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Show 22 .A. POLITICAL TEXT-llOOK FOH 1860. President of the United States, JonN P. UAu~, of N!!w·r person should be depr~ved of l!fe, lib~rty or propn1.:r II I I . 1 C"llclid"te for the amps ) I e, anc as a .. office. of Vtce- without due process of l.1.w, It becomes our duly to main· n • • I . f th c n t' a., . t II tt ])resident. of the United States, GEORGE w. J uLIAN, of tam thtSJH'?V ston o c ons 1 u 10n . .,~m.s ~ ~ empts Indiana and earnestly commend them to the support j to violatie lt fofrtltheUpi~TJd>OSste· otf elstabhs!'t~ng iSI.~vlert~ in 0 r 11 Jo' ~ d ll a ·t'e!l any terr tory o 1e n .e . L es, >y post tve egts a ton, a 1 eemen an a P 1 1 · prohibiting its exiatence or extension therei n. ~'hat we The result of this contest wns an ovcrn helm- deny the authorl.ty; or Congress, of a ten! to•:l~l leg\sla· · · 1 f' 1 1 D cy . Pierce ture of any ind1vtdual or association of lnthvlduals, t,o mg trmmp 1 0 t 1e rcgu ar cmocra • give'legal existence to Slavery ln any territory of the and King carrying every State except Mnssnc~1U- United States, whlle the present Constitution shall be setts, Vermont, K entucky, and T e nnessee, whiCh maintained. . . c s t tl c' otes for Gen. Scott. The Free Demo- Ruol!oed, Tltatthe Const1t~t10n con fersuJ?O~l Congress a 1 Jr v . sovereign power over the terntories of the l.JDlt<'d States crn.tic vote in several Sta tcs would hnve gJ~cn for their government, and th at in the exl!l cl!!o or this 'hose States to Scott had it been cas t for lnm. power It is both the right and the duty of Congress to ' prohibit in the t erritories those twin relics of l> arbarism -Polygamy and Slavery. REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVE~TION- .11.~ 1856. pv 1 This Convention met at Philadelphia on the 17th of June, nnd chose Col. U c nry S. Lane, of Indiana, as presiding officer. An informal bal- lot for Pres ident resulted ns follows: ..... c 0 E ~tnt~. ~"' Maine, .. .. .. .... 13 New-Hampshire .. 15 Vermont ........ 15 0 E ~ RtnteM. ~<. 11 Indiana ..... . ... 18 Illinois .......... 14 Michigan .... . . .. 18 R cHoloed, 'l'hat while the Constltution of the United States was ordained and established by the p eople iu or<ler to form a more perfect Union, establish justice insure domestic tranquillity, prod de for the common ue: fense, and secure the blessings uf liberty, an d contains ample provisions for tl1e protection of the life, liberty and property or every citizen, the tlca rcat constitutional rights of the 1>cople of l{an as have been fmudulently and violently taken from them-their lerritor·y has been invaded by an 1nme<l force-spudous and pretended s:: legislative judie!~! and ex ecutive otlicers have been se• ~ over them; by whose usurped authority, sustained by the c:; military power of the Government, tyra11nical and un· ;;;: constitutional Jaws have been cn<lCI I...d and cnforced- 21 the rights of the people to keep anti IJe:n anus have 19 been infringed-tct~t OILths of au c. t raor<llnary and en-tangling nlLturo have been imposed, as :1 COII(lition of exercising the right of suffrage. and holding office- the right of an accused person to a speedy and public trial Ma~s achusetts .. . . 89 Wisconsin... . . . . . 15 llhodo Island. . . 12 Iowa ...... .... .. 12 <Jonnecticut ... .. 1 Minn esota ..... . New-York ....... . 93 8 Kansas ...... .. . New-Jersey.. . . .. 7 14 Nebraska ....... . 