The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1860-09-19
National Republican Platform,
las AMENDED AND AD0pIED.l

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Resolved, That we. the delegated rep
resentatives of the Republican electors of
the United States, in Convention assem-
abled, in discharge OF the duty we owe 10
our constituents and our country, unite in
the following declarations
l. 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 it
into existence are permanent in their ma
ture, and now, more than ever before, de-
mand its peaceful and constitutional tri-
umph.
g. That the maintenance of the princi-
Piles promulgated i'm the Declaratioh Of In
dependence and embodied in the Federal
Constitution, "That all men are created
equal that they are endowed by their
Creator with certain inaliensble rights
that among these are lite, liberty and the
pursuit Of happiness tba. TO secure these
rights. governments are instituted among
men. deriving their just powers from the
consent of the governcd''---is essential to
the preservation Of oun Repubkcan insitu-
tions and that the Federal Constitution.
the Rights OF the States. and the Union of
the States must and shall be preserved.
5. That To the linIon Of the States this
nation owes its unprecedented increase in
population, its surprising development of
material resources. lis rapid augmentation
of wealth, its happiness at home and It's
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 me m
Der of Congress has uttered or counte-
nanced the threats OF Disunion so often
made by Democratic members, without re-
bake and with applause from their political
associates and we denounce those threats
of disunion, in case Of popular overthrow
of their ascendancy, As denying the vital
principles of free government, and as an
avowal of contemplated treason, which it
is sheimperatiye duty OF an indignant Peo-
pie sternly to rebnke and forever silence
4. That the maintenance inviolate of the
rights OF the States, and especially the
right of each State to order and control its
own domestic institutions according to it's
own judgment exclusively, is essential to
that balance of powers on which the per
fection and endurance of our political fab
rlc depends and we denounce the law
less invasion BY armed force of the soil OF
any State or Territory, no matter under
what pretext, as among the gravest of
| crimes.
8. That the presentDemocratic Admin
| lstration has far exceeded our worst ap-
prehensions, in its measureless subservi-
ency 10 the exactions of sectional inter
est, as especially evinced in its desperate
exertions TO force the Infamous Leconpton
Constitution upon the protesting people OF
Kansas in constituting the personal rela-
tion between master and servant to in
volve an unqualified property in persons
in its attempted enforcement, everyw here,
on land and sea, through the Intervention
of Congress and of the Federal Courts, o'
the extreme pretensions Of a purely local
interest; and in its general and unvaryine
abuse of the power entrusted to il by con.
iding people.
| 6. That the people Justly view with
alarm the reckless extravaganza which
pervsdes every department of the Federal
Government that return to rigid econ,
omy and accountability is indispensable te
arrest the systematic plunder OF the pub
lie treasury by favored partisans while
the recent startling developments offraud.
and corruptions ~ the Federal metropolis
show that an entire change of adminis,ra
ton is imperatiyely demanded.
| 2. That the new dogma that the Con
stitution, Of its own force, carries Slavery
into any or all OF the Territories of til,
4 United States, is dangerous political her
esy, at variance with the explicit provi
sions of that instrument itself, with co
temporaneous exposition, and with legis
lative and judicial precedent is revolu
tionary in its tendency, and subversive o
the peace and harmony Of the country.
8. That the normal condition OF all tn,
territory of the United States, is that Q
freedom That IS our Republican, fathers
: when they had abolished slavery in all on
national territory, ordained that mo per
son should be deprived Of life ! liberty, O
/ property, without due process Of law, I"
: becomes our duty, by legislation, wheney
er such legislation is necessary. to main
tain this provision of the Cons,itutio
against all attempts to violate it; and "
: deny the authority of Congress, Of tel
: ritorial legislature. or of any individual.
C gre .csa! existence &c slavery Il a.
= Territory of the United States.
8. That we brand the recent re-openin
of the African slave trade, under the CO,
er Of our national flag, aided by pervel
sions OF judicial power, as crime again
humanity and . burning shame TO o,
country and age ; and we call upon Go,
gress to take prompt and efficient mea
7, ures for the total and final suppression