The Daily empire. (Dayton, Ohio) 1865-1867, 1867-03-11

but two Senators, and the New En0lanC
Estates, 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 and of the people; and
| that, therefore, a Capitalization of power in
its hands is an ever pending danger. That
such an absorption OF power would. while
1t 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 i'm.
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 ~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 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 Cohstitu-
tional amendment, are unwise and despot-
ic; that the tendency of power is to steal
llOlh blC lidnl W blle lew, anu Unab, Uhere-
fore, eternal vigilance is the price of lib
erty !" that the tendency Of government is
to enlarge its authority by u%surpation, and
therefore government needs to be watched;
that another of its tendencies is to govern
too much-unnecessarily and vexati0usly
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 tacto
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
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 a frequent re-
c%urrence to first principles is essential to
the welfare of the State and the people.
2. ReSOloed, That the States lately i'm 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 electmembers of Congress:
by President johnson, in various procla-
nations and official acts; by Congress,
which permitted Andrew Johnson to sit In
the Senate as a Senator from Tennessee.
and members from Virginia, Tennessee
and Louisianato sit in the House of Repre-
sentatives after these States had seeded,
and while the wal was being carried on,
and which further recognized them rs
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 im-
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-
ton of cases coming from them, which it
could not do were they not in the Union.
That being thus in the Union, they stand
on an equal footing with their sister States
States with unequal rights being a 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
these rights are subject to interruption by
a state of civil war, they can not, in time of
peace, be suspended, much less destroyed,
without a plain violation of the COnstitu-
ton that Congress has no power to de-
prive q State of its reserved rights, and
reduce it to a Territorial condition; that
therefore the exclusion, by the so-called
Congress, of all representation from ten
States, the proposed exclusion of those
States, from all voice in the next Presiden-
tial election, the threatened overthrow of
their State Governments and the reduction
OF their States to the condition of territor-
les, are each and every one of them uncon-
stitutional, revolutionary and despotfc
measures, destructive not merely Of the
rights of those States, but also of the rights
of every other State in the Union. That
those measures are parts ola plan to nullify
the Constitution, virtually overthrow the
State Governments, to erect a consolidated
despOtism on their ruins; and to establish
and perpetuate atyrannical rule of a minor
ity over a majority of the American peo-
pie. That the people cannot, without a
loss of their liberties, prosperity and honor,
submit to such . result; and we, therefore.
in the hope that the warning will be
needed, and the danger to our situations be
peaceably ayerted, do solemnly warn the
advocates of the plan, that it will not
be submitted to.
3. Resolved, That Congress is not an.
o%mnipotent law-making power. That the
Constitution provides that no bill shall be-
come a law without the approval of the
President, unless it be passedby t~wo-thirds
of each House Of Congress. That one of
the objects of the present so-called Com
gress in excluding States from representa-
ton, is to pass bills by a tw~o-thirds vote
which, were all the States represented,
could not so pass and thus to virtually
abolish the constitutional provision afore-
said. That If this precedent be acquiesced
in, there will be nothing to prevent a bare
majority of Congress, at any time in the
future, from multiplying the constitutional
veto Of the President and usurping uncon-
trolled legislative power, by an exclusion
of the minority from their seats. That
the exclusion, Of even in a single
State, might give this control, and a pre-
text for such an exclusion would not be
wanting to an INSCRIPTIONS and revolu-
tiOnary party.
4. ResolUed, That the people, and especi-
ally those of the agricultural States, have
suffered too long the exactions of high pro-
%tective tariffs, and as the representative Of
of an agricultural and laboring population,
we demand that their aubstanee shall No