St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1860-07-19
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REPUBLICAN PLATFORM.

Below is the Platform adopted al
the National Convention, recently hol
den at Chicago:
Resolred, That we, the delegated
representatives of the Republican
electors of the United States, in Con
vcntion assembled, in discharge of the
duty we owe to our constituents, and
our country, unite in the following
declaration
|. That the history of the nation
during the last four years, has fully
established the propriety and neccssi.
ty of this organization and that the
causes which called it into existence
are permanent in their nature, and
now, more than ever before, demand
its peaceful and constitutional tri
umph.
,. That the maintenance Of the
principles promulgated in the Declar.
alton of Independence and embodied
in the Federal Constitution, that all
men are created equal that they are
endowed by their Creator with certain
inailiable rights ; that among these
are life, liberty, and the pursuit oI
happiness that to secure these rights
governments are instituted among
men, deriving their just powers from
the consent of the govcrned-is cs
scntial to the preservation of our Re
publican institutions and that tho
Federal Constitution, the Rights of tho
States, and the Union of the States
must and shall be preserved.
3. That to the Union Of the States
this nation owes its unprecedented in
crease in population, its surprising
development of material resources, its
rapid augmentation of wealth, it's hap
piness at home and it's honor abroad
and we hold in adherence all schemes
for Disunion, come from whatevc
source they may. We congratulate,
the country that no Republican mem
ber of Congress has uttered or coun
tenanccd the threats of Disunion S,
often made by Democratic members
without rcbukc and with applaus
from their political associates ; an,
we denounce those threats Of dis
union, in case Of a popular overthrow
of their ascendency, as denying tn,
vital principles of a free government
and as an avowal of contemplate
treason, which it is the imperative du
ty of an indignant people sternly t,
rcbuke and forever silence.
4. That the maintenance inviolat,
of the rights of the States, and especi
ally the right Of each State to orde
and control it's own domestic institu
tions according to its own judgmen
exclusively, is essential to that bal
ance of powers on which the perfeC
ton and endurance of our politica
fabric depends and we denounce tn
lawless invasion by armed force of tn
soil of any State or Territory, no mat
ter under what preteXt, as among tn
gravcst Of crimes.
5. That the present Democratic Al
ministration has far exceeded ou
worst apprehensions, in it's measure
less subscrviency to the actions {
a sectional interest, as especial
evinced in its desperate exertions t
force the infamous Lecompton Const
tuition upon the protesting people {
Kansas in construing the person;
relation between master and scrvaI
to involve an unqualified property i
persons in its attempted enforce
ment, everywhere, on land and Sc;
through the intervention of Congress
E and of the Federal Courts of the e,
treme pretensions Of a purely local il
terest and in its general and UNIV;
rying abuse of the power entrusted
it by contiding people.
| &. That the people justly view wit