The Iowa transcript. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1858-1866, 1860-10-25
Republican Platform.

Reso,ccd, That we, the delegated rcpresen
tativcs OF the Republican electors Of the
Uhitcd States, in Convention assembled, in
discharge Of the duty uc owe TO our constit-
uents and our country, unite IN the following
declaration:
1. That the history OF the nation during
the last four years, has fully established the
proprey and necessity Of the organization
and perpctuation Of the Republican party,
and that the causes which called 1t into exis.
tcnce permanent in their nature, and
nav more than ever before, demand its
peaceful and constitutional triumph.
2 That The maintenance Of the principles
promulgated in the Declaration Of lndepen-
dcnce and embodied in the Federal Consti-
tuition, that all men are created equal that
they nre endowed by their Creator with Ger
tain inalienable rights; that among these are
life liberty, aid the pursuit Of happiness;
that to secure these rights, governments arc
instituted among men, deriving their just
powers from the consent Of the governed
lis essential to the preservation OF our Re
publican institutions; and that the Federal
Constitution, the Rights OF the States, and the
Union Of the States must and shall be presery-
ed.
g. That to the Uuion of the States thi5 nation
owes its increase in population,
its surprising development of material re-
sources, its rapid augmentation Of wealth,
its happiness at home and its honor abroad
and We hold in adherence all schemes for Dis
union, come from whatever source they may
and we congratulate the country that no Re-
publican member of Congress has uttered or
countenanced the threats OF Disunion 50 ef,en
made by Democratic members, withou, rebuke
and with applause from their political ASSOC
catcs and VIC depounce those threats OF dis
union, in case OF q popular overthrow OF their
ascendancy as denying the vital principle of
free government, and as an avowat OF contem-
plated treason. which it is the imperative duty
Of an indignant people stcrny to rebuke and
forever silence.
T. That the maintenance invio!ate Of the
rights Of the States, and especially that right
Of each State to order aud control its own
domestic institutions according to its own
judgment exclusively, is essential to that bal
lance of powers Oh which the perfection and
endurance Of our political fabric depends
and we dcnounce the lawless invasion by arm
ed force OF the soil OF any State or territory,
no matter under what pretext, as among the
gravcst OF crimes.
5. That the present Democratic Administration
has far exceeded our worst apprellensons, in its
mensureless subscrvieney to the exactions
Of a sectional interest as especially eyinced
in its desperate cxertions to force the lnfa-
nous Lecor,pton Consultation upon the pro-
testing people of Kansas in constituting the
personal relation between master and servant
10 involve an unqualfedproper!y in persons;
in its attempted enforcement, everywhere, on
land and sea. through the Intervention ot
Congress and Of the Federal Courts of the
extreme pretentions Of a purely local interest;
rs al nd yinr ol,rSoo fs no
power entrusted to it by contidlng people.
G. That the people justly view with alarm
the reckless extravaganza which pervadcs
every department of the Federal Government
that a return to rigid economy and account
ability is indispensable to arrest the systcmat-
ic plumber Of the public treasury by favored
partisans; while the recent startling dcyel-
opements Of frauds and corrnptions at the
Federal metropolis show that entire change
Of administration is imperati,ely demanded.
That the new dogma that the Constitution,
Fl its own force carries Slavery into any or
all Of the Territories Of the United States is
a dangerous political heresy, at variance with
the explicit provisions Of that instrument
itself, with cotemIoi ancous exposition and
with Legislative and judicial precedent is
revolutionary in its tendency, and subversiyc
of the peace and harmony Of the country
8; That the normal condition of all irrii
tory Of the United States is that Of freedom:
That as our Republican fathers, when they
had abolished slavery in all the national ter
ritory, ordained that no person should be
deprived Of life, liberty, or property without
due process oflaw," itbccomes our duty, by
legislation, whenever such legislation is nee
essary, to maintain this provision Of the Con-
stitutlon against ali attempts to violate it;
a. An ,f ~, -
territorial legislature, or of any individuals,
to give legal existence to slavery in any Ter
ritory OF the United States.
.. That we brand the recent re. opening of the
African slave trade, under the cover of our
national flag, aided by perversions of judicial
power, crime against humanity aud u
burning shame TO our country and age; and we
call upon Congress to take prompt and efficient
measures for the total and final suppression Of
the execrable traffic.
10. That in the recent vetocs, by their Fed
eral Governors, of the acts Of the Legislatures
of Kansas and Nebraska, prohibiting slavery
in those territories we lind practical illus
tration Of the boosted Democratic principle
OF Non. Intervention and Popular Sove reignty
embodied in the kansas-Nebraska bilk and
demonstration Of the deception and fraud in
yolved therein
II. That Kansas should, of right, be imme-
diatly admitted as State under the Constitu-
ton recently formed and adopted by her peo-
pie, and accepted by the House OF Rcpresen-
tives.
II. That, while providing revenue for the
support Of the general government by duties
upon imports, sound policy requires such an
adjustment of those imposts as to encourage
the deyeiopement of the industrial interests Of
the country ;and we commend that policy of
national exchanges. which secures to the
working men liberel wages, TO agrcult,re re-
muncrating prices, TO mechanics and manu-
features an adequate reward for their skill,
labor and enterprise, and to the nation COM
mercial prosperity and independence
13, That We protest against any salo or al
ienation to others of the Public Lands held
ny actual settlers and against any view Of the
Free Homestead policy which regards the
settlers rs panpers suppliants for public
seunty, and we demand the passage BY Con
gress of the complete and satisfactory Home
stead measure which has already passed the
House.
a. That the Republican party is opposed to
any change in our Naturalization Laws or any
State legislation by which. the rights Of citi
zenship hitherto accorded to immigrants from
foreign lands shall be abridged or impaired:
and in facor Of giving full and efficient pro-