The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1860-10-10
National Republican Platform.
las AMENDED AND ADoPTEp.l "

bled, in discharge OF the duty we owe TO
our constituents and our country, unite in
the following declarations
| /. That the history of the nation during
the last four years, has fully established
The proprety and necessity Of the organi-
cation and perpetuauon Of the Republican
party, and That the causes which called Id
into existence are permanent in their ma
lure, and now, more than ever before, de-
mand its peaceful and constitutional tn
umph. -
Z. That the maintenance of the princi-
pies 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
| treator with certain inalienable rights ;
that among these are lie, liberty and the
pursuit OF happiness that TO secure these
rights, governments are Instituted among
men, deriving their just powers from the
consent OF the goverued'--is essential TO
the preservation of our Republican in stitu-
tons; and that the Federal Conssi ution.
the Rights OF the States, and the Union of
the States must and shall. be preserved.
!. haL Ia the union Of the States this
ration owes lis unprecedented increase IN
population, lis surprising development Of
material resources, its rapid augmentation
toi wealth, It's happiness at home and its
honor abroad and we hold In abhorrence
all schemes for Disunion, come from what
ever source they may: And we con gratu.
late the country that no Republican mem
ber of Congress has uttered or counte-
nanced the threats of Disunlon so often
made by Democratic members, without re-
buke and with applause from their political
/ associates and We denounce those threats
OF dlsunlon, IN case OF popular overthrow
OF Their ascendancy, AS denying tie vital
principles OF free government, and az an
avowai of contemplated treason, which it
ls thcImperatve duty of an indignant Peo-
pie sterniy to 4ebuke and forever silence
a. That the maintenance invioiate of the
rights OF The States, and especially the
right OF each State To order ard control its
own domestic institutions according 10 It's
| own Judgment exclusively, is essential TO
that balance Of powers on which the per-
tection and endurance Of our political lab
ric depends; and We denounce the law
less invasion by armed force of the soil Of
any State or Territory, no matter uHder
what pretext, as among the grayest of
crimes.
5. That the present Democratic Admin
lstratlon has far exceeded our worst ap-
prehenslons, IN It's measureless subservi-
ency to the exactions Of sectional inter
est, as especially evinced in its desperate
eaertions TO force the infamous Lecompton
Constitution upon the protesting people of
Kansas in constituting the personal rea
lion between master and servant to in
volse an unqualified property in persons
in its attempted enforcement, every W here,
on land and sea, through the Intervention
of Congress and Of the Federal Courts, OF
the extreme pretnsions Of purely local
Interest anu IN lis general and unyarying
abuse ofthe power entrusted to il by con-
fidlng people.
g. That the people justly view with
alarm the reckless extravaganza which
peryades every department of the Federal
Government that return to rigid econ
omy and accountability is indispensable to
arrest the systematic plumber OF the pub
lie treasury by favored partisans while
the recent startling Developments of frauds
and corruptions at the Federal metropolis,
show that an entire change of administra-
uon is mperatnely demanded.
I. That the new dogma that the Con-
sutution, OF its own force, carries Slavery
all aEs he r a
United States, is dangerous political her
esy, al variance with the explicit proyi-
sions Of that instrument ITSELF with CO.
temporaneous exposition. and with legs-
lative and Judicial precedent; is revolu.
tionary IN its tendency, and subversive of
the peace and harmony Of the country.
8. That the normal condition OF all the
territory of the United States, is that of
freedom That as our Republican fathers,
when they had abolished slavery in all our
national territory, ordained that .'no per-
son should be deprived of life, liberty, or
property, without due process of law" it
becomes our duty, BY legislation, whenev-
er such legislation rs necessary. to main
tain this provision of the Consultation
against all attempts to violate it and we
deny he .athcr.y Ct Congress, of Ter
ntorlal legislature, or OF any individuals,
to give legal existence 10 slavery in any
Territory ofthe United States.
8. That We brand the recent re-opening
of the African slave trade, under the COW
er Of our national flag, aided by perver-
slons Q! judicial power. as crime against
humanity and a burning shame 10 our
country and age and we call upon Con-
gress to take prompt and efficient meas
ures for the total and final suppression Of
that execrable traffic.
10, That in the recent vetoes, by their
Federal Governors, of the acts OF the Leg