Year: 1860

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REPUBLICAN PLATFORM.


Reso'reA That wc the delegated representatives O.
the Republan electors Of the United States Ccnven.
tion assembled In discharge Of the duty owe to GU,
and our country unite In the following
laratons:


l. That the history Of the nation during the last four
years. has fully established the proprety and
the Republican party and that the which called
more than before demand its peaceful and constitu
tioual triumph -- ......-


Q. That the maintenance Of the principles promulgated
Federal Constitution That ali men are created equal
that they endowed by their Creator with certain in


aenable rights that among these ie liberty and
the pursuit Of happiness that TO these rights
ernnents Instituted among men, deriving their Just
powers om the consent Of the governed"s essential
the preservation Of Republican institutions and that


Federal Constitution the Rights Of the States and the
Union Of the States must and shall be preserved.


s. That the Union Of the States this Nation owes Its
unprecedented increase In population its surprising deve
weah its happiness at home and s honor abroad and
We hold in abhorrence all schemes for Disunon come


the country that Republican member Of Congress has
uttered or countenanced the threats Of Dsunion 20
often made by democratic members without rebuke and
With applause from their political associates and We de-
nounce those threats Of Disunon in q Of popular
overthrow Of their ascendency denying the vital pnc
pies Of free government and avowa Of contenpa
ted treason, which 1t s the imperative duty Of indg
nant People sternly TO rebuke and forever silence


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States and especially the right Of each State order
control It's domestic institutions according to It's


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fabric depends and denounce the lawess INVASION
by armed force Of the soil Of any State Territory,
matter under what pretext as among the grayest Of
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S. That the present Democratic Administration has far
exceeded apprehensons in its measureless
serviency to the exacons of sectional interest," as
peciay evinced In Its desperate exerons to force the In
Lecompon Constitution upon the protesting peo
NJ n tha atto ho
tween master and servant to involve unqualified prop
erty persons in its attempted enforcement
on land and sea, through the Intervention Of Congress
and Of the Federal Courts Of the extreme pretensions
purely local interest and In Its general and unvaryng


That people justly view with alarm the reckless
exravagance which pervades every department of the
Federal Government that return to rigid and
plunder Of the public treasury by favored partzans
while the recent startling developments Of frauds and
tire change Of administration mperatively


Z That the dogma that the Constitution ofits
force carries Slavery into any all Of the Territories of
the United States Is dangerous political heresy at va
rance with the explicit provisions Of that instrument ITSELF
with cotemporaneous exposition, and with legislative and
judicial precedent; Is revolutionary in It's tendency and
ubversve Of the peace and harmony Of the country.


That the normal condition Of all the territory Of the
fathers when they had abolished slavery in all nation
al territory, ordained that no person should be depr
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such legislation necessary to maintain this provision OF
the Constitution against all attempts TO violate and
deny the authority Of Congress- of Territorial Legs
slavery in any Territory Of the United states


That we brand the recent reopening Of the African
slave trade. under the Of national Tag aided
by perversions Of judicial power, crime against hu
manity and burning shame to country and age and
call upon Congress to take prompt and efficient
for the total and final suppression Of this execrable
traffic. Is ~
or Of the Of the Legislatures Kansas and Nebras
ka prohibiting slavery in those territories find prac-
Nonntervention and Popular Sovereignty embodied in
the KansasNebraska bill, and demonstration Of the
deception and fraud involved therein.


H. That Kansas should, of right, be Immediately ad.
m.ted state under the Consultation recently formed
and adopted BY her people, and accepted BY the House


l2 That while providing for the support Of
the general government BY duties upon IMPORTS sound
encourage the development Of the Industrial interest Of
the whole country and commend that national policy
Of national exchanges, which to the working
liberal wages to agriculture remunerang prices to
chapics and manufactures adequate reward for their
skill labor and enterprise and to the nation commercial


13. That protest against any sale or alienation to
others Of the Public Lands held by actual settlers and
CARDS the settlers as paupers supplants for public
bounty and We demand the passage by Congress o the
complete and satisfactory Homestead measure which has
already passed the House.


H. That the Republican party is opposed any change
In our Naturalization Laws any State legislation, by
which the right Of citizenship hitherto accorded to i'm
migrants from foreign lands shall be abridged impair
ed and in favor Of giving full and efficient protection
to the rights Of a classes Of citizens whether native or
natnralxed, both Mt home and abroad.


15 That appropriations by Congress for River and Tar
bor Improvements Of National character required
for the accommodation and security Of existing
authorized by the Constitution and justified by
the obligation Of Government to protect the lives and
property Of its citizens.


49, That Railroad to the Pacific Ocean Is imperative
demanded by the interests of the whole country that
the Federal Government ought to render immediate and
efficient aid in its construction and that preliminary
thereto daily Overland Mail should be promptly estab
lished .s .r-a.'E E0


IT, Finally having TINS set forth distinctive prn
ciples and views We invite the co-operation Of all c
zcns, however differing other questions who substan
TALLY agree with us in their amance and support.


SUPPLEMENTARY RESOLUTION


Resolced, That deeply sympathize with those men
who have been driven from their native States and
others from the States Of their adoption and
lied from their homes account Of their opinions; and
hold the Democratic party responsible for the gross
violation Of that clause Of the Constitution which declares
that the citizens Of each State shall he entitled to all the
privileges and mmunes ofcItisens In the several staes