Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1860-05-22
THE PLATFORM,

faced antiquities to deceive any section
no pandering to local or class preju.
dices--no appeals to passion-but an
open honest, Republican platform, plat
| form which means the same thing in
Maine and Texas-in Ohio and Missouri
\ platform on which all the friends OF
free labor, of progress, of an honest ad-
ministration can cordially unite. Here
| it is:
Resolued, That we, the delegated
representatives of the Republican Elec-
tors of the United States in Convention
assembled, in the discharge of the duty
we eve to our constituents and our
country, unite in the following declara-
tions:
1st. That the history of the nation
during the last four years, has fully es-
tablished the propriety and necessity OF
the organization and peEpetuation of the
Republican party, and that the causes
which called it into existence are per-
manent in their nature, and now, more
than ever, demand its peaceful and Con-
stitutional triumph.
I'd. That the maintenance Of the prin-
ciples promulgated in the Declaration
of Independence, and embodied in the
Federal Constitution, is essential to the
preservation of our Republican institu-
tions, and that the Federal Constitution,
the rights of the States and the union of
the States, must and shall be preserved.
Sd. That to the Union of the States
this nation owes its unprecedented in
crease in population; it's surprising de-
velopments of material resources; its
rapid augmentation of wealth; its happi-
ness at home and its honor abroad; and
we hold in adherence all schemes for
disunion, come from whatever source
they may; and we congratulate the
country that no Republican member of
! Congress has uttered or countenanced
the threats of disunion so often made by
the Democratic members of Congress
without rebuke and with applause from
their political associates; and we de-
nounce those whose threats of disunion,
in case of a popular overthrow of their
ascendancy, as denying the vital princi
Piles of free government, and as an
avowal of contemplated treason, which it
is the imperative duty of an indignant
people sternly to rebuke and forever
silence.
4th That the maintenance, inviolate,
of the rights of the States, and especially
of each State, to order and control its
own domestic institutions according to
its own judgment exclusively, is essen
tial to that balance of power on which
the perfection and endurance of our po-
litical fabric depends; and we denounce
the unlawful invasion by armed force OF
the soil of any State OF Territory, no
matter under what pretext, as one of the
gravest Of crimes.
9th. That the present Democratic ad
ministration has far exceeded our worst
apprehensions in its measureless sub
seryiency to the exactions OF sectional
interest, as especially evidenced in its
desperate exertions to force the infam Gus
Lecompton Constitution upon the pro-
testing people of Kansas; in eostruing
the personal relation between master and
servant to involve an unqualified property
in Persons; in it5-a Attempted Enforcement
everywhere, on land and sea, through
the Intervention Of Congress and of the
Federal Courts, Of the extreme preten-
sions of a purely local interest; and in
its general and unvarying abuse of the
power entrusted to it by confding
people.
9Th. That the people justly view with
alarm the reckless extravaganza which
pervades every department of the Fede-
raj Government. That return to rigid
economy and accountability is indispen-
sable to arrest the systematic plunder oi
the public treasury by favored partisans
while the recent startling developments
of frauds and corruptions at the Federal
metropolis show that an entire change
of administration is imperatiyely deman-
ded.
7th. That the new dogma that the
Constitution Of its own force carries
slavery into any or all the Territories oi
the U. S. is dangerous political
heresy, at variance with the explicit
provisions of that instrument itself, with
contemporaneous expositions, and with
legislative and judicial precedents; and
that it is revolutionary in its tendency
and subversive of the peace and harmony
Of the country.
9Th. 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 of 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 il
necessary, to maintain this provisions Of
the Constitution against all attempts te
violate it; and we deny the authority Of
Congress or Territorial Legislature, Of
of any individuals, to give legal exist
ence to slavery in any territory of the
United States.
9th. That we brand the recent re-
opening of the slave trade under the
cover of our national flag, aided by per
versions of judicial power, as crime
against 4-A,..aasHit5y- aaad burning shame
to our country and age, we call upor
Congress to take prompt and efficient
measures for the total and final sup.
preston of that execrable traffic.
10th. That in the recent vetoes by
their Federal Governors, of the acts Of
the legislatures of Kansas and Nebraska
prohibiting slavery in those territories
we find a practical illustration of the
boasted Democratic principles of non-ln,
tervention and popular sovereignty, EN-.
bodied in the Kansas Nebraska bill, and
a demonstration of the deception and
fraud involved therein.
11th. That Kansas should of right be