The Daily empire. (Dayton, Ohio) 1865-1867, 1867-05-13
STATE DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION.
THE PLATFORM ADOPTED.
JANUART Sh, i. D. 1901.
L

RksOLl TONS.
/. Resolved, That the Democracy ofOhio
steadfastly adhere to the principles of the
party as e%xpouuded by the fathers, and ap-
proved by experience; that In accordance
with these principles We declare that the
Federal Government is u government of
limited powers, and that il possesses no
powers but such AS are expressly, or by
necessary implication delegated to II in the
Federal Constitution that all other powers
are reserved TO the states or the people
that "A strict construction OF the Censtitu-
ton Is indispensable to the preservation of
the reserved rights OF the States and the
people hat all grants OF power to Govern
meut, 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
Ilegislate for or administer the local concerns
of the States that it would be monstrous
that the local affairs ofOhio should be regu-
lated by Il Federal COngressin which she has
but two Senators. and the New England
States, with but n 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, a Capitalization Of power in
its hands is an ever pending danger. That
IoNANlA hlA ~ " IAl'N w N'NtA NNNAhH ~
it lasted, be destructive of the liberties and
interests of the people, and would end
either in despOtism or a destruction of the
Union that II National debt, besides inn
poyerishing the people, fosters an undue
increase OF the powers of the Federal Gov
ernmcnt that high protective tariffs have
u like eject, sacrificing the interests of the
many for the emolumcnts of the few, and
plainly violating the equity and spirit of
the Constitution; that the collection and
disbursement of ormou 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 Il 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 is
to enlarge its authority by usurpation. and
therefore government needs to be watched I;
: that another of its tendencies is to govern
: too much-unnecessarily and vexatiously
, interfering with the business and habits of
y 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 &c post GdctO
o law should be made; that the right of the
. people to pcaceably assemble and consult
> upon public affairs is imviolable that the
: military should be held in due subsection
to the civil power; that while the major
- ity, rs prescribed by the Constitution, have
: the right to govern, the minority have in
r deteasible rights and that Il frequent re-
4 currence to first principles is essential to
y the welfare of the State and the people.
4 ,. Resolved. That the States lately in re-
il bellion are States in the Union, and have
been recognized rs such by every depart
II ment of the Government, and by Presi-
dent Lincoln, who, in the midst of the war
q invited them to electmembcrS of Congress
by President Johnson, in various procla.
nations aud official acts; by Congress
d which permitted Andrew Johnson to sit il
/. the Senate as a Senator from Tennessee
and members from Virginia, Tennessee
n and Louisiana to sit in the House of Repre-,
IS sentativcs after these States had seeded
m and While the war was being carried on
n and which further recognized them n
Y States in the Union by the Congressiona
n apportionment act providing for their du,
rs REPRESENTATION in Congress; by varioul
tax laws, and especially by the direct tax
i by the resolutions submitting amendment
to the Constitution for their approval, anC
by various other acts and resolutions I'M
parting the same recognition all of whicl
were passed since the attempted secession
ne of those States, by the Judiciary of tn
United States, which holds Federal Court
Us in all those States, and especially by tn
tn Supreme Court, which entertains jurisdic
Il, ton of cases coming from them, which
could not do were they not in the UniOI
That being thus in the Union, they stan
vi on III equal footing with their sister State
nc States with unequal rights being a thin
". unknown to the Constitution that, by tn
ur express terms of the Constitution, eac
re State is entitled to havc two Senators and
wv due proportion of Representatives in I'll
" Congress, and to vote in all elections
ne President and Vice-president that, thong
III these rights are subject to interruption b
a state of civil war, they can not, in time,
peace, be suspended, much less destroye
without n plain violation of the Constitl
Ill ton that Congress has no power to d
on prive u State of its reserved rights, Al
lus reduce it to n Territorial condition; tn
Dr. therefore the exclusion, by the sO-call'
sa- Congress, of all representation from L
M States, the proposed exclusion of tho
tn States, from all voice in the next Preside
ed tial election, the threatened overthrow
the their State Governments and the reducti
ri OF their States to the condition of terrific
ON les, are each and every one of them unco
lies stitutional, revolutionary and despo
the measures, destructive not merely of t
t of rights of those States, but also of the rigl
of every other State in the Union. II
- those measures are parts OLA plan to null
ov- the Constitution, virtually overthrow t
~ State Governments, to erect acOnsolidat
" Is despotism on their ruins; and to establi
'uld and perpetuate a tytannical rule of Il
or ity over Il majority of the American p,
an . pie. That the people cannot, without
loss of their liberties, prosperity and hon
lah' submit to such n result and we, thereto
ted, in the hope that the warming will
needed, and the danger to our situations
peaceably averted, do solennly warn
Jew advocates of the plan, that it will l
be submitted to.
8. ResOlued, hat Congress is not
cAy omnipotent law-making power. That
Aeu- Constitution prOyilps that M hill shall