The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1860-06-29
THE CnICAGO PLATFORM

AMENDED AND ADOPTED.
Resotred, That we, the delegated representatives
of the Republican electors of the United States
Convention assembled, in the discharge of the duty
we constituents and our country, unite
in the following declarations
lat. That the history of the nation during the
last four years, has fully established the propristy
and necessity of the organization and perpetuaton
of the Republican party and that the causes which
called 1t into existence permanent In their
tnre, and now, more than ever before, demand its
peaceful and constitutional triumph.
2. That the maintenance Of the principles pro-
'Snnlgated in the Declaration of Independence and
embodied in the Federal Constitution-''T That all
created equal that they endowed by
their Creator with certain inalienabe rights that
among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of
happiness; that to these rights, governments
al instituted among men, deriving their just pow
from the consent of the governed lis essential
to the preservation of Republican institutions ;
and that the Federal Constitution, the Rights of
the States, and the Union of the States must and
shall be preserved. ..a.
3. That to the Union of the States this nation
owes it's unprecedented increase in population its
surprising development of material resources, its
rapid augmentation of wealth. its happiness at
home and its honor abroad /; and hold in alb
horrence all schemes for Disunion, from what
ever source they may And We congratulate the
country that no Republican member OF Congress
has uttered or countenanced the threats of Dis
union often made by Democratic members, with
out rebuke and with applause from their political
associates; and we denounce those threats OF dis
union, in case of a popular overthrow of their as
tendency denying the vital principles of a free
government, and aVowal of conten plated
treason, which it is the imperative duty of an in
dignant People sternly to rebuko and forever ST.
lenCe.
4. That the maintenance inviolate of the Rights
of the States and especially the right of each State
TO order and control its own domestic institutions
according to its own Judgment exclusively, is es-
sentlal TO that balance of powers which the per-
lection and endurance of our political fabric de-
pendsi and we denounce the lawless invasion by
armed force of the soil OF any State or Territory
matter under what pretext, as among the gravest
OF crimes.
s. That the present Democratic Administration
aFsTpn in ia
measureless subserViency to the exactions of sec
tiOnal interest, especially eVnced in its desper-
exertions TO force the infamous Lecompton Con-
sttution upon the protesting people of Kansas i'll
constituting the personal relation between master
aud servant to involve an unqualified property in
persons in its attempted enforcement, everywhere
ON land and sea, through the Intervention OF Con-
Sress and of the Federal Courts, of the extreme
preten.ions of purely local interest and in its
general and unyarying sbuse OF the power ntrusted
TO it by confding people.
8. That the People justly view with alarm the
reckless extravaganza which pervades every depart
Hnent of the Federal Government; that n return to
rigid economy and accountability is Indispensable
arrest the systematic plumber Of the public treas
ury by favored partisans while the recent startling
eNeopmt nts Of frauds and corruptons at the Fed
eral Metropolis, show that entire change Of
administration is imperatiVely demanded. .
Z. That he new dogma that the Constitution, Of
its force, carries Slavery into any all of the
Territories of the United States, is a dangerous
political beresy, at variance with the explicit pro
visions Of that instrument itrelf With contempOra-
usous exposition and With legislative and judicial
precedent; is revolutionary i'll its tendency, and
u5yersve OF the peace aud harmony of the country
8. That the normal condition of all the Territory
of the United States is that OF frs ed"m That a.
our Republican fathers, when they had abolished
slavery all national territory, ordained tina
person should be deprived of life, liberty,
property, without due process Of law" 1t becomes