St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1860-08-02
polititaI.
pFpURLICAN PLATFORM.

Resolraa, That we, the delegated
representatives of the Republican
electors of the United States, in Com
vention assembled, in discharge Of the
duty we owe to our constituents, and
our country, unite in the following
declaration:
|. That the history of the nation
during the last four years, has July
established the propricty and necessi-
tv of this organization and that the
causes which called it into existence
arc permanent in their nature, and
now. more than ever before, demand
its peaceful and constitutional tri-
umph.
2. That the maintenance Of the
principles promulgated III the Deciar-
alton of Independence and embodied
in the Federal Constitution, that all
men are created equal ; that they are
endowed by their Creator with certain
inailiablc rights that among these
arc life, 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 Govcrned--ls es-
scntial to the preservation OF our lie
publican institutions and that the
Federal Constitution, the Rights OF the
States, and the Union Of the States,
must and snail De preserved
8. That to the Union of the states
this nation owes its unprecedented In
crease in population, its surprising
development of material resources It's
rapid augmentation of wealth, its hap
Dincss at home and its honor abroad
and we hold in adherence all schemes
for Disunion, come from whatever
source they may. We congratulate
the country that no Republican mem
Der of Congress has uttered or coun-
tenanced the threats of Disunion so
often made by Democratic members,
without rcbukc and with applause
from their political associates and
we dcnouncc those threats of dis
union, in case of a popular overthrow
of their asccndency, as denying the
vital principles of a free government,
and as an avowal of contemplated
treason, which it is the imperative du-
ty of an indignant people sternly to
rebuke and forever silence.
4. That the maintenance inviolate
of the rights of the States, and especi.
ally the right of each State to order
and control its own domestic institu-
tons according to its own Judgment
exclusively, is essential to that bal
ance of powers on which the pcrfec-
ton and endurance of our political
fabric depends and we denounce the
lawlcss invasion by armed force of the
soil of any State or Territory, no mat
ter under what pretext, as among the
gravcst of crimes.
s.. That the present Democratic Ad-
ministration has far exceeded our
worst apprehcnsions, in its measure.
less subserviency to the actions OF
a sectional interest, as especially
cvinced in its desperate cxertions to
force the infamous Lecompton Constl-
tuition upon the protesting people of
Kansas in constituting the personal
relation between master and servant
to involve an unqualified property in
persons in it's attempted enforce
ment, everywhere, on land and sea,
through the intervention of Congress
and of the Federal Courts of the cX-
trcme pretensions of purely local in
terest; and in its general and unva-
rying abuse of the power entrusted to
it by a confdinS people.
6. That the people justly view with
alarm the reckless extravaganza
which pcrvadcs every department Of
the Federal Government that a re-
turn TO rigid economy and accounta-
biIily is indispensable to arrest the
systematic plumber of the public
treasury by favored partisans while
the recent startling developments of
frauds and corruptions at the Federal
metropolis, show that an entire change
Of administration is impcratively de-
manded.
Z That the new dogma that the
Constitution, of its own force, carries
Slavery into any or all of the Terrific
rics of the United States, is danger
Gus political hcrcsy, at variance with
the explicit provisions of that iEstru-
mcnt itself, with contemporaneons eX-
position, and with legislative and ju-
dicial precedent is revolutionary in
its tendency, and subversivc OF the
peace and harmony OF the country.
s. That the normal condition of all
the territory of the United States is
that of freedom. That as our Repub-
lican fathers, when they had abolish
cd slavery i'll all our national terrific
ry, ordained that "no person should
be deprived Of life, liberty, or proper
ty, without due process OF law" 1t
becomes our duty, by Legislation, when
ever such legislation is necessary, to
maintain this provision of the Consti-
tuition against all attempts to violate
it and we deny the authority OF Con-
gress, of a territorial Legislature, or
of any individuals, to give legal cx-
tension to slavery in any territory of
the United States.
Q. That we brand the recent re-
opening Of the African slave trade,
under the cover of our national flag,
aided by perversions of judicial pow
CT, as a crime against humanity and
age and we call upon Congress to
take prompt and efficient measures
for the total and final suppression of
that execrable traffic.
10. That in the recent vctoes, by
their Federal Governors, of the acts
Of the Legislature of Kansas and Ne
braska, prohibiting Slavery in those
Territories, we find practical illus
tration of the boosted Democratic
principle of Non,intcrvention and Pop
ular Sovereignty embodied in the
kansas-Nebraska bill, and demon
stration of the deception and fraud in
volved therein.
II. That Kansas should, of right,
be Immediately admitted as State
under the Constitution recently form
ed and adopted by her people and ac-
cepted by the House of Representa-.
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