The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1860-09-20
National Republican Platform
TAS AMENDED AND ADOPTED.l

[As AMENDED AND AD0pTED.l
h Resolved. That We. The delegated sep
fesentatives Of the Republican electcrs of
the United States, in Convention assem-
bled, in discharge of the duty we owe to
our constituents and our country, unite in
following declarations:
l. That the history of the nation during
the last four years, has fully established
the propriesy and necessity Of the organi-
cation and perpetuation of the Republican
party, and that the causes which called it
into existence are permanent in their ma
ture, and now, more than ever before, de-
mand its peaceful and constitutional tr-
umph. ~
q. 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 tina, TO secure these
rights, governments are instituted among
men, deriving their just powers from the
consent of the governed"-i essential to
the preservation of our Republican institu-
tons and that the Federal Constitution,
the Rights OF the States. and the Union of
the States must and shall be preserved.
3. That 10 the union of the States this
nation owes its unprecedented increase In
population, its surprising development of
material resources, its rapid augmentation
OF wealth, its happiness at home and its
honor abroad and we hold in adherence
all schemes for Disunion, come from " hat
ever source they may: And We congratu
late the country that no Republican mem
ber of Congress has uttered or counte
nanced 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 disunion, in case of popular overthrow
Of their aseendancy. as denying the vital
principles Of free government. and as an
ayowal of contemplated treason, which il
ls the imperative duty of an indignant Peo-
pie sternly to rebuke and forever silence.
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 It's
own judgment exclusively, is essential to
that balance of powers ON which the per
feciion and endurance of our political TAB
ric depends and We denounce the law
less invasion by armed force of the soil oi
any State or Territory, no matter under
what pretext, as among the gravest oi
crimes.
8. That the present Democratic Admin
istration has far exceeded our worst ap-
prehensions, in lis measureless subservi.
ency TO the exactions OF sectional inter
est, as especially evinced in its desperate
exertions TO force the Infamous Lecompton
Constitution upon the protesting people ol
Kansas: in constituting the personal rela
ton between master and servant to in.
volve an unqualified property in persons
in its attempted enforcement, everywhere
ON land and sea, through the Intervention
of Congress and of the Federal Courts, o
the extreme pretensions of purely loca
Interest; and In its general and unvarying
abuse OF the power entrusted toit by con
fding people.
| 6. That the people justly view will
alarm the reckless extravagance which
pervades every department of the Fedora
Government that return TO rigid econ
omy and accountability is indispensable I,
arrest the systematic plunder of the pub
lie treasury by favored partisans whil,
the recent startling developments offraud
and corruptions at the Federal metropolis
show that an entire change of administra
ton is imperatively demanded.
z. That the new dogma that the Con
stitution, of its own force, carries SLAYER
into any or all of the Territories of tn
United States, is dangerous political her
esy, at variance with the explicit provi
sions of that instrument itself, with &C
|, temporaneous exposition, and with legis
laiive and judicial precedent; is revolu
tionary in its tendency, and subversiye {
, the peace and harmony Of the country.
8. That the normal condition OF all tn
!. territory of the United States, is that
freedom That as our Republican father
! when they had abolishe slavery in all ou
national territory, ordained that ''no 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 rnaiI
tain this provision of the Constitute
:, against all attempts to violate it /; and v
deny the authority Of Congress, Of to
I ritorial Legislature, or Of any individual
y To give LEGAL existence 10 slavery in al
N Territory of the United States.
8. That we brand the recent re-openir
: of the African slave trade, under the co
y er Of our national flag, aided by perve
sions Of judicial power, as crime again