Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 2, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 September 1858 — PLATFORM [ARTICLE]

PLATFORM

The Republicans of ~.<’iana, in Mass I Convention assembled, proclaimed th.e fol-; I lowing BEcr-AEATIox- OF , I That our National Government ought I to be so administered as to promote bar-) tnony between the different sections of’ o.iir .country, secure the allecions of all the ‘ped- ) pie of the Un-ite-l States, and j-oinmun-l th--I respect ot the Nations ot the earth. 2. That the people of: a Territory when ‘ they come to form-a constitution preparatory.) to their admission into the Union as a State ' . have the right to adopt such a- - “ being Republican in form, is may ; a. ceptable to themselves, and that nd StateoUght ! to be received into th- i'li'er: h-fore the .Constitution the,-of has bi-<-n fully and fairly 1 submitted to the [<,■■->'-■ Mr t hi-ir adoption ■ of rejection.- an-l recei. ,1 the approvall of the majority of its If-gal voters.3. That the attempt now being s ; -r----sist-entlv made by the prec- nt administration to impose upon Kansas the Lecompton 1 'onstjtutionv notoriousiy obnoxm-us to rh< .rr--.it majority "of ht-r citi-z- ns, and with no "th- r •bj-ct than to tor. > upon th--m in.-titu’ipns against which -th-ev have repeat- -div and most • arri'-stlv pr ',-sted, is a gross utrago -p.-ui the rights ' 'r? p -opl-- of that T-rri-?ry-,. sr. . calculat-ed tr disturb the peh.ee ■/.". I li.irmotiv of th-' I'onntrv.' ' ' 1. That I<«re< d-wi >.■ National and Slavery 1 tii-nal, ami that w.- most earnest iv pro- • -st. aTainst and d-noun-w th- dun-o-rous and a.armmg d-ctr-r hrs- : r-- . -ated by thdisunioriists and in: 1:;:i-ts - S-?.ith. that the, Const.ltu-ion Of T’-ii’,.-i Stit--.- -‘ its--!; carries Mav-rv in'.--, an-l .- ii in. all the t< A. ; ?r.-.'L of th' ■ Unity-1 St. and this.doctrine and its supporters mainautlioritv. pi-dye - mrs--iv--s to : re ? ssist and opp-S' . :. J e"n- mi-.-s o' th-' peace and b. .That We dist. laini any right t > int-r:’ere ■.v;r:i slavery iji 'he State where it exi.-t> under the shield of Star- Sovereignty. ’ blit. Wi- i- ;> id .as hsru’ ;’s ’•x’Mj-.-'H int j any of th ’■:? :- . s. a tfd willus -■ a! 1 ‘■’proy-.T arid i. n.-titu’i--r’.-l rn an- t > p-event such t ton .-io n. - ti._ That we d> not .-tru'ggi- tor .. ni-re party triumph, but tor the right, an-l goi? I "1 - -,r wh-d- . untrv, am: that We li-npr those p-dil leal opp.'uuiiits who -have had . the manlmess to pl u ■■ t h-mse Ives i n ■ ippositirin to the Mini n is‘r.it.n •n in its a-.-siult. up >n the fund.ir, -nt-il l>rneiid-v- of American lib-rlv. 7. Teat Jess'. D Bright in-! Graham N Fit.'li ?•.’ n-'t of right.th-- roprc'.s-nt.itiv.'s di) th’- Sti'e in the Sen-it' ‘h<-I nit-'-l Sr at awl o’l?:.t to be «v ous’-d theri.iS, 'l'h.'it .Wi - . ‘' ni ;-?-lfi.-:.i iii-1 uh.- ■ rn; ul as p-rson<. high in power, hi-vinq f--r its <■! —-t th-- -retransf. r of the AVabash and i lr.ie,- Canal from the bpnd-h.dders m.the Stat- * 9. T-nit. w>. r-.-atii-iri the thaj < 'ongr-’ss has the constitutional i-vw- r to exclude sbiv-TV" from tlm national territories nofwithstandino the extra -ndieial opin -n of the Siiprem-' ' “irt ' "ii" 1 nited Sta*es lb. Tha-;-.e in ' .-r -I grant - ? t--aotnal set* ;-rs or. th-'- ; nth:: lands - home--stead c-t at leaat one h-.i—hed ar--l acres.