The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1860-06-28
THE CHICAGO PLATFORM

AMENDED ADOPTED.
Resolved, That we, the delegated representatives
of the Republican electors of the United States
Convention assembled, in the discharge of the duty
TO constituents and country, unite
lin the following declarations:
list. That the history of the nation during the
astSsT years, has fully established the propriety
and necessity of the organization and perpetuaton
OF the Republican party and that the causes which
called it into existence are permanent in their ma
tire, and now, more than ever before, demand its
peaceful and constitutional triumph
2. That the maintenance OF the principles pro-
hui8hIed IN tue DeclhFatlon Oh thuePehirmOe anu
embodied in the Federal Constitution That all
created equal that they are endowed by
their Creator with certain inaienabe rights that
among these life, liberty, and the pursuit OF
happiness that to secure these right1 governments
are instituted among men, deriving their just pow
from the consent of the governed lis essential
TO the preservation of our Republican institutions
aud that the Federal Constitution, the Rights of
the States and the Union of the States must and
shall be preserved.
s. 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 alb
horrence all schemes for Disunion, come from what
source they may And we congratulate the
country that Republican member of Congress
has uttered cOuntenanced the threats of Dis
union often made by Democratic members, with
ont rebuke and with applause frem their political
associates and we denounce those threats OF dis
union, in case of a popular overthrow of their
tendency denying the vital principles OF a free
government and avOwal of contemplated
treason, which it is the imperative duty OF an in
lence.
4. 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 its own Judgment exclusively, Is es-
sential to that balance of powers which the per
lection and endurance Of our political fabric de-
ponds and we denounce the 4awless invasion by
armed force of the soil of any State Territory,
no matter under what pretext, among the gravest
Of crimes.
5. That the present Democratic Administration
has far exceeded our worst apprehensions, in it's
measureess subserviency to the exactions of IL sec
Lional interest especially evnced in its desper-
ate exertOns to force the infamous Lecompton Con.
stitution upon the protesting people of Kansas in
constituting the personal relation between master
aud servant 70 involve unqualified property in
persons in it's attempted enforcement, everywhere
ON land and sea- through the Intervention of Con-
Sress and of the Federal Courts, of the extreme
pretensions of a purely local interest and in its
general and unyaryiDg abuse OF the power Entrusted
TO it by = conhding people
o. That the People justly view with alarm the
reckless extravagance which pervades every depart
nlent of the Federal Government; that n return to
rigid economy and accountability il Indispensable
the systematic plumber of the public treas
ury by favored partsans; while the recent
deVeOpmt nts of frauds and corruptOus at the Fed-
eral Metropolis, show that entire chADge OF
administration is imperatively demanded
7. That he new dogma that the Constitution, OF
its force, carries Slavery into any all OF the
Territories of the United States, is a dangerous
political heresY, variance with the explicit pro
neous exposition and with legislative and judicial
precedent is revolutionary in its tendency, and
subyersve of the peace and harmony of the country
8. That the normal condition of all the Territory
Of the United Sts4es 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,
property, without due process of law" it becomes