The Daily empire. (Dayton, Ohio) 1865-1867, 1867-03-26
STATE DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION.
THE PLATFORM ADOPTED.
JANUABY Sth, 4. ID. 1897.


proved Dy experience tiat IN accordance
with these principles we declare that the
limited powers, and that it possesses no
powers but such as are expressly. or by
necessary Implication delegated to IL i'm the
Federal Constitution that all other powers
are reserved TO the states or the people;
that a strict construction of the COnstitu-
tiou 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 hat the
preservation of the equality aud rights of
the States and the rights of the people Is
necessary 10 the preservation OF the Union
that the Federal Government IS untitled to
Ilegislate for or administer the local concerns
of the States that IL would be mOnstrOus
that the local affairs ofOhio should be rcgu-
lated by a Federal COngressin 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
cral Government Is to usurp the reserved
rights Of the States and of the people; and
that. therefore, u GENERALIZATION of power in
its hands Is an ever pending danger. That
such an abs irptiOn OF power would, while
il lasted, he destructive of the liberties and
interests of the people, and would end
either in despotism or n destruction of the
] NNAANAA = AlAtAN q NAfARAA wv CIV ~
povcrishiug the people, fosters an undue
increase ofthe 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
deucy, beside corruIting 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 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, ''etcrnal 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-unneccSSarily and vcNatiOusly
interfering with the business and habits of
, the people; that the freedom of speech and
II of the press is essential to the existence of
o liberty that no person not IN the military
or naval service, or in the bounds where
martial law lcgitimately prevails, can law
fully be deprived of life, liberty or proper
Z ty, without due process of civil law that
the courts should always be open for the
redress of grievances that no er post fdctO
N law should be made; that the right of the
y, people to peaceably assemble and consult
Il upon public affairs is inviolable; that the
Il military should be held in due subsection
- to the civil power; that while the major
ity, ms prescribed by the Constitution, have
c the right to govern, the minority lave in
II defeasible rights; and that a frequent re-
t currencc to first principles is essential tC
the welfare of the State and the people.
2. Resolved, That the States lately in re.
Il bcllion are States in the Union, and hav,
been recognized ~ such by every depart.
ment of the Government, and by Presi
dent Linco0 who, in the midst of the war
invited them to elect members of Congress
by President johnson, in various procla
l. nations and official acts; by Congress
'r which permitted Andrew Johnson to sit i
&c the Senate as II Senator from Tennessee
d and members from Virginia, Tennessee
:, and Louisiana to sit in the House of Repre-
IL sentativcs after these States had seeded
&c and while the wal was being carried OH
and which further recognized them a
IT, States in the Union by the Congrcssiona
" apportionment act providing for their du
representation i'm Congress; by variou
" tax laws, and especially by the direct tax
"a by the resolutions submitting amendment
to the Constitution for their approval, am
" by various other acts and resolutions i'm
parting the same recognition all of whicl
we're passed since the attempted secession
of those States, by the judiciary of tn
United States, which holds Federal Couw
' in all those States, and especially by tn
" Supreme Court, which entertains jurisdiC
ton of cases coming from them, which
lis could not do were they not in the Unior
to That being thus in the Union, they stan
of on an equal footing with their sister State
States with unequal rights being a thin
bo unknown to the Constitution; that, by tn
w express terms of the Constitution, eac
: State is entitled to have two Senators and
due proportion of Representatives in til
C. Congress, and to vote in all elections
er President and Vice-president that, thong
en- these rights are subject to interruption /
Il state of civil war, they can not, in time
20 peace, be suspended, much less destrOyel
without a plain violation of the Constit
" ton; that Congress has no power to d.
Sc prive n State of its reserved rights, ~
reduce it to a Territorial condition; tn
ny therefore the exclusion, by the sO-callC
Congress, of all representation from /,
States, the proposed exclusion Of tho
Icy States, from all voice in the next Preside
9th tial election, the threatened overthrow
their State Governments and the rcducti,
OF their States to the condition of terrific
les. are each and every one of them unco
StitutiOnal, revolutionary anu dcspol
ar- measures, destructive not merely of /
rights of those States, but also of the rigl
'"S of every other State in the Union III
those measures are parts Ola plan to null
the Constitution, virtually overthrow {
State Governments, to erect aconsolidat
ted despotism on their ruins; and to establi
nks and perpctuate n tyrannical rule of II minC
has ity over a majority of the American pc
for pie. That the people cannot, without
eet' loss of their liberties, prosperity and hon,
the submit TO such n result; and we, thereto
gh- in the hope that the warming will
his needed, and the danger to our situations
by peaccably averted, do sOlemnly warn I
advocates of the plan, that it WI !
be submitted to.
aus 3. Resolred, That Congress is not
ol o%mnipotent law-making power. That
my Constitution provides that no bill shall
not come Il law without the approval of
uses President, unless it be passed by twO-thil
III of each House of Congress, That one
Z 10 the objects of the present so-called CO
lera grcSS IN excluding States from represen
VS. tion, is TO pass bills by u two-thirds "
which, were all the States represent
could not so pass; and thus to yirtua
abolish the constitutional provision afO
said. That IL this precedent be acquiesC
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