The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1864-10-15
THE PLATFORMS.
Read and Reflect.

Resolved, That this Convention, believ-
ing that the only security for freedom exists
In liberty protected by law, does distin city
re-afhFm the doctrines of the Bill of Rights
in the Constitution of the State of Kansas,
that we enphatically declare that the liber-
" of the press shall be inviolate, and that
all persons may freely speak, write OF pub
hsh their sentiments on all subjects, being
responsible for the abuse of such right
That the people have the right to assemble
in peaceful manner to consult for all law
full purposes and that the threats.of VIC
lent interference by faction of corrupt
revolutionists, with the exercise of the
elective franchise. receives OR unqualified
disapprobatiou- ConUention If the 1874 and
I4tA Of September.
WHEREAS, The delegate Convention of
the Republican party, this day assembled at
the capital, has passed resolution e-af-.
frming the principles and re-asserting the
rights guaranteed by the Constitution of the
United States 10 every citizen thereof, and
declared that the liberty of speech and Of
the press shall remain inviolate. and that
the purity of the ballot box shall be main
tanned at al hazards throughout this State,
and have moreover nominated as candidates
for the various Offices to be filled at the
election in November next, men who have
given evidence of their devotion to those
principles, and whose past records afford
ample guarantee that those principles will
be faithfully carried out in the administra-
ton of the government of the State, there
fore,
1. Resolred. That this Convention deem
h. e
Kansas to nominate a State ticket to be
supported at the ensuing election, and we
deem it impolitic for any Democrat in the
State to permit his name to be used as a
candidate for any State Office or member of
Congress.
2 Resolved, That we hereby ratify the
nomination of George B. Mcclellan, of
New Jersey. for President, and George H.
Pendleton, of Ohio, for Vice President,
and pledge them our undivided support
Democratic Conventjon, 14th September.
Resolved. That we pledge anew our fidel-
ity to our Government, and place upon the
altar of our country for exringuishment,
all partizau prejudices and preferences that
can in any manner retard its progress
in the contest for the suppression of the
most unholy crusade against humanity. in
augurated by the slave oligarchy of the reb-
ell States. That we fully and unquaIiedly
endorse the principles of the Baltimore
Platform, and the nominations made there
on. That we call on all men, without regard
to party to consider the duty they owe their
country in this hour of its peril, and mite
with Us, that by union of hearts aud hands.
we may gather the laurels of victory from
the bloody fields of battle, bring order out
of chaos, and return our beloved
country to its original power and purity,
with every stain of corruption wiped from
its escuteheon. and every principle of Free
dom and Humanity preserved intact. We,
therefore, deprecate the action ofthose who.
on account of personal antagonism, and to
gain personal ends, would throw confusion
into the ranks of those who are struggling
for the same cause in which they pretend to
be enlisted, and thereby strengthen the
hands of the common enemy Republican
Union Conveatjon, 9Th September.