The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1860-06-30
Tuesday
THE CHICAGO PLATFORM


Resolved, That we, the delegated representatives
of the Republican electors of the United States in
Convention assembled, in the discharge of the duty
we owe to our constituents and our country, unite
in the following declarations
LIST. That the history of the nation during the
last four years, has fully 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 ma
ture, and now, more than ever before, demand its
peaceful and constitutional triumph.
2. That the maintenance of the principles pro-
!mulgated in the Declaration of Independence and
embodied in the Federal Constitution 50 That all
men are created equal; that they are endowed by
their Creator With certain inalienable rights that
among these life, liberty, and the pursuit of
happiness that TO these right, governments
are instituted among men, deriving their just pow
srs from the consent of the governed lis essential
TO the preservation of our Repu bican institutions
and that the Federal Constitution, the Rights of
the States, and the Union of the States must and
shall be preserved.
3. That to the Union of the States this nation
owessits unprecedented increase in population, its
surprising development of material resources, its
rapid augmentat of wealth, its happiness at
home and its honor abroad and hold in alb
horrence all schemes for Disunou, come from what
ever source they may Aud We congratulate the
country that DO Republican member of Congress
has uttered cOuntenanced the threats Of Dis
union often made by Democratic members, with
out rehuke and with applause from their political
associates; aud We deuOunce those threats of dis
union, in of popular overthrow of their as
tendency denying the vital principles of II free
government, and avowal Of cUntemr plated
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dignaut People sternly to rebuke aud forever 81
lence
T. That the maintenance iuviolate of the Rights
OF the States, and especially the right Of each state
10 OF der and control its domestic institutions
according it's own Judgment exclusively, is
seDtial to balance of powers hich the per-
lection and endurance OF our political fabric de-
lends and We denOunce the lawleSs invasion by
.rmSd force of the soil of any State or Territory
matter under what pretext, AS among the gravest
u crimes.
.. That the present Democratic Administration
has far exceeded our worst apprchensions in its
measureless subserViency to the eXactions oil sec
tonal interest, especially evinced in its desper
exertions to force the infamous Lecompton Con-
stitution upon the protesting people of Kansas III
constituting the personal relation between master
and servant to involve an unqualified property ia
persons in its attempted enforcement, every where
on land and sea, through the Intervention of Con-
gress and of the Federal Courts, Of the extreme
pretensiobs of purely local interest and in its
general and unyarying abuse of the power intrusted
10 il by conhding people
o. That the People justly view with alarm the
reckless extravagance which pervades every depart
ment of the Federal Government: that a return to
rigid economy and accountability is indispensable
to arrest the systematic plumber the public treas
ury by favored partisaus while the recent startling
DEVELOPING nts of frauds and corruptions at the Fed
eral Metropolis, show that an entire change of
administration is imperatiVely demanded
7. That +he new dogma that the Constitution, of
s own force carries Slavery into any or all the
Territories of the United States is "a dangerous
political heresy, at variance with the explicit pro
visions of that instrument itself, with cOntempOra-
precedent; is revolutionary in its tendency, and
su5versve of the peace and harmony of the country
i. That the normal condition of all the Territory
Of the United States is that of freedom: That "a
our Republican fathers, when they had abolished
slavery ia all our national territory ordained that
no person should be deprived of life, liberty, or
property without due process of law it becomes
duty by legislation, whenever such legislation
necessary, 10 maintain this provision of the Con
stitutiOn against all attempts violate it and we
deny the authority of Congress, of territorial leg
IslatHre, of individuals to give legal exist
eHce TO Slavery 10 any Territory Of the United
States.
8. That We brand the recent re-opening of the
African Slave Trade, under the cover of our Ma
tiOna Flag aided by peryersious of judicial power
II crime against Humanity aud "A burning shame
10 our Country and Age; and we call upon Congress
take prompt and efficient measures for the total
and final suppression OF that execrahle cratic.
10. That in the recent vetoes, by their Federal
Governors, Of the acts of the Legislatures Of Kan
aud Nebraska, prohibiting Slavery in those
Territories, find practical illustration of the
boosted Democratic principle Of Non-Intervention