The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1860-09-13
Gbe Ottuuua- Courier.
National Republican Platform,
TAs AMENDED AND ADOPTED.

rs AMENDED AND ADOPTED.
Resolved, That we, the delegated representatives.
of the Republican electors of the United States, In
Convention assembled, in discharge of the duty we
veto our constituents and country, unite in the
following declarations:
l. That the history of the nation during the last odr
years has fully established the proprety and neces
.ity Of the organization and perpetuaton ofth' Re-
publican party, and that the causes which called
into existence permanent in their nature, and
new more than before, demands its peaceful and
constitutional triumph.
9. That the maintenance of the principles promul
gated in the Declaration of Independence ana en-
bodied in the Federal Constitution That all men are
created eqnal that they are endowed by their Creator
with certain inaenabe rights; that among these are
fe liberty end the pursuit of happiness; that TO
these rights, governments are instituted among
men, deriving their just powers from the consent of
the governedis essential to the preservation Of 'ur
and that the Federal Consti
tuition the Rights of the States and the Union of the
States must and shall be preserved.
s. That to the union Of the States this nation
its unprecedented increase in population its surpris
ing development of material resources, its rapid aug
mentation Of wealth, its happiness at home and its
honor abroad and 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 counenanced the
threats of Disunion often made by Democratic
members, without rebuke and with applause from
their political associates; and we denounce those
threats Of dsunon in of popular overthrow OF
their ascendency, denying the vital principles of
free government, and az an avowel of contemplated
treason which it is the imperative duty OF indig
nant People sternIy to rcbuke and forever silence.
4. That the maintenance nviolate Of the rights of
She States and especially the right of each State to
order and control its own domestic institutions &C.
cording to its judgment exclusively, is essential
to that balance of powers which the perfection and
endurance of political fabric depends; and we
denounce the lawless invasion by armed force of the
soil of any State Territory matter under what
pretext, among the gravest of crimes.
8. That the present Democratic Administration has
far exceeded worst apprehensions, in its
less subservency to the exactions Of a sectional in
terest, especially evnced In its desperate exer-
tions to force the Infamous Lecompton Constitution
upon the protesting people of Kansas in constituting
the personal relation between master and rant
involve unqualified property in persons in its at
tempted enforcement, everywhere, on land and sea,
through the Intervention of Congress and of the Fed
eral Courts, of the extreme pretensons of purely
local interest; and its general and unvaryng abuse
g. That the people justly view with alarm the reci
less extravaganza which pervades every department
OF the Federal Government; that return to rigid
economy and accountability is indispensable to
rest the systematic plumber of the public treasury by
favored partisans; while the recent startling deve
opments OF frauds and corruptions at the Federal
metropolis, show that an entire change of admins
tration is imperatively demanded
Z That the dog that the Constitution, Of its
FORCE carries Slavery into any all of the Ter
rories of the United States is dangerous political
heresy, at variance with the explicit provisions Of
chat instrument itself, with cotemporaneous EXPOSE
ton, and with legislative and judicial precedent is
revolutionary in it's tendency, and subversive of the
peace and harmony of the country.
S. That the normal condition of all the territory of
the United States is that of freedom That Re-
publican fathers when they had abolished slavery in
all national territory, ordained that 'no person
should be deprived Of life liberty, property, with
out due process oflaw, becomes duty by legis
lation, whenever such legislation is necessary to
maintain this provision of the Constitution against
all attempts to violate IT. and deny the authority
Of ongress, of territorial legislature or of any in
dividuals, to give legal existence to slavery in any
Territory of the United States.
9. That we brand the recent reopening of the Afri
slave trade under the of national flag,
against humanity and burning shame to our coun-
try and age; and call upon Congress to take
prompt and efficient for the total and fna
suppression of that execrable traffic.
TO- That in the recent vetoes, by their Federal Gov
ernors of the acts Of the Legislatures Of Kansas and
Nebraska, prohibiting Slavery in those Territories,
we find practical illustration of the boosted Demo-
cratic principle of Intervention and Popular
Sovereignty embodied in the Kansas-Nebraska bill |
aud demonstration of the deception and fraud in
volved therein.
H. That Kansas should of right, be Immediately |
admitted a State under the Constitution recently
formed and adopted by her people, and accepted by
the House of Representatives.
H. That, while providing revenue for the support |
Of the general government by duties upon imports, !
sound policy requires such adjustment of these
imports to encourage the development of the in
dustrial interests of the whole country and we com
mend that policy of national exchanges, which Sc
to the working liberal wages to agriculture
remunerating prices mechanics and manufacturers
adequate reward for their skill, labor and enter
prise, and to the nation commercial prosperity and
independence.
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 settlers paupers suppliants
FOR public bounty; and we demand the passage by |
Congress of the complete and satisfactory homestead
measure which has already passed tho House.
a. That the Republican party is opposed to any
change in Naturalization Laws any State legs-
laton by which the rights of citizenship hitherto &C
corded to Immigrants from foreign lands shall be
abridged or impaired and in favor of giving full
and efficient protection to the rights of all classes of
citizens whether native naturalzed, both at home
and abroad.
Is. That appropriations by Congress for River and
Harbor improvements of National character, re- |
guired for the accommodation and security of ex-
listing commerce. authorized by the Constitution,
ndjustifed by the obligation of Government to pro-
tect the lives and property of its citizens
16. That Railroad to the Pacific Ocean is impera-
lively demanded by the interests of the whole coun-
try; tsat the Federal Government ,ught to render
immediate and efficient aid in its construction and
that, as preliminary thereto, daily Overland Mail
should be promptly established.
H. Finally, having thus set forth distinctive |
principles and views invite the cooperation of all
citizens, however differing other questions, who
substantially AZ rec with US in their ahirmance and
support.
SUPPLEMENTARY RESOLUTION.
Resolved, That we deeply sympathize with those
men who have been driven, some OF them from their
native States AMI others from the State of their adop
ton, and eXiled from their homes account
Of their opinions; and hold the Democratic patty
the Constitution which declares that the citizens of