The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1860-10-27
National Republican Platform.
las AMENDED AND ADOPTED

the mteQ states, In Convention assem-
bled, in discharge OF the duty we owe to
our constituents and our country, unite in
the following declarations
!. That the history of the nation during
the last four years, has fully established
the propfiety and necessity of the organi-
zation and perpetuation of the Republican /
party, and that the causes which called it |
into existence are permanent in their ma
iure. and now, more than ever before, de- |
mand its 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 inalienable rights |
that among these are lite, liberty and the
pursuit OF happiness that to secure these
rights, governments are instituted among
men. deriving their just powers from the
consent of the governed"-is essential TO
the preservation of our Republican inssitu-
tons: and that the Federal Constitution.
the Rights OF the States, and the Union Of
the States must and shall be preserved.
I 3. That to the union of the States this
nation owes It's unprecedented increase in
population, its surprising development of
material resources, its rapid augmentation
of wealth, its happiness at home and It's
honor abroad and we hold 10 abhorence
all schemes for Disunion, come from what
ever source they may: And we congrata
late the country that no Republican mem
Der of Congress has uttered or counte-
nanced the threats of Disunion SO often
made by Democratic members, without re-
! buke and with applause from their political
associates and We denounce those threats
of disunion. in case of popular overthrow
of their aseendsncy, as denying The vital
principles of free government, and as an
avowal of contemplated treason, which it
: is the imperative duty of an indignant Peo-
pie sternly TO rebuke and forever silence
4. That the maintenance lnyiolate OF the
rights OF The States, and especially the
! right Of each State TO order and control its
own domestic institutions according to lis
own Judgment exclusively. is essential to
that balance of powers on which the per
. fection and endurance of our political tab
, ric depends; and We denounce the law
less invasion by armed force of the soil oi
any State or Territory, no matter under
what pretext, as among the grsyest oi
crimes.
5. That the present Democratic Admin
Istration has far exceeded our worst ap-
prehensions, In its measureless subseryl-
ency 10 The exactions of sectional inter
est, as especially eyinced in its desperate
, exertions TO force the infamous Lecompton
Constitution upon the protesting people oi
Kansas In construlng the personal tela-
tion between master and servant to in
volve an unqualified property in persons
IN lis attempted enforcement, eyeryw here,
on land and sea, through the Intervention
j OF Congress and of the Federal Courts, OF
the extreme pretensions OF a purely local
interest; and IN its general and unvarying
abuse OF the power entrusted TO it by con-
fiding people.
6. Thai the people justly view with
alarm the reckless extravaganza which
. pervades every department of the Federal
: Government that return TO rigid econ
omy and accountability is Indispensable tc
: arrest the systematic plunder of the pub
lie treasury by favored partisans while
the recent startling developments offraud.
and corruptlons at the Federal metropolis
show that an entire change OF adminlstra
ton is imperatively demanded.
2. That the new dogma that the Con
. stitution, of its own force, carries Slavery
into any or all of the Territories of tn,
United States, is dangerous political her
esy, at variance with the explicit provi
sons of that instrument itself, with co
temporaneous exposition. and with legis
laiiye and judicial precedent is revolu
tionary in its tendency, and subversive O
the peace and harmony OF the country.
8. That the normal condition OF all tn
territory of the United States, is that @
, freedom That as our Republican fathers
when they had abolished slavery in all ou
national territory, ordained that 'no per
y son should be deprived of life, liberty, o
property, without due process of law. J"
becomes our duty, by Legislation, whenev
er such Legislation is necessary. to main
tain this provision of the Constitute
. against all attempts to violate it; and W
deny tie authority Ct Congress. os 81
ritorial legislature, or of any individual
to give legal existence 10 slavery in an
Territory of the United States.
4 8. That we brand the recent re- -openin
of the African slave trade, under the CO,
er of our national flag, aided by perve
sions Of judicial power, as crime again
humanity and burning shame 10 o.
country and age and we call upon Coz
gress to take prompt and efficient mea
!, ures for the total and final suppression
that execrable traffic.
10. That in the recent vetoes, by the
Federal Governors, of the acts of the Lee