The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1860-06-30
pypUnLlCAN NATIONAL PLATFORM.
As.ps.d q, Chicago. May t7th. 1850.

| Adspssd ai Chicago. May i1th- is6o.
Resoipsd, That We, the delegated representatives
az the Republican electors Of the United States. In
Convention assembled discharge Of the dnty veewe
To 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 o, the organization and perpeaation Of the
Republican party and that the shieh called II
into existence permanent in their nature and now
more than ever before, demand its peaceful and
constitutional triumph.
2 That the maintenance Of the principles protnui-
g.te IN the Declaration u Independence and embodied
In the Federal Constituton'Thsi all men are created
eaaaIj that they endowed BY their Creator with
certain iaaenabe rshtsi that among these are life,
liberty and the pursuit OF happiness that to secure
these rights governments instituted among men,
deriving their Just powers from the consent Of the
governed'-is essential to the preservation Of our
Republican institutions and that the Federal consti
tntlon Rights of the States and the Union Of the
States must and shall be preserved.
J. That to the Union Of the States this nation owes
its unprecedented increase in population its surprising
velopment Of material resources, its rapid augmen
tstlon wealth its happiness At home and its honor
| abroad sni hold In adherence all schemes for
pisunion come from whatever source they may. And
We congratulate the country that 10 Republican
OF Congress has uttered or ccuntenaneed the
| threats Of Disunion often made by Democratic
members, without rebuke and with applause from
! their political associatesi and we denounce those
threats Of disunon, in case Of popular overthrow OF
their ascendancy. as denying the vital principles Of
( free government, aud svowal OF contemplated
tfeasou which the imperative duty Of an indignant
/ People TO stcrniy rebuke and forever silence.
l. That the maintenance invioiaie Of the rights OF
the States and especially the right Of each State to
order and control its own domestic institutions
according to Ets Judgment exclusively. essential
that balance of powers which the perfection and
| eudurance OF our political fabric depends; and we
denonnee the Iawless invasion by armed force OF the
soil Of any State Territory matter WIDER what
rretext. ss smong the sravest OF crimes,
s. That the present Democratic Administration
has far exceeded wesst apprehensiops, In its
subservency the csactions Of sectional
| interest, q. especially eyinced In its desperate
exertons to force Infamous Lecompton Constitution
upon the protesting people OF Kansas; In constituting
/ the personal relation between master and servant
to involve an unqualified property in persons; in its
attempted enforcement everywhere, land and sea,
| through the intervention Of Congress and of the
Federal Courts OF the extreme preentions Of purely
tocs, interest; and in Its general and unvarying
abuse Of the power entrusted to 1t by coniding
people.
| g. That the people Justly view with alarm the
extrsy agance which every department
Of the Federal Government; that return to rigid
economy and accountability is indispensable to arrest
tho systematic plunder Of the public treasury by
favored partisans; while the recent startling deve
opments es frauds and oerruptions at the Federal
metropolis show that entire change Of sdmlntstrs-
tim is iu,peratively demanded.
7 That the new dogma t-at the Constitution Of its
own force carries Slavery into any all Of the
rerri,cs cs Of the United States Is dangerous polica
heresr at rsrsncc with the explicit provisions of that
instrument ITSELF with eoiemporaneous exposition,
and with legislative and judicial precedent; Is revou-
tunsry in its tendency, aud subversive Of the peace
! anil hayu5any of the country.
s Tha, 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 ali our national territory, ordained that no person
should be deprived of tt.. or property, without due
process of taw," 1t becomes duty, by lessiation
whenever such legislation is necessary, to maintain
this provision Of the Constitution against s attempts
TO violate 1t; amt deny tho authority OF Congress-
q territorial legislature. or Of any individuals, 10
legal existence To slavery any Territory Of the
I United States.
/ . ras, We brand The recent re-ppsnins Of the
African slave Trade under the OF oar RATIONAL
tag aided BY perversiens Of iaeiai power ss crime
against humanity and burning shame TO our country
anl age and We cali upon Conssess TO take prompt
and ceent measures for the total and nnsi suppression
/ 81 that execrasie trssir.
IN Tia, IN the recent vs,oes ny their FEDERAL
Governors Of The acts of the LeSsa,arss Of Kansas
and Nssrssks sIavery in these IeFti'oFes
30 An, practical illustrates. Of the bassd Democratic
nl. et Ssn tnictvcnton aud Perulsr Sovereignty
srsr.its in ias Kansas NEBRASKA Bill. and deaon-
r,tisa q the deception and frAnd involved therein
H. rhs, Kansas should, IL right be imuiesitaiciy
admitted as ssa,e under the Canstttat!an recently
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