East Saginaw courier. (East Saginaw, Mich.) 1859-18??, 1860-06-07
REPUBLICAN PLATFORM.

stituents and our country, unite III the
following declarations
1st. That the history of the nation
during the last four years has fully es-
tablished the propriety and necessity Of
the organization and perpetuation of the
Republican party and that the causes
which called it into existence are ptr.na-
nent in their nature and now more than
ever demand its peaceful and constitu'
tional triumph.
ID. That the maintenance of the
principles promulgated in the Declara-
ton of Independence and embodied in
the Federal Constitution, is essential to
the preservation Of our Republican insti-
tutions, and that the Federal Constitu-
tion, the rights Of the States and the
Union of the States must and shall be
preserved
3d. That to the Union of the States
this nation owes its surprising develop
ment of material resources-its rapid
augmentation Of wealth, and its happi-
ness at home, and its honor abroad and
we hold in adherence all the schemes for
disunion, coming from whatever source
they may. We congratulate the country
that no Republican member Of Congress
has uttered or countenanced the threats
of disunion so often made by Democratic
members of Congress, without rebulSe;
and with applause, from their political
associates; and we dcnounce those threats
of disunion in case of popular over
throw of their ascendency, as denying
the principles of free government, and
as on avowal Of contemplated treason,
which it is the imperative duty of an in-
dignant people sternly to rebuke and for
ever silence.
4th. That the maintenance, inviolate,
Of the rights of the States, and especially
the rights of each State, to oIder and
control its own domestic institutions ac-
cording to its own judgment, is exclu-
sively essential to that balance of power
which the perfection and endurance of
our political fabric depends upon; and we
dcnouncc the lawless invasion by an
armed force, of any State or Territory,
no matter under what pretext, as among
the greatest crimes.
9TH. That the present Democratic
Administration has far exceeded our
worst apprehensions in its mcasurcless
subserviency to the cxactions of Sec
tional interest, as especially evidenced in
its desperate exertons to force the infa
nous Lecompton Constitution upon the
protesting people of Kansas, in constru-
ing the personal relation between master
and servant, to involve an unqualified
property in persons, in its attempted en-
forcemcnt everywhere, on land and sea,
through the Intervention of Congress,
and of the Federal Courts, of the ex-
tremc pretensions Of purely local inter
est, and in its general and unwearying
abuse of the power intrusted to it by o
sonfding people.
9th. That the people justly view with
alarm the reckless extravaganza which
pervades every department of the Fed
eral Government; that return to rigid
economy and accountability is indispcns
able to arrest the systematic plunder Of
the public treasury by favored partisans,
while the recent startling development of
frauds and corruptions at the Federal
Metropolis, show that an entire change
of administration is imperatiycly de-
manded.
7th. That the new dogma that the
constitution Of its own force carries
slavery into any or all the territories of
the United States, is dangerous polit-
ical hcrcsy, at variance with the explicit
provisions of that instrument itself, and
contemporaneous exposition, and with
legislative and judicial precedent, is rev.
olutionizing in its tendency and subver-
sive of the peace and harmony Of the
country.
Sth. That the normal condition of
tho territories of the United States is
that of freedom; that as our Republican
fathers, when they had abolished slavery
in all our national territories, ordained
that no person should be deprived of
life, liberty, or property without due pro
cess of law, it becomes our duty, by leg
islaticn, whenever such legislation is
necessary, to maintain this provision of
the Constitution against all attempts to
violate it; and we deny the authority of
Congress over territorial Legislature, or
of any individuals, to give legal exist
ence to slavery in any of the territories
of the United States.
9th. That we brand the recent re-
opening Of the African slave trade, under
the cover Of our national flag, aided by
perversions of judicial power, as crime
against humanity, and burning shame
to our country and age, and we call upon
Congress to take prompt and efficient
measures for the total aud final suppress
sion of that cxecrable traffic.
10th. That the recent vetoes by the
Federal Government, of acts Of the Leg
islatures of Kansas and Nebraska pro-
hibiting slavery in the territories, we find
practical illustration of the boastod
Democratic principle of non.intervention
and popular sovereignty embodied in the
Kansas Nebraska bill, and dcnonstrs-
ton of the deception and fraud involved
therein.
llth. That Kansas should cf right
be Immediately admitted as State under
the constitution recently formed and
adopted by her people and accepted by
the House of Representatives.
18th. That whilo providing revenue
for the support Of the General Govern