The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1860-11-05
National Republican Platform
rAs AMENDED AND ADOPTED

bled, IN discharge OF the duty we owe 10
our constituents and our country, unite In
the following declarations
/. That the history of the nation during
the last four years, has fully established
the propriety and necessity of the organi
cation and perpetuation Of the Republican
party, and that the causes which called ii
into existence are permanent in their na-
ture, and now, more than ever before, de-
mand its peaceful and constitutional tri
umph.
&. That the maintenance of the princi
Plies promul gated in the Declaration OF In
dependence and embodied in the Federal
Constitution, THAT all men are created
equal tina, they are endowed by their
Creator with certain inalenable rights
that among these are lite, 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 d'-is essential TO
the 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 10 the union Of the States this
nation owes its unprecedented increase in
population, It's surprising development of
material resources, It's rapid augmentation
of wealth, its happiness at home and its
honor abroad and We hold in adherence
all schemes for Disunion, come from W that
ever source they may: And We congrstu-
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 denounee those threats
of disunion, in case OF popular overthrow
of their asoendancy, as denying The vital
principles Of free government, and as an
ayowal of contemplated treason, which il
is the imperative duty of an indignant Peo-
pie sternly 10 rebuke and forever silence
4. That the maintenance inyiolate of the
rights oil the States, and especially the
right of each State to order and control its
own domestic institutions according To its
own judgment exclusively, is essential ~
that baiaDce of powers on which the pef
fection and endurance of our political fab
ric depends, and we denaunce the law
less invasion by armed force of the soil oil
any State or Territory, no matter under
what pretext, as among the gravest oi
crimes.
8. That the present Democratic Admin
istratiou has far exceeded our worst APP
prehenslons, in it's measureless subseryl-
ency To The exactions of a sectional inter
est, as especially eyinced in its desperate
exertions 10 force the Infamous Lecompton
Constitution upon the protesting people OF
Kansas; IN construing the personal rela-
tion 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 pretenslons OF purely local
interest; and in lis general and unvarying
abuse OF the power entrusted TO il by a con-
hding people.
6. That the people justly view with
alarm the reckless extravaganza which
pervades every department of the Federal
Government, that return 10 rigid econ
omy and accountability is Indispensable te
arrest the systematic plunder OF the pub
lie treasury by favored partsans: while
the recent startling developments offraud.
and corruptions al The Federal metropolis
show that an entire change of administra
tioH is imperatively demanded.
Z. That the new dogma that the Con
stitution, Of its own force, carries Slavery
into any or all of the Territories of tn,
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
lative and judicial precedent is reyolu
tionary in its tendency, and subversive o
the peace and harmony OF the country.
s. That the normal condition OF all tn
territory of the United States, is that c
J freedom That as our Republican fathers
when they had abolished slavery in all on
national territory, ordained that mo per
: son should be deprived of life, liberty, O
property, without due process of law"
becomes our duty. by legislation, whenes
er such legislation rs necessary. to mair
tain this provision of the Constitutio
against all attempts to violate it and W
deny the authority of Congress, of tel
ritcr,sl Legislature, CT Of any iadi,iiaiuai
to give legal existence 10 slavery in an
Territory of the United States.
8. That we brand the recent re-openir
of the African slave trade, under the CO
er Of our national flag, aided by perve
sions Of judicial power. as crime again
humanity and burning shame to o
country and age and we call upon Go
gress to take prompt and efficient mea
!, ures for the total and final suppression
that execrable traffic.
10. That in the recent vetoes, by th,
A. Federal Governors, Of the acts of the lie
islatures Of Kansas and Nebraska, proh