Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1860-05-25

% Republican National Plaefern
ADOPTED AT CHICAGO, NAT 17ra, 1860.
2 Resolued, That we, the delegated represen
J atives Of the Republican electors of the Unite
States, in Convention assembled, in the di
charge Of the duty we owe 70 our constituent
and our country, unite in the followin
declarations: . -.
Il /. That the history of the nation, durin
!. the last four years, fully establishes the pr
priety and necessitysof the organization an
perpetuation Of the Republican party; an,
that the causes which called il into existenc
are permanent in their nature, and now, NOR
than ever before, demand its peaceful An,
constitutional triumph. -
2. That the maintenance Of the principles
promulgated in the declaration Of Independ
ence, and embodied in the Federal Constitu
tion--that all men are created equal; tha
] they are endowed by THAR Creator viii
certain inali.nabls rights; that among thsss
are life, 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-is
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.
8. That to the Union Of the States this
nation owes its unprecedented increase in
population, its surprising development oi
material resources, its rapid augmentation Of
wealth, its happiness at home and its honor
abroad; and we hold in adherence all
schemes for Disunion, come from whatever
source they may; and we congratulate the
country that no Republican member of
Congress has uttered or countenanced the
threats Of Disunion so often made by Demo-
cratic members, without rebuke and with
applause from their political associates and
we denounce those threats of Disunion, in
case Of popular overthrow of their ascend
aRcy, as denying the vital principles of free
government, and as an avowal of contemplated
treason, which it is the imperative duty of an
indignant people sternly to rebuke and forever
silence. |
4. That the 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 perfection
and endurance of our political fabric depends;
and We deneunce the lawlesS invasion by
armed force Of the soil of any State or Terri
tory, no matter under what pretext, as among
the gravest Of crimes.
8. That the present Democratic Admins
tration has far exceeded our worst apprehen-
sions, in its measureless subserviency to the
exactions of sectional interest, as especially
evinced in its desperate exertions to force the
infamous LecOmpton Constitution upon the
protesting people Of Kansas; in constituting
the personal relation between master and
servant to involve an unqualified property in
persons; in its attempted enforcement
everywhere, on land and sea, through the
Intervention of Congress and Of the Federal
Courts, Of the extreme pretensions of = purely
local interest; and in its general and unvary.
ing abuse of the power intrusted to it by q
confding people.
6. That the People justly view with alarm
the reckless extravaganza which pervades
every department Of the Federal Government;
that q return to rigid economy and accounts
bility is indispensable to arrest the systematic
plunder of the public treasury by favored
partisans; while the recent startling develop
ments of frauds and corruptions at the Federal
Metropolis show that an entire change OF
administration is imperatiyely demanded.
Z. That the new dogma that the Constitution,
Of its own force, carries Slavery into any or
all of the Territories of the United States, is
dangerous political heresy, at variance with
the explicit provisions of that instrument
itself, with contemporaneous exposition, and
with legislative and judicial precedent; is
revolutionary in it's tendency, and subversive
of the peace and harmony Of the country.
8. That the normal condition Of al the
territory of the United States is that Of free
they had abolished slavery in all our national
territory, ordained that mo person should be
deprived Of life, liberty, or property, without
due process Of law" it becomes our duty, by
legislation, whenever such legislation is
necessary, to maintain this provision Of the
Constitution against all attempts to violate it
and we deny the authority of Congress, Of
territorial legislatures, or of any individuals,
to give legal existence to Slavery in any
Territory of the United States.
9. That we brand the recent re-opening of
the African Slave Trade, under the cover of
our National Flag, aided by perversions of
judicial power, as crime against Humanity,
and burning shame to our country and Age;
and We call upon Congress to take prompt
and efficient measures for the total and final
suppression of that execrable traffic.
10. That in the recent vetoes, by their
Federal Governors, Of the acts of the Legis-
latures of Kansas and Nebraska, prohibiting
Slavery in those Territories, we find a
practical illustration Of the boasted Democratic
principles of Non-Intervention and Popular