9 3 by an impanial jury has been d enicd- th ~ right of the p eople to be secure in their person~, hou!;eR, papers and 8 eO'ccts ngainst unrea~:~o nabl e searches and t-cizurcs has been v ioluted-the.v have been deprh•cll of life, liberty nnd property without due prOCl'SS of law-that the free· dom of speech and of the press has been al.l ritlged- the l'ennsylvania .... 10 71 Delaware.. . ... .. 9 Maryland.. . . . .. 4 13 J{entucky ...... . Oalifornin ... . .. . 5 12 Ohio ....... ... ... 30 89 359 196 right to choose their r epresentatives h a:~ bel'n made of New-Yo rk nl o gave nnd one for Seward. two ,·ote8 for Sumucr no effect- murders, r obberies and arsons l~:tve been insti-gated and encouraged, and the offcntlcrt~ have been Col. John C. :Fremont was th r eupon unanimously nominated. William L. Dayton wus nominated for VicePresitlcn t, receiving , on tit c in formal ballot, 25g vote!:! to 43 for David Wilmot; 110 for Abraham Lincoln; 7 for· Thomas Ford; 3.'5 for Charles Sumner; 4 for Cassin M. Clay; 15 for· Jacob Collamer; 2 for J. lL Giddings ; 2 for \V. F . . John ton; 4G for N . P. Banks ; 1 for A. C. M. P e nnington; 5 for· H e nry \Vilson ; \) for J ohn A. King; 3 fOI" ll r nry C. Carey; and 8 fur Gen. S . C. Pomeroy of KanRas . A formal b allot was th en tak e u, when Mr. Duyton was uomiua ted unanimously 'l'he Con vc 11 tio1.1 :nlopt\.\U the following allowed to go unpunished- th:Lt all these things have been done w1th the knowlerlge, sanction and procure· ment of the present Administration, and that for this high crime against the Constitution, the Union and llu· manity, we arraign the Administration, the Pre~;i(lent., his advisers, agents, supporters, ap ologis~s antl a ccessories, eit.her before or after the facts, before tlte country and before the world, and that it is our flxetl l>Urpose to bring the a ctual p erpetrators or these atroc~io us outrages, and their accomplices, to a sure and condigu punlshrueut, hereafter. R e1:1ol!oed, That Kansas shouhl be immediately admittell as a tate of the Union, with her p resent free Con~ti· tution, as at once the most effectual way of securing U) her citizens the enjoyment of the rights and privileges to which they are entitled; and of (;lllling th~ civil strife now raging in her territory. R esolved, That the highwnyman '.; pl<.'n, that "might makes right," embodied in the O ~tc1HI Circular, was in every r espect unworthy of Atnerican diplomacy, and would briug shame anti di ~h on or upon any governmenl A) PLAT)" OR~l : or p eople that gave it their sanction. f' ,.....-.-..,. iletJol!oed, That a railroad to the l'ac:tic Ocean, by the 'l'·llis Convention of D e l egate:~ , tt!J~erubl ed in pursuance most central and practicahlc route, is illllleratively de· of a ca.ll addrcssetl t.o the people or the United States manded by the interests of the whole country, and that without rt'gard to past lHJ iiticaltlitfercnces or divisions' the .l''ederai Government ought to render immediate aod who arc opposerl to the repeal of the Missonri Compro: ellicicnt. aid in Its con~:~truction; lltHl, ns an a uxiliary mise, to the policy of the present Adminigtration, to the thereto, the irumcdiate con:structiuu of an emigrant route extension of Slavery into .l''rec Territory; iu favor of on the lin e of the railroad. admitting Kansas as a Free State, of restonng the action R6Jiolverl, 'l'ltat appropriations by Congress for the of the Jo'ederal Government to the principles of Washing- improvement of rivers and harl>ors, of a national charac· ton and Jefferson, and who purpo~e to unite in preseut- ter, rC<)uired for the accommodation and security of our lng candidates for tho ofliccs of Pre~i d en t and Vice- exi:lting commerce, a re authorizer! by the Constitution, ~-..,:P;"r" trident, do resolve as follov. s: and justified by the obligation of govcrnmcnt I.e> protect esol!oed, That the maintenance of the principles pro- t~s nntl property of its citi".