The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1860-06-11
National Republican Platform.
LAS AMENDED AND ADoP1Ep-l


the United States, la 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 proprfety and necessity of the urgani-
cation and perpetuation Of the Republican
party, and That the causes which called it
INTO existence are permanent in their ma
ture, and now, more than ever before, de-
mand its peaceful and constitutional sri.
umph.
e. That the maintenance OF the princi-
Piles promulgated in the 1Declaration of In
dependence and embodied in The Federal
Constitution, THAT all men are created
equal that they are endowed by their
Creator with certain ipalienable rights
that among fhese are lite, liberty and the
pursuit OF happiness that TO secure these
rights, governments are Instituted among
men. deriving taear just powers from the
consent of the governed lis essential TO
the preservation of our Republican institu-
lions; and that the Federal Constitution,
the Rights OF the States, and the Union of
the States must and shall be preserved.
3. That To the union Of the States This
ration owes its unprecedented increase in
population, its surprising development of
material resources, It's rapid augmentation
OF wealth, its hsppiness AT home and its
honor abroad: and we hold in abhorrence
all schemes for Dlsunion. come from what
ever source they nay And we cungraiu-
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 aud with applause from their political
associates and We denounce those threats
Of disunion. IN case of popular overthrow
OF their ascendancy. As denying The vital
principles OF free government, and as an
avowal of contemplated treason, which il
is theimperstlse duty of aa indignant Peo-
pie sternly 10 rebuke and forever silence
4. That the maintenance insiolate of the
rights OF the States, and especially the
right of each State to order and control It's
own domestic institutions according To its
own judgment exclusively, is essential to
that balaoce Of powers on which The per
fection and endurance of our political fab
rie depends; and We denDunce the law
tess INV asion by armed force OF the soil Of
anysSiate or Terrlory, no matter under
what pretext, as among the gravest oi
crimes.
5. That the present Democratic Admin
istratIon has far exceeded our worst ap-
prehersions, in its measureless subservi-
ency 10 the exactions OF a sectional inter
est, as especially eyinced in its desperate
exertions to force the infamous Lecompton
Constitution upon the protesting people OF
Kansas IN constituting the personal rela.
tlon between master and servant to in
volse an unqualified property in persons
In its attempted enforcement, G, eryw here
on land and sea, through the Intervention
OF Congress and OF the Federal Courts, o1
the extreme pretensions of purely loca
interest, and IN its general and unyaryinq
abuse OF the power entrusted to IT by con.
tiaing people.
| 8. That the people Justly view with
alarm the reckless extravaganza which
psryades esery department. of The Federal
Government that a return to. rigid econ.
omy and accountability is indispensable tt
arrest The systematic plunder .ol the pub
lie treasury by favored parnsans while
the recent startling developments offraud.
and corruptions AZ the Federal metropolis
show that an entire change Of adminislra
tlon is mperatiyely demanded.
q. That the new dogma that the Con
stilulion, Of Its own force. carries SLAYER,
isto any or all of the Territories Of tn,
United States. is q dangerous political her
esy, at variance with the explicit provi
sions Of that instrument ITSELF with CO
temporaueous exposition, and with legis
latise and judicial precedent is revolu
tionary in its tendency, and subversive o
the peace and harmony OF the country.
/ 8. That the normal condition OF all TIN
territory Of the United States, is that q
freedom: That as our Republican fathers
when they had abolished slavery in all on
national territory. ordained that mo per
SON should be deprived of life, liberty, o
property, without due process OF law"
becomes our duly, by legislation, whenev
er such Legislation Is necessary. to main
tain this provision of the Constitute
against all attempts to violate it and "
deny the authority of Congress, Of q te,
ritor,al legislature, or Of any Individual
70 give legal existence 10 slavery in an
Territory OF the United States.
o. That We brandthe recent re e-openin
of the African slave trade, under the CO,
er Of our national flag, aided by perve
sions Of judicial power, as crime gain
humanity and anburning shame. 10 o,
country and age and We call upon Go,
| gress. 70 take prompt and efficient mea
ures for the total and final suppression
that execrable traffic gTa8
10. That in the recent vetoes, by the
Federal Governors. OF the acts OF the lie,
. islatnres Of Kansas and Nebraska, prohal
iting Slavery in those Territories, we fiji
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