![]() That the present Democratic Administration has far exceeded our worst apprehensions, in its measureless subserviency to the exactions of a sectional interest, as especially evidenced in its desperate exertions to force the infamous Lecompton constitution upon the protesting people of Kansas in construing the personal relation between master and servant to involve an unqualified property in persons in its attempted enforcement, everywhere, on land and sea, through the intervention of Congress and of the Federal Courts of the extreme pretensions of a purely local interest and in its general and unvarying abuse of the power entrusted to it by a confiding people.ħ. That the maintenance inviolate of the rights of the States, and especially the right of each State to order and control its own domestic institutions according to its own judgment exclusively, is essential to that balance of powers on which the perfection and endurance of our political fabric depends and we denounce the lawless invasion by armed force of the soil of any State or Territory, no matter under what pretext, as among the gravest of crimes.ĥ. That to the Union of the States this nation owes its unprecedented increase in population, its surprising development of material resources, its rapid augmentation of wealth, its happiness at home and its honor abroad and we hold in abhorrence all schemes for Disunion, come from whatever source they may And we congratulate the country that no Republican member of Congress has uttered or countenanced the threats of Disunion so often made by Democratic members, without rebuke and with applause from their political associates and we denounce those threats of Disunion, in case of a popular overthrow of their ascendancy, as denying the vital principles of a free government, and as an avowal of contemplated treason, which it is the imperative duty of an indignant People sternly to rebuke and forever silence.Ĥ. That the maintenance of the principles promulgated in the Declaration of Independence and embodied in the Federal Constitution, “That all men are created equal that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness that, to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.” is essential to the preservation of our Republican institutions and that the Federal Constitution, the Rights of the States, and the Union of the States, must and shall be preserved.ģ. That the history of the nation, during the last four years, has fully established the proprietary and necessity of the organization and perpetuation of the Republican Party, and that the causes which called it into existence are permanent in their nature, and now, more than ever before, demand its peaceful and constitutional triumph.Ģ. Resolved, that we, the delegated representatives of the Republican electors of the United States, in Convention assembled, in discharge of the duty we owe to our constituents and our country, unite in the following declarations:ġ. Barely a month after Lincoln was inaugurated, the Civil War began.ĭocument: The Republican Party Platform of 1860 Chicago, Illinois, May 16, 1860 He also received a half a million more votes than his closest rival, Stephen Douglas. Lincoln won the election with 39 percent of the popular vote. Breckenridge representing the Southern faction and John Bell, representing the Constitutional Union Party. Three candidates opposed Lincoln: Stephen Douglas representing the Northern faction of the Democratic Party John C. ![]() They also proposed free-homestead legislation, the establishment of a daily mail service, a transcontinental railroad, and support of the protective tariff. Annotation: During the presidential election of 1860, the Republican Party promised to prohibit slavery.
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