The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1860-10-08
National Republican Platform.
TAs AMENDED AND ADopIkD.1

bled, in discharge of the duty we owe To
our constituents and our country, unite in
the following declarations
the last four years, has fully established
The proprlety and necessity of the organi-
cation and perpetuation of the Republican
party, and that the causes which called it
into existence are permanent in their ma
ture, and now, more than ever before, de-
mand its peaceful and constitutional tri-
umph.
(. That the maintenance Of the princi-
plies promulgated in the Declaration of In
dependence and embodied in the Federal
Constitution, "Ihat al men are created
equal that they are endowed by their
Creator with certain inalcnable rights ),
that among these are lie, 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 governed lis essential to
tile preservation OF our Republican institu-
tions and that the Federal Constitution,
the Rights Of the States, and the Union of
the States must and shall be preserved.
3. That TO the union Of the States this
nation owes It's unprecedented increase in
population, lis surprising development Of
material resources, Its rapid augmentation
oi wealth, Its happiness at home and its
honor abroad and we hold in adherence
all schemes for Disunion, come from what
ever source they may And we congratu
late the country that no Republican mem.
Der Of Congress has uttered or counte-
nanced 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 disunion, In case Of a popular overthrow
OF their ascendancy, as denying the vital
principles OF free government, and as an
ayowal of contemplated treason, which it
is the imperative duty oi an indignant Peo-
pie sternly to rebuke and forever silence
d. That the maintenance iuyiolate Of the
rights OF the States, and especially tie
right of each State 10 order and control its
own domestic institutions according 10 its
own Judgment exclusively, is essential to
that balance OF powers on which the per
fecuon and endurance Of our political tab
ric depends; and We denounce the law
less invasion by armed force Of the soil of
any State or Territory, no matter under
what pretext, as among the gravest OF
crimes.
o. That the present Democratic Admin
lstratlon has far exceeded our worst APP
preheDslons, IN its measureless subseryi-
ency 10 the exactlons of sectional inter
est, as especially eyinced in it's desperate
exertlons TO force the infamous Lecompton
Constitution upon the protesting people of
Kansas in constituting the personal rela
tlon between master and servant to in
volve an unqualified property in persons
IN its attempted enforcement, everywhere,
on land and sea, through the Intervention
Of Congress and of the Federal Courts, Of
the extreme pretensions of purely local
and in lis general and unvarying
abuse Of the power entrusted to it by con
fding people.
6. That the people justly view with
alarm the reckless extravaganza which
pervades every department of the Federal
Government that return TO rigid econ
omy and accountability is indispensable to
arrest the systematic plunder of the pub
lie treasury by favored partisans; while
the recent startling developments offrauds
and corruptions al lhe Federal metropolis,
show that an entire change of administra-
tIon is imperatiyely demanded.
Z. That the new dogma that the Con-
sttution, of its own force, carries Slavery
into any or all OF the Territories OF the
United States, is dangerous political her
esy, at variance with the explicit provi-
sions of that instrument itself, with CO.
temporaneous exposition. and with legis-
latiye and judicial precedent; is revou.
honary in its tendency, and subyersive of
the peace and harmony Of the country.
8. That the normal condition OF all the
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
without due process of law" it
becomes our duty, by legislation, wheney-
er such legislation is necessary. to main
tain this provision of the Constitution
against all attempts 10 violate i and we
deny the authority of Congress, of ter
ritorial legislature, or Of any individuals,
TO give legal existence 10 slavery in any
Territory of the United States.
g. That We brand the recent re-opening
of the African slave trade, under the Gov
er Of our national flag, aided by perver-
sions Of judicial power, as crime against
humanity and 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 vetoes, by their
Federal Governors, of the acts OF the Leg