The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1860-06-20
National Republican Platform.
las AMENDED AND ADOPTED !

hesoiYeu, Ihat we, the delegated rep
resentatives of the Republican electors of
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 proprlety and necessity OF the organi-
zation and perpssuation Of the Republican
party, and that the causes which called it
into existence are permanent In their ma
| ture, and now, more than ever before, de-
mand its peaceful and constitutional tri-
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 that to secure these
rights, governments are instituted among
men, deriving tneir just powers from the
consent OF the goserned"--is essential to
the preservation Of our Republican institu-
tons; and that the Federal Constitution,
the Rights OF the States, and the Union OF
| the States must and shall be preserved.
5. That TO the union of the States this
nation owes its unprecedented increase in
population, its surprising development of
material resources, its rapid augmentation
oil wealth, It's happiness al home and its
| honor abroad and we hold in abhorrence
allschemes for Disnnon, 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 denoance those threats
of disunion, IN case Of popular overthrow
OF their aseendancy, AS denying the vital
principles of free government, and as an
avowal OF contemplated treason, which it
ls the imperative duty of an indignant Peo-
pie sternly TO rebuke and forever silence.
q. That the maintenance inviolate of the
rights OF the States. and especially the
night OF each State To order and control its
own domestic institutions according to it's
own judgment exclusively, is essential to
that balance bf powers ON which the per
fection 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.
3. That the present Democratic Admin
istration has far exceeded our worst ap-
prehensions, in IFS measureless subsersi-
ency TO the exactions of sectional inter
est, az especially evinced in its desperate
exertions TO force the infamous Lecompton
Constitution upon the protesting people Of
hansas In oonstruing the personal rcla-
ton between master and servant to in
volye all 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 unvarying
abuse Of the power entrusted to ii by con
fding people. l
6. That the people Justly view with
alarm the reckless r1Tavagance which
perysdes every department Of the Federal
Government that return TO rigid econ
omy and accountability is Indispensable to
arrest the systematic plunder Of the pub
llc treasury by favored psrtisans while
the recent startling developments offrapds
and corruptions al the Federal metropolis,
show that an entire change of administra-
ton is imperatively demanded.
z. That the new dogma that the Con-
stitutlon, 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.
temporaneous exposition. and with lrgis-
lative and Judicial precedent is revolu
tionary in its tendency, and subversiyc of
the peace and harmony Of the country.
8. That the normal condition OF oil 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 duy, by legislation, whenev-
CT such Legislation is necessary. to main
tain this provision Of the Constitution
against all attempts to violate IL; and We
deny the authority Of Congress, Of Ter.
rltorial legislature, or OF any individuals,
TO give legal existence 10 slavery in any
Territory efthe United States
8. That we brand the recent re opening
of the African slave trade, under the coy
er Of our national flag, aided by perver-
slons Of judicial power, as crime against
humanity and burning shame 10 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
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