The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1860-08-15
TIE REPUBLICAN, rLlIE0AM.

unite III the following deci&fationS:
First: That the history Of the ration
during the last four years has fully estab-
lished the propriety and necessity Of the
organization and perpetuation OF the Re-
publican party, and that the causes which
called it into existence are permanent in
| their nature and now more than ever be-
fore demand its peaceful and constitution
al triumph.
Second: That the maintenance of the
principles promulgated in the Declaration
of Independence. an. embodied in the
Federal Constitution, is essential to the
preservation ofour republican institutions,
and that the Federal Constitution, she
rights of the States and the Union of
the States, must and shall be preserved.
Third. That to the Union Of the States
this nation owes its unprecedented in
erase in population its surprising devel-
| opment of material resources; its rapid
augmentation of wealth; its happiness at
home and its honor abroad; and We hold
in abhorance all schemes for disunion,
come from whatever source they may !;
aud we congratulate the country that no
| Republican member OF Congress has ut
tered or counteRanced a threat of disun-
ion, SO often made by Democratic mem
bers of Congress without rebuke, and
with applause from their political associ-
ates; and we deuounce those threats of
disunion, in case Of a popular overthrow
of their ascendency, as denying the vital
principles of free Government, and as
ala avowal ofcontemplated treason, which
| it is tho i,nnnrotirn dutp of Indignant
people strongly to rebuke and forever
| silence. s.a
| Fourth; That the maintenance invio-
late of the right of the States, and espec-
iaIy the right of each State to order and
control its own domestic institutions &C
cording to its own judgement exclusively,
is essential to that balance of power on
which the perfection and endurance of
our political faith depends, and we de-
nounce the lawless invasion by armed
forces of any State or Territory, no mat
ter under what pretext, as among the
grayest of crimes.
FsAh!: That the present Democratic
| Administration has lar exceeded our
worst apprehensions in its measureless
5ubseryiency to the exactions of section
al interest, as is especially evident in its
| desperate exertions to force the Infamous
Lecompten Constitution upon the pro-
testing people of Kansas-in constituting
The personal relation between master and
servant to involve an unqualified property
in persons--in It's attempted enforcement
everywhere, on land and sea, through
the Intervention of Congress and the Fed
eral Courts Of the extreme pretensions of
purely local interest, and in its general
and unvarying abuse of the power in
trusted to it by confding people. &
Si1th: That the people justly view
with alarm the reckless extravsgance
which pervades every department OF the
Federal Government; that return to
rigid economy andaccountability is indis-
pensable to arrest the .systen, of plumber
of the public treasury by favored parti-
sans; while the recent startling develop
! ments OF fraud anu corruption a. : &c
Federal metropolis, shows that an entire
change of administration in imperatiyely
! demanded.
Seventh: That the new dogma that
/! Constitution of its own force carries Sa-
very into any or all the Territories of the
United States, is dangerous political
heresy, at variance with the explicit pro
visions of that instrument itself, with con
temporaneous exposition. and with Iegis-
lative and judicial precedent, is revolu-
tionary in its tendency and subversiye of
the peace and harmony Of the country.
Eggtth: That the normal condition OF
the territories Of the United States is that
of Freedom; that as our republican faith
ers, when they had abolished Slavery IN
all our national territory, ordained that
no person should be deprived Of life, lib-
erty, or property, without the process of
law, it. becomes our duty, by legislation,
| whenever such legislation is necessary, to
| maintain this provision Of the Constitu-
ton against all attempt: to violate it; and
we deny the authority of Congress, o. q
Territorial Legislature, or of any indlyid-
uaIs, to give legal existence to Slavery in
any Territory of the United States. 81
Ninth: That we brsnd the recent re-
opening of the African slave-trade, under
the cover of ovr national flag, aided by
perversions of judicial P00;%s"r. as crime
against humanity, burning shame to
our country and age, and we call upon
Congress to take prompt and efficient
measures for the total and final suppress
| ion of that execrable traffic. ~
Tenth: That in the recent vetoes by
their Federal Governors of the acts of the
Legislatures of Kansas and Nebraska
prohibiting Slavery in those Territories,
we find a practical illustration of the
boasted Democratic principle of non-in-
tervention and Popular Sovereignty, en-
bodied in the Kansas and Nebraska bill,
and denunciation of the deception and
fraud involved therein.
Eleventh.: That Kansas should of
right be Immediately admitted as a State
| under the Constitution recently formed
and adopted by her.peop!c, and accepted
by the House OF. Representatives. 80
Zgeeltih. That while providing reve-
nue. for the support of the General Gov