The Daily empire. (Dayton, Ohio) 1865-1867, 1867-03-23
STATE DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION.
THE PLATFORM ADOPTED.
JANUARY Sth, 4. D. 1901.


RESOLUTIONS.
]. RcsOired, That the Democracy of Obi,
lsteadtastly adare to the PRINCIPLES of th,
party rs expounded by the fathers. md mn.
proved by experience; that Ia accordonc,
with these principles W. declare that III,
Federal Government Is a government a
UNITED powers and that it possesses nc
powers but such "a are expressly. or by
necessary Implication delegated to Ii In III,
Federal Constitution that allother power.
are reserved to the states or the people
that a strict construction OF the Constltu-
ton Is indispensable to the preservation of
the reserved rights of the States and thc
people that all grants ~ power to Govern
mett, whether state OtN4'Cderal, 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 pcoplc Is
necessary 20 the p~rescrvatiOno of the Union :
that the Federal Government Is untitled TO
legislate for or Administered the local concerns
otthc Stntcs that it would be munstrous
that the local affairs ofOhiO should be repu-
lated by a Federal Congrcssin which shehgs
but two Senators, and the New England
states, with but Il little greater population.
havctwelve that the tendency Of the Fed
eral Government is to usurp the reserved
rights of the States and Of the people aud
that, therefore, u Capitalization of power In
its hands Is an ever pending danger. That
such an abs lrption 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 u National debt. besides i'm
poverishiug the people, fosters an undue
Increase Of the powers of the Federal Cow
eminent; that high protective tariffs have
n 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%Orrupting 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,
ana 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, aud 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:
that another Of its tendencies is to govern
too much-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 ~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
redressof grievances; that no er post facto
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, rs prescribed by the Constitution, have
the right to govern, the minority have in
defeasible rights; and that a frequent re-
%currence to first principles is essential to
the welfare of the State and the people.
2. R6SotUed, 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 Presi-
dent Lincoln. who, in the midst ofthc war.
invited them to electmembers of Congress:
by President johnson, in various procln-
nations and official acts; by Congress.
which permitted Andrew Johnson to Sit i'm
the Senate as u Senator from Tennessee,
and members from Virginia, Tennessee
and Louisiana to sit In the House of Repre-
sentativcs 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 i'm
parting the same recognition all of which
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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 iurisdic-
ton of cases coming from them, which II
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 n 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
Il state of civil war, they can not, in time Of
peace, be suspended, much less DESTROYED,
without IA plain violation of the Constitu-
ton that Congress has no power to de-
priye a State Of its reserved rights. and
reduce il to a Territorial condition: that
therefore the exclusion, by the so-caIled
Congress, of all representation from ten
States, the proposed exclusion Of those
States, from all voice in the next P~residen-
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 despotic
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 consolidated
despOtism on their ruins; and to establish
and perpetuate a tyranuical rule of amiuor-
ity over Il majority of the American peo-
pie. That the people cannot, without "A
loss of their liberties, prosperity and honor.
submit to such Il result; aud we, therefore,
in the hope that the warning will be
needed, and the danger to our situations be
peaceably averted, do sOlemnIy warn the
advocates Of the plan, that it will not
be submitted to.
3. ResOlced, That Congress is not an
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