The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1860-09-27
National Republican Platform.
las AMENDED AND ADOPIED.l

resentatives Of the Republican electors OF
the United States, i'll Convention assem-
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 propriety and necessity of the organl-
cation and perpetuation of the Republican
party, and that the causes which called ii
into existence are permanent in their ma
lure, and now, more than ever before, de-
mand its peaceful and constitutional tri-
umph.
q. 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 inalienable rights
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 goyerncd'-is 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
8. 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 home and It's
honor abroad and We hold in adherence
all SAbn F.r Ibtesat4EAr 4wrr, hat
ever source they may; And we congratu
late the country that no Republican mem
ber 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 drsunon, in case of popular overthrow
of their ascendancy, as denying the vital
principles of free government, and as an
avowal of contemplated treason, which it
is the imperative duty Of an indignant Peo-
pie sterniy to rebuke and forever silence.
a.. That the III maintenance inviolate Of the
rights OF the States, and especially the
right of each State to order and control its
own domestic institutions according to its
own judgment exclusively, is essential TO
| that balance OF powers on which the per-
fection and endurance OF our political tab
ric depends and we denounce the law
less invasion by armed force of the soil OF
any State or Territory, no matter under
what pretext, as among the gravest OF
crimes.
8. That the present Democratic Admin
| lstration has far exceeded our worst ap-
| prehensions, in its measureless subseryl-
ency TO the exactions of sectional inter-
est, as especially evinced in its desperate
exertions TO force the infamous Lecompton
Constitution upon the protesting people OF
Kansas In constituting the personal rela-
| ton between master and servant TO in
volye ala unqualified property in persons
in its attempted enforcement, everywhere,
on land and sea, through the Intervention
| of Congress and of the Federal Courts, oil
the extreme pretenslons of purely local
interest; and in its general and unyaryIng
abuse OF the power entrusted TO il by CON
fiding people.
6. That the people Justly view with
alarm the reckless extravaganza which
Ipervades every department OF the Fedora
Government that a return 10 rigid econ
omy and accountability is Indispensable Il
arrest the systematic plunder OF the pub
lie treasury by favored partisans Will,
the recent startling Developments offraud
and corrupuons al the Federal metropolis
show that an entire change of adminislra
ton is imperatively demanded.
| 7. That the new dogma that the Con
stitution, of its own force, carries SLAYER,
into any or all of the Territories Of tn
United States, is dangerous political her
esy, al variance with the explicit provi
sions of that instrument itself, with CO
temporaneous exposition, and with legis
Iallve and judicial precedent is srevolu
tionary in its tendency, and subversive Q
the peace and harmony Of the country.
8. That the normal condition OF all tn
territory of the United States, is that c
freedom That as our Republican fathers
when they had abolished slavery in all on
national territory, ordained that "no per
son should be deprived of life, liberty, Q
property, without due process Of law"
becomes our duty, by Legislation, wheney
er such Legislation is necessary. to main
tain this provision cf tie Constitute
against all attempts to violate it; and W
deny the authority of Congress, of TEL
ritoral Legislature, or OF any individuals
to give legal existence to slavery in an
Territory of the United States.
8. That we brand the recent re-openin
of the African slave trade, under the CO,
er Of our national flag, aided by perve
sions Of judicial power, as crime again
humanity and q burning shame TO 0,
country and age and we call upon Coz
gress to take prompt and efficient mea
ures for the total and final suppression
that execrable traffic
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