Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1860-07-25
THE PLATFORM.

For Htce FTeStde7It-Hannlba Hamlln, OF
Maine. q aL'
THE PLATFORM.
ReSolred, That We, the delegated rep
resentatives Of the Republican electors Of
| the United States, in Convention assem-
bled, in the discharge of the duty we owe
to our constituents and our country, unite
in the following declarations-
l. That the history of the nation du-
ring the last four years, has fully estab-
lished the prOpriety and necessity of the
organization and pcrpetuation of the Re-
publican party; and that the causes which
had called it into existence are permanent
in their nature, and now, more than ever
before, demand its peaceful and cOnstitu-
tutional triumph.
2. 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 Gre
atOr with certain inalienable rights, that
among these arc life, liberty and the pur
suit of happiness; that to secure thcsC
rights, governments are instituted among
men. deriving their Just powers from tht
consent of the governed''-is essential t.
the preservation of our Republican insti
tuticns and that the Federal Constitu
tion, the rights of States, and the Unior
of. the States must and shall be pre-
served. ..-s -s. '.ar--- s-a-
8. That to the Union of the States
this nation owes its unprecedented increasC
in population, its surprising development.
of material resources, its rapid augmentation
of wealth, its happiness at home and it
honor abroad; and we hold in abhorrene,
all schemes for disunion, come from what.
ever source they may; and we congratulate
the country that no Republican member o
Cong ess has uttered or countenanced the
threats of disunion so often made by Dem
ocratie members, without rebuke and witt
applause from their political associates
and We denounee these threats Of disunion
IN case of a popular overthrow of their as
tendency, as denying the vital principles
OF free government, and as an avowal oi
contemplated treason, which is the imper
ative duty of an indignant people sternly
to rebuke and forever to silence.
4, That the maintenance inviolate of tn,
of the rights of the States, and especially
the right Of each State to order and contro
its own domestic institutions according t,
its own judgement exclusively, is essentia
to that balance of power on which the per
fection and endurance of our political fab
ric depend; and we denounce the lawles,
invasion by armed force of any State ol
Territory. no matter under what pretext
as among the gravest Of crimes.
5. That the present Democratic admin
istration has far exceeded our worst appre
tensions in its measureless subserviency t,
the exactions of a sectional interest, as es
pecially evinccd in its desperate exertion,
to force the infamous LecOmpton constitu
ton upon the protesting people of Kansas
in constituting the personal relation betweeI
master and servant to involve an unquali
fed property in persons; in It's attempted
enforcement everywhere. on land and sea
through the Intervention Of Congress and o
4 the federal courts, of the extreme preten
siOns of a purely local interest, and in it
general and unvarying abuse of the pOwel
entrusted to it by a cOnfding people.
6. That the people justly view with a
larm the reckless extravaganza which per
vades every department of the federal gov
ernment, that return to rigid eccnom,
and accountability is indispensable to ar
rest the systematic plundcr of the publi
treasury by favored partisans, while the re