The Daily empire. (Dayton, Ohio) 1865-1867, 1867-06-10
STAHE DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION.
THE PLATFORM ADOPTED.
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January Sfh, Il. ID. 1867.


party ~ seNpOunucu by the fathers, and ap-
proved by experienced; that In Accordance
with these principles we declare that the
Federal Government is Il government of
limited powers, and that Il possesses no
powers but such as are eNptcssly or by
necessary implication delegnied tOi On the
Federal Constitution that all other powers
are reserved to the otatcs or the people /;
that a strict construction OF the CsnHtitu-
tiOn Is Indispensable to the preservation Of
tue reserved rights Of the states and the
peoples that all grants Of power to Govern
ment. whether state or Federal, should be
strictly construed, because all such grants
abridge the natural rights ufmcu; that the
preservation of the equality and rights OF
the states aud the rights OF the people is
necessary to the preservation OF the Uniou :;
that the Federal Government IS untitled 10
ilegiSlatU for or administer the local concerns
luf the States that IL would be nunstrnuS
that the local affairs ofOhio should he rcgu-
latcdhy Federal Congress IN which Shchas
but two Senators, and the New England
States, with but a little greater population,
have twelve that the tendency of the Fed
eral Government Is To usurp The reserved
rights Of the States aud of the people and
that therefore, Capitalization Of power Ia
its hands Is an ever peadiug danger. That
such an abs brptiou OF power would. while
it lasted, be destructive OF the liberties and
interests of the people, and would end
Union that a National debt. besides inn
pONerishing the people, fosters an undue
increase Of the powers of the Federal Gov
ernmcnt; that high protective tariffs have
| a like effect sacrificing the interests of the
many for the emolumcnts 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 teA-
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-
tion;u 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 it's authority by usurpatiOn, and
therefore government needs to he 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 lcgitmately 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 major
lty, as prescribed by the Constitution, have
I III.
defeasble rights; and that a frequent re-
currence to first principles is essential to
the welfare of the State and the people.
=. ReSOiUed, That the States lately in re-
bclliOn 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 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 as
= +. 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
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
p were passed since the attempted secession
If of those States, by the judiciary of the
u United States. which holds Federal Courts
in all those States, and especially by the
}, Supreme Court which cntertains iurisdic-
l. ton of cases coming from them, which il
n could not do were they not in the Union
II That being thus in the Union, they stanC
~ on an equal footing with their sister State!
N States with unequal rights being a thina
N unknown to the Constitution; that, by thu
IN express terms of the Constitution, eacl
State Is entitled to have two Senators and ;
due proportion of Representatives in til,
Congress, ana to vote in all elections o
President and Vice president; that, though
T. these rights are subject to interruption by
In u state of civil war, they can not, III time o
al peace, be suspended, much less DESTROYED
90 without a plain violation of the COnstitu
70 ton; that Congress has no power to de
of prive a State of its reserved rights, AN,
ic reduce it to a Territorial condition; tina
. therefore the exclusion, by the sO-callel
Congress, of all representation from te
ce States, the proposed exclusion of thos
IN States, from all voice in the next Presiden
ht tial election, the threatened overthrow G
their State Governments and the reductiO
OF their States to the condition of territOr
les, are each and every one of them uncon
. sttutiOnu, revolutionary and dcspoti
measures destructive not merely of tn
rights of those States, but also of the right
of every other State in the Union. Thu
4 those measures are parts OF a plan to MULTI
J the Constitution, virtually overthrow tia
sS State Governments, 10 erect aconsoldate
Ice despOtism on their ruins; and To establis
nd and perpetuate tyrannical rule of aminol
en ~, ity over Il majority of the American pee
y" Pile. That the people cannot, without
US loss of their liberties prosperity and homo
submit to such n result; and we, Therefore
in the hope that the warning will b
needed, and the danger to our situations b
he peaceably aYerted, do solemnly warn I'll
re- advocates of the plan, that it will nc
be submitted to.
ate 5. ResOlUed That Congress is not a
ar ,ar omnipOtent law-making power. That th
Constitution provides that 10 bill shall bl
come a law without the approval of tn
President unless It be passed two-third
red of each House of Congress. That one {
ais the objects of the present so-called Con
The greSs In excluding States from representa-
, ton, is to pass bills by a two-thirds vot
ng, which, were all the States represented
nd could not 50 pass aud thus to virtual
IN, abolish the constitutional provision afOrc
nN..GN a 4 4. 4.