The weekly Ottumwa courier., 1860-07-19
Gbe Ottum(ua Courier.
National Republican, Platform.
TAs AMENDED AND ADOPTED.

AS AMENDED AND ADOPTED.
Resolved, That we, the delegated representatives
Of the Republican electors of the United States, in
Convention assembled, In discharge of the duty we
oweto our constituents and country, unite in the
following declarations;
l. That history Of the nation during the last four
years. has fully established the propriey and
sity Of the organization and perpetuation of tina Re
publican party, and that the causes which called it
into existence permanent in their nature, and
now, than before, demands its peaceful and
constitution triumph.
p That the maintenance Of the principles promul-
gated in the Declaration OF Independence and en-
bodied in the Federal Constitution, "That all
created equal that they endowed by their Creator
with certain naIenabIe rights that among these are
life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness; that TO
cure these rights, governments instited among
men, deriving their just powers from the consent of
the governed'-is essential to the preservation of
Republican institutions and that the Federal Consti-
tuition, the Rights of the States and the Union of the
states must and shall be preserved.
g. That to the union OF The States this nation owes
its unprecedented increase in population its surpris-
ing development of material resources its rapid aug
mentation of wealth, its happiness at home and its
honor abroad and we hold in adherence all schemes
FOR Disunion, come from whatever source they may:
Anl We congratulate the country that Republican
member of Congress has uttered countenauced the
threats of Disunion often made by Democratic
members, without rebuke and with applause from
their political associates; and we denounce those
threats of dsunon, in of popular overthrow of
their ascendency, denying the vital principles Of
free government, and as an avowel of contemplated
treason, which it is the imperative duty Of indg
nant People sterny to rebuke and forever silence.
L. That the maintenance inviolate cf the rights of
the States and especially the right of each State to
order and control its domestic institutions ac-
cordins to its own judgment exclusively is essential
to that balance of powers which the perfection and
endurance Of our political fabric depends and we
denounce the lawless invasion by armed force the
soil OF any state or Territory, matter under what
pretext, as among the gravest of crimes.
3. That the present Democratic Administration has
far exceeded our worst apprehensons in its
less suoserviency to the exactons Of sectional in
terest as especially eyinced in its desperate exer-
tions to force the infamous Lecompton Constitution
aporthe protesting people Of Kansas in constituting
the personal relation between master and ser ant to
involve an unqualified property in persons; in its at
tempted enforcement, everywhere, on land and sea-
through the Intervention of Congress and of the Fed
eral Courts, of the extreme pretensions of purely
of the power entrusted to it by contidirg people
8. That the people justly view with alarm the reck
less extravaganza which pervades every department
of the Federal Government; that a return to rigid
economy and accountability is indispensable to ar
rest the systematic plunder of the public treasury by
favored partisans; while the recent startling devel-
opments OF frauds and cor, uptons at the Federal
metropolis, show that an entire change of admins.
tration is imperatively demanded.
l. That the new dog that the Constitutions of its
own force, carries Slavery into any or all of the Ter
rtories of the United States is a dangerous political
heresy, at variance with the explicit provis ions
that instrument ITSELF with cotemporaneous exposi-
tion and with legislative and judicial precedent; is
revolutionary in Its tendency and subversve of the
peace and harmony of the country.
s. That the normal dtion of all the territory of
the United States is that of freedom That as our Re-
publican fathers when they lad abolished slavery in
all our national territory ordained that "no person
should be deprived of fe liberty, property with
out due process oflaw" it becomes duty Wy egis-
lation, whenever such legislation is necessary to
maintain this provision of the Constitution against
all attempts to violate it; and deny the authority
OF Congress- Of territorial legislature, of any in
dividuas to give legal existence to slavery in any
Territory Of the United States.
u That we brand the recent reopening Of the Afri-
can slave trade, under the our national flag
aided by perversions of judicial power, as a crime
against humanity and burning shame to our coun-
try and age; and we call upon Congress to take
prompt and efficient measures for the total and final
suppression Of that execrable traffic.
TO- That in the recent veoes, by their Federal Gov.
ernors, of the acts OF the Legislatures of Kansas and
Nebraska, prohibiting Slavery in those Territories
we find practical illustration of the boased Demo-
cratia cir,la IF J,4a.
Sovereignty embodied In the Kansas Nebraska bill,
and demonstration Of the deception and fraud in
volved therein
II. That Kansas should Of right, be Immediately
admitted as State under the Constitution recently
formed and adopted by her people, and accepted by
the House of Representatives.
H. That, while providing revenue for the support
OF the general government by duties upon imports
sound policy requires such adjustment of these
imports to encourage the development OF the in
dustria interests of the whole country and we com
mend that policy of national exchanges, which Sc
cures to .e working liberal wages to agriculture
remunerang prices, to mechanics and manufacturers
an adequate reward for their Skill labor and enter
prise, and to the nation commercial prosperity and
independence
l3. That we protest against any sale alienation
to Others of the Public Lands held by actual settlers
anu against view Oh tDe free homestead polcy
which regards the settlers paupers or suppliants
for public bounty; aad we demand the passage by
Congress of the complete and satisfactory Homestead
measure which has already passed tbs House.
H. That the Republican party is opposed to any
change in our Naturalization Laws any State legis-
laton by which the rights Of citizenship hitherto ac
corded to immigrants from foreign lands shall be
abridged or impaired; and in favor of giving a full
an efficient protection to the rights all classes Of
citizens, whether native naturalizcd both at home
and abroad.
10. That appropriations by Congress for River and
Harbor improvements Of National character re-
CURED for the accommodation and security Of an ex-
listing commerce, authorized by the Constitution
and justified by the obligation Of Government to pro-
tect the lives and property of its citizens.
10. That a Railroad to the Pacific Ocean is mpera-
lively demanded by the interests of the whole coun-
try; tat the Federal Government ought to render
immediate and efficient aid in its construc ton; and
that, as preliminary thereto, II daily Overland Mail
should be promptly established.
IL Finally, having thus set forth our distinctive
principles and views We invite the cooperation of all
citizens, however differing on other questions who
substantially agree with US in their a1irmance and
support
SUPPLEMENTARY RESOLUTION.
Resolved, That we deeply sympathze with those
men who lave been driven, soms of them from their
native States and others from the State their adop
ton, and eAiled from their homes Oh account