The Daily empire. (Dayton, Ohio) 1865-1867, 1867-03-09
STATE DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION.
THE PLATFORM ADOPTED.
JANU4RY StA, 4. y. 1907.
nRanL.urIoNa.

Federal Government Is a government OF
limited powers, and that V possesses no
powers but such as are expressly, or by
necessary Implication delegated 10 Il In the
Federal Constitution that alIotber powers
are reserved 20 the states or the people
that a strict construction OF the Constltu-
tiOn Is Indispensable 90 the preservation OF
the reserved rights Of the States and the
people that all grants o power 70 Govern
mont, whether State or Federal, should be
strictly construed, because all such grants
abridge the natural rights Of nien that the
preservation Of the equality and rights OF
the States and the rights Of the people Is
necessary to the preservation or the Union /;
that the Federal Government Ia untitled 10
legislate for OF administer the local concerns
Of the States that it would be monstrous
that the local affairs ofOhio shouldb be regu-
lated by a Federal Congress in which she has
but two Senators, and The New England
States, with but y little greater population,
havetwelve 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 au ever pending danger. That
such an absorption OF power would, while
It lasted, be destructive of the liberties and
Interests of the people, and would end
either In ~despotism or n destruction of the
Union that q National debt, besides Inn
poverishing the people, fosters an undue
increase Of the powers OF the Federal Gov
eminent; 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 c%orruptlng the Government,
aud that, therefore, economy Is essential
not only TO the prosperity, but also 70 the
liberties of the people; that unequal tax
alton is a 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 nnwise 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 y 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 vexatieusly
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 thev bounds where
| lllILlhl law AtElblhlhlIiy PtNAAlSf Nhh Jaw
fully be deprived Of life, liberty or proper
ty, without due process of civil law that
the courtss should always be open for the
redress of grievances; that no &C 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 subsection
10 the civil power; that while the major
ity, rs prescribed by the Constitution, have
| tho rinlf IN nnyarN tlla minnrifu hnNn IN
defeasible rights; and that a frequent re-
currence to first principles Is essential to
the welfare of the State and the people.
,. Resolved, 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 Presl-
dent Lincoln, who, in the midst of the war,
invited them To elect member of Congress
by President johnson, in various procla-
nations and official acts; by Congress,
which permitted Andrew johnson tosit in
the Senate as a 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 az
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 amendment
to the Constitution for their approval, and
by various other acts and resolutions i'm
parting the same recognition; all Of which
were passed since the attempted secession
bOf those States, by the Judiciary of the
in all those States, and especially by the
Supreme Court, which entertalns jurisdic-
ton of cases coming from them, which II
could not do were they no in the Union,
That being thus in the Union, they stand
ON an equal footing with their sister States
States with unequal rights being n thing
unknown to the Constitution that, by the
express terms of the Constitution, eacl
State IL entitled to have two Senators and 1
due proportion of Representatives in the
Congress, and to vote In all elections o
President and Vice-president that, though
these rights are subject TO interruption by
a state of civil war, they can not, in timex
peace, be suspended, much less destroyed
r without a plain violation of the Constitu
ton; that Congress has no power to de
T prive a State of its reserved rights, An,
, reduce 1t to a Territorial condition; tina
q therefore the exclusion, by the so-callet
. Congress, of all representation from tel
a States, the proposed exclusion Of thos
q States, from all voice inithe next Presiden
tial election, the threatened overthrow O
r their State Governments and the reductiol
/ OF Jnelf SJhJeh 10 Llt COllulIlOn Oh IerflIOr
les, are each and every one of them uncon
stitutional, revolutionary and despoti
measures, destructive not merely of th
!, rights Of those States, hut also of the right
a Of every other State In the Union. Tina
! those measures are parts ola plan to MULTI
I. the Constitution, virtually overthrow tll
State Governments, TO erect consolidate
n despotism on their ruins and 10 establis
n and p%erpetuate a tyrannical rule of q minor
n ity over q majority of the American pee
q pls That the people cannot, without
loss of their liberties, prosperity and homo
submit 10 such u result; and we, therefor,
in the hope that the warning will b
needed, and the danger to our situations b
peaceably ayerted, do solemnly warn til
x advocates of the plan, that 1t will nc
be submitted to.
3. Resolved, That Congress is not a
l. omhipotent ~law-making power. That oh
Constitution provides that no bill shall b,
come Il law without the approval of Oh
III President, unless 1t be passed by two-thirt
of each House of Congress. That one {
: the objects of the present so-called Cor
p greSs In excluding States from represents
ton, Is To pass bills by II twO-thirds yot
~ which, were all the States representa-,
ID could not so pass and thus TO virtual
n; abolish the constitutional provision afOr,
"a said. That II this precedent be acqulasce
In, there viii be nothing TO prevent a bal