The Daily empire. (Dayton, Ohio) 1865-1867, 1867-07-09
TILE DAILY EMPIRE
STATE DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION.
The PLATFORM ADOPTED
JANUARY Sth, 4. ID. 1907

JANUARH Sth, 4. d. $50"
pEsoLurIoNs. ,,
/, Resoired. That the Dempefafg y, nS Y m
stendmstly adhere to the prlnSlp ,nd an
Marty MS oxpoundod by the fathers, u,,I IIanr nv
party ~ ,. 20 !, p,S-t,ariencc; that In accoruhhu
pr,,S thcse principles we declare that ~ |,
uaI,roI GoVerument Is gONerhuhon'
iiv,itiJ pnwers, and TINT tt posSesscs
n,,.'rs INIT such Ns are expressly, ~
NECESSARY implication ueleghIv' eleghtIIva,,' ~ r,Sple
Federal Constitution tIht tIi ~ ~ tb estitu-
arn reserved TO the states oI Ation of
A. o'str,cf construction OF " and the
tion ti'H Il indispensable 70 the 40 Govern.
,he reserved rights Of tbfal, should be
neopic; that all grants gall such grants
ment. whether state ~ Of men; that the
strictly construed, holity and rights OF
abrldge the natuNghts Of the people is
preservation oieseryation of the Union !;
the states aF6Overnment Is untitled 20
necessary administer the local concerns
that the& that 1t would be monstrous
legislaSdl affairs ofOhio should be regu-
of tlAFederal Congress in which she has
tbs senators, and the New England
~, with but u little greater population,
~ twelve; that the tendency of the Fed
lstal Government is to usurp the reserved
rrlghts Of the States aud of the people; and
that, therefore, u central cation of power In
its hands Is an ever pending danger. That
such an abs irption OF power would, while
IL lasted, be destructive of tue liberties and
interests of the people and would end
either in deSpOtiSm or destruction of the
Union; that Il National debt, besides im-
poycrishing the people, fosters an undue
Increase Of the powers Of the Federal Cow
crnment; that high protective tariffs have
like effect, sacrhcing the Interests of the
many for the clnolumcnts of the few and
plainly violating the equity and spirit Of
the Constitution; that the collection and
disbursement of enormous revenues by the
Federal Government have the same ten
dency, beside corrupting the Government,
and that. therefore, economy Is essential
not only 10 the prosperity, but also to the
liberties of the people; that unequal tax
alton is a plain violation of Justice, of
which no Government Uan safely be guilty.
That to each State belongs the right to
determine the qualification of its electors,
and all attempts to impair this right, either
by Congressional legislation or Constitu
tional amendment, are unwise and despot-
iC that the tendency of power Is TO steal
from the many to the few, and that, there
fore "eternal vigilance Is the price of lib
crty;n that the tendency Of government is
to enlarge its authority by usurpation, and
therefore government needs to be watched
that another of its Tendencies Is to govern
too much--uunccessarily and vexatiously
interfering with the business and habits of
the people that the freedom of speech and
of the press is essential to the existence of
liberty: that no person not IN the military
or naval service, or in the bounds where
martial law lcgitimately prevails, can law
fully be deprived of life, liberty or proper
ty, without due process of civil law; that
the courts should always be open for the
redress of grievances; that no er post JdctO
law should be made that the right of the
people to peaceably assemble and consult
upon public affairs Is inviolable ; that the
military should be held in due subjection
to the civil power; that while the maj jor-
ity, rs prescribed by the Constitution, have
the right to- govern, the minority have in
defcasible rights and that a frequent re-
currence to first principles Is essential to
the welfare OF the State and the people.
2. Resolued. That the States lately in re-
bcllion are States In the Union, and have
been recognized as such by every depart
Inent of the Government, and by Presi-
dent Lincoln. who, in the midst of the war,
invited them to electmenlbers Of Congress !;
by President johnson, in various procla-
nations and official acts; by Congress,
which permitted Andrew Johnson to sit in
the Senate as Senator from Tennessee,
and members from Virginia, Tennessee
and Louisiana to sit in the House of Repre-
sentatiVes after these States had seeded,
and while the war was being carried on,
and which further recognized them hs
States in the Union by the Congressional
apportionment act providing for their due
REPRESENTATION in Congress; by various
tax laws, and especially by the direct tax I;
by the resolutions submitting amendments
to the Constitution for their approval, and
by various other acts and resolutions i'm
parting the same recognition; all of which
were passed since the attempted secession
of those States, by the judiciary Of the
United States, which holds Federal Courts
in all those States, and especially by the
Supreme Court, which entertains jurisdic-
ton of cases coming from them, which II
could not do were they not in the Union
That being thus in the Union, they stand
on nm equal footing with their sister States
States with unequal rights being thing
unknowuto the Constitution; that, by the
express terms of the Constitution, each
State is entitled to have two Senators and a
due proportion of Representatives in the
Congress, ANA t9 vote In all elections OF
President and president; that, though
these rights are subject TO interruption by
a state of civil war, they can not, in time OF
peace be suspended, much less destroyed,
without plain violation of the Constitu-
tion; that Congress has no power TO de-
priye a state of its reserved rights, and
reduce it to n Territorial condition; that
therefore the exclusion, by the so-called
Congress, of all representation from ter
States the proposed exclusion OF those
States from all voice in the next Preslden-
tial election, the threatened overthrow o.
their State Governments and the reduction
Of their States TO the condition of terrltor-
les, are each and every one of them uncOn-
stitutional, revolutionary and dcspOti'
measures. destructive not merely OF th'
rights of those States, but also of tho right
of every other State in the Union. Tha
those mcasurcsare parts ofa plan to nullify
the Constitution, virtually overthrow I'll,
Gtatn EnVprumpntg. to erect consolidated
despotlsm on their ruins; and TO establish
and perpetuate a tyrannical rule of minor
ity over majority of the American peo
pie That the people cannot without
Toss of their liberties, prosperity and honor
submit 10 such result; and we, therefore
in the hope that the warning will b.
Needed, and the danger to our situations b.