Union County star and Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1859-1864, 1860-05-25
THE PLATFORM.

Resolred, That We, the delegated repre-
senta,ives of the Republican Electors of
the United States, IN Convention assem-
tIed, IN discharge Of the duty We owe TO
our constituents aud our country, unite in
the following declarations:
First. That the history of the nation
during the last four years has fully estab-
lished the propriety and necessity of the
organization and perpetuatiou of the Re
publican party; aud that the causes which
called it into existence, are permanent in
their nature, and now, more than ever be-
fore, demand It's peaceful and constitution
al triumph.
Second. That the maintenance of the
principles promulgated in the Declaration
of Independence, and embodied in the
Federal Constitution, is 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.
Third. That to the Union of the
States this nation owes its unprecedented
increase in population, its surprising de-
velopement of material resources, its hap
piness at home, and its honor abroad !;
and we hold in abhorrence all schemes for
disunion, come from whatever source they
may. We congratulate the country that
No Republican Member Of Congress has
uttered or countenanced threat of Disu-
MON, so often made by the Democratic
Members of Congress, without rebuke, and
with applause, from their political associ-
ates. Aud we denounce those threats of
disunion, in case of a popular overthrow
of their ascendancy, as denying the vital
principles of free government, aud as an
avowal Of contemplated treason, which it
is the imperative duty Of an indignant
people strongly to rebuke and for ever si-
leDce.
Fourth That the maintenance invio-
late of the rights of the States, and espe-
eially the erights of each State to order and
control its own domestic institutions accor.
ding to its own judgment exclusively, is
essential to that baiance of power on
which the perfection and endurance Of her
political faith depends. Aud We denounco
the lawless invasion, by an armed force,
of any State or Territory, no matter under
what pretexs, as among the gravest Of
crimes.
Fifth. That the present Democratic
administration has far exceeded our worst
apprehensions, in its measureless subscrv-
ency to the exactions Of sectional inter-
est, as is especially evident in its desperate
exertlons to force the Infamous Lecomp.
ton Constitution upon the protesting peo-
pie Of Kansas 1; In constituting the personal
relation between master and servant to in-
volve an unqualified property in persons /;
in its attempts at the enforcement every
where, by land and sea, through the inter-
vention of Congress and the Federal
Courts, Of the extreme pretentions Of a
purely local interest; and in its general /
and unvarying abuse of the power entrus-
ted to it by confiing people.
Sirta. That the people justly view
with alarm the reckless extravaganza
which pervades every department OF tine
Federal Government; that q return to
rigid economy and accountability is indis-
peusable to arrest the system Of plumber Of
The public treasury BY favored partlsans
while the present startling Developments
IF fraud and corruption at the federal me-
ropolis, show that an entire change OF ad-
is imperatively demanded.
.Serenh That the new dogma that the
Of Its own fJre-, carries, sla-