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1 No More Slave Territory: Freedom, Free Speech, Free Kansas & Fremont against Buchanan, Fillmore, Doughfaceism, Slavery, and the Border Ruffians 1 (1856)

handle is hein.slavery/nmslvter0001 and id is 1 raw text is: BUFFALO EXPRESS EXTRA. NO MORE SLAVE TERRITORY FREEDOM, FREE SPEECH, FREE KANSAS & FRE1YIONT! Against BUCHANAN, FILLYIORE, DOUGHFACEISM SLAVERY, and the BORDER RUFFIANS! The Republican party is organized upon the platform of LIBERTY. Independence and equal rights, as embodied in the Declaration of Inde- pendence and the Constitution of the United States, to maintain the union of the States and the rights of the States ; Freedom of Speech and of the Press-to resist the spread of slavery and the aggressions of the slave power. The equal rights of all persons to impartial protection in the en- joyment of religious freedom, and of all American Citizens, whether native or naturalized, to the free exercise of the elective franchise, and the enjoyment of its benefits; and we propose no tests for office, except honesty, capacity and devotion to American institutions. We maintain that there shall be no slavery outside the slave states, and no domination over the National Government by the slave power ; and for this purpose have nominated For President, JOHN C. FREMONT. Vice WM. L. DAYTON. PLATFORV[ OF FREEDOM! Adopted by the REPUBLICAN CONVENTION at Philadel- phia, June 18th, 1856. This Convention of Delegates, assembled in stitution are essential to the preservation of our pursuance of a call addressed to the people of Republican institutions, and that the Federal the United States without regard to pas4 political Constitution, the rights of the States, and the differences or divisions, who are opposed to the union of the States shall be preserved. repeal of the Missouri Compromise; to the policy 2. Resolved, That with our Republican lkth- of the present Administration ; to the extension ers we hold it to be a self evident truth that al of slavery into free Territory, in favor of the ad men are endowed with the unalienable right to mission of Kansas as a Free State; of restoring life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, and the action of the Federal Government to the that the primary object and ulterior design of our principles of Washington and Jefferson; and for Federal Government were to secure those rights the purpose of presenting candidates for the to all persons within its exclusivejurisdiction; that offices of President and Vice President, do as our Republican fathers, when they had abolish- n1. Resolve, That the maintenance of the ed Slavery in all our National Territory, ordained principles promulgated in the Declaration of' that no person should be deprived of life, liberty, Independence and embodied in the Federal Con- or property, without due process of law, it be-

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