Wabash express. [volume] (Terre-Haute, Vigo Co[unty], Ind.) 1841-186?, 1860-08-15
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Resolved, That We, Tire delegated repre-
sentatives of the Republican electors of thu
United States, in Convention assembled
in the discharge Of the duty we owe to our
constituents and our country, unite in the
following resolutions:
LIST. That the history Of the Nation dn
ring the last four years has fully establish
ed the propriety and necessity OF the or
ganiEation and perpe:ustion Of the Repub-
licsn party, and that the causes which cal
led IT into existence are permanentin their
nature, and now, more than ever, demand
its peaceful aad constitutional triumph.
I'd. That the maintenance Of ths prin-
ciples promulgated in the the Declaration
OF Independence. and embodied in the Fed
eral Constitution, that call men are created
equal; that they are endowned by their
Creator with certain iralienable rights, a
mong which are those of life. liberty aud
the pursuit Of happiness, and that Govern
meBts are instituted among men to secure
the enjoyment Of these rights, deriving
their just power from the consent Of the
governed"--are essential to the preserva.
tIoo OF our Republican institutions. and
that the Federal Con stitution, the rights oil
the States, and the union Of the States,
must and shall be preserved
Sd. That to the Union of the States this
nation owes its unprecedented increase In
population. its surprising developments
OF material resources; it's rapid augments-
ton OF wealth; its happiness at home and
its honor abroad; and We hold IN abhor-
renee all schemes for disuuion, come from
vbstever source they may and we con-
gratulste the country that no Republican
member Of Congress has uttered or eoun'
tensneed the threats Of disunion, as often
made by the Democratic members OF Con
gress, without rebuke and with applause
from their political associates; and we De
pounce those threats Of disunion in case
OF popular overthrow Of their ascenden
ey, as denying the vital principles OF free
Government. and a. an svowal OF contem-
plated treason which ID il the imperative
duty Of an Indignant people stsrnly To re-
buks and forever silence.
<th. That the maintensuce insioiae' o
the rights Of the States, and especially o
each State, TO order and control us o"I
domestic institutions according TO its owi
judgement exclusively, is essential TO Uni
balance Of power on which the Pefiecuo'
and endurance Of our political iaoric de-
Ponds: and we depounce the lawless invs-
sion by armed force Of the soil OF any otA'
or Territory, no matter under vnst pre-
tex. as Que Of the gravest Of crimes,
9Th. That ths present Democratic Au'
ministration has far excesded our .ofs
spprehsnsioss in the neasureless suoser
visncy 70 the exactious Of a sectional inisr
est. as especially evineed 10 its dsspsrat
exertion TO force the Infamous Lscompto
Constitstiou upon the protesting people
Kansas, constituting the relation oetwee'
master and servant TO inv olvc an uuquah
fed property In persons; in its stemp'e'
enforcement everywhere. % land and SO
through the Intervention Of Congress an
oil the Federal Courts, Of the extreme pre-
tensions Of apursly local interest and !
in general and unvarying abuse OF tn