White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1860-06-21
The Republican Platform, as Unani-
mously Adopted by the National
Convention at Chicago.

l. OOAbCAtAOA az SAASoSV.
We give below the platform of tn,
Republican party, a PRONUNCIATION o.
principles by which the Nation will be
proud to abide: s,E
ResolVed, That we, the delegated rep.
resentatives of 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 du,
ring the last four years has fully estab-
lished the propriety and necessity of the
organization and the perpetuation of the
Republican party, and that the causes
which called it into existence are perma-
nent in their nature, and now, more than
ever before. demand its peaceful and con-
stitutional triumph.
I'd. That the maintenance of the prin-
ciples promulgated in the Declaration of
Independence and embodied in the Fed
eral Constitution. is essential to the pres
ervation 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 /; and
that we reassert these truths to be SELF
evident THAT all men are created
equal, that they are endowed by their
Creator with certain inalienable rights.
that among these are life, liberty, aud
the pursuit of happiness that to insure
these rights, governments are instituted
among men. deriving their just powers
from the consent of the governed"
Sd. That to the Union of the States
this nation owes its unprecedented in
crease in population, its surprising de-
veloPment of material resources, its rap
id 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 Republican member of Congress
has uttered or countensnced the threats
of disunion so often made by Democrat
ic members without rebuke, and with
applause from their political associates !;
and we denounce those threats of disun-
ion in case of popular overthrow of their
ascendancy. as denying the vital princi-
Piles of free government, and as an
avowal Of contemplated treason which it
is the imparitive dCty of an indignant
people sternly to rebuke and forever 81
lence. .- @ -r
4th. That the maintenance inviolate of
the rights of the States. and especially
of the right of each State to order and
control its own domestic institutions, &C.
cording to its judgment exclusively, is
essential to that balance of power on
which the perfection of and endurance of
our political fabric depends, and we de-
nounee the lawless invasion, BY armed
force, of the soil Of any State or terri
tory. no matter under whatever pretext.
9th. That the present Democratic ad-
ministration has far exceeded our worst
apprehensions, in its measureleSs subser-
vieney to the exactions Of q sectional in
terest, as especially evidenced IN its des-
perate exertions to force the Infamous Le-
compton constitution upon the protesting
people Of Kansss.-in constituting the
personal relation between master and SER
want to involve an unqualified property
in persons, in its attempted enforcement,
every where, on land and sea, through
the intervention Of Congress and the Fed
eral Courts, Of the extreme pretensions
of purely local interest, and in its gen.
eral abuse Of the power entrusted to it
by q con6ding people.
9Th. That the people justly view with
adherence the reckless sxtravagance that
pervades every department of the federal
government that . return to rigid
economy and accountability is indispsn.
sable to arrest the systematic plundsr Of
the public treasury BY fGvorsd psrtizans.
while the recent startling Developments
of frauds and corruption At the federal