The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1860-09-14

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tuC 1uitCO olaLcSy Ill IOINtnUDH 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 propriety and necessity of the organl.
zation and perpetuation uf the Republican
party, and that the causes which called ID
INTO existence are permanent in their na-
ure. and now, more than ever before, de-
mand It's peaceful and constitutional tri-
umph
Z. That the maintenance of the priuci-
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
Jreator with certain inaienable rights !;
that among these are lite, liberty and the
pursuit OF happiness /; that to securr these
rights, governments are instituted among
men. deriving their just powers from the
consent of the governed lis essential TO
The preservation Of our Republican insti,u-
tons; and that the Federal Constitution,
the Rights Of the States, and the Union of
the States must and shall be preserved
3. hat TO the union Of the States this
ration owes It's unprecedented increase in
population, It's surprising development Of
material resources, it's rapid augmentation
OF wealth, its happiness at home and it's
honor abroad and we bold in adherence
all sche mes for Disunion. come from what
ever source they may Aud WE cungratu
late The country that no Republican mem
Der OF Congress has uttered or counte-
nanoed 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 dlsunlon, In case OF popular overthrow
OF their ascendancy, AS denying the vital
principles OF free government, and Az an
avowai OF contemplated treason, which it
is the eimperatiye duty Of an indignant Peo-
pie sterniy TO rebuke and forever silence
4. That the maintenance nviolate of the
rights OF the States, and especially tie
ngAt 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-
tectlon and endurance Of our political tab
ric uepends and We den unce the law
less invasion by armed force OF the soil Of
any State or Territory, no matter under
what prete&t, as among The gravest Of
crimes
3. That the present Democratic Admin
istratlon has far exceeded our worst ap-
prehenslons, in its measureless subseryi-
ency 10 the exactIons Of sectional inter
est, a. especially evinced in It's desperate
exertlons 10 force the infamous Lecomptun
Constitution upon the protesting people OF
Kansas IN cOnstrulng the personal rela
tlon between master and servant 10 in
voive ali 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 prete nsions of purely local
and in It's general and unvarying
abuse o, the power entrusted to ii by a con
filing people.
&. ! hal the people justly view with
alarm the reckless extravaganza which
peryddes every department Of tie Federal
Government, that re urn 10 rigid econ
omy and accountability is indispensable to
arrest he Systematic plumber ol the pub
lie treasury by favored partisans; while
the recent startling Developments oflrauds
and corrupilons al The Federal metropolis,
show that an entire charge of adminisIra-
ton is imperatively demanded.
Z. That the new dogma that the Con-
sttu,lon, OF its own force, carries Slavery
into any or all oi The Territories of the
Unit States, is a dangerous political her
esy, at variance with the explicit provi.
sions OF that instrument itself, with CO.
temporaneous exposition. and with legis-
atiye and judicial precedent: is revoIu
tlonary in its tendency, and subversive Of
the peace and harmony OF the country.
8. That the normal condition ol all tie
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 ono per-
son should be deprived of life, liberty, or
property, without due process OF law, /" il
becomes our du'y, by Legislation, whenev-
er such Legislation rs necessary. to main
tain this provision OF the Constitution
against all attempts to violate it and we
deny the authority of Congress, of ter
rltoral Legislature, or OF any individuals,
to give legal existence 10 slavery in any
Territory OF the United States.
8. That We brand the recent re-opening
of the African slave trade, under the COW
er Of our national flag, aided by perver-
slons OF judicial power, as crime against
humanity and a 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 yetoes, by their
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