The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1860-06-14
National Republican Platform,
TAs AMENDED AND ADoPTED.l

bled, IN discharge of the duty we owe TO
cur constituents and our country, unite in I
the following declarations /:
1 That the history of the nation during
the last four years, has fully established
the propriety and necessity or The organi- |
cation and perpetuation Of the Republican
party, and that the causes which called Ii |
into existence are permanent in their ma
lure, and now, more than ever before, de- 4
mand its peaceful. and constitutional tri-
umph.
z. That the maintenance of the prinei- !
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 inahenabie rights
that among these are lite, 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'--is essential 10
the preservation Of our Republican institu-
lions, and that the Federal Constitution,
the Rights of the States, and the Union of
the States must and shall be preserved.
3. That to Tie union of Tie StaLcs this
nation owes its unprecedented increase in
population, it's surprising development of
material resources, its rapid augmentatioh
| OF wealth, its happiness at home and its
honor abroad and w4 hold i'm abhorrence
all schemes for Disunion. come from what
ever source they may And we congrstn
late the country that no Republican mem
Der of Congress LAS uttered or coante-
nanced the threats of Disunion SO often
made by Democratic members. without re-
buke aud with applause from their political
associates and We denouuce those threats
of disunion, in case Of popular overthrow
of their ascendancy, Az denying the vital
principles of free government, and as an
arowal of contemplated treason, which it
/ is the imperative duty of an indignant Peo-
Pile sterny TO rebuke and forever silence,
a. That the maintenance lnviolate of the
rights OF the States, and especially lie
| right Of each State To order and control its
own domestic institutions according To it's
own judgment exclusively, is essential TO
| that balance of powers ON which the per
fection and endurance of our political fab
ric depends. and we denounce the law
less invasion bv armed force of the soil of
any Slate or Territory, no matter under
what pretext. as among the grasest of
crimes.
8. That the presentDemocratic Admin
Iistration has far exceeded our worst ap-
prehensions, in lis measureless subservi-
ency TO The exacllons OF sectional inter-
est, as especially eyinced in its desperate
| exerlions 10 force the infamous Lecompton
/ Constitution upon the protesting people Of
Kansas In construing the personal rela-
lion between master and servant to in
yolve an unqualified property in persons !;
IN It's attempted enforcement, eyeryw here,
on land and sea, through the Intervention
Of Congress and of the Federal Courts, Of
the extreme pretensions Of a purely local
interest; and in its general and unvarying
abuse OF the power entrusted to il by con-
tding people.
6. That the people Justly view with
alarm the reckless extravaganza which
pervsdes every department. OF the Federal
/ Government that return 10 rigid econ
omy and accountability is Indispensable to
arrest the systematic plunder of the pub
lie treasury by favored partisans; while
the recent startling developments offrauds
and corruptions a. The Federal metropolis,
show that an entire change of administra-
ton is imperatively demanded.
| 7. That the new dogma that the Con-
stituton, of its 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-
laliye and judicial precedent; is revolu-
tionary in its tendencys and subversive OF
! the peace and harmony Of the country.
8. That the normal condition Of all the
territory Of the United States, is that oi
freedom That as our Republican fathers
when they had abolished slavery in all our
national territory, ordained that 'Ano per
. son should be deprived of life, liberty, ol
property. without due process Of law" i
becomes our duty, by legislation, wheney.
er such Legislation is necessary. to main
tain this provision of the Constitution
against all attempts to violate it !; and w
deny the authority of Congress, Of ter
ritorial Legislature, or Of any individuals
!. 10 give legal existence 10 slavery in any
d Territory of the United States.
: 8. Thai We brand the recent re-openlns
: of the African slave trade, under the coy
4 er of our national flag, aided by perver
. sions o. judicial power, as crime agalns
: humanity and burning shame to on
d country and age; and we call upon Con
!, gress to take prompt and efficient meas
ures for the total and final suppression 0
that execrable traffic.
10. That in the recent yetoes, by thel
Federal Governors, of the acts OF the Leg
/. islatures of Kansas and Nebraska, prohlb
lifting Slavery in those Territories, we I'm
8 a practical illustration OF the boasted Dem
Iocralic principle of Non Intervention an