-.ens. mulgnted in the Declaration or Iudcpenclence and 11 • • l ] · f 1 embodied in the .Federal Constitution is cssenti;ll to the 1 'l'h18 contc:;t res ulte d lll t 1e e ect10n 0 t 1C preservation of o ~r Hepublica~t lnstitut.ionl!.' and that Dl'IIIOtrll tic JlOmit1ecs, Buchanan and llr·eckin· the Fc~cral Cons~ttut on, the nghts of t11e !:)tale~, an<! riUO'l• who received the clectoml v otes of the Unton of the ::;tatcs, shall lie preserved. ' Re8olved, 'l'hat with our republican fathers we hold it •w-Jersey, 7; Pennsylvania, 27; Delaware, 8 ; Vir· to be a self-evi<lent truth, that all men arc endowed with glnia, 15; North Carolina, 10; South Carolina, 8 i the i~1alieuable rights to life, liberty, aml the pursuit of Georgia, 10; Alabama, 9; 1\lissis:~lppl, 7; Louisiana, 6; happ10ess, aud that the primary object and ulterior de- Tennessee, 12; Kentucky, 12 ; Indiana, 13; lllinols,.11; sil(ns or our :Federal Government were to sectlre these Missouri, 9; Arkansas, 4; !<'lorida, 3; 'l'exas, 4; Califor- ·ights to all perso.ns within its exclu;ive jurisdiction; nia, 4.- 174. . that, as our rcpulihcan fath ers, when they lmd abolished .For Fremont and Dayton: Maine, 8; Ne"-IIampsh1re, t!la.very in all our national territory, onlained that o~ , C>; \' a.·ruont, :; ; Massachusetts, 18; l~hode Island, '' NATIONAL CO~VENTIO~S AND PLATFOkMS. 23 Connecticut, 0; N <! w-York, 85; Ohio, 28 ; Michigan, G; 1 vlency to the stronger, and an insolent anrl oowMdly Iowa, 4; WbconHiu, I) 1H. brn.vrLclo toward the weak •r power ; a~ Rhown In r«>- l."iiJmore and Donelson, Maryh1nd, 8. I opening sectional agitation, by the repeal of the Mls ouri Compromille; as sl1own in granting to unnatumlized for· -- elgners the right M su ffrage in K /111'\1\~ and Nehraska; ae A)1F.Rl 'AN NATIONAL CO~VRXTlOXlS. JG. The AnH'ri can National Counci l IIH't in Philad ,•lphin Fvll r uary 1 ~), 185G. All the States \.'Xcept fotlr or live w e re r PprcR<'ntcd . K ll. lhrt!ctt, of Ky., PrcsiLicnt of the National Council Jll"l·~i d l'd, a11d, after a. rath e r sto rm~· R !:!siou of thn•t· d :1~· s, d evoted twtinly to the diRCU:-<!'ion of a Party P lalfor111, t l1c fo llowing , on the 21st., wus ttllopted : .AMro:RrCAN PLAT~'O R~f. shown In it!J vacillating course 011 the Ka nsa~ and Nebrnllka question; a~ shown in thr corruptions which per vade some or the Departments of tlie Government; :u> shown in dbi!(r:tcing tncl"iturious naval orlicer:l through prejudice or caprice: n11d as shown in the I.Jiundcril l ~ mi!m11\11Hgement of our foreign rclnt inn!!. 1 J. Therefor e, to remedy existing evil!!, n ncl prevent the dl!;astrous con::;equcnces othtrwi:w rcsiiiLin~:" thorofrom, wo would build up U1c" A111 erican Party" upon the principles h erein before ~t.n trd . Ui. 'rhat rach ~tate Council shall hn.vc authority to amencl tlu:lr several constitution~:~, so as to aboli~ h tho several degrees nnd substitute a plcrlgc of honor, instead of other obligations, for fellowship and ~dm :s:~ion into the party. 