The Daily empire. (Dayton, Ohio) 1865-1867, 1867-04-29
STATE DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION.
THE PLATFORM ADOPTED.
J4NUABY Sth, Il. D. 1897.
RESOLUTIONS.

! lHA y - NfHE NNAANANN AAAhNA VI
proved by experience; that In accordance
With these principles we declare that the
Federal Government is "a government of
limited powers. and that 10 possesses no
powers but u as are expressly. or by
necessary implication delegated to- it ia the
Federal Constitution that allother powers
are reserved to the otates or the people;
that u strict construction OF the Csnstitu-
ltiOn Is Indispensable to the preservation Of
! tire 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
abridgc 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 of the Union
that the Federal Government is untitled to
| lcgislate for oradministcr the local concerns
of the States that it would be mOnstrOus
that the local affairs fOhiOs should be rcgu-
lated by a Federal Congressin which shchas
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, a centralizatiou OF power in
its hands il an ever pending danger. That
such an abs )rptiou OF power would. while
il lasted, be destructive of the liberties and
interests Of the people. and would end
either i'm despotism or u destruction Of the
Union that q National debt, besides im-
poyerishing the people, fosters an undue
increase OF the powers of the Federal Gov
crumcnt; that high protective tariffs have
. like effect, sacrificing the interests of the
many for the ~emOluments of the few, and
plainly violating the equity aud spirit of
the Constitution; that the collection and
disbursement of enormous revenues by the
Federal Government have the same ten
Idcncy, beside corrupting the Government,
l.Ar VNtW sA .-N
f not only to the prosperity, but also to the
liberties of the people; that unequal tax
alton is Il 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 uuwise and despot-
ic; that the tendency of power is to steal
from the many TO the few, and that, there
fore, "%Cternal vigilance is the price of lib
crty - that the tendency Of government is
to enlarge its authority by usurpatiou, and
/ therefore government needs to he watched ;
that another of its tendencies is to govern
too muCh-uuneCCsSarily and VeXatiOusly
interfering with the business aud habits Of
the people; that the freedom of speech aud
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
b ty, without due process of civil law that
p. the courts should always be open for the
redress of grievances; that no eb post fdcto
{ law should be made; that the right of the
e people to pCaceably assemble and consult
= upon public affairs is inviolablc; that the
! military should be held in due subsection
u TO the civil power; that while the major
% ity, as prescribed by the Constitution, have
thn rilrbt tn ,rANarn tln milppitu hpNp in
ii defeasible rights; and that II frequent re-
currencc to first principles is essential to
y the welfare OF the State and the people.
d 2. ReSoiced, That the States lately in re.
belliOu 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
&c invited them to olcctmembcrs of Congress
Is by President johnson, in various prOCla
nations aud official acts; by Congress.
which permitted Andrew johnson to sit il
~ the Senate rs Il Senator from Tennessee
and members from Virginia, Tennessee
and Louisiana TO 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 Il
IL States in the Union by the Congrcssiona
y apportioument act providing for their du
representation in Congress; by VariOu
/, tax laws, and especially by the direct tax
~ ny llt iiN'llJlpllN NNtplllltAlIl= tlllIll'illltlll
N to the Constitution for their approval, an,
~ by various other acts and resolutions i'm
tt parting the samc recognition all Of Whicl
were passed since the attempted secessiOr
III of those States, by the judiciary of til
United States, which holds Federal Court
in all those States, and especially by til
Supreme Court, which entertains juriSdiC
II ton of cases coming from them, which
Il could not do were they not in the Union
- That being thus in the Union, they stan
on an equal footing with their sister STATE
~ States with unequal rights being a Thin
ad unknown to the Constitution that, by til
ms express terms Of the Constitution, eac
State is entitled to AVE two Senators and
Is. due proportion of Representatives III til
ny Congress, and to vote in all elections {
re President and Vice-president that, thong
b. these rights are subject to interruption b
4 state of civil war, they can not, in time
peace, be suspended, much less deStroye,
IL without 4 plain violation of the Constitl
of ton that Congress has no power to DIT
IN privc n State of its reserved rights, an
reduce it TO Il Territorial condition; til,
'u- therefore the exclusion, by the so-callc
IDS Congress, of all representation from t.
ID States, the proposed exclusion of tho.
,,- States, from all voice in the mex PresidcI
- tial election, the threatened overthrow
their state Governments and the reductio
OF their States to the condition of terrific
TO- les, are each and every one of them unCOI
as Stitutional, revolutionary aud despOt
measures. destructive not merely of Il
Il rights o thOse States, hut also Of the RICH
NJ of every other State in the Union. III
I'D those measures are parts ola plan to multi
p the Constitution, virtually overthrow Il
M State Governments, to erect q consolidate
despotism on their ruins; and to cStabli,
nS and perpetuate a tyrannical rule OF a minO
ity over a majority of the American PEE
ple. That the people cannot, without
. H. 90 tI.1- 1tharfiaH Aforementioned, l H.,