The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1860-07-17
JOHN J. HAYDEN. Sec'y.
THE HICAGO PLATFORM,

AMENDED ADOPTED.
ResOired, That we, the delegated representatives
Of the Republican electors of the United States in
Convention assembled, in the discharge of the duty
we owe to our constituents and our country, unite
in the following declarations:
LIST That the history of the nation during the
last four years, has fully established the propriety
and necessity of the organization and perpetuation
of the Republican party; and that the causes which
called it into existence permanent in their
ture, and now, more than ever before, demand its
peaceful and constitutional triumph.
?. That the maintenance of the principles pro-
mulgated in the Declaration of Independence and
embodied in the Federal ConstitutiOn-''Th That all
men are created equal that they endowed by
their Creator with certain inalienable rights that
among these life, liberty, and the pursuit of
are instituted among men, deriving their just pow
ers from the consent Of the governed lis 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 resources, its
rapid augmentation of wealth, its happiness at
nome and its honor abroad and we hold in alb
horrence all schemes for Disuuion, come from what
source they may And congratulate the
,Ountry that Republican member of Congress
uttered countenanced the threats of Dis
lnion so often made by Democratic members, with
nut rehuke and with applause from their political
associates; and We denOunce those threats of dis
Inion, in case Of a popular overthrow of their
endency as denying the vital principles of a free
government, and avowal of contem plated
reason, which it is the imperative duty of an in
fgnaut People sternly TO rebuke and forever ST.
ence
T. That the maintenance inviolate of the Rights
the States, and especially the right of each State
order and control its own domestic institutions
ccording to its own Judgment exclusively, is
antial to that balance of powers which the per-
sction and endurance of our political fabric de-
ends; and we denounce the lawless invasion by
rmed force of the soil of any State or Territory,
matter under what pretext, as among the gravest
crimes.
8. That the present Democratic Administration
as far exceeded worst apprehensions, in its
IeasureIess subserviency the exactions of a
nnal nterest, especially evinced in its desper
to exertions to force the Infamous Lecompton Con-
tuition upon the protesting people of Kansas in
Dnstruing the personal relation between master
ad servant to involve an unqualified property in
ersons in its attempted enforcement, everywhere
land and sea, through the Intervention OF Con-
ress and of the Federal Courts, OF the extreme
retepsions of purely local interest and in its
sneral and unvarying abuse of the power intrusted
it by confiding people.
6. That the People justly view with alarm the
ckIess extravaganza which pervades every depart
ent of the Federal Government; that return to
gid economy and accountability is indispensable
arrest the systematic plumber of the public treas
y by favored partsans; while the recent startling
NelOpments of frauds and corruptions at the Fed
al Metropolis, show that an entire change OF
ADMINISTRATION is imperatively demanded.
z. That lie new dogma that the Constitution, OF
own force, carries Slavery into any or all OF the
erritories of the United States, is a dangerous
1litical heresy, at variance with the explicit pro
siOns of that instrument itself, with contempora-
eOuS exposition ana With legislative ana Juuchi
'ecedent; is revolutionary in its tendency, and
l5versiye of the peace and harmony of the country
s. That the normal condition of all the Territory
the United States is that of freedom: That rs
IT Republican fathers, when they had abolished
avery in all our national territory, ordained that
no person should be deprived of life, liberty,
operty, without due process Of - a. it becomes
I duty, by legislation, whene7-=-such legislation
necessary to maintain this provision of the Con-
tuition against all attempts to violate it and we
ny the authority of Congress, of territorial leg
ature, of any individuals, to give legal exist
>ce to Slavery in any Territory Of the United
ates.
=. That We brand the recent re-opening of the
,rican Slave-Trade, under the cover of Ma
lnal Flag, aided by perversons of judicial power,
crime against Humanity and a burning shame
our Country and Age; and we call upon Congress
take prompt and efficient measures for the total
final suppression of that execrable traffic
TO- That in the recent vetoes, by their Federal
lvernors, of the acts of the Legislatures Of Kan
and Nebraska, prohibiting Slavery IL those
rritOries, find practical illustration Of the
asted Democratic principle of Nom Intervention
Popular Sovereignty embodied in the Kansas
braska bill, and demonstI alton of the deception
d fraud involved therein.
H. That Kansas should, of right, be Immediately
mtted a State under the Constitution recently
med and adopted by her people, and accepted by
House of Representatives.
Il. That, while providing revenue for the sup
RI Of the general government by duties upon i'm
rts, sound policy requires such an adjustment Of
sse imbosts as TO encourage the Development Of
industrial interests of the whole country and
commend that policy of national exchanges
tich secures to the working men liberal wages to
-riculture remunerating prices, to mechanics aud
nufacturers an adequate reward for their Skill
bor, and enterprise and to the nation commercial
'sperity and Independence.