Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1860-05-21

Judge Jessup, of PENNSYLVANIA, from the
Committee on Resolutions, reported the
following:
R,sok1sd. That we, the delegated repre-
sentatiycs Of tho Republican Electors OF
the United States in Convention assembled,
in the discharge of the duty we owe 70 our {
constituents and country, unite IN the iol-
flowing declarations:
lst- That the history of the nation dur
Ting the last four years, has fully estaorsh- !
led the propriety and necessity of the or
ganization and PerPetaatlon oil the hep!T
| iican party, and that the causes ~hlch
icalled it into existence are permanent IN
their nature, and now, more than ever;
tdemand its peaceful and CONSTITUTIONS
triumph. .,-.
/ That the maintenance of the prin-
cinles promulgated in the Declaration OF
Independence, and embodied IN the red
/ eral Constitution, is essential TO the pres
! eryatiou of our Republican institutions.
nd thai the Federal Constitution, the |
rights OF the States and the union OF tue
/ States. must and shall be preserved. .
i I'd THAT to the Union of the States this |
nation owes its unprecedented increase IN |
Ipopulntion; its surprising Developments Oh |
material resources; its rapid augmentation
lof wealth; its happiness at home and It's |
honor abroad; and we hold in abhorrenee
all schemes for disunion, come from what
ever source they may; and we congratulate
the country that no Republican member
of Congress has uttered or countenanceu
the threats of disuuion- so often made by
y the Democratic members of Congress
q without rebuke and with applause from
/ their noIitIcaI associates; and we denounce
4 those whose threats of disunion, in case
z of popular overthrow OF their ascenosh-
- CIV, as denying the vital principles Oh
: free government, and as an ayowal OF con
n tempIated treason. which it is the lmpera7
/ tive duty of an indignant people sternly TO
; rebuke and forever silence. ..,-.-.-.-e
4ths That the maintenance, inVlolatei 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 essential TO tnat
r Ibalance of power on which the perfection
and endurance of our political fabric de-
pends: and we denounCe the nnlawfut IN
yasion by armed force OF the SOIL OF any
: State or Territory, no matter under what
pretext, as one of the graycst OF crimes:
5th. That the present Democratic admin
D ;stration has far exceeded our worst ap-
r prehensions in its measureless suoserT'en :
r cy to the exactions of sectional interest,
n as especially evinced in its desperate eA-
ertions to force the Infamous LecOmplOn
: Constitution upon the protesting people OF
Is tion between master and servant to ln-
II yolye an unqualified property in PERSONS
in its attempted enforcement everywhere
on land and sea, through the lnterVention
If of Congress and of the Federal Courts, o.
ut the extreme pretensions OF purely loc"
in interest and in its general and unVarylnt
abuse of the power entrusted to 1t by {
-, confdiug people. -,
es alarm the reckless extravaganza which
e I peryades every department of the Fedora
- Government. That return to rigid econ
ID startling 4S1 NJ r919T y
. show that an entire change of administra
~ ton is imperatively demanded.
n 7th. That the new dogma that the Con
II. stitution of its own force carries slavery
of into any or all of the Territories of the U
j, s. is dangerous political heresy, at va
;" rance with the explicit provisions of thai
IN instrument itself, with cotemporaneou!
r expeditions, and with Legislative and judi.
70 cial precedents; and that it is revolution,
airy in its tendency, and subversiYe of the
peace and harmony of the country.
9th. That the normal condition of ali
the territory of the United States
is that of freedom; that us our Republi-
Of can fathers when they had abolished sla-
l. very in all of our national territory, or
: dained that no person should be deprived
y of life, liberty or property, without due
= process oflaw, it becomes our duty by leg
l. islation, whenever such legislation is nee
e essary, to maintain this provision of the
If Constitution against all attempts to Tio-
g late it; and we deny the authority of Con-
@ gress or Territorial Legislature, or of any
y individuals to give legal existence to sla-
g very in any Territory of the United States.
j, 9th. That we brand the recent reopen
e ing of the African slave trade, under the
t cover of our national flag, aided by per
: Yerti0ns of judicial power, as crime
/ against humanity, and burning shame to
l our country and age, and we call upon
Congress to- take prompt and efficient
measures for the total Suppression of that
execrable traffic.
10th. That in the recent vetocs by their
Federal Governors, of tho acts of the
legislatures of Kansas and Nebraska pro-
hibiting slavery in those Territories, we
find practical illustration of the boosted
y 4 Democratic principles of non-iutervention
and popular sovereignty, embodied in the
Kansas Nebraska Bill, and n demonstration
of the deception and fraud involved there
in. tftF q
1lth. That Kansas should of right be
Immediately admitted as State under the
constitution recently formed and adopted
by her people, and1accepted by the House
of Representatives ~ 80 -
18TH, That while providing revenue for
the general Government by duties upon
imports, sound policy requires such an ad- !
Ijustment of these. imposts as to encourage
the development of the industrial interests |
of the whole country, and we commend
that policy of national exchanges which !
secures to the working men liberal wages, |
to agriculture remunerating prices, to me-
2 chanics and manufacturers an ADEQUATE |
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