The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1860-09-12
National Republican Platform,
rAs AMENDED AND ADopTED.l

bled, IN discharge of the duty we owe 10 |
our constituents and our country, unite in |
the following declarations
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 1t
INTO existence are permanent in their ma
ture, and now, more than ever before, de-
mand its peaceful and constitutional tri
umph.
e That the maintenance of the princi
Piles promulgated in the Declaration of In
dependence and embodied in the Federal
Constitution, THAT all men are created
equal : that they are endowed by their
Creator with certain inallenable rights
that among these are lite, liberty and the
pursuit OF happiness that 10 secure these
rights, governments are instituted among
men. deriving their just powers from the
consent Of the goyernedh--is essential TO
the preservation of our Republican insttu
tions 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
alton owes its unprecedented increase in
population, its surprising development Of
material resources, lis rapid augmentation
Of wealth, it's happiness al home and its
honor abroad and we hold in adherence
all schemes for Disunion, come from " hat
ever source they may And We cungratu-
late the country that no Republican mem
Der of Congress has uttered or counte
uanced the threats of Disunion so often
made by Democratic members, without re-
buke and with applause from their political
| associates and We denounce those threats
of dsunion, in case OF popular overthrow
OF their asoendancy, As denying the vital
| principles Of a free government, and As hi
ayowal OF contemplated treason, which II
/ is the imperative duty ol All indignant Peo-
pie sternly to iebuke and forever silence
A. That the maintenance inviolate Of the
rights oil the States, and especially the
right of each State TO order and control It's
own domestic institutions according 20 its
own judgment exclusively, is essential II
that balance OF powers on which the per
fection and endurance of our political tab
fic aepends, and We dcnuunce the law
less invasion BY armed force of the soil o'
any State or Territory, no matter under
whaG prete1t, as among the grayest oi
crimes.
8. That the present Democratic Admin.
isFatlon has far exceeded our worst ap.
prehensions, in its measureless subservi.
I a. .f al ,xt.,
est, as especially eylneed in Its desperate
exertions TO force the infamous Leconpton
Constitution upon the protesting people oI
| Kansas IN construing the personal rela
ton between master and servant to ID.
volye an unqualified property in persons
ia It's attempted enforcement, eveTyw here
on land and sea, through the Intervention
of Congress and Of the Federal Courts, o
the extreme pretenslons OF purely loca
interest and IN its general and un,aryinl
abuse OF the power entrusted to it by con
hding people
&. That the people justly view will
alarm the recklt IS extravaganza whcl
pervades every department OF the Fedora
Government that return 10 rigid econ
omy and accountability is indispensable L
arrest The systematic plunder OF the pub
lie treasury by favored partisans; while
the recent startling developments offraud
and corruptlons al the Federal metropolis
show that an entire change of adminlstra
ton is imperatiyely demanded.
z. That the new dogma that the Con
stitution, of its own force, carries SLAYER
into any or all oil the Territories Of til
Unit. States, is a dangerous political her
: esy, at variance with the explicit provi
, sions of that instrument itself, with &C
temporaneous exposition, and with legis
la,ive and judicial precedent; is reyoiu
tonary in its tendency, and subversive {
the peace and harmony oil the country.
8. That the normal condition OK all tn
/. territory of the United States, is that {
freedom That as our Republican father,
when they had abolished slavery in all on
\ national territory, ordained that mo pei
! son should be deprived of life, liberty, {
property, without due process OF law, y
becomes our duty, by legislation, whene,
er such Legislation IS necessary. to mair
tam this provision of the Constitute
!. against all attempts to violate it; and "
), deny the authority of Congress. of tie
ritonal legislature, or ot any individual
TO give legal existence 70 slavery in an
Territory of the United States.
8. That we brand the recent re-openir
: Of the African slave trade, under the CO.
er Of our national flag, aided by perve
sions Of judicial power, as crime again
humanity and a burning shame TO OF
: country and age ; and we call upon Co
gress to take prompt.and efficient mea
ures for the total and final suppression
that execrable tratfic.
TO- That in the recent vetoes, by Tho
Federal Governors, of the acts OF the LIE
: islatnras nf Kansas and NahrasEa nrnhi