The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1860-09-29
National Republican Platform.

las AMENDED AND ADOPTED

bled, In discharge of the duty we owe to
our constituents and our country, unite in
the following declarations
| |. That the history of the nation during
The last four years, has fully established
the propriety and necessity Of the organi-
cation and perpetuation Of the Republican
party, and that the causes which called ii
INTO existence are permanent in their ma
ture, and now, more than ever before. de-
mand It's peaceful and constitutional tri-
umph
z. That the maintenance Of the princi
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 inalienable 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-
tons; and that the Federal Constitution.
the Rights oil the States, and the Union of
the States must and shall be preserved.
). That TO the union Of the States lhis
nation owes It's unprecedented increase in
population, its surprising development Of
material resources, It's rapid augmentation
OF wealth, It's happiness at home and Its
honor abroad and We hold in adherence
all schemes for Disunion, come from what-
ever source they may: And We congratu
late the country that no Republican mem
Der Of Congress has uttered or counte-
nanced the threats. of Disunion so often
made by DemocratscA members, without re-
buke and with applause from their political
associates and we denounce those threats
OF dlsunion, In case of a popular overthrow
OF their ascendancy. As denying the vital
principles Of free government, and as an
afowal Of contemplated treason, which it
IS the Imperative duty of an indignant Peo-
pie sternly TO febuke and forever silence.
4. That the maintenance inviolate of the
rights OF The States, and especially tie
| right OF each State To order and control It's
own domestic institutions according To its
own Judgment exclusively, is essential to
thai oa4aDce of powers on WHICH the per-
lection and endurance of our political fab
nc depends, and we denuunce the law
less invasion by armed force Of the soil of
any State or Territory, no matter under
what pretext, as among the grayest of
crimes
8. That the present Dem ocratic Admin
lstratlon has far exceeded our worst ap-
prehenslons, IN It's measureless subseryi-
ency 10 the exactlons of sectional inter-
est, as especially evinced in its desperate
exertions to force the infamous Lecompton
Constitution upon the protesting people of
Kansas IN construing the personal rela
ton between MASTER and servant To in
yolve an unqualified property in persons
IN It's attempted enforcement, everywhere
on land and sea, through the Intervention
OF Congress and OF the Federal Courts, OF
the extreme pretensions of purely local
interest, and IN its general and unyarying
abuse Of the power entrusted to it by con
tidmg people.
6. That the people Justly view with
alarm the reckless extravaganza which
persades every department Of the Federal
Government that return to rigid econ
omy and accountability is indispensable to
arrest the systematic plumber oil the pub
lie treasury by favored partisans while
the recent startling developments offrauds
and corruphons at the Federal metropolis.
show that an entire change of administra-
ton is imperatively demanded.
Z. That the new dogma that the Con-
stltuton, OF It's 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 proyi-
sions of that instrument itself, with CO.
temporaneous exposition. and with legis-
latlve and judicial precedent is revolu-
tonary in It's tendency, and subversve of
the peace and harmony Of the country.
u. That the normal condition OK 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 mo per
son should be deprived of life, liberty, or
property, without due process of law it
becomes our duty, by legislation, whenev-
er such legislation is necessary. to main
tain this provision of the Constitution
against all attempts to violate il I; and we
deny the authority of Congress. of . ter
ritorial legislature, or of any individuals,
to give legal existence 10 slavery in any
Territory of the United States.
8. That we brand the recent re opening
of the African slave trade, under the COW
er Of our national flag, aided by perver-
slons o. judicial power, as crime against
humanity and burning shame TO our
country and age and we call upon Con
gress to take prompt and efficient meas
ufes for the total and final suppression Of
that execrable traffic.
10. That in the recent vetoes, by their
Federal Governors, of the acts Of the Leg
slatures of Kansas and Nebraska. prohih-