The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1860-09-28
National Republican Platform.
las AMENDED AND ADopTED.1

the United States, IN Convention assem-
bIed, in discharge of the duty we owe to
our constituents and our country, unite i'm
the following declarations
|. That the history of the nation during
the last four years, has fully established
The propriety and necessity of the organi-
eaton and perpetuaton 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 It's peaceful and constitutional tri-
umph.
z. That the maintenance of the princi-
pies promulgated in the Declaration of In
dependence and embodied in the Federal
Constitution, "That all men are created
equal that they are endowed by their
Creator with certain inaIienabIe rights
that among these are lite, liberty and the
pursuit oil happiness that to secure these
rights, governments are instituted among
men, deriving their just powers from the
consent of the governed IFS essential TO
the preservation of our Republican institu-
tons; and that the Federal Constitution,
the Rights OF the States. and the Union of
the States must and shall be preserved
). That 10 the union of the States this
nation owes its unprecedented increase in
population, It's surprising development OF
material resources, It's rapid augmentation
OF wealth, It's happiness at home and its
honor abroad and we hold in adherence
all schemes for Disunion, come from what
ever source they may: And we congratu-
late the country that no Republican mem
Der of Congress has uttered or counte-
nanced the threats of Dlsunion so often
made by Democratic members, without re-
buke and with applause from their political
associates and we debounce those threats
Of dlsunlon, in case Of popular overthrow
OF their ascendancy, AS denying tie vital
principles of free government, and as an
avowai OF contemplated treason, which it
Is the imperative duty Of an indignant Peo-
PIE sternly to febuke and forever silence.
4. That the maintenance lnviolate of the
rights oil the States, and especially tie
right of each State To order and control its
own domestic institutions according to It's
own judgment exclusively, is essential TO
that balance OF powers on which the per
fectlon and endurance of our political tab
rlc cepends; and we denaunce tile law
less invasion by armed force of the soil of
any State or Territory, no matter under
what preiext, AS among the gravest of
crimes
8. That the present Democratic Admin
lsiratlon has far exceeded our worst APP
prehensions, in lis measureless subseryi-
ency 10 the exactions of sectional inter-
est, as especially evinced in its desperate
exertions 10 force the infamous Lecompton
Constitution upon the protesting people of
Kansas, IN construlng the personal reIa.
ton between master and servant TO in
yolve an unqualified property in persons
In It's attempted enforcement, everywhere,
on land and sea, through the Intervention
OF Congress and OF the Federal Courts, OF
the extreme pretenslons of purely local
interest and in its general and unyarying
abuse oi the power entrusted TO it by con
fdipg people.
q. That the people Justly view with
alarm the reckless extravaganza which
pervades every department of the Federal
Government that a return to rigid econ
omy and accountability is indispensable to
arrest the systematic plunder OF the pub
lic treasury by favored partisans while
the recent startling developments offrauds
and corruptions al the Federal metropolis,
show that an entire change of administra-
tion is imperatively demanded.
Z. That the new dogma that the Con-
sttution, of its own force, carries Slavery
into any or all OF the Territories of the
United States, is dangerous political her
esy, at variance with the explicit provi-
sions of that instrument itself, with CO.
temporaneous exposition. and with legis-
lative and judicial precedent is revolu-
tionary in its tendency, and subversiye Of
thepeace and harmony OF the country.
8. That the normal condition OK all the
territory of the United States, is that of
freedom That as our Republican fathers,
when they had abolished slavery in all our
national territory, ordained that "no per-
son should be deprived of life, liberty, or
property, without due process of law. !" it
becomes our duty, by legislation, whenev-
er such Legislation is necessary. to main
tain this provision of the Constitution
against all attempts to violate it and we
deny the authority of Congress, of ter
ritorial legislature, or OF any individuals,
to give legal existence 10 slavery in any
Territory ofthe United States.
8. That we brand the recent re-opening
of the African slave trade, under the Gov
er Of our national flag, aided by perver-
sions OF judicial power, ss crime against
humanity and burning shame 10 our
country and age and we call upon Con-
gress to take prompt and efficient meas
ures for the total and final suppression OF
| that execrable traffic.
| 10. That in the recent vetoes, by their