St. Cloud Democrat. [volume] (Saint Cloud, Stearns County, Minn.) 1858-1866, 1860-05-31
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ApoPrEp At Cu1cAae, MAY FrH,S18eQ>E
RESOLVED, That we, the delegated represen-
tatives Of the Republican electors Of the Uni:
ted States, in Convention assembled, in the
discharge Of tile duty we owe to our constitu-
ents and ourconntry, unite in the following
declarations: . = ~ = - ( - 6
list That the history Of The nation during
the last four years, has fully established tho
propriety and necessity Of the organization
and perpetuation Of the Republican party -;
and that the causes which called it into .exis-
tence are permanent in their nature, and now,
more than ever before, demand its peaceful
and constitutional triumph. <.: ~..,i.. .
.. That Tho. maintenance, Of the principles
promulgated in the Declaration ofIndependence
and embodied in the Federal Constitution, the
right to life, liberty and the pursuit Of happi-
ness, is essential to the preservation of our
Republican institutions 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 nation
owes its unprecedented increase in population,
its surprising development Of material resour-
ces it's rapid augmentation Of wealth, its hap
pincss at home aud its honor abroad and We
hold in adherence all schemes for Disunion,
come from whatever source they may: And re
congratulate the country that no Republican
member Of Congress has uttered or oountenan-
ced the threats Of Disunion SO often made by
Democratic members, without rebuke and with
applause from their political associates and
We denounce those threats Of disunion, in case
OF popular overthrow Of their ascendency
as denying the vital principles of free gov
eminent, aud as avowal Of contemplated trea-
son, which it is the imperative duty Of an
indignant People 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 its own
judgment exclusively, is essential to that bal
ancc of powers on which the perfection and
endurance Of our political fabric depends and
we denounce The lawless invasion by armed
force Of the soil ct any State or Territory, no
matter under what prctext, as among the graz
vest Of crimes.
5. That the present Democratic Administra-
ton has far exceeded our worst pprehensions,
in it's measureless subserviency to the exactions
of q sectional interest, as especially evinced
in its desperate exertions to force the infamous
LecoIapton Constitution upon the protesting
people.of Kansas; in constituting the personal
an unqualified property in persons in its
attempted enforcement, everywhere, on land
and on sea, through the intervention Of Con-
gress and Of the Federal Courts, Of the extreme
pretensions of a purely local interest; in its
general and unvarying abuse Of the power
intrusted to it by a confding people.
6. That the people justly view with alarm
the reckless extravaganza which pervades ev
cry department of the Federal Government;
that n return to rigid economy and accounta-
bility is indispensable to arrest the systematic
plumber Of the public treasury by favored
partisans while the recent startling develop
ments Of frauds and corruptions at the ederal
Metropolis, show that an entire change Of
administration is in,peraively demanded.
7. That tho new dogma that the Constitution,
Of ts own force, carries slavery into any or
Ill Of the Territories OF the United States, is
Il dangerous political heresy: at variance with
the explicit provisions Of that instrument it,
self, With contemporaneoUs- exposition, and
Will. Legislative and judicial precedent; is
revolut ionary in its tendency, and subversive
Of the peace and harmonyaot the county.
s. That the normal condition Of all the ter
ritory' of ,1cs United States is that Of freedom
That as our Republican fathers, when they
att'aboiished slavcryin all our national ter
ritcry, ordained that ''no person should be
deprived Of life, liberty or property, without
due process OF law it becomes cur duty, by
legislation, whenever such legislation is neccs>
sary, to maintain this provision against all at
tcrapts to violate it; and we deny the authori-
~ Of Congress, Of territorial legislature, or
of any individuals, to give lega! existence to
Slavery in any Territory Of the United States,
8. That VIC brand the recent re-openng OF
the African slave trade, under the cover of
our National Flag, aided by peryersions Of jul
dicial power, as crime against Humanity and
a burning shame to our Country and. age: and
we call upon Congress to take prompt and ef-.
fcient measures Tor the total and final sup
Preston of~thatSexecrable traffic. ...> -. :
IL. That in the recent yetoes. by their Fed:
eral Governors, of the acts of the Legislature
of Kansas and Nebraska, prohibiting slavery
in those Territories, we find practical illus
tration of the boosted Democratic principle Of
embodied in the Kansas Nebraska bill, and a
Of the deception and fraud in
volved therein. = ri
il. That Kansas should Of right be immedi-
ately admitted as State under the Constitu-
tion recently formed and adopted by her people
and accepted by the House Of Representatives.
II. That while providing revenue for tile
support of the general government by duties
upon imports, sound policy requires such an
adjustment 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 agricul:
ture remui1erstifg prices, to mechanics and
an adequate reward for their
skill, labor, and enterprise, and to the nation
commercial PROSPERITY and Independence,
49, That we protest against any sale OF
alienation-tO Others Of the Public STsnda ~ha1d
by actual settlers, and against any view Of the
Free Homestead policy which regards the set
tiers as 'Paupers or supplfants for public
bounty; and we demand the PASSAGE by Con-
gress Of the complete and satisfactory Home
stead measure which has already passedcthc
House. = =, -- -
"A. That the National Republican party is
cpposedto any change in our Naturalization,
Laws, Of any State legislation by which the
rights Of citizenship hitherto accorded 10 inn
migrants from foreign lands shall be ABRIDGED