16. A free and open discussion or all political prin c! 1. An humble ncknowl('(lg:ment to the ~npremo lleing, pies embrace(! In our Platform. foT his 11rotccting ca r vouchsafed to our fathers in their On the fo llowing d 1ty (Feb. 2~,) the American fluccessful Hevolutionary struggle, and hitherto mani- National Nominatin~ Convc·ntion, com posed rested to us, their desccnrlants, in the preservat.lon of mo. tly of the same gc•ntlcnH't1 who hnd tlelibertho liberties, the independence, and the union of the!:le l:lt1~tc!:l. at<•u as the N n.tional 'onncil, org•luiz<'d at Phila- 2. 'J'he pcrpetu:tlion of the l<'edcntl Union and Consti- d e l phia, wi th 227 delegates in att<'nuancc, tutiou , as the pall:Ltiium of our civil u11d religious libet·- Maine, Vel"tiiOilt., G orgi:1, and South CarolinR., tie!!, and Ute only sure I.Julwarks of Amcricau lndep err dence. h ei ng tbc only titn.tcs not n presented. Ep11l"aim 8. Amcrieang mu11t ,.,tlo AmNiNt; an<l to t.his end Marsh, of Ncw-Jcr cy, wn.~ chosen to p r eside, native- l.Jom citi1-ct1s Hliould be s el eete!l !or all 'tate, and the Convention r e mained in . ession till t h e .l<'edoral aud rnuuidp:tl ollicell or ~ovcr nm cnt employ- I 1 f · · f 1 f ruent, In pt·t•fcrPnrr to a ll others. ~\'ecert!t elesR, 25t I , an(' a let• <l r. posmg o Se vera cases o 4. P ersons horn of American p:~. rc nt~ resirl 'ng tempo- con:cAted 8L'atl4, discussed at considerable length, rarity a.h road, Hliould lie euLitle1l to u ll tlte rights or and with grc:1t warmth, the question o f thn native-born cit:zcns. f 1 N 1 C } 15. No pcr,on slioul<l he sctecte1l for pol:tical station power o tIC lllionn ouncil to esta.hlis 1 ll (whether or uative or fon~ipt birth 1, whCJ recovnizcs auy Platform for· the COil \'('!ltion, which shonlu be allegiance or ollligntiun or a uy rte ·cription to any foreign of hi ndiug force upon that body. .Fin,dl.v, Mr. prin<·c, pot entate n1· p•lwe·, or who refuses to recognize 1{"11' f p 1 · 1 1 f 1 the Federa l and :-<tate Const it utions (each 11 ithin its 1 Inge r, 0 •nn~y \' !tllla, propo. Ct t lC 0 • sphere) :Ls p <~•atllount to all other h~w,;, a:; ru les of poli L- lowi11g: ica I U.l't ion. Re&olverl, That the N atlonal Council has no authority 6. 'l'he unqu:t:i!l(•ll re!'\'lj!nition an\llll :ti nten:tnce or the to p rescribe n. l'latform of principles for this Nominating r eserved rig-h1:-~ of the sc1·c al :-<tat ell, and the cultivation ConvP.ntion, and thu.t we will nominn.te ror President and of h:mnouy and frl'tt•m:il g'()O<I will bet wren the citir. euH Vice- President no mn.n who Is not in favor of interdict,.. of the :>evl'r:tl :-<t:ttcH, and t() this cud, 11011-intcrference ing the introrlnction of Slavery Into Territory north 3<t" hy Congrj;ss wi th <fll('~t i o tt s appert~tin l 11g solely to the 80' by r.ongresslonal a ction. Individual St:Ltt·H. and tiOJI -intervcntion hy each State with the lltr •• ·rs of n.ny other State. A m otion to la.y this r esolu tion on the table 7. The ,. ·cogni tion of the right of nalive·born a ucl wa adopted , 141 to 5g, A motion wn.s th en natumlir.etl c:tir.en~ of tile I nit t-<1 ::<tal es, permanently m:ulc to proceed to the nominatio n of a. candirc~ i d i n g 111 any taritnry the• t•tJ f, to frame tl1eir constitu-tiou a nd l aw~, anll to ret<nhte their do na·~tic and ~oeial date f o r President, which was carried, 151 to o.fl'a it•s in th ei r 0\1' 11 