The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1860-05-24

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interest, as especially .evinced in its
desperate exertions to force the infa-
nous Lecompton Constitution upon the
protesting people of Kansas; in con-
strung the personal relation between
master and servant to involve an un-
qualified property in persons; in its at
tempted enforcement, everywhere, on
land and sea, through the intervention
of Congress and of the Federal Courts,
of the extreme pretentions of purely
local interest; and in its general and
unvarying abuse of the power intrusted
to it by confiding people.
6. That the People justly view with
alarm the reckless extravaganza which
prevades every department of the
Federal Government; that a return to
rigid economy and accountability is
indispensable to arrest the systematic
plumber of the public treasury by fa-
vored partisans; while the recent start
ling developments of frauds and cor
ruptions at the Federal Metropolis, show
that an entire change of administration
is imperatively demanded. o' '
7. That the new dogma that the
Constitution, of its own force, carries
Slavery into any or all of the Territories
of the United States, is dangerous
political heresy, at variance with the
explicit provisions Of that instrument
itself, with contemporaneous expositi-
on, and with Legislative and judicial
precedent; is revolutionary in it's ten
dency, and subversive of the peace and
harmony Of the country.
g. That the normal condition of all
the territory of the United States is
that of freedom: That as our Re-
publican fathers, when they had abol-
ished slavery in all our national terri
tory, ordained that ''no person should
be deprived of life, liberty, or property,
without due process of law" it becomes
our duty, by legislation, whenever such
Legislation is necessary, to maintain this
provision of the Constitution against
all attempts to violate it; and we deny
: the authority Of Congress, of territorial
Legislature, or of any individuals, to
: give legal existence to Slavery in any
Territory of the United States. iu +
g.. 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,
as crime against Humanity and a
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 that
. execrable traffic. b 10 ja4
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Federal Governors, of the acts of the
a Legislatures of Kansas and Nebraska,
prohibiting Slavery in those Territories,
d we find practical illustration of the
boasted Democratic principles of non
S Intervention and Popular Sovereignty,
embodied in the Kansas Nebraska bill,
and a demonstration of the deception
and fraud involved therein.
! IL. That Kansas should, of right, be
Immediately admitted as a State under
the Constitution recently formed and
adopted by her people, and accepted
. by the House of Representatives.
10. That, while providing revenue
for the support of the general govern
ment by duties upon imports, sound
policy requires such an adjustment of
these imposts as to encourage the de-
velopment of the industrial interests of
the whole country; and we commend
: that policy of national exchanges,
: which secures to the working men
e liberal wages, to agriculture remunera.
! ting prices, to mechanics and manufac-
: lures an adequate reward for their
skill, labor, and enterprise and to the
q nation commercial prosperity and in
: dependence. $40" a4h7'. '.sl' -i'l4
f 13. That we protest against any sale
t or alienation to others of the Public
e Lands held by actual settlers, and
e against any view of the Free Home
(, stead policy which regards the settlers
s as paupers or suppliants for public
bounty, and we demand the passage
e by Congress of the complete and salts
: factory Homestead measure which has
4 already passed the House.
: IA. That the National Republican
J party is opposed to any change in our
i Naturalization Laws, or any State
), Legislation by which the right of citi
d zenship hitherto accorded to immi
grants from foreign lands shall be
S abridged or impaired and in favor ot
i giving full and efficient protection to
: the rights of all classes of citizens
S whether native or naturalized, both Al
y home and abroad.
Is. That appropriations by Congress
IS for River and Harbor improvements o
# a national character, required for the
e accommodation and security of an ,ex
J. listing commerce, are authorized by tn,
t. Constitution, and justified by the obi
n cation of Government to protect the
1t lives and property of its citizens.
ir Cl6. That a Railroad to the Pacific
.e Ocean is imperatively demanded by
a the interests of the whole country, tha
y. the Federal Government ought to ren
a der Immediate and efficient aid in 1T
Of construction and that, as preliminar,
le thereto, daily Overland Mail should
lie be promptly established. - 5s .s7;e5'
IL, Finally, having thus set forth on
Of distinctive principles and views, W.
ly invite the cooperation of all citizens
ID however differing on other questions
IS who substantially agree with US inthei