The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-07-19
POLITICAL PLATFORMS.
A Series of Interesting Documents.
MiIestones IN the Development OF POliti
cal Parties Since the OrgGniza-
tiO1o of the GOUern nlert.

cal Parties Since the Organiza-
tioo of the GoUern nlent.
1856.
REPUBLICAN, PHILADELPHIA, JUNE 18TH.
This convention of delegates, assem-
bled in pursuance of a call addressed to
the people of the United States, with
out regard to past political differences
or opinions, who are opposed to the
Missouri Compromise, to the policy of
the present administration, to the ex-
tension of slavery into free territory :;
in favor of admitting Kansas as a free
State, of restoring the Federal Govern
ment to the principles of Washington
and Jefferson, and who propose to unite
in presenting candidates for the Offices
of President and Vice President do re-
solve as follows:
ResOIUed, That the maintenance of
the principles promulgated in the Dec
laration of Independence, andembodied
in the Federal Constitution, is essential
to the preservation of our republican
institutions, and that the Federal Con-
stitution, the rights of the States and
the Union of the States, shall be pre-
served.
2. That with our republican fathers
we uOlu 1U W UO d SOIL 0NluSuU
that all men are endowed with the in
alienable rights Of life, liberty, and
pursuit of happiness, and that the pri
mary object and ulteriOr design of our
Federal Government were, to secure
these rights to all persons within it's
exclusive jurisdiction; that as our re-
publican fathers, when they had abol-
ished slavery in all our national terri
tory, ordained that no person should
be deprived of life, liberty or property,
without due process of law, it becomes
our duty to maintain this provision of
the Constitution against all attempts
to violate it for the purpose of estab-
fishing slavery In any territory of the
United States by positive legislation,
prohibiting it's existence or extension
therein. That we deny the authority
of Congress, of a territorial legislature,
of any individual or association of in
dividuals, to give legal existence to
slavery in any territory of the United
States while the present Con 5titution
shall be maintained.
g. That the Constitution cOnfers upon
Congress sovereign power over the ter
ritories of the United States for their
government, and that in the exercise
of this power it is both the right and
the imperative duty of Congress to
prohibit in the territories those twin
relics of barbarism-pOlyg my and
slavery.
4 That while the Constitution of the
United States was ordained and estab
lished in order to form more perfect
union, establish justice, insure domes-
tic tranquility, pr 0vide for the common
defense, promote the general welfare,
u A1NoH yOEl hot u
contains ample provision for the pro
of every citizen, the dearest cOnstitu-
tionaI rights Of the people of Kansas
have been fraudulently and violently
taken from the m; their territory has
been invaded by an armed force;
spurious and pretended legislative,
judicial and executive officers have been
set over them, by whose usurped au-
thority sustained by the military power
of the government, tyrannical and un
constitutional laws have been enacted
and enforced; the rights of the people
to keep and bear arms have been IN
fringed test Oaths of an extraordinary
and entangling nature have been i'm
posed, as a condition of exercising the
right of suffrage and holding Office, the
right of an accused person to speedy
and public trial by an impartial jury
has been denied; the right of the peo-
pie to be secure in their persons, houses,
papers and effects against unreasonable
searches and seizures, has been violated :;
they have been deprived of life, liberty
and property without due process of
law: that the freedom of speech and of
the press has been abridged, the right
to choose their representatives has been
made of no effect; murders, robberies
and arsons have been instigated and en-
couraged, and the offenders have been
allowed to go unpunished; that all
these things have been done with the
knowledge, sanction and procurement
of the present national administration :;
and that for this high crime against
the Constitution, the Union, and hu-
manity, we arraign the administra-
tion, the President, his advisers, agents,
supporters, apOlOgists and accessories,
either before or after the facts, before
the country and before the world; and
that it is our fixed purpose to bring the
actual perpetrators of these atrOciOus
outrages, and their accomplices, to a
sure and condign punishment here
after
5. That a railroad to the Pacific
Ocean, by the most central and prac-
ticable route, is imperatively demanded
by the interests of the whole country,
and that the Federal Government ought
to render immediate and efficient aid
in it's construction, and, as an auxiliary
thereto, the immediate construction of
an emf grant route on the line of the
railroad.
6. That appropriations of Congress
for the Improvement of rivers and har-
bors of a national character, required
for the accommodation and security
of our existing commerce, are author
lied by the Constitution, and justified
by the obligation of government to
protect the lives and property of its