The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1860-06-06
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BLACK REPUBLICAN, PLATFORM.
ADOPTED AT CHICAGO MAY 18TH, 1860

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ADOPTED AT CHICAGO MAY nth, 1860.
We will publish next week part of their
platform of 1856. Save this and compare them.
We will show up some of the tricks, the snow
you see it, now you DON'T" games OF these
anigger" sympathisers. rsE
RESOLVED, That we, the delegated reprosen-
tatiyes of the republican electors of the United
States, in Convention assembled, IN discharge
of the duty we owe to our constituents ana
our country, unite in the following declarations:
l. That the history of the nation during |
the last four years, hasffully established the
propriety and necessity of the organization and
perpetuation of the Republican party, and that
the causes which called it into. existence are
permanent in their nature, and now, more than
ever before, demand its peaceful and constltu-
tional triumph. Il 1-y34 e 49,"
2. That the maintainance of the principles
promulgated in the Declaration of Independ-
ence and embodied in the Federal Constitu-
ton. sThat all men are created equal; that
thew are endowed by their Creator with certain
inaj;enable rights that among these are life,
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'-ls essential TO
the preservation of our Republican institutions;
and that the Federal Constitution, the Rights
of the States, and Union OF the states must
and shall be preserved. ~
3. That to the Union of the States this
nation owes its unprecedented increase OF pop
ulation, its surprising development OF material
resources. its rapid augmentation OF wealth, Its
happiness at home and its honor abroad and
we hold in adherence all schemes for dis
union, come from whatever source they may.
And we congratulate the country that no Re-
publican member of Congress has uttered or
confenanced the threats of disunion SO often
made nv Democratic members, without rebuke,
and with applause from their political assocl-
ates and we denounce these threats OF dis
union, in case of popular overthrow OF their
assendancy as denying the vital principles OF
Governments, and as an avowal OF contemplated
treason. which it is the imperative duty OF an
indignant people sternly to rebuke and forever
silence.
That the maintenance inviolate OF the
rights of the States, and especially the rights
| of each State to order and control It's own 90
nestle institutions according to Its own ludg-
ment exclusively, is essential to that balance
of mower on which the perfection and endu-
! rance of our political fabric depends, and we
aenounce the lawless invasion, by armed force,
| of tbe soil of any State or Territory, no matter
under what pretext, as among the graVest OF
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crimes. Na-9. A
tion has far exceeded our worst apprehension
in its measureless subseryiency to the e3actions
| of sectional interest," as especially evlnced II
| its desperate exertions to force the infamous
Lecomption Constitution upon the protesting
neople of Kansas in constructing the person
al relation between master and servant to In
| volye an unqualified property in persons; in it!
attempted enforcement, everywhere on lane
and sea. through the interyenaon of Congress
and of the Federal Courts of the extreme pre-
i tensions of a purely local interest; and In it
General and unvarying abuse of the power en-
trusted to it by confding people.
: 6. That the people justly view with alarm
the reckless extrayagance which peryades ever.
department of the Federal Government; tha
return to rigid economy and accountabilit
; il indispensable to arrest the systematic plum
der of the public treasury by favored part
sans while the recent startling development
of frauds and corruptions at the Federal me
tronolis. show that an entire change OF admir-
: istration is imperatively demanded.
z That the new dogma that the Constltr
t;on. of its own force, carries Slavery into an
or all of the Territories of the United State
e is dangerous political beresy, at variane
e with the explicit provisions OF that lnstrumeI
itself, with cotemporaneous expositlon' an
: with legislative and judicial precedent; is rev
; lutionary in its tendency, and supVerslSe
r the peace and harmony of the country.
o g. That the normal condition of all the tie
v r;tory of the United States is that of freedor
}, That as our Republican fathers, when the
i had abolished slavery in all our national terl
:, tory. ordained that "no person should be d
l. priyed of life, liberty, or property, without d.
n process of law" it becomes our duty, by iegl
.e Iation. whenever such legislation is necessar
to maintain this provision or the Constitute
against all attempts to violate 1t; and we del
l. the authority of Congress, OF territorial ie
!. islature, or of any Individuals, to give leg
a. existence to slavery In any territory OF e
es | United States.
=, Q. That we brand the recent re-opening
. the African slave-trade, under the cover OF o
"a national flag, aided by perversions OF ludic
as mower. as a crime against humanity and bl
= MING shame to our country and age; and
- cali upon Congress to take prompt and eth
~ emf measures for the total and final suppressi
n. of this execrable traffic.
N 10. That in the recentvetoes, by their Fet
at raj Governors, of the acts of the Legislatures
q. Kansas and Nebraska, prohibiting slavery
d. those Territories, we lind praoaeai niust
- t;on of the boosted Democratic principle
= Non-Intervention and Popular Sovereign
10 10 embodied in the Kansas Nebraska bill, and
10 demonstration of the deception and fraud
ct. yolved therein.
: diately admitted as a State under the Com
of tuition recently formed and adopted by
an people, and accepted by the House of ReI
at sentatives. -
,ev % I2. That, while providing revenue for
to support of the general government by du
10 10 Enlistment of these imposts as to encour
pb lbt the development of the industrial interests
sr' the whole country; and we commend that p
inn CIV of national exchanges, which secures to
aI. muneratins prices, to mechanics and manu-
mo. turers an adequate reward for their skill, ia
are are and enterprise, and to the nation CONNER
prosperity and independence o,u Il,
4+ 13. That we protest against any sale or e Al
am, alton to others OF the fuplc Lanas nus neie es
,ok actual settlers, anu S; S;ch rso,rtls The