The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1860-09-11
National Republican Platform.
las AMENDED AND ADOPTED ]

the UnIted States, in Convention assem-
bled, in discharge Of the duty we owe TO
our constituents and our country, unite In
the following declarations
/. That the history of the nation during
the last four years, has fully established
the proprety and necessity OF the organi-
zation and perpetuation 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-
nand its peaceful and constitutional tri-
umph.
2. That the maintenance of the princi-
pies 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 inallenable rights !;
that among these are lite, liberty and the
pursuit OF happiness that to secure these
rights, governments are instituted among
men, deriving their Just powers from the
consent Of the governed d''--is essential TO
the preservation Of our Republican institu-
lions and that the Federal Constitution,
the States must and shall be preserved.
;. That To the union of the States this
nation owes it's unprecedented increase In
population, It's surprising development of
material resources, ITS rapid augmentation
Of wealth, Its happiness at home and lis
honor abroad and we hold in abhorrence
all schemes for Disunion, come from what
ever source they may Aud Wa congratu-
late the country that no Republican mem
ber 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 deBounce those threats
Of dlsunion, in case Of popular overthrow
of their asceudancy, as denying the vital
principles OF free government, and as an
ayowal of contemplated treason, which it
is theimperatlse duty OF an indignant Peo-
pie sternty TO TebuEe and forever silence.
q. ThaI 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 JnG gment exclusively, is essential to
that balance Of powers on which the per-
feca0n and endurance of our political fab
ric 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
Istration has far exceeded our worst ap-
prehenslons, In It's measureless subseryi-
ency TO The exactions of sectional inter-
est, as especially evinced in its desperate
exertions TO force the infamous Lecompton
Constitution upon the protesting people Of
Kansas In construing the personal reia-
ton between master and servant to in-
yolye an unqualified property in persons
III lis attempted enforcement, everywhere,
onsland and sea, through the Intervention
OF Congress and of the Federal Courts, OF
the extreme pretenslons of a purely local
interest and in It's general and unyaryinc
abuse OF the power entrusted to it by con-
fdiRg people.
d. hat 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
lac treasury by favored partisans while
the recent startling Developments offrauds
and corruptions al the Federal metropolis,
show that an entire change of administra-
ton is imperatiyely demanded.
Z. That the new dogma that the Con-
stltution, of its own force, carries Slavery
into any or all OF the Territories OF the
United States, is dangerous political her
esy, at variance with the explicit proyi-
sions of that instrument itself, with CO.
exposition. and with legis-
latlve and Judicial precedent is revolu
tionary in its tendency, and subversve 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 mo per-
son should be deprived of life, liberty, or
property, without due process of law, F" il
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
rtorial legislature, or OF any individuals,
TO give legal existence 10 slavery in any
Territory ofthe United States.
o. That We brand the recent re-opening
of the African slave trade, under the COW
er Of our national flag, aided by perver-
sions Of judicial power, as crime against
humanity and burning shame TO our
country and age; and We call upon Con-
gress to take prompt and efficient meas
ures for the total and final suppression of
that execrable traffic.
10. That in the recent vetoes, by their