IIIOde. $Uhjpct only to the proviMions 51, the Anti- lavery dclcgatrR, or North .Ame r iof t lte l:<'edt>ral ('onstitutinn, with tht prlvil(·:.:e of t1d111is- cnns, as they were called , votina in the nega-sion into the l ' nion 11 hcnPVl'l' they lmve the requi11ite •J !10pni:Ltion for 011(' ltl')l i"CSI'Il t ;~tivc in Cougress : J>rv- t ive, and ue~il'ing to postpone the 110tllination. t-•il/ed, llf!crt!t~, Lhat none hut t ho~c who nrc ci iz •n!! of But h c iug beaten at n.ll po in t~, they (to the numtlle Uui tc ll Stnt"~• u .• ut•r the Gon~<titution nnd laws hrr of about [jQ) e ither withdrew or refused to th l•reof, and 11 ho h..tVl' IL fix••d r esilience In any Auch l · I Territory, ought. to tmrticipate in the fJrm1Ltion of the t.a. <e any furt ter part in the proceerlings of the Cot1sti1u1ion, or in the cna.cltnent of laws for sa id Terri- Conve ntion, R.nd many of th ' Ill suh.,equently t.or.r or ~tall'. suppol'tl'rl Col. Fl'c mo n t fo l' P l'esi<]cnt. 1\,8r.r itAonr ye (nJfuogrltcte, ml•nt. of til e ptinciplc!l that no ~ta.te or .An in formal b allot was then taken for Presi to admit otherH than ciLize rl ~ to the d ght of suffrage, or of holding poli tical otlices of tlie United (lent, which n•stlltcd fl.:l follows: Sta!1t. esA clmngr In tlie laws of nat11rnlizntion, making 1\ G1\f . FillmLo r e, of Ny. Y. .... 2711 / 1.Tro hn Jh1• ll, Tennc<;.'!eo ... :2S · 1 eorgc nw, . ... .. .. , ennet l ltaynor, N. C .. co11t nuel n':-.idl'l1<'(' of twenty-oue years, of a ll not here- G:trrdt Davis, f{y . . .... Jll l•]mstuq Brooks, N.Y .... 2 tof<11 e provided for, an indiJ<pensable requ:site for citizen- 1 1 M r 01 · 7 r · ' 1 Hltip hcrraft cr, nne! cxcludi rw a ll Jl<\UJlers, and 11erson~ · 0 1 ~1 c ~~an, liO. · · • ·OWlS I>. ~amphell, Oh o. 1 convicted of crinte, front lan,d., ing upon our sho1 es ,· I.Jut sH . ~ . 1S1t ocktt on, '1N' . •J ... .. S1 J ohn M. <.:layton, DeL ... l ntJ .l n trrft'I'<' IH'e wit It the ve~t e( l ri)!hts of foreigner11. a111. OlU! on, ex as. .. t 10 Opposition to any union betwe••n <.:liurch n11rl A fo nnal ballot wnH tlwn tnkcu, when Mr. !'tare; no intl'rferen<"e with religious faith or worl'hip, Fillmore W H.'l nominnt(•cl liS followR: and no te~t oaths fo 1 • officr. Fillmore, 119; Law, 24; Jtaynor, 14; McLean, 18, 11. l•'ree and t.horongh i11vr~t ip-a.tio n into nny anrl ull Dn.vi~, 10; Jlonston, B. all t-).!'t'd ubuses of puhlic functionaries, and n stri ct econ- Necessary to a choice, 122. 0111.1' in pul)lic expcnd:tut·es. . . 1~. '!'he malntcii:Lncc and en forcement or all laws con- Mtllard Frllmoro >V:I f! th en clt•elal'eu to bP. the slitu tlonall.v l'tHLcll'<l nntil SfLid lawg shall he reprnlr d, IIOIIlill C<'. or shal! bo declared null and void by competent judicial / A l.rillot wn1-1 then t·Jken fo r Vie P-Prc ~ident authorlty. · •· . , 1 1!-1. Oppo~it.ion to the reckl ess anclunwbe policy of the an <I .-\ ndrcw .Taekson D o n elson, of T (.•nncR ee, present Ad 1ni n i~trati n11 in Lh• geuer:d management of I waH n o min:ttrd as follows: our nat :011:1 I :tlfa ir~;, nrHI morl! espPcially as showo In re- mon. o~ ,, A · ' 1 · · C A. J. Donelson, Ten., l 1; Percy Walker, Aln.. 8 ttw lt"t11lll' lh.v < es1gnHtton ) and onservn- llen ry J . Gardner, Maas., 8 ., Kenneth Ha)·nor, N. CJ., 8 ti •e~ in pri ncipl•·. from omce, and placing fore'gners and tJ-.traiz<t:l iu tl1c1r places ; us shown in a tt uckllng subser- t Mr. Donelson was th en dec:larcll to be unani. |