counte-
the threats of Disunion so often
made by Deraoor«tic m« rubers, without re*
2C c«tu buke and with applause fiom their political
"J'Ut
o« *«rtod i/0».' principles of u hte ^over^uitnt, and as an
».mDi,
avowal of conu-inpUied tieason, winch it
sl«*niiy
gu- u BUiOttbi. 4. That the maintenance inviolate of the
t« rebuke and forever silence
ot lh
SLiies and esm-eiallr
t\-o
a a
espitiany tfx
own domestic insiituiuns according to its
own judgment exciuoively, is et^entiai lo
fiction and endurance of eur politic al fab
ric t.epends and we den auce the law
less invasion bv armed force of the soil of
iny State or Territory, no matter under
pretext, as ajaong the gravest of
crime t.
6. That the present Democratic Admin*
i&ualion ha» far exewdt^d our worst ap
prehensions, in its measureless subservi
ency lo the exactions of sectional int«r
est. as especially evinced in its despua# eral State's,
exertions to force the infamous Lecouupion
Con»uiuuon upon the protesting propie of
Kansas in construing the personal rela
tion between ma^er and servant to in
volve 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 exueme preu nsioua of a purely iocul
interest ami us general and unvarying
abuse ot the power entrusted to it by a con
tiding people.
6. Thai the people jusily view with
alarm the reckhss extravagance which
pervades every department of the Federal
Government that a re'urn to rigid econ
omy and accountability is in
dispensable to
arrest the systematic plunder of the pub
lic trea&ury by lavored partisans while
the recent startling developments offrauds
and corruptions at the Federal metropolis,
show that an entire change of administra*
iioa is imperatively demanded.
