The Daily empire. (Dayton, Ohio) 1865-1867, 1867-06-13
STATE DEMOCRATIC GOIVIIHIOI.
THE PLATFORM ADOPTED.
JANUARY sth, 4. D. Ise1.
RESOLUTIONS.

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with these principles we declare that the |
Federal Government Is a government OF
limited powers, and that IL 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 Csnstitu- |
tion Is indispensable TO the preservation OF
the reserved rights Of the States and the !
people that all grants Of power TO Govern |
ment, whether State or Federal, 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 people Is |
necessary TO the preservation oft Union
that the Federal Government is untitled TO |
/ legislate for oradminster the local concerns |
of the States; that 10 would be monstrous |
that the local affairs OF Ohio should be regu- |
{ lated by Federal COngressi In which she has |
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 and of the people and |
that, therefore, Capitalization ofpower In
| its hands is an ever pending danger. That
such an abs lrption OF power would. while
! it 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 |
poyerishing the people fosters an undue
! Increase of the powers of the Federal Gov |
ernmcnt; that high protective tariffs have |
II 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 n plain violation of justice, of
which no Government can safely be guilty.
That to each State belongs the right to
determine the qualification of It's electors,
and 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, and 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
= 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
ity, us prescribed by the Constitution, have
: the right to govern, the minority have in
: deGeasible rights; and that a frequent re-
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. the welfare of the State and the people.
, | 2. Resolved, That the States lately In re-
q bellion are States In the Union, and have
n been recognized as such by every depart
o ment of the Government, and by Presi-
i dent Lincoln, who, in the midst of the war,
:, invited them to clectmembers Of Congress
p by President johnson, In various procla-
!. nations and official acts; by Congress,
a which permitted Andrew johnson to sit In
ar the Senate rs Senator from Tennessee,
# and members from Virginia, Tennessee
and Louisiana to sit in the House of Repre-
sentatiVes after these States had seeded
's and while the war was being carried on,
he and which further recognized them as
le 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
II by various other acts and resolutions i'm
@, parting the same recognition; all of which
l. were passed since the attempted secession
:, of those States, by the Judiciary of the
'' United States, which holds Federal Courts
III in all those States, and especially by the
IN Supreme Court, which entertains jurisdic
r tion of cases coming from them, which 4
40 could not do were they not in the Union
'e That being thus in the Union, they stanC
on an equal footing with their sister State
of States with unequal rights being thini
ut unknown to the Constitution that, by tn
express terms of the Constitution, eacl
hu State is entitled to have two Senators and
OF due proportion of Representatives In tn
in Congress, ana to vote in all elections O
no President and Vice-president; that, thoug
~, these rights are subject to interruption b.
ny Il state of civil war, they can not, in time Q
he peace, be suspended, much less destroyed
without plain violation OF the Constitu
ton that Congress has no power TO de
to prive a State of its reserved rights, an
ng reduce it to Territorial condition; tbs
i,v therefore the exclusion, by the so-calle
IVY Congress, Of all representation from te
er- States, the proposed exclusion Of thoE
les States, from all voice in the next Presider
ant tial election, the threatened overthrow
their State Governments and the reductiO
"s OF their States to the condition of terrific
les, are each and every one of them uncor
stitutional, revolutionary and dcspot
he measures, destructive not merely of d
,or Of every other State in the Union. Tn
-, those measures are parts Ofa plan to MULTI
au- the Constitution, virtually overthrow q
state Governments, to erect aconsolidat'
and despotism on their ruins; and TO establii
,vil and perpetuate atyrannical rule Of amino
ity over majority of the American pc
pie. That the people cannot, without
,tor loss Of their liberties, prosperity aud hone
submit TO such result; and we, therefor
MS In the hope that the warning will
needed, and the danger to our situations
the peaceably averted, do solemnly warn d
no advocates of the plan, that 1t will II
ols, be submitted to.
on s. ResolUed, That Congress is not
in lomnipotent law making power That 4
" Constitution provides that no bill shall b
- come n law without the approval of I
President, unless it be passed by two-thir
of each House of Congress. That one
the objects of the present so-called Co
greSs IN excluding States from represent
RT tion, is to pass bills by a two-thirds VIC
IN which, were all the States representa-
could not so pass; and thus to virtual