St. Cloud Democrat. [volume] (Saint Cloud, Stearns County, Minn.) 1858-1866, 1860-06-07


Lecompton Constitution upon the protesting
people Of Kansas; In constituting the personal
relation between master and servant to involve
an unqualified property in persons; in its
attempted enforcement, everywhere, on land
and On sea, through the Intervention of Con-
gress and Of the Federal Courts, Of the extreme
pretensions Of purely local interest; in its
general and unvarying abuse Of the power
intrusted to it by contding people.
6. That the people justly view with alarm
the reckless extravaganza which pervades ev-
that return to rigid economy and accounta-
bility is indispensable to arrest the systematic
plumber Of the public treasury by favored
partisans; while the recent startling develop
ments Of frauds and corruptiens at the FEDERAL
Metropolis, show that an entire change Of
administration is imperativcly demanded.
I. That the new dogma that the Constitution,
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 provisions Of that instrument it.
self, with contemporaneous exposition, and
with legislative and judicial precedent; is
revolutionary in its tendency, and subversive
Of the peace and harmony of the county.
g.. That the normal condition of all the ter
ritory Of the United States is that Of freedom!
!, That as our Republican fathers, when: they
had abolished slavery in all our national ter
ritory, ordained that ono person should be
deprived Of life, liberty or property, without
due process OF law" it becomes our duty, by
legislation, whenever such legislation IS neces.
sary, to maintain this provision against all at
tempts to violate it and we deny the authori-
ty of Congress, of territorial legislature, or
OF any individuals, to give legal existence to
Slavery in any Territory Of the United States,
8. That we brand the recent re-opening OF
the African slave trade, under the cover of
our National Flag, aided by peryersions of jul
dicial power, as crime against, Humanity and
a burning shame to our Country and Age; and
We cali upon Congress to take prompt and ef-
6cient measures for the total and final sup
preston Of that execrable traffic. "
10. That in the recent vetoes, by their Fed
eral Governors, of the acts Of tho Legislature
of Kansas and Nebraska, prohibiting slavery
in those Territories, we find a practical illus
tration of the boosted Democratic principle Of
embodied in the Kansas-N ebraska bill, and a
demonstration Of the deception and fraud in
volved therein: i 80 j. --
II. That Kansas should Of right be immedi-
ately admitted as State under the Constitu-
tioa recently formed and adopted by her people
aud accepted by ilc House of Representatives
IL. That while providing revenue for the
support of the general government by duties
upon imports, sound policy requires such an
adjustment Of these imposts as to encourage
the development of the industrial interests of
the whole country; and we commend! that
policy of national EXCHANGES, which secures
to the working men liberal wages to agricul-
ture remunerating prices, to mechanics and
manufacturers an adequate reward fer their
skill, labor and enterprise, and to the nation
commercial prosperity and independence. w
10 That We protest against any sale or
alienation to others Of the Public Lands held
by actual settlers and against any view Of the
Free Homestead policy which regards the set
tiers as ipaupers7 tor Tsuppliants fer public
bounty = and we demand the passage by Con-
gress Of the complete and satisfactory Home
stead measure which has already passed the
House.5t:f .l';2ze; z III
a. That the National Republican party is
opposed to any chang in Es.our Naturalization
Laws, or any State Legislation by which the
rights Of citizenship hitherto accorded to i'm
migrants from foreign lands shall be abridged
or impaired: and in favor of giving full and
efficient protection 10 the rights Of ali classes
of citizens, whether native or naturalized, both
Mt home and abroad. $50 -- -~----~-- -.
RS That appropriations BY Congress for
character, required for the accommodate and
security Of an exciting commerce, sare authori-
Fzed bys The Constitution and justified by the
obligation Of Government to protect the lives
and property If its citizens E15& G4jG@ 90
Is. That's Railroad to the, Pacific Ocean is
imperatiyely demanded by the interests of tho
whole country that the Federal Government
ought to,Fepder immediate and efficient aid in
its construction; and that, Us preliminary
thereto, daily Overland Mail should be
promptly established: s y { M {, -
II. Finally, having thus set forth our dis
|ftinctive principles and views, WSinxite the CO.
operation of:alllcitizsns, however difsrine on,
lother 4uestidns3 who sn6sta ntislly agreeswith
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