St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1860-08-09
poIitital.
THE
SEVERAL POLITICAL PLATFORMS
THE REPUBLICAN CREED.

lin, of Maine
PLATFORM.
Below is the Platform adopted a.
the National Convention, recently hol
den at Chicago:
Resolred, That we, the delegated
Representatives of the Republican
electors of the United States, in Cou
veutinn assembled, in discharge of the
duty we owe to our constituents, and
our country, unite in the following
declaration
l. That the history Of the nation
during the last four years, has fully
established the propriety and necessi'
ty of this organization and that the
causes which called it into existence
are permanent in their nature, and
now, more than ever before, demand
its peaceful and constitutional tri-
umph.
2 That the maintenance of the
principles promulgated in the Declar-
alton of Independence and embodied
in the Federal Constitution, that all
men are created equal that they are
endowed 10y their Creator with certain
inailiablc rights that among these
are life, 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 gOvcrncd-is cs-
scntial to the preservation of our Re-
publican institutions and that the
Federal Constitution, the Rights of the
States, and the Union Of the States,
must and shall be preserved.
3. That to the Union of the States
this nation owes its unprecedented in
crease in population, its surprising
development of material resources, its
rapid augmentation of wealth, its hap,
pincss at home and its honor abroad ;
and we hold in adherence all schemes
for Disunion, come from whatever
source they may. We congratulate
the country that no Republican mem
Der of Congress has uttered or coun-
tenanced the threats Of Disuuion So
often made by Democratic members,
without rebuke and with applause
from their political associates and
we dcnouncc those threats OF dis
union, in case of a popular overthrow
of their asccndency, as denying the
vital principles of a free government,
and as an avowal of contemplated
treason, which it is the imperative du-
ty Of an indignant people sternly to
rebukc and forever silence.
4. That the maintenance inviolatc
Of the rights Of the States, and cspccl-
ally the right of each State to order
and control its own domestic instltu-
tons according to its own Judgment
exclusively, is essential to that bal
auce of powers on which the pcricc-
ton and endurance of our political
fabric depends and we denouncc the
lawIcss invasion by armed force of the
soil Of any State or Territory, no mat
ter under what prctcXt, as among the
gravcst of crimes.
5. That the present Democratic Ad-
mimistration has far exceeded our
worst apprchcnsioms, in its measure,
less subsCrvicnCy 10 the actions ot
sectional interest, as especially
evinccd in its desperate eXertlons t.
force the infamous LecOmpton Constl
tuition upon the protesting people oi
Kansas in construIng the personal
relation between master and servant
to involve an unqualified property IL
persons in its attempted enforce
mcnt, everywhere. on land and sea
through the intervention Of Congress
and of the Federal Courts of the ex
tremc prctcnsions Of apurcly local in
tcrest and in its general and unva
rying abuse of the power entrusted tc
it by a confiding people.
6. That the people justly view will
alarm the reckless extravaganza
which pervadcs every department o
the Federal Government ; that re
turn to rigid economy and accounta
bility is indispensable to arrest th'
systematic plumber Of the public
treasury by favored partisans while
the recent startling developments o
frauds and corruptions at the Fedora
metropolis, show that an entire chang'
of administration is imperatively y de
manded.
I That the new dogma that th
Constitution, of its own force, carries
Slavery into any OF all of the Terrific
ries of the United States, is danger
Gus political hcresy, at variance wit
the explicit provisions Of that instru
ment itself, with contemporancous eA
position, and with Legislative and .ju
dicial precedent is revolutionary i
it's tendency, and subversive of tn
peace and harmony of the country.
8. That the normal condition of al
the territory of the United States i
that of freedom. That as our Reput
lican fathers, when they had abolsl
ed slavery in all our national territ,
ry, ordained that "no person shoul
f be deprived of life, liberty, or propeI
ty, without due process of law"
becomes our duty, by Legislation, wheI
ever such legislation is necessary,
maintain this provision Of the Const
tuition against all attempts to violat
it and we deny the authority of Coz
gress, of territorial Legislature, {
Of any individuals, to give legal e.
tension TO slavery in any territory
the United States.
8. That we brand the recent r.
opening Of the African slave trad
under the cover Of our national fla.
aided by perversions of judicial poy
= er, as crime against humanity AL
a burning shame to our country al
age and we call upon Congress
take prompt and efficient measur,
for the total and final suppression
that eyecrable traffic