The Daily empire. (Dayton, Ohio) 1865-1867, 1867-05-18
STAYE DEMOCRATIC ENTVETTINT.
THE PLATFORM ADOPTED
JANUABY Sth, 4. ID. 1897.


l. ReSolped, That the Democracy OF Ohio
steadfastly adhere to the principles Of the |
party as expOunded by the fathers, and APP |
proved by experience; that In accordance
with these principles we declare that the |
Federal Government Is government Of
limited powers, and that It possesses no
powers but such as are expressly, or by |
necessary implication delegated to It in the !
| Federal Constitution that alluther powers |
are reserved TO the states or the people |
that n strict construction OF the Censtltu- |
tion is indispensable to the preservation Of
the reserved rights Of the States and the !
people that all grants ofpower TO Govern
ment, whether State or Federal, should be
strictly construed, because all such grants
abrldge the natural rights Of men; that the
preservation of the equality and rights Of
the States aud the rights Of the people Is
necessary to the preservation of the Union
that the Federal Government Is untitled to
llegislate for or administer the local concerns
lof the States that IL would be monstrous
that the local affairs ofOhiO should be regu-
lated by Federal Congressin which she has
but two Senators. and the New England
States, with but 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 aud
that, therefore, a Capitalization Of power In
its hands is an ever pending danger. That
such an abs IrptiOu OF power would, while
IL 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 inn
lpoyeriShing the people, fosters an undue
Increase Of the powers of the Federal Gov
ernment; that high protective tariffs have
a like effect, sacrificing the interests of the
many for the cmoluments 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 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, aud that, there
: fore, "eternal vigilance is the price of lib
r 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 omuch-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 legitlmately prevails, can law
fully be deprived of life, liberty or proper
q ty, without due process of civil law; that
2 the courts should always be open for the
Z redress of grievances; that no e1 post Jdct0
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
i ity, as prescribed by the Constitution, have
the right to govern, the minority have in
C defeasible rights; and that frequent re-
currcnce to first principles is essential to
C the welfare of the State and the people.
d g. Resolved, That the States lately in re-
e, bellion are States in the Union, and have
t been recognized as such by every depart
Y ment of the Government, and by Presi-
0. dent Lincoln, who, in the midst of the war
ii invited them to electmembers of Congress
d by President johnson, in various procla-
10 nations and official acts; by Congress
in which permitted Andrew johnson to sit il
H. the Senate as Senator from tennessee
III and members from Virginia, Tennessee,
s and Louisiana to sit in the House of Repre-
I'd sentatives after these States had seeded
a and while the war was being carried on
On and which further recognized them a
ee States in the Union by the Congressiona
'ir apportionment act providing for their du
is. IreDfeStUIuJlDu III NODRItsSI ny NdTlOll
nv tax laws, and especially by the direct tax
IN by the resolutions submitting amendment
n to the Constitution for their approval, an
he by various other acts and resolutions i'm
,rs parting the same recognition; all of whic
st were passed since the attempted secessio
m of those States, by the judiciary of tn
en- United States, which holds Federal Court
he in all those States, and especially by til
he Supreme Court, which entertains jurisdiC
to tion of cases coming from them, which
in could not do were they not in the Uniol
he That being thus in the Union, they stan
on an equal footing with their sister Stat
States with unequal rights being thin
unknown to the Constitution; that, by Il
rc. express terms of the Constitution, eaC
- State is entitled to have two Senators and
In' due proportion of Representatives III Il
Congress, and to vote in all elections
, of President and Vice-president; that thong
of these rights are subject to interruption
ey- a state of civil war, they can not, in time
oh peace be suspended, much less destroye
ID without plain violation of the Constit
OIL tion; that Congress has no power to d
ey- prive State of its reserved rights, al
to reduce it to Territorial condition; tn
on therefore the exclusion, by the so-call
RE- Congress, of all representation from L
to- States, the proposed exclusion of tho
ity. States, from all voice in the next Preside
non tial election, the threatened overthrow
th- their State Governments and the reducti
we'd OF their States to the condition of terrific
ate les, are each and every one of them unco
or stitutional, revolutionary and despo
he measures, destructive not merely of I
G of rights of those States, but also of the rigl
or Of every other State in the Union. ri
,ro- those measures are parts OF plan to NULL
old. the Constitution, virtually overthrow t
State Governments, to erect consolidat
despotism on their ruins; and to establi
otto andperpetuate tyrannical rule Of minC
'ViN itv nVpr n majority of the American De
rent pie. That the people cannot without
loss of their liberties, prosperity and hon
vo; submit to such result; and we, thereto
Z "a In the hope that the warning will
4bal needed, and the danger to our situations
8 St59 t.539 peaceably averted, do solemnly warn I
S5s5 S advocates of the plan, that it will I
5,6ii be submitted to.
o'TS65 PA 8. Resolved, That Congress is not
l 200 omnipotent law-making power. That
aw Without the i' approval m row. Of
hen President, unless 1t be passed by two-thil