Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1860-11-01
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THE rLATToRm.
Resolved, That we. the delegated repre-
fcntaiives Of the Republican electors oftbe
Unitsd States, in onvcntion assembled. In
ths dst barge OF the duty we owe TO our
sonsti tituents aud our country, unto in the
following declarations. fA,ts
D. That the history Of our nation during
tie last four years, has fully established the
propriety and necessity of the organizat ion
and perpetuation Of the Republican party;
aud that the causes which called it into ex
islence are permanent in their nature, and
now. more than ever before, demand its
peaceful and constitutional triumph.
,. That the maintenance Of the princi- |
Piles promulgated in the Declaration OF In |
dependence aud embodied In the federal
consttuiion--"that all men are created
equal; that they are endowed by their Crea.
tor with certain inalienable rights; that
smong these are life, liberty and the pur.
suit ofhsppiness; that to secure these rights
governments are instituted among men,
deriving their just powers from the consent
Of the gsverned"-are 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.
Q. That to the Union of the States this
nation owes its unprecedented increase in
population, its surprising development of
material resources, it's rapid augme tation
oi wealth, its happiness at home and Its
honor abroad, and we hold in adherence all
schemes for disunion, come ION whatever
source they may; and we congratulate the
country that no Republican member OF Con.
gress has uttered or countenanced the
. threats of disunion so often made by Demo.
cratic members, without rebube and with
applause from their political associates; and
I'VE denounce those threats Of disunon, in
ease Of 4 popular overthrow of their ascen-
dency, as denying the vital principles Of o
free government, and as an avowal of con.
templated treason, which it is the impera.
tie duty Of an indignant people sternly to
rebuke and forever silence.
4. The 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 it,
own judgment exclusively, is essential to
that balance o: power on which the perfec-
tion snd endurance of our political fabric
depend, and we denounce the lawless inva-
sion by armed force Of the soil OF any State
or Territory, no matter under what pretcxt,
az among the gravest Of crimes.
3. That the present Democratic admiuis-
tration has far exceeded our worst appre.
tensions in its measureless suoserviency to
the exactions Of a sectional interest, as es-
Pecia lily evinced in it's desperate exertions
to force the infamous Lecompton Constitu-
tion 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 en-
forcement everywhere, land and son
through the Intervention of Congress and Of
the federal courts, of the extreme preten-
sions Of purely loca! interest, and in its
general and unvarying abuse OF the power
entrusted to it by confiding people
.. That the people justly view with
alarm the reckless extravag,nce which
pervudes every department Of the federal
government, that a return to rigid economy
and accountability is indispensable to arrest
thsssystematic plunder Of the public trea.
sury by favored part isans, while the recent
startling developments of frauds and cor
ruptions at the federal metropolis show that
an entire change OF administration is i'm.
psrstively demanded.
z. That the new dogma that the Consti-
tution,. of it's own force, carries slavery into
any or all of the Territories of the United
States, ia q dangerous political he resy, al
variance with the explicit provisions OF
that instrument itself, with contemporary
sous exposition, and with legislative and
judicial precedent; is revolutionary in its
tendency, and subversive Of the peace and
harmony, Of the country.
: g., That the normal condition o! all the
territory Of the United States is that oI
freedom; that as our republican fathers
when they y-hsa- -abelish .alaxery in all our
national territory, ordained that .'Bo. person
should be deprived Of life, liberty or prop.
srty without due proeess of lows" i,
becomes our duty by Legislation, whenever
such legislation 10 necessary, to maintain
this provision of thu Constitution agains'
all attemps to violate it; and we deny the
authority Of Congress, of Territorial Leg.
islsture, or Of any individuals, to give legal
existence to slavery in any Territory Of the
United States.
Q. Thst we brand the recent re.opening
Of the African Save trade, under the covei
of esr national flag, aided BY perversions
~ Judicial power, as crime against human.
ity and q burning shame to our country and
! age; and we call upon Congress to take
prompt and efficient measures for the total
and hnsl suppression Of that execrable
traffic.
10. That in the recent vetoes,. BY their
federal Governors, Of the ac,s of the Legis.
2 latures of Kansas and Nebraska, prohibiting
slayery in those Territories, we find prsc.
gtical iliustration Of the boasted. Democratic
principle of non.intervention and popular
sovereignty, embodied in the Kansss.Ne.
brsska bill, and q demonstration of the
deception and fraud involved therein. =
IL. That Kansas should, OF right. be i'm
-..J;.taly adsnittod State npdarr ha