The Daily empire. (Dayton, Ohio) 1865-1867, 1867-03-01
STATE DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION.
THE PLATFORM ADOPTED.
JANUARY Sth, A. ID. 1897.


IL NaNAHA NNN'AhNnNih - " government q
limited powers, and that IL possesses n,
powers but such as are expressly. or b,
necessary implication delegated TO Il i'm III,
Federal Constitution that all other power,
are reserved TO the states or the neople
mat q strict construction of the Constitu,
ZION Is indispensable TO the preservation q
the reserved rights of the States and IN,
people; that all grants of power to Govern
ment, whether State or Federal, should b,
strictly construed, because all such grant,
abridge the natural rights of men that The
preservation OF the equality and rights ot
The states and the rights of the people /,
necessary TO the preservation of the Union
that the Federal Government Is untitled ca
lcgislate FOR or administer the local concerns
OF the states that II would be monstrous
that the local affairs ofOhio should be regu-
lated by Federal Congress in which she has
but two Senators, and the New England
states, with but a little greater populltion.
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 Capitalization OF power Ia
its hands is an ever pending danger. That
such an abs brption 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 n National debt. besides i'm
poVerishing the people. fosters an undue
increase Of the powers of the Federal Gov
erlnent; that high protective tariffs nave
a like eject, 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
| HhnFting nl lhn panrlns tlnt $500. a.
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 Stenl
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 It's 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 proprr-
ty, without due process of civil law that
the courts should always be omen for the
redress of grievances that no er post fdcto
law should be made; that the right of the
people to peaceably assemble aud consult
upon public affairs is irviolable; that the
military should be hold In due subsection
to the civil power; that while the maiOr-
ity, rs prescribed by the Constitution, have
the right to govern, the minority have in
deteasible rights; and that n frequent re-
currcnce to first principles is Essential. to
the welfare of the State and the people.
2. ResOlred, That the States lately In re-
bellion are States In the Union, and have
been recognized ms such by every depart
inent of the Government, aud by Presi-
dent Lincoln, who, In the midst Ofthe war.
invited them to elect members of Congress
by President johnson, In various prodla-
nations and official acts; by Congress,
which permitted Andrew Johnson To st I'm
the Senate ~ u Senator from Tennessee,
and members from Virginia, Tennessee
and Louisiana to sit in the House of Repre-
after these States had seeded.
and while the war was being carried on,
and which further recognized them rs
States In the Union by tile Congressional
a~pportionment 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 8
by various other acts aud resolutions inn :
the same recognition all of which 9
were passed since the attempted secession
those States, by the Judiciary of the !
United States, which holds Federal Courts
N all those States, and especially by the I
Court. which entertains jurisdic- Z
ion of cases coming from them, which 1t n
Gould not do were they not In the Union. 5
being thus in the Union, they stand |
IN an equal footing with their sister States I
with unequal rights being u thing {
unknown to the Constitution that, by the
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 Nice-president that, though
these rights are subject to interruption bv
Il state of civil war, they can not, IN time Of
be suspended, much less DESTROYED,
without a plain violation of the Constitu-
ton that Congress has no power to de-
prive a State of its reserved rights, and |
reduce 1t to a Territorial condition; that |
the exclusion, by the so-called |
Congress, OF all representation from ten
States, the proposed exclusion of those
States, from all voice In the next Preslden-
tial election, the threatened overthrow of
their State Governments and the reduction
OF their States to the condition of t%erritor-
les, are each and every one of them uncon-
stitutiOnal, revolutionary and despotic
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 p%erpetuate a tyrannical rule of aminor-
ity over q majority of the American peo-
pie. That the people cannot, without a
loss of their liberties, prosperity and honor.
submit TO such II result and we, therefore,
In the hope that the warning will be
needed, and the danger to our situations be
peaeeably averted, do solemnly warn the
advocates of the plan, that II will not
be submitted to.
3. Resolved, That Congress is not AN
omnipotent law-making power. That the
Constitution provides that no bill shall be-
a Law without the approval of the
President, unless IL be passedby twO-thirds
of each House of Congress. That one of
the objects Of the present so-called Con-
gress In excluding States from representa-
ton, is to pass bills by a two-tlirds vote
which, were all the States represented,
could not so pass; aud thus TO virtually
abolish the constitutional provision afore-
said. That If this precedent be acquiesned
In, there will be nothing to prevent o bare
majority Of Congress, Mt any time IN the