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of the duty of a government to "insure domestic tranquility, and promite the general welfare;" and that these objects are in no way to be effectually secured as by the enactment and enforcement of a Prohibitory [illegible] Law.

9. Resolved, That while we do not seek in a sectional spirit the supremacy of the North over the South, nor to interfere politically with constitutional legislation in the slaveholding States, we do seek, and will never cause to seek, the supremacy of freedom and free institutions over our wholw country; and especially to induce our National Government to proceed at ease to relieve itself of all responsibility for the existence of slavery wherever is [illegible] the constitutional power to legislate for its [illegible], and that we call upon all friends of human freedom, of temperance, [illegible], and progress in our Territory, to enter with us in laboring for the objects we are here met to protect.

10. Resolved, that we proose the following principles and measures among these which belong to the Republican Platform:

1. Election of all civil officers by the people, except where inconsistent with the interets of the public service.

2. The abolition of all needless offices, and no salaries for legislators or others except for normal service.

3. No more revenue than is required to pay the necessary expenses of the government and extinguish the public debt,

4. Free lands in limited quantuties to actual settlers.

5. River and Harbor improvements only where are amtters of national concern.

6. Cordial welcome to emigrants and exiles from the old world; but no welcome to banished paupers and criminals, nor to those who plot the overthrow of the Republic.

7. Reduction of land and ocean postage to the lowest possible point.

8. No imprionment or involuntary servitude except for crime.

9. No civil disabilities on account of color or religious opinions.

10. No legislation for the advantage of the few to the injury of the many.

11. No encroachments of the Federal Government upon the reserved rights of the States; and no disregard by the States of their constitutional obligation.

12. Additional guarantees for the purity of legislation.

13. In administering the government, man and morals first, the interest of property afterward.

11. Resolved, That we hail with pleasure the decision of the Supreme Court of Wisconsin, in the case of the United States against Sherman M. Booth and John Rycraft, as the dawn of a brighter day in the history of jurisprudence, and commend it to all of the Courts of the Free States as a precedent which should forever stand as a true exposition of the Constitution of the United States, and as a firm basis upon which the principles of justice should forever rest.

12. Resolved, That the papers of the Territory friendly to our cause, be and are hereby requested to publish our platform.

13. Resolved, That a thorough and efficicient organization, in the several counties of this Territory, of the friends of freedom, temperance and progress, is the surest guaranty for the ultimate triumph of our principles.

14.Resolved, That grateful for the harmony which has prevailed in our deliberations, united in the leading objects we cause here to promote—recognizing the right of private judgment, and disposed to tolerate in our Republican party diversity of opinion on matters not involving our fundamental principles, with hearts warm with fraternal feeling, and an earnest, hopeful purpose to diffuse and carry out the principles ]here affirmed, and depending for our ultimate success on the righteousness of those principles, and our own diligence--we part in peace.