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We, the citizens of Minnesota, assembled in Territorial Convention, believing the question of human freedom to be paramount to all other questions now agitating our country, and believing that in conseqence of the corruptions of the old political parties, there is a neccesity for a new party in politics in which the friends of publics virtue may give efficiency to their action, do hearby form our selves into a Territorial Republican Party, and declare the principles which have bro't us together, and for which we will contend until they shall be adopted as a controlling element in the administration of our National and Territorial Government.

1. Resolved, That the Constitution of the United States was designated by those who adopted it, to be a law of impartial liberty to the full extent of the powers granted to the Federal Government.

2. Resolved, That by the Constitution, Congress is made the special guardian of the liberties of the people inhabiting the District of Columbia and the Territories of the United States; and until it shall abolish slavery in the former, and prohibit it in the latter, it remains false to the solemn trust committed to its charge.

3. Resolved, That the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, is unconstitutional in its character, oppressive and unjust in its operation, and dangerous to the domestic tranquility; and it ought therefore to be repealed.

4. Resolved, That it is the right and duty of Congress, in all acts for the admission of new States into the Union, to prohibit forever the introduction of slavery therein.

5. Resolved, That in the ordinance of 1787, coeval with the Constitution, and freely acquiesced in both North and South for more than half a century, we have a practical assertion by the whole people, of the right and duty of Congress to exclude slavery from the Territories. We now reassert that right, and demand the discharge of that duty.

6. Resolved, That the repeal of the Missouri Compromise, by Congress and the present National Administration, has been accomplished in violation of the plighted faith of the South, for the sole purpose of extending slavery over the fertile grounds of the North-west, and strengthening the power of the slaveholders in our government; and those northern men who voted for that measure basely betrayed the rights of the people whom they were chosen to respect.

7. Resolved, That the inhabitants of this Territory without distinction, are at all times entitled to the protection of its laws, and that to deprive any one of his liberty without due process of law, embracing trial by jury under whatever disguises it may be attempted, is a manifest violation of right, and
should therefore be made a penal offence.

8. Resolved, That it is an important part