Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1860-06-02
REPUBLICAN PLATFORM 1850.


REPUBLICAN PLATFORM 1850.
Resolved, That we, the delegated representa-
tives of the Republican electors of the United
States, in Convention assembled. in the discharge
of the duty we Owe to our constituents and our
country, unite in the following declarations
LIST. That the history Of the nation during the
last four years has fully established the propriety
and necessity Of the organization and perpetuatiou
of the Republican party, and that the causes
which called it into existence are permanent in
their nature, and now more than ever before de-
mand its peaceful and constitutional triumph.
I'd. That the maintenance of the principles pro-
m~ulgated in the Declaration of Independence and
embodied in the Federal Constitution, THAT all
men are born equal, that they are endowed by
their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that
among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of
happiness; that TO insure these rights, governments
are instituted among men deriving their Just pow
ers from the consent Of the governed is essential
to the preservation Of our Republican institutions,
and that the Federal Constitution, the rights Of
the States and the Union of the States must and
shall De preserved.
Sd. That to the Union of the States this nation
owes unprecedented increase in population, its
surprising development of material resources, its
rapid augmentation of wealth, its happiness at
home and its honor abroad, and we hold in abhor-
renee all schemes for disunion, come from whatever
source they may; and we congratulate the country
that no Republican member Of Congress has ever
uttered or countenanced the threats of disunion so
often made by Democratic members without re.
buke and with applause from their political asso-
ciates, and we denounce those threats Of disunion
in case of o popular overthrow of their oscenden-
cy, as denying the vital principles of a free gov
eminent, and as an avowal of contemplated trea.
son which it is the imperative duty of an indig-
nant people sternly to rebuke and forever silence.
4th. That the maintenance inviOlate Of the
rights of the States and especially the right of
each State to order and control its own domestic
institutions according to its own judgment exclu-
sively, is essential to that balance Of powers on
which the perfection and endurance Of our politi-
cal fabric depend, and we denounce the lawless
invasion by armed force Of the soil Of any State or
Territory, no matter under what p~retext, as
among the greatest Of crimes.
5th. That the present Democratic Administra.
ton has far exceeded our worst apprehe1sions in
measureless subserviency to The extension of a Sec
ltOuol lutStSobJ uo cspoCldiy tflucuCeu u III JUS
perate e~xertion to force the infamous Lecompton
; Constitution upon the protesting people Of Kan
sas, in constituting the personal relation between
master and servant TO involve an unqualified prop,
j erty in persons, in its attempted enforcement
everywhere on land and sea through the interven.
' ton of Congress and of Iae Federal Courts, of the
extreme pretentions ola purely local nature, and
in its general and unvarying abuse of the power
entrusted to it by a c~onfding people.
It 9th. That the people Justly view with alarm tho
9 reckless extravaganza which pervades every de
. partment of the Federal Government, that q re
t turn to rigid economy and accountability is indis
d pensable to arrest the systematic plumber of th'
g public treasury by Federal partizans, Will
y the recent startling developments of frauds anC
d corruptiOns at the Federal metropolis show that al
8 entire change of administration Is imperatively
demanded.
9TH. That the new dogma that the Constitution
% of its own force, carries slavery into any or al
the territories of the United States is a d~angerou
r political heresy at variance with the explicit pro
visions of that instrumen itself, with contempor
aneous exposition, and with legislative and judi
cial precedent; is revolutionary in its tendency
and su5Versive Of the peace and harmony Of til
country.
y 9th. That the normal condition Of all the terri
D. tories Of the United States is that Of freedom, tina
as our Republican fathers, when they had abolish
ed slavery in all our national territory, ordaine
that no person should be deprived Of life, libert
sr or property without due process of law, it become
our duty by legislation, wherever sue
is legislation, is necessary, to maintai
at this provision of the Constitution agaInl
re all attempts to violate it, anG we deny the a,
N thority Of Congress, Of a Territorial Legislature
1e or of any individual, to give legal existence to SIT
to very in any Territory of the United States.
9th. That W brand the recent re-opening of tb
African Slave Trade, under the cover of our nj
tional flag, aided by perversiOns Of judicial pOwe
as a crime against humanity, and a burnin
shame to our country and age, and We call upo
Congress to take prompt and efficient measure
for the total and 6ual suppression of that execrabl
traffic.
10th. That in the recent vetoes by their FEEDERS
q Governors, of the acts of the Legislatures of KaI
saa and Nebraska, prohibiting slavery in thos
Territories, we end a practical illustration Of h
Boosted Democratic principle Of non-intcrvontio
e and popular sovereignty embodied in tho kansa
Nebraska bill, and a demonstration Of the dscel
ton and fraud involved therein.