The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1860-08-22
TIE REPUBLICAN IisTFORd.

4 VI ItAN 10
the United States, in Conrentlon Assem-
/ bled, in the discharge of the duty we
| owe to our constituents and our country,
unite in the following declarations:
First: That the history of the nation
during the last four years has fully estab-
lished the proprietv and necessity of the
organization and perpetuation of the Re-
publican party, and that the causes which
called it into existence are permanent in
their nature, and row more than ever be-
fore demand its 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 our 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 in
erase in population; its surprising desel-
| opment of material resources; its rapid
augmentation of wealth; its happiness at
| home and its honor abroad and we hold
in abhorancc all schemes for disunion,
come from whatever source they may;
and we congratulate the country that no
i Republican member Of Congress has ut
| tered or cOuntenanccd {. threat of disun-
| ION, so eften made By Democratic mem
bers of Congress without rebuke, and
with applause from their political associ-
! ates; and we deuounce those threats of
| disunion, in case of popular overthrow
of their ascendency, as denying the vital
| principles of a free Government, and as
al. avowal of contemplated treason, which
it is the imperative duty of an indignant
people strongly to rebuke and forever
| silence.
Fourth, That the maintenance invio-
late of the right of the States, and espec-
ia'ly the right of each State TO order and
control its own domestic institutions ac-
cording to its own Judgement exclusively,
is essential to that balance of power on
which the perfection and endurance OF
our political faith depends, and we de-
nounce the lawless invasion by armed
forces of any State or Territory, no mat
ter under what pretext, as among the
gravest of crimes.
Fifth, That the present Democratic
| Administration has far exceeded our
worst apprehensions in its measureIess
subseryiency to the exactions of a section
al interest, as is especially evident in its
| desperate exertions To force the Infamous
LecoDpton Constitution upon the pro-
testing people of Kansas-in constituting
! the personal relation between master apd
servant to involve an unqualified property
in persoDs-in lis attempted enforcement
everywhere, on land and sea, through
| the intervention OF Congress aud the Fed
eral Courts Of the extreme pretensions OF
purely local interest, and i'll its genera
aud unvarying abuse Of the power in
trusted to it bY confiiing people.
!Sirth:: That the people justly view
with alarm the reckless extravaganza
which pervades every department of the
Federal Government; that a return to
rigid economy and accountability is indis
pensable to arrest the SYSTEM of plunder
of the public treasury by favored part
sans; while the recent startling develop
ments Of fraud and corruption Mt the
| Federal metropolis, shows that an entire
change of administration in imperatively
| demanded.
Seventh, That the new dogma that
| Constitution of its own force carries Sla-
very into any or all the Territories of the
United States. is dangerous political
heresy, at variance with the explicit pro
visions of that instrument itself, with con-
tomporaneous exposition, and with legi..
latiye and judicial precedent, is revolu
tionary in its tendency and subversive of
the peace and harmony of the country.
Eiglth: That the normal condition of
the territories of the United States is that
| Of Freedom; that as our republican faith
ers, when they had abolished Slavery in
| all our national territory, ordained that
no person should be deprived of life, lib
erty, or property, without the process of
law, it becomes our duty. by legislation,
whenever such legislation is necessary. to
maintain this provision of the Constitu-
ton against all attempts to violate it; and
we deny the authority of Congress, of q
Territorial Legislature, or of any individ-
uals, to give legal existence to Slavery in
any Territory of the United States.
Ninth: That we br nd the recent re-
opening of the African slave-trade, under
the cover Of ovr national flag, aided by
perversions of judicial power, rs crime
against humanity, burning shame to
our country and age, and we call upon
Congress to take prompt and efficient
measures for the total and final suppress
! ion of that execrable traffic
! Tenth: That in the recent vetoes by
their Federal Governors of the acts of the
Legislatures of Kansas and Nebraska,
prohibiting Slavery in those Territories.
we find practical illustration of the
boosted Democratic principle of non-in
tervention and Popular Sovereignty, en-
bodied in the Kansas and Nebraska bill.
and denuncation OF the deception and