The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1860-11-06
National Republican Platform.
rAs AMENDED AND ADOPTED

Lne InlLeu states, III convention assem-
bled, In discharge of the duty we owe to
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 1t
INTO existence are permanent in their ma
| lure, and now, more than ever before, de-
mand its peaceful and constitutional tri-
umph
Z. That the maintenance of the princi-
Piles promulgated in the Declaration of In
dependence and embodied in the Federal
Constitution, THAT all men are created
equal that they are endowed by their
Creator with certain inaIienable 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"--is essential TO
the preservation OF our Republican nstilu-
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 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 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 Disuniu n SO often
made by Democratic members, without re-
buke and with applause from their political
associates and we denounce those threats
ot disunlon, III case Of a popular overthrow
OF their ascendancy, as denying the vital
| principles OF free government, and as an
avowal OF contemplated treason, which il
is thelmperalive duty Of an indignant Peo-
pie sternIy to febuke and forever silence
A. 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 exclusively, is essential to
/ that balance Of powers ON which the per
fectlon and endurance of our political Tab
/ ric depends; and we denuunce the law
less invasion by armed force of the soil of
any State or Territory, no matter under
what preiext, as among the grayest of
crimes.
3. That the present Democratic Admin
lstration has far exceeded our worst ap-
prehensions, IN its measureless subseryi-
| ency 10 the exactlons of sectional inter
est, as especially evinced in its desperate
exertlons 10 force the infamous Lecompton
Constitution upon the protesting people of
Kansas; IN construIng the personal Tela-
ton between master and servant to in
volve an unqualified property in persons
IN It's attempted enforcement, everywhere,
on land and sea, through the Intervention
OF Congress and of the Federal Courts, of
the extreme pretensions OF a purely local
interest; and in It's general and unvarying
abuse. OF the power entrusted to it by con
hding people.
6, That the people Justly view with
alarm the reckless extravaganza which
perysdes every department OF the Federal
Government that a return 10 rigid econ
omy and accountability is indispensable to
arrest the systematic plumber of the pub
lie treasury by favored partisans while
the recent startling developments offrauds
and corruptlons at the Federal metropolis,
show that an entire change of adminsra-
tioA is imperatively demanded.
7. That the new dogma that the Con-
stitution, Of its own force, carries Slavery
into any or all of the Territories of the
United States, is a dangerous political her
esy, at variance with the explicit proyi-
sions Of that instrument itself. with CO.
iempofaneous exposition, and with legis-
latiye and judicial precedent is revolu.
tionary in its tendency, and subversive 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 F: That as our Republican fathers,
when they had abolished slavery in all our
national territory, ordained that mo per-
son should be deprived of life, liberty, or
property, without due process OF law" it
becomes our duty, by legislation, whenev-
er such legislation is necessary. to main
tain this provision OF the Constitution
against all attempts to violate it and we
deny the authority OF Congress, OF ter
rtorial legislature, or of any individuals,
to give legal existence 10. slavery in any
Territory Of the United States.
8. That we brand the recent re-opening
of the African slave trade, under the COW
er of our national flag, aided by perver-
sions o. judicial power, as crime against
humanity and burning shame TO oul
country and age; ; and we call upon Con
gress to take prompt and efficient meas
ures for the total and final suppression o
that execrable traffic.
10. That in the recent vetoes, by thei
Federal Governors, of the acts Of the Leg
islatures of Kansas and Nebraska, prohib