The Daily empire. (Dayton, Ohio) 1865-1867, 1867-06-24
SHAYE DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION.
The ePLATFoRM ADOPTED
JANUARY Sth, 4. ID. 1907.



RESOLUTIONS.
l. Resolved, That the Democracy ofOhio
stcadhstly adhere to the principles of the
party as eNpounded 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 to the states or the people
that strict construction OF the Csnstltu-
tiOn Is Indispensable to the preservation Of
the reserved rights OF the States and the
people that all grants Of power to Govern
mcnt, whether State or Federal. should be
strictly construed, because all such grants
abridge the natural rights Of mcu 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 Is untitled 70
lcgslate for or administer the local concerns
of the States that II would be mOnstrous
that the local affairs OfOhio should be regu-
lated by n Federal Congress In which she has
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 and
that, therefore, Capitalization Of power In
its hands is an ever pending danger. That
such an abs lrption OF power would, while
IL lasted, be destructive of the liberties and
Interests of the people, and would end
either In despotism or a destruction of the
Union that "A National debt, besides inn
Ipoverishing the people, fosters an undue
Increase Of the powers of the Federal Gov
crnment; that high protective tariffs have
q like effect, sacrificing the interests Of the
many for the emolumeuts 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,
aud 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,
aud all attempts to impair this right, either
by Congressional legislation or Constitu-
tiOnal amendment, are unwise and despot-
ic; that the tendency of power IL to steal
from the many to the few, and that, there
fore, "cternal vigilance Is the price OF lib
erty;" chat 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 omuch--unnecessaTily 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 Idcto
! law should be made; that the right of the
people to pcaceably 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
ity, MS prescribed by the Constitution, have
/, the right to govern, the minority have in
defeasible rights; and that n frequent re-
currencc to first principles is essential to
the welfare of the state and the people.
2. ResoiUed, That the States lately in re-
bellion are States In the Union, and have
been recognized IA such by every depart
, ment Of the Government, and by Presi-
= dent Lincoln, who, in the midst of the war;
invited them tn elect members of Congress !;
R by President johnson, in various procla-
n nations and official acts; by Congress,
which permitted Andrew johnson to sit in
II the Senate aS Il Senator from Tennessee,
g and members from Virginia Tennessee
= and Louisiana to sit in the House of Repre-
a sentativcs after these States had seeded,
and while the war was being carried on,
= and which further recognized them as
T. States In the Union by the Congressional
o apportiOnmcnt act providing for their due
, representation In Congress; by various
y tax laws, and especially by the direct tax
u by the resolutions submitting amendments
y to the Constitution for their approval, and
@ by various other acts and resolutions inn
II 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
4 ht-k arAu fn1t
~ tion of cases coming from them, which Il
" could not do were they not in the Union
Y That being thus in the Union, they stan(
p on an equal footing with their sister State
lie States with unequal rights being a thin(
no unknown to the Constitution; that, by tn
80 express terms of the Constitution, eacl
State is entitled to have two Senators and
al due proportion of Representatives In tn
w Congress, anu to vote In all elections O
a President and Vice president; that, thougl
these rights are subject to interruption b.
n state of civil war, they can not, in time Q
ed peace, be suspended, much less destroyed
as without plain violation of the Constitu
an ton; that Congress has no power TO DE
y" prlye "A State of its reserved rights, an
sit reduce IL to u Territorial condition; ths
therefore the exclusion, by the so-calle
Congress, OF all representation from te
ed States, the proposed exclusion of thos
or States, from all voice In the next Presider
tlal election, the threatened overthrow
81 their State Governments and the reductio
no OF their States to the condition of territo
ne les, are each and every one of them uncor
Ia stitutional, revolutionary and dCspot
measures. destructive not merely of Il
'eu rights of those States, but also of the righ
rec OF every other State In the Union. Tn
r" those measures are parts Ofa plan to MULTI
the Constitution, virtually overthrow u
State Governments, to erect acOnsOlidat,
,a, despotism on their ruins; and TO establls
:" and perpetuate atyrannical rule of n mino
lis ity over a majority of the American pc,
ma pie. That the people cannot, without
ble loss of their liberties, prosperity and homo
5i submit to such n result; and we, therefor
u' in the hope that the warning will
-DA needed, and the danger to our situations
the peaceably averted, do solemnly warn Il
tch advocates of the plan, that 1t will n
,,s be submitted to.
yS' s. Resolped, That Congress is not
. omnipotent law making power. That II
Constitution provides that no bill shall b
come law without the approval of h