The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1860-09-08
National Republican Platform.
las AMENDED AND ADOPTED

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the United States, in Convention assem-
bled, in discharge Of the duty we owe TO
cur constituents and our country, unite in
the following declarations
l. That the history of the nation during
the last four years, has fully established
the propriety and necessity of the organi-
zatIon and perpetuation of the Republican
party, and that the causes which called ii
into existence are permanent in their ma
ture, and now, more than ever before, de-
mand Its peaceful and constitutional tri-
umph.
e. 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
Creator with certain inalienablc nights
that among these are lite, 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 governed lis essential TO
The preservation of our Republican institu-
| tions and that the Federal Constitution,
/ the Rights Of the States, and the Union of
the STATES must and shall be preserved
5. That to the union of the States this
nation owes its unprecedented increase in
population, its surprising development of
material resources, It's rapid augmentation
Of wealth, its happiness at home and its
honor abroad and we hold in adherence
all schemes for Disuniou. come from " hat
ever source they may: And We cgngratu-
late the country that no Republican mem
Der of Congress has uttered or counte-
nanced the threats Of Disunion SO often
made by Democratic members, without re-
buke and with applause from their political
associates and we denounce those threats
Of disunlon, in case Of popular overthrow
OF their ascendancy, As denying The vital
principles of free government. and as an
ayowai of contemplated treason, which it
is. thelmperatiye duty of an indignant peo-
pie sternly 10 rebuke and forever silence
/ q. That the maintenance inyiolate of the
rights OF the States, and especially the
night Of each State 10 order and control its
own domestic institutions according To It's
own Judgment exclusively, is essential to
| that balance Of powers on which the per
feeuon and endurance Of our political fab
rle depends and we denounce the law
less invasion by armed force of the soil of
any Safe or Territory, no matter under
what preiext, as among the grayest Of
/ crimes
| b. That the present Democratic Admin
istration has FAR exceeded our worst ap-
prehensIons, In It's measureless subseryi-
ency 10 the exaciions of sectional inter-
est, as especially eyinced in It's desperate
exertlons 10 force the infamous Lecompton
Constitution upon the protesting people of
Kansas; IN constituting the personal rela-
ton between master and servant to in
volve an unqualified property in persons !;
IN It's attempted enforcement, e,erywh here,
on land and SEA, through the Intervention
of Congress and Of the Federal Courts, of
the extreme pretensions of a purely local
interest; and IN It's general and unyarying
abuse oil the power entrusted To it by a con-
hding people.
8. That the people justly view with
alarm the reckless extravaganza which
pervades every department OF the Federal
| Government that return 10 rigid econ
omy and accountability is indispensable 10
arrest the systematic plunder OF the pub
lie treasury by favored partisans while
the recent startling developments offrauds
and eorruptions al The Federal metropolis,
show that an entire change of administra-
tion is imperatiyely demanded.
Z. That the new dogma that the Con-
stitution, of It's own force, carries Slavery
into any or all OF the Territories Of the
United States, is dangerous political her
esy, at variance with the explicit proyi-
slons OF that instrument itself, with CO.
tempoianeous exposition, and with legis-
latiye and judicial precedent is reyolu.
tlonary IN its tendency, and subversiye 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 mo per
son should be deprived of life, liberty, on
property, without due process of law,o il
becomes our duty, by legislation, whenev,
er such legislation IS necessary. to main
tam this provision os the Constitution
against all attempts to violate 1t, and we
/ deny the authority of Congress, of ter
ritorial legislature, or of any individuals
to give legal existence 10 slavery in any
Territory Of the United States.
8. That we brand the recent re opening
OF the African slave trade, under the COY.
er of our national flag, aided by perver
sions Of Judicial power, as a crime against
humanity and burning shame to oul
country and age and we call upon Con
gress TO take prompt and efficient meas
ures for the total and final suppression o
that execrable traffic.
10. That in the recent yetoes. by Their