The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1860-10-12
National Republican Platform.
las AMENDED AND ADoPIED.1

tiAe 1hieSa abcss III SoaftubiOn hssSbi~ /
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
cation and perpetuation 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 It's peaceful and constitutional tri-
umph.
z. 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 oil happiness /; that TO secure these
rights, governments are instituted among
men. deriving their just powers from the
consent OF the gor rerned lis essential 10
the preservation Of our Republican institu
tons and that the Federal Constitution,
| the Rights OF the States, and the Union Of
the States mus. and shall be preserved.
| 3. That 10 the union of the States this
nation owes its unprecedented increase in
population, Its surprising development of
material resources, its rapid augmentation
OF wealth, It's happiness al home and It's
honor abroad and We hold in adherence
| al schemes for Disunion, 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 Disumon SO often
made by Democratic members, without re-
4 buke and with applause from their political
! associates and we denounce those threats
\ of disunion, IN case OF popular overthrow
! OF their asccndancy, A. denying the vital
principles OF free government, and as an
ayowal of contemplated treason, which it
is the imperative duty Of an indignant Peo-
pie sternly TO febuke and forever silence
4. That the maintenance inyiolate of Tie
rights OF the States, and especially tie
4 night oil each State 10 order ard control its
own domestic institutions according 10 It's
own judgment exclusively, is essential to
that balance of powers on which the per-
fection and endurance Of our political TAB
rlc depends, and we denounce 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.
s. That the present Democratic Admin
isIatiou has far exceeded our worst APP
prehenslons, in its measureless subseryi-
tncy 10 The exactions Of sectional inter-
est, as especially eylnced IN ATS desperate
exertlons TO force the infamous Lecompton
Constitution upon the protesting people of
Kansas IN construing the personal rela-
lon between master and servant to in
volye ala unqualified property in persons !;
in its attempted enforcement, everywhere,
on land and sea, through the Intervention
OF Congress and of the Federal Courts, oi
the extreme pretensions of a purely local
interest; and in It's general and unyarying
abuse Of the power entrusted to il by d con-
fiding people.
6. That the people Justly view with
alarm the recklt IS extravaganza which
peryades every department OF the Federal
Government that return 10 rigid econ
omy and accountability is Indispensable to
arrest the systematic plunder OF the pub
lac treasury by favored partisans; while
the recent startling developments offrauds
and corruptons al The Federal metropolis,
show that an entire change of adminsra-
ton Is lmperauyely demanded.
Z That the new dogma that the Con-
stltution, 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 provi-
sions of that instrument itself, with CO.
temporaneous exposition, and with legis-
latlye and judicial precedent; is reyolu.
uonary in It's tendency, and subversye OF
the peace and harmony of the country
9. That the normal condition Of all the
territory of the United States, is that ot
freedom That as our Republican fathers
when they had abolished slavery in all oul
national territory, ordained that ''no per.
! son should be deprived of life, liberty, ol
property, without due process eli law" i
becomes our duty, by legislation, whenev
er such legislation is necessary. to main
tain this provision of the Constitution
!. against all attempts to violate II and ".
deny the authority of Congress, of ter
rtoriai Legislature, or OF any individuals
to give legal existence TO slavery in an,
Territory Of the United States
8. That we brand the recent re-openin,
OF the African slave trade, under the GOV
er Of our national flag, aided by perver
sions OF 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
that execrable traffic.
10. That in the recent vetoes, by the