The Daily empire. (Dayton, Ohio) 1865-1867, 1867-06-07
SHATV DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION.
TIE PLATFORM ADOPTED.
REsoLurInNa.

proven Dl experiences lnAl IN accordance
with these principles we declare that the
limited powers, and that IT possesses 40
powers but such as are expressly, or BY
necessary implication delegated 10 IL In the
Federal Constitution; that all other powers
are reserved to the ntates or the people
that strict construction of the Censtitn-
tiOn Is Indispensable 10 the preservation of
the reserved rights OF the States aud the
people that all grants Of power 20 Govern
ment, whether State or Federal, should be
strictly construed, because all such grants
abridge the natural rights Of men; that the
preservation Of the equality and rights Of
the States aud the rights of the people Is
necessary to the preservation of the Union
| that the Federal Government W uniitted to
| legislatc for or administer the local concerns
OF the States that it would be mOnstrOus
| that the local affairs OfOhiO should be regu-
lated by a Federal Congress in which shell
but two Senators, and the New EnglaNd
States with but little greater population,
have twelve; that the tendency OF the Fed
eral Government Is TO usurp the reserved
rights OF the States and of the people; aud
that, therefore, a Capitalization of power in
Its hands Is an ever pending danger. That
such an abs irptiOn OF power would, while
| II lasted, be destructive of the liberties and
interests of the people, and would end
either I'm despotismOr destruction Of the
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poyerishing the people, fosters an undue
increase Of the powers of the Federal Gov
ernment; that high protective tariffs have
like effect, sacrificing the interests of the
many for the emOluments of the few, and
plainly violating the equity aud 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 to the prosperity, but also to the
liberties of the people; that unequal tax
alton is plain violation of justice, OF
which no Government can 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
lby Congressional legislation or Constitu-
tional amendment, are unwise and despot-
ic; that the tendency of power is to steal
from the many 20 the few, and that there
fore, "eternal vigilance is the price of lib
erty /" 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-unneCessarily and veXatiously
Interfering with the business ndhabits 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 legitimately prevails, can law
, fully be deprived OF life, liberty or proper
lty, without due process of civil law that
the courts should always be open for the
, redress Of grievances; that no er post JGctO
/ law should be made; that the right OF the
/ people to peaceably assemble and consult
4 upon public affairs is inviolable; that the
! military should be held in due subsection
to the civil power; that while the major
ity, as prescribed by the Constitution, lavC
the right TO govern, the minority have in
I defeasible rights; and that u frequent re.
J. currence to first principles is essential tC
I the welfare of the State and the people.
2. Resolved, That the States lately in re-
: bellion are States in the Union, and have
lbeen recognized as such by every depart
; ment of the Government, and by Presi'
II dent Lincoln, who, in the midst of the war
> invited them to electmembers of Congress
y by President johnson, in various procla
,, mations and official acts; by Congress
! which permitted Andrew johnson to sit II
= the Senate as Senator from Tennessee
II and members from Virginia, Tennessee
f. and Louisiana to sit in the House of Repre-
sentatives after these States had seeded
IS and while the war was being carried OIL
d and which further recognized them Il
J. States in the Union by the Congressiona
's apportionment act providing for their du
IS representation In Congress; by' yarion
IS tax laws, and especially by the direct tax
" by the resolutions submitting amendment
!, to the Constitution for their approval, an
t. by various other acts and resolutions i'm
)t parting the same recognition; all of whie
ID were passed since the attempted secessio
r. of those States, by the Judiciary of tn
W United States, which holds Federal Court
= in all those States, and especially by tn
iSupreme Court, which entertains jurisdiC
B. tion of cases coming from them, which
ls could not do were they not in the Uniol
A. That being thus in the Union, they stan
4, on an equal footing with their sister Stat
-. States with unequal rights being thin
he unknown to the Constitution; that, by II
rs. express terms of the Constitution, eaC
In State is entitled to have two Senators and
due proportion of Representatives In Il
'h' Congress, and to vote in all elections
res President and Vice president; that. thous
Ily these rights are subject TO interruption
a state of civil war, they can not, in time
peace. be suspended, much less destroyC
without plain violation of the Constit
tiou; that Congress has no power TO D
Is priye a State of its reserved rights, a
ra- reduce 1t to Territorial condition; III
the therefore the exclusion, by the so-cali
-oI Congress, of all representation from
States, the proposed exclusion or th'
an States, from all voice in the next Preside
ten tial election, the threatened overthrow
has their State Governments and the reducti
Is OF their States to the condition of territ
'N les, are each and every one of them uncC
Mas stitutional, revolutionary and desp0
lgh measures, destructive not merely OF
ter, rights of those States, but also of the rig
OF every other State in the Union. ~
III those measures are parts Of plan to nun
ent the Constitution, virtually overthrow Z
red State Governments, TO erect aconsolida
rails despotism on their ruins; and 70 establ
anJ andperpetuate tyrannicalrhl ofamin
anu ity over majority of the American p
pie. That the people cannot, without
loss OF their liberties, prosperity and hol
4 at submit to such n result; and we, thereft
ice in the hope that the warning will
va, needed, and the danger to our situations
o peaceably aYerted, do solemnly warn
ago advocates of the plan, that IL will
ions be submitted to.
lred 5. RESOLVED, That Congress is not
v te Omnipotent law making power. That
= Constitution provides that no bill shall
P' come law without the approval of
END President, unless it be passed by two-thi
con- of each House of Congress. That one
ae- the objects of the present so-called
~, eress In excluding States from reprcser
. tnS ton, Is TO pass bills by 4 two-thirds '
ana which, were all the States represen
nit could not so pass; and thus to virtui
4 he abolish the constitutional provision aft