Platform
The 1860 Republican party platform was recommended to the convention by a committee chaired by Judge William Jessup of Pennsylvania, and was adopted unanimously.
The platform contained seventeen declarations of principle, of which ten dealt directly with the issues of free soil principles, slavery, the Fugitive Slave Act, and the preservation of the Union, while seven dealt with other issues. Clauses 12 through 16 of the platform called for a protective tariff, enactment of the Homestead Act, freedom of immigration into the United States and full rights to all immigrant citizens, internal improvements, and the construction of a Pacific railroad.
In addition to the preservation of the Union, all five of these additional promises were enacted by the Thirty-seventh Congress and implemented by Abraham Lincoln or the presidents who immediately succeeded him.
Few of the delegates to the 1860 Republican National Convention were Southerners, and few of these provisions were drawn up so as to appeal to voters of the South.
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Famous quotes containing the word platform:
“I have rather a strange objection to talking from the back platform of a train.... It changes too often. It moves around and shifts its ground too often. I like a platform that stays put.”
—Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924)
“I marched in with the men afoot; a gallant show they made as they marched up High Street to the depot. Lucy and Mother Webb remained several hours until we left. I saw them watching me as I stood on the platform at the rear of the last car as long as they could see me. Their eyes swam. I kept my emotion under control enough not to melt into tears.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)
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—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)