Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1860-08-29

Resolved, That we the delegated representa-
tives 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
1st-That the history of the nation during the
last four years has established the propriety and
necessity of the organization and perpetuity the
Republican party, and that the causes which called
it into existence are permanent IN their nature,
and now more than ever before, demand Its peace
full and constitutional triumph.
2d-That the maintainance of the Federal Con-
stitution is essential to the preservation of our
republican institutions, and shall be preserved.
3d-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 its honor abroad and we hold in abhor-
renee all schemes for disuniOn. come from what
ever source they may And we congratulate the
country that no Republican member of Congress
has uttered or countenanced threat OF dlsunIon
so often made by Democratic members of Congress
without rebuke and with applause from their po-
litical associates And we denounce those threats
of dsunion in case of popular overthrow ftheir
ascendancy, as denying the vital principles OF
free government, and as an avOwai OF cOntempla-
ted treason, which 1t is the imperative duty of an
indignant people strongly to rebuFe and forever
silence.
4th-That the maintainance inviolate of the
rights of the States, and especially the rights of
each State to order and control its own domestic
institutions according to its own judgment exclu-
sively, is essential to that balance of power on
which the perfection and endurance of her pOliti-
cal faith depends. And we denounce the lawless
invasion by an armed force, of any State Terri
tory matter under what pretext, as among the
gravest of crimes.
5th-That the present Democratic Adminstra-
tion has far exceeded our worst apprehe tensions
in its measureles subserviency to the exactons of
sectional interest, is especially evident in its
desperate exertions to force the infamous Lecomp
ton constitution upon the protesting people of
kansas-in constituting the personal relation be-
tween master and servant to involve an unquali-
fed property in persons-in its attempts at the en-
forcement, everywhere on land and sea, through
the Intervention of Congress and the Federal
Courts of the extreme pretensons of purely local
interest, and its general and unvarying abuse of
the power entrusted to it by confding people.
6th-That the people justly view with alarm the
reckless extravaganza which prevades every de-
partment of the federal. government. That re-
turn to rigid economy and accountability is inds-
pensable to arrest the system of plunder of the
public treasury by favored partizans; while the
ruption at the Federal metropolis show that an
entire change of administration is imperatively
demanded
7th-Tbat the new dogma that the Constitution,
of its own force carries slavery into any all of
the territories of the United States. is dangerous
political heresy at variance with the explicit pro-
raneous exposition, and with legislative and ju-
dcial precedent is revolutionary in its tendencies
and subversive of the peace and harmony OF the
country
Sth-That the normal condition of all the terri