Nebraska advertiser., 1860-05-24
TIe Chfrag0 C0nYentI0n.


The Black Republican Convention nom
ina ted Abe LascoN, of Illinois for Pres
ident, and Er-GOv. HAMLIN, Of Maine,
for Vice President. Lincoln is the man
who was beaten by Douglas, two years
ago, in a contest for the Senate.
The following, as we learn from tel
egraphic dispatches, is the Platform, they
adopted at Chicago:
Judge Jessup, of Pennsylvania, from
the COMMITTEES on Resolutions, reported
that the history of the nation during the
last four years has fully established the
propriety and necessity Of the perpetua-
ton of the Republican party, and that
the causes which called it into existence
are permanent in their nature, and now,
more than ever, demand its peaceful and
constitutional triumph.
That the maintainance of the princi-
pies promulgated in the Declaration of
independence and embodied in the Fed
eral Constitution, is essential to the pres
erVation 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.
That to the Union of the States this
nation owes its Unprecedented increase
in population, its rapid augmentation of
wealth, its prosperity at home, and its
honor abroad, and we held in abhor-
renee all schemes for disunion, come from
whatever source they may.
That the maintenance inviolate of the
rights of the States, and especially of
each State to order and control its own
domestic institutions, according to its own
Judgment, is essential to that balance of
power, upon which the perfection and en-
durance of our political fabric depends,
and we denounce the lawless invasion by
armed force, of the soil of any State or
Territory, nomatter under what pretext,
as one Of the graVest crimes.
That the present Administrator has
far exceeded our worst apprehensions in
It's subserviency to the exactIons of a Sec
tional interest, as evinced in its desper-
ate exertion to force the infamous Le-
compton Constitution upon the protesting
people of Kansas, and in its abuse of a
power entrusted to it by a ~confding peo-
pie.
That the people view with alarm the
reckless, e-xtravagance which peFvades
in every Department of the Federal Gov
eminent, and that a return to rigid econ
omy and accountability is indispensable.
That the new dogma that the Consti-
ton of its own force, carrys slavery into
any or all the Territories is a dangerous
political heresy, at variance with the ex-
plicit provisions of that instrument, is
revolutionary in its tendency, and sub
v%ersive of the peace and harmony of the
country.
That the normal condition Of all the
Territories is that of freedom.
That as our republican fathers, when
they had abolished slavery in all our ma
tional territory, ordained that no person
should be deprived of life, liberty or prop
erty, without due process of law, it be-
comes our duty by Legislation, to main
tain this provision of the Constitution
against Gil dttCAIPtS " FlOldtG IL
That Kansas should be admitted under
the CONSTITUTION recently Trained and
adopted by her people. and accepted by
the House Of Representatives.
That we demand the passage by Con-
gress of the Homestead measure which
has already passed the House.
That the Republican party is opposed
to any chang. in the naturalization laws,
and is in favor of giving full protection
to the rights of all classes of citizens.
A Pacific Railroad is imperatively de-
manded by the interests of the whole
country, AMI that the Federal Govern
ment ought to render sufficient aid in its
construction and that as preliminary Their
to, a daily o. srland mail should be prompt
ly established.
The resolutions wind up with an invi-
tation for the cooperation of all citizens,
however differing or other questions, to
agree with US in their afirmance and
support.