The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1860-10-11
National Republican Platform.
rAs AMENDED AND ADoPlED.1

the United States, IN Convention assem-
bled, in discharge of the duty we owe TO
cur 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 it
into existence are permanent in their ma
ture, and now, more than ever before, de-
mand Its peaceful and constitutional tri
umph.
z. That the maintenance Of the princi-
pies 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 inalienabIe rights
that among these are lite, liberty and the
pursuit oil happiness that to secure these
nights, governments are instituted among
men, deriving their just powers from the
consent OF the governed lis essential 10
the preservation of our Republican institu-
tlons; 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 IFS unprecedented increase in
its surprising development Of
material resources, It's rapid augmentation
OF wealth, Its happiness at home and It's
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 dlsunlon, Ill case OF a popular overthrow
OF their ascendancy, As denying the vital
principles of free government, and as an
avowai of contemplated treason, which it
is the imperative duty Of an indignant Peo-
pie sternly to lebuke and forever silence
d. That the maintenance inyiolate Of The
rights oi 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
fection and endurance of our political tab
nc 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 grayest Of
crimes.
8. That the present Democratic Admin
istration has far exceeded our worst ap-
prehcnslons, IN is measurelcss subSeTvl-
ency to ihe exactions of sectional inter
est, as especially esinced in its desperate
exertions 10 force the infamous Lecompien
Constitution upon the protesting people Of
Kansas, ID construlng the personal rela-
tion between master and servant TO in
yolse All 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 ia purely local
interest, and in its general and unyarying
abuse o. the power entrusted TO it BY con-
hdlng people.
6. That the people justly view with
alarm the reckl. SIS extravaganza which
pervades every department Of the Federal
Government, that IA return 10 rlgid 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 the Federal metropolis,
show that an entire change of adminlslra-
tion is imperauyely demanded.
Z. That the new dogma that the Con-
stituAon, of It's 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 prosl-
sions of that instrument itself, with CO.
temporaneous exposition. and with legis-
latise and Judicial precedent is revolu
tlonary in It's tendency, and subversiye 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 ierrltory, ordained that mo per-
son should be deprived of life, liberty, or
properly, without due process of law" ii
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 a ter
ritorlal legislature, or OF any individuals,
to give legal existence to slavery in any
Territory ofthe United States.
9. That We brand the reoent re opening
of the African slave trade, under the GOV.
er Of odf national flag, aided by perver.
sions os judicial power. as crime agaius
humanity and a burning shame 10 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 cxecrable traffic.
10. That in the recent vetoes, by theil
Federal Governors, of the acts OF the Leg.