The Daily empire. (Dayton, Ohio) 1865-1867, 1867-02-07
SYA7V DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION.
THE PLATFORM ADOPTED.
JANUARY sth, A. D. 1897.
REsoLuTIoNa.

| /. Res0lUed, That the Democracy Of Ohio
steadfastly adhere TO the principles Of the
party az expounded by the fathers, and ap-
proved by experience; that In accordance
with these principles we declare that the
Federal Government Is government Of
limited powers, and that It possesses no
powers but such as are expressly, or by
necessary Implication delegated to IL In the
Federal Constitution that all other powers
are reserved 10 the states or the people
that strict construction OF the Constitu-
ton Is Indispensable TO the preservation of
the reserved rights of the States and the
people that all grants of power to 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 and the rights of the people is
necessary TO the preservation Of the Union
that the Federal Government II untitled to
| legislate for or administer the local concerns
of the States that IL would be monstrous
that the local affairs of Ohio should be regu-
lated by a Federal Congress In which she has
but two Senator'S 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 and
that, therefore, Capitalization of power In
us hands Is an ever pending danger That
such an abs rption OF power would, while
II lasted, be destructive of the liberties and
| interests of the people, and would end
either In despotlsm or destruction of the
Union; that q National debt, besides. inn
poverishing the people, fosters an undue
increase of the powers of the Federal Gov
ernment; that high protective tariffs have
a like effect, sacrificing the interests of the
many for the emoluments 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 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
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
erty !" that the tendency of government IL
to enlarge its authority by usurpation, and
therefore government needs to be watched !;
that another of its tendencies is to govern
too omuch-unnecessarily 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 legitimately 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 involable; that the
military should be held In due subsection
to the civil power; that while the major
ity, as prescribed by the Constitution, have
the right to govern, the minority have in
defeasible rights; and that n frequent re-
currence to first principles is essential TO
the welfare of the State and the people
2. ResOlyod, That the States lately in re-
bellion are States In the Union, and have
been recognized as such by every depart
ment of the Government, and by Presi-
dent Lincoln, who, in the midst of the war,
invited them to elect members of Congress
by President johnson, in various prpcla-
nations and official acts by Congress,
which permitted Andrew johnson to sit in
the Senate as q Senator from Tennessee.
and members from Virginia, Tepnessee
and Louisiana to sit In the House of Repre-
sentatives after these States had seeded
and while the war was being carried on,
land which further recognized them as
apportionment act providing for their due
representation In Congress; by various
tax laws, and especially by the direct tax
by the resolutions submitting amendments
to the Constitution for their approval, and
by various other acts and resolutions inn
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-
tion of cases coming from them, which 1t
could not do were they not In the Union,
That being thus in the Union, they stand
on all equal footing with their sister States
States with unequal rights being thing
unknown to 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, and to vote in all elections OF
President and Vice-president; that, though
e these rights are subject TO interruption by
/, state of civil war, they can not, in time OF
J. peace, be suspended, much less destroyed
= without plain violation of the Constitu.
ton; that Congress has no power TO de-
Drive q State of its reserved rights, anC
reduce 1t 10 Territorial condition; tha
therefore the exclusion, by the so-calle
Congress, of all representation from tel
. States, the proposed exclusion of thosl
Is cial election, the threatened overthrow o
their State Governments and the reduction
. OF their States to the condition of territOr
J, les, are each and every one of them uncon
stitutional, revolutionary and despoti
measures, destructive not merely of tn
r rights of those States, but also of the right
Of every other State In the Union. Tha
a those measures are parts of plan to MULTI,
the Constitution, virtually overthrow tn
n State Governments, TO erect a consolidated
y despOtism on their ruins; and TO establish
: and perpetuateR tyrannical rule of minor
: ity over a majority of the American peo
pie. That the people cannot without
loss of their liberties, prosperity and honor
- submit to such result; and we, therefore
in the hope that the warning will b
needed, and the danger to our situations b
l. peaceably averted, do solemnly warn tn
NJ advocates of the plan, that it will NO
d be submitted to.
he 3. Resolped, That Congress is not a
d. omnipOtent law making power. That th
- Constitution provides that no bill shall be
come law without the approval of th
% President, unless it be passed by two-third
of each House of Congress. That one q
=. the objects of the present so-called Con
NJ gress In excluding States from representa-
ng ton, Is TO pass bills by a twO-thirds vOt
~ which, were all the States represented