The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1860-10-05
National Republican Platform.
:rAs AMENDED AND ADOPTED. I

cur constituents and our country, unite in |
the following declarations
j. That the history of the nation during |
the last four years, has fully established
the propriety and necessity Of the organl
cation and perpetuation of the Republican
party, and that the causes which called it
into existence are permanent in their na-
ture, and now, more than ever before, de-
mand its peaceful and constitutional tri
umph.
E. 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 tnclr just powers from the
consent Of the governed lis essential 10
the preservation Of our Republican institu-
tlons; and that the Federal Constitution,
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 its unprecedented increase In
population, lts surprising development of
material resources, It's rapid augmentation
OF wealth, It's happiness al home and its
| honor abroad and We hold in adherence
| all schemes for Dlsunion, come from what
/ 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 dlsunion, IN case Of popular overthrow
/ OF their ascendancy, As denying the vital
| principles of free government, and as an
aYogal Of contemplated treason, which it
is the imperative duty Of an indignant Peo-
| pie sternly TO rebuke and fofeyer silence
4. That the maintenance inviolate of the
rights OF the States, and especially the
right of each State TO order and control It's
own domestic institutions according to It's
own judgment exclusively, is essential TO
that balaDce Of powers on which the per
fection and endurance of our political tab
ric depends and We denuunce the law
/ less invasion by armed force of the soil Of
any State or Territory, no matter under
what prete1t, as among the grayest of
crimes
b. That the present Democratic Admin
/ lstratlon has far exceeded our worst ap-
! prehtnsions, In lis measureless subseryi-
ency 10 the exactions of sectional inter
/ est as especially etnced IN its desperate
/ exertions 10 force the Infamous Lecompton
Constitution upon the protesting people of
/ kansas III construlng the personal rela-
ton between master and servant to in
yolve 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 a purely local
interest, and IN It's general and unyarymg
abuse of the power entrusted to II by con
hding people.
g. That the people justly view with
alarm the reckless extravaganza which
peryades every department of the Federal
| Government that return TO rigid econ
omy and accountability is indispensable to
arrest the systematic plunder Of the pub
lie treasury by favored partisans; while
the recent startling developments offrauds
and corruptlons at the Federal metropolis,
show that an entire change Of administra-
tlon il imperatiyely demanded.
Z. That the new dogma that the Com
stitution, OF It's 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 proyl-
sions of that instrument itself, with CO.
temporaneous exposition, and with logis-
atlye and Judicial precedent is reyolu-
tlonary in its tendency, and subyersivc OF
the peace and harmony OF the country.
s. That the normal condition OF all the
territory Of the United States, is that oi
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, OF
property, without due process Of law" il
becomes our duty, by legislation, whonev.
er such legislation is necessary. to main
tam this provision of the Constitution
!. againsnall attempts to violate it and W.
deny thha authority Of Congress, Of d t,r
ritorlal legislature, or OF any individuals
TO give legal existence 10 slavery in any
Territory of the United States.
8. That We brand the recent re-openins
of the African slave trade, under the GOV
er OF our national flag, aided by peryer
slons o. judicial power, as crime agains
humanity and burning shame to ou
country and age and We call upon Con
gress to take prompt and efficient meas
, ures for the total and final suppression 0
that execrable traffic.
10. That in the recent vetoes, by thei
!. Federal Governors, of the acts OF the Leg
lislatures of Kansas and Nebraska, prohib