St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1860-05-31
REPUBLICAN PLATFORM.

the National Convention, recently mol
den at Chicago:
Resolrd, That we, the delegated
representatives Of the Republican
electors of the United States, in Con-
vention assembled, in discharge of the
duty we owe to our constituents, and
our country, unite in the following
declaration:
/. That the history of the nation
during the last four years, has fully
established the propricty and nccessl-
ty of this organization and that the
causes which called it into existence
are permanent in their nature, and
now, more than ever before, demand
its peaceful and constitutional tri-
umph.
3. That the maintenance of the
principles promulgated in the Declar-
alton of Independence and embodied
in the Federal Constitution, that all
men are created equal that they are
endowed by their Creator with certain
inaliable lights; that among these
are life, liberty, and the pursuit of hap
piness; that to secure these rights,
governments are instituted among
men, deriving their just powers from
from the consent of the governed-is
essential to the preservation of our
Republican institutions and that the
Federal Constitution, the Rights OF
the States, and the Union of the States,
must and shall be preserved.
8. That to the Union of the States
this nation owes its unprecedented in
crease in population, its surprising
development of material resources, its
rapid augmentation of wealth, its hap
pness at home and its honor abroad
and we hold in adherence all schemes
for Disunion, come from whatever
source they may. We congratu-
late the country that no Republican
member of Congress has uttered or
countcnanccd the threats Of Disunion
so often made by Democratic men,
bcrs, without rcbukc and with ap.
plausc from their political associates;
and we denOuncc those threats OF dis
union, in case of a popular overthrow
of their asccndcncy, as denying the
vital principles of free government,
and as an avowal of contemplated
treason, which it is the imperative du-
ty of an indignant people sternly to
rebuke and forever silence.
A. That the maintenance inviolate
of the rights of the States, and especi-
ally the right of each State to order
and control its own domestic institu-
tons according to its own judgment
exclusively, is essential to that bal
ancc of powers on which the periec-
ton and endurance of our political
fabric depends and we denounce the
lawless invasion by armed force OF the
soil of any State or Territory, no mat
ter under what preteXt, as among the
gravcst of crimes.
! 5. That the present Democratic Ad-
ministration has far exceeded our
worst apprehensions, in its measure,
less subscrvicncy to the eXactions OF
a sectional interest, as especially
cvinccd in it's desperate cxcrtions to
, force the infamous Lecompton Constr
tuition upon the protesting people OF
: X ansas in constituting the personal
relation between master and servant
= to involve an unqualified property in
persons in its attempted enforce
mcnt, everywhere, on land and sea,
through the intervention of Congress
!, and of the Federal Courts of the OK
IRENE professions of purely local in
/ tercst and in its general and unva
rying abuse Of the power entrusted tc
it by confding people.
6. That the people justly view with
,, alarm the reckless extravaganza
which pervades every department of
the Federal Government; that re-
turn to rigid economy and accounta-
) bility is indispensable to arrest the
systematic plumber of the public
treasury by favored partisans while
the recent startling developments OF
: frauds and corruptions at the Federal
metropolis, show that an entire change
of administration is imperatively dc
manded.
I. That the new dogma that the
/ Constitution, of it's own force, carries
Slavery into any or all of the Terrific
ries of the United States, is danger
Gus political hcresy, at variance with
the explicit provisions of that instru'
! ment itself, with contcmporarcous ex'
position, and with Legislative and ju
dicial precedent; is revolutionary in
its tendency, and subversive of tho
peace and harmony of the country.
8. That the normal condition of al
l. the territory of the United States i:
that of freedom. That as our Rcpub
u lican fathers, when they had abolish
. ed slavery in all our national terrific
> ry, ordained that "no person SHOULD
5 be deprived of life, liberty, or proper
= ty, without due process of law" i
: becomes our duty, by legislation, whel
l ever such Legislation is necessary, t.
D maintain this provision of the Consti
- tuition against all attempts to violate
j. it; and we deny the authority of Con
I, gress, of a territorial Legislature, Of
= of any individuals, to give legal ex
5 tension to slavery in any Territory 0
5 the United States
! 8. That we brand the recent re
opening of the African slave trade
under the cover of our national flag
7 aided by perversions of judicial pow
, er, as crime against humanity anG
a burning shame to our country and
: age and we call upon Congress tc
u take prompt and efficient measures
/ for the total and final suppression Of
) that execrablc traffic.
II 10. That in the recent vetoes, by
d their Federal Governors, of the acts
of the Legislature of Kansas and Ne
5 braska, prohibiting Slavery in thos'
J Territories, we find practical illus
tration of the boosted Democrats
: principle Of Non-Intervcntion an,
Popular Sovereignty embodied in tn
kansas-Nebraska bill, and a demon
stration of the deception and fraud il
yolved therein.
: II. That Kansas should, of right
vi be Immediately admitted as a Stat
under the Constitution recently form
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