Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1860-07-10

MAY Is. 1860
THE CANDIDATES.
For President-ABRAuAM LINCOLN
of Illinois.
For Vice Observation-Disclosures HAM
LIN, of Maine.
THE PLATFORM.
RssofUed, That we, the delegated rep
resentatves of the Republican electors of
the United States, in Convention assem-
bled, IN the discharge of the duty we owe
TO our constituents and our country, unite
IN the following declarations:
/. That the history of the nation du-
ring the last four years, has fully estab
lished the propriety and necessity of the
organization and perpetuation of the Re-
publican party; and that the causes which
called 1t into existence are permanent in
their nature, and now, more than ever
before, demand its peaceful and consti-
tutional triumph.
,. That the maintenance of the prin-
cipes promulgated in the Declaration of
Independence and embodied in the fed
eral constituhon-"That all men are Gre
ated equal; that they are endowed by
their Creator with certain inalienable
rights; that among these are life, liberty,
and the pursuit of happiness, that to Sc
cure these rights governments are insti-
tuted among men, deriving their JUST
powers from the consent O. the governed"
are essential to the preservation Of
our republican institutions; and that the
federal constitution, the rights of The
States, must and shall be preserved.
3. Tha, TO the Union of the States this
nation owes It's unprecedent increase III
population, its surprising development
of material resources, Its rapid augmen-
tation of wealth, Its happiness at home
and It's honor abroad; and we hold in ab-
horrence all schemes for disunion, come
from whatever source they may; and we
congratulate The country that no Repub-
lican member of Congress has uttered or
countenanced the threats of disunion so
often made by Democratic members,
without rebulke and with applause from
their political associates; and we de-
nounce those threats of disunion, in case
of popular overthrow OF theIr ascenden-
cy, as denying the vital principles of a
free government, and as an avowal of
contemplated treason, which il is the I'M
perative duty of an Indignant people
sternly 10 rebuAc and forever silence.
4. That the maintenance inviolate of
the rights of the States, and especially
the right OF each State 10 order and con-
troll it own domestic institutions according
to its owL judgment exclusively, IS es-
sential to that balance of power on which
the perfection and endurance of our po-
litical fabric depend, and we denounce
the lawless invasion by armed force of
the soil of any State or Territory. no
matter under what pretext, as among the
gravest Of crimes.
S. That the present Democratic ad-
ministration has far exceeded our worst
apprehensions in its measureless subser-
yiency 10 the exactions Of a sectional N
teres,, as especially evinced IN II. despe-
rate exertions 10 force the infamous Lee
compton Constitution upon the protesting
people of Kansas; IN constituting the per
sonal relation between master and ser
want to involve an unqualified property
in persons; III It's attempted enforcement
everywhere, on land and sea, through
the intervention of Congress and of the
federal courts, of the extreme pretentions
of a purely local interest, and IN its gen
eral and unvarying abuse of the power
entrusted to il by a confding people.
6. That the people justly view with
alarms the reckless extravagance which
pervades every department. of the federal
government, that return to rigid econ
omy and accountability is indispensable
10 arrest the systematic plunder of the
public treasury by favored parlizans,
while the recent startling developments
of frauds and corruptions at the federal
metropolis show that an entire change OF
administration IS imperanvely demanded.
Z. Tha, the new dogma tha. the Con-
stiiution, Of its own force, carries slavery
into any or all of the Territories of the
United States, is = dangerous political
heresy, at variance with the explicit pro-
visions OF that instrument, itself, with
contemporaneous exposition, and with
Legislative and judicial precedent; is rev.
olutionary in It's tendency, and subver-
sive of the peace and harmony Of the
country.
s. That the normal condition OF all The
territory of the United States is that of
freedom; that as our republican fathers,
when they had abolished slavery in all
our national territory. ordained that "no
person should be deprived OF life, liberty
OF property withoa. due process Of law;"
il becomes our duty by legislation, when
ever such Legislation, is necessary, to
ma II, this r1r0viSiop of the C'ouStItu-