The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1860-08-17
THE CHICAGO PLATFORM,

As AMENDED AND ADOPTED
Resolved, That We, the delegated representative
of the Republican electors OF the United States, i'll
Convention assembled, in the discharge of the duty
we owe to our coust ituents and our country, unite
in the following Declarations:
list. That the history OF the nation during the
last four years, has fully established the propriety
and necessity of the organization and perpetuation
of the Republican party aud that the causes which
called it into existence are permanent in their ma
ture, and now, moro than ever before, demand its
peaceful and constitutional triumph.
2. That the maintenance of the principles pro-
mulgated in the Declaration Of Independence and
embodied i'm the Federal Constitution" That all
men are created equal that they are endowed by
their Creator with certain inalienable rights that
among these life, liberty, and the pursuit Of
happiness that to secure these rights, governments
instituted among men, deriving their just pow
from the consent of the governed is essential
to the preservation of Republican institutions
and that the Federal Constitution, the Rights Of
the States, and the Union of the States must and
shall be preserved
g. That to the Union of the States this nation
owes its unprecedented increase in population, its
surprising development Of material resources, its
rapid augmentation of wealth, its happiness ut
home and its honor abroad and we hold III alb
horrence all sonernvs OT Disunion, come from what
they may And we congratulate the
country that Republican member of Congress
has uttered or cuuntenauCed the threats of Dis
union often made by Democratic members with
out rehuke and with applause trOm their political
associates; and denounce those threats of dis
union, in of popular overthrow of their as
tendency denying the vital principles of free
government, and an avowal of contemplated
treason, which 1t Is the imperative duty OF an IN
dignant People sternly to rebuke and forever ST.
lonce
l. That the maintenance inviolate of the Rights
of the States and especially the right of each State
to order and control its domestic institutions
according to its own judgment exclusively, is es-
sental TO that balance of powers which the per-
lection and endurance OF our political fabric de-
| ponds and we denounoe the lawless invasion by
armed force of the soil of any State or Territory,
no matter under what proteNt as among tho gravest
! s. That the present Democratic Administration
| has far exceeded our worst apprehensiOns, in its
measureless subserViency to the eXactonS OF Sec
tiona in terest, as especially evnCed in its desper-
ate exertons force the infamous LecOnpton Con-
stitution upon the protesting people of Kansas ) in
| constituting the personal relation between master
and servant to involve an unqualified property i'll
persons in its attempted enforcement, everywhere
| land and sea, through the Intervention of Con-
| gress and of the Federal Courts, OF the extreme
pretensioDs of purely local interest and in its
general and unvarying abuse of the power intrused
/ to it by contding people.
g. That the People justly view with alarm the
reckless extravaganza which Dervades every depart
ment of the Federal Governments that a return TO
rigid economy and accountability - Indispensable
to arrest the Systematic plumber OF the public treas
ury by favored partisans while the recent startling
de1 eopme Of frauds and corruptions at the Fed
eral Metropolis, show that an entire change OF
/ adm nistratiOn is imperatiVely demanded.
| 7. That he 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 pro
visions of that instrument ITSELF with contempora-
neOuS exposition ana with legislative anu JuutCla
precedent; is revolutionary in its tendency, and
subversye OF the peace and harmony OF the country
8. 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, or
property, without due process of law, it becomes
our duty, by legislation whenever such legislation
is necessary, to maintain this provision OF the Con
stituton against all attempts to violate it and we
deny the authority of Congress- of territorial leg
isature of any individuals, to give legal exist.
| ence to Slavery in any Territory OF the United
4 States.
g. That we brand the recent re-opening of the
| African Slave Trade, under the cover Of our Ma
tional Flag, aided by perversons of judicial power
| as q crime against Humanity and burning shame
to our Country and Age; and We call upon Congress
to take prompt and efficient measures 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 Legislatures OF Kan
and Nebraska, prohibiting Slavery IN those
Territories, we find practical Illustration OF IN"
boosted Democratic principle OF Non-lnterVentlon
! and Popular Sovereignty embodied IN the Kansas
Nebraska bill, and demonsu alton of the deception
! and fraud involved therein.
IL That Kansas should, of right, be Immediately
admitted Il State under the Constitution recently
formed and adopted by her people, and accepted by
the House of Representatives.
| Il2. That, while providing revenue for the sup
pert OF the general government by duties upon I'M
ports, sound policy requires such an Adjustment OF
these imFobts AS 70 encourage the development oil
the industrial interests of the whole country and
We commend that policy of national exchanges,
which secures TO the working men liberal wages, to
agriculture remUuerating prices to mechanics and
manufacturers an adequate reward for their skill
labor and enterprise. and TO the nation commercial
prosperity aud Independence.
Is. That we protest against any sale aliena.
ton TO others Ut the Public Lands held hy actual
settlers, aud against any view Of the Free Home.
stoad policy which regards the as paupers
or suppliants for public bounty and demand
the passage by Congress Of the complete and salts
factory Homestead measure which has already pass
[ ed the Honss
IA. That the Republican party Is opposed am
in Naturalization Laws.
legislation by which the rights OF citizenship hth
erto accorded to immigrants from foreign land
shall be abridged or impaired; and in favor OF Civ
ing full and efficient protection TO the rights 0