inv ber MOO
pie, and accepted by the House of Representa-
ives; A
18th. That while providing revenue for the |
,upport of the General Government by duties |
1pon imports. sound policy REQUIRES such an ad- |
ustment of these imports as to encourage the |
Development of fhe industrial interests Of the
whole country, and we commend that policy of |
rational exchanges which secures to the work
no mon liberal wages fo apricultrra renunpra-