The Daily empire. (Dayton, Ohio) 1865-1867, 1867-05-27
STATE DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION.
THE PLATFORM ADOPTED.
JANUARY StA, 4. ID. ISoy.
RKsoLurIoNs.

RESOLUTIONS.
/ !. Res0lUed, That the Democracy ofOhio
steadiastly adhere 10 the principles of the
party as eNpounded by tho fathers and an
proved by experience; that in accordance
with these principles we declare that the
nederal Government Is government of
limited powers, and that Ii Possesses no
powers but such as are expressly, or by
necessary Implication delegated to 1t 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 ofpower to Govern
meut, whether State or Federal should be
strictly construed, because all such grants
Hbridge the natural rights OF men that the
preservation of the equality and rights of
the States and the riglHs of the people is
necessary To the preservation of the Uuion
that the Federal Government Is untitled to
legtslate for or administer the local concerns
of the States that 1t would be inonstrous
that the local affairs ofOhiO should be regu-
lated by a Federal Congress In 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 usurb the reserved
rights of the States and of the people and
that, therefore, Il Capitalization of power in
its hands is an ever pending danger. That
such an abs ,rptiOn OF power would. while
it lasted, be destructive of the liberties and
interests of the people, and would end
either In despotism or destruction of the
Union; that a National debt, besides i'm
poverishing 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 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 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-
| tc; 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
erty;' that the tendency of government is
to enlarge its authority by usurpatiOn, and
| therefore government needs TO he 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 Gact0
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, rs prescribed by the Constitution, have
the right to govern, the minority have in
defeasible rights; and that a frequent re-
| currence to first principles is essential to
the welfare of the State and the people.
2. ResotUed, That the States lately in re-
| bellion 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,
invited them to electmembers of Congress
by President johnson, in various procla-
nations and official acts; by Congress,
which permitted Andrew johnson to sit in
the Senate as Senator from Tennessee
and members from Virginia, Tennessee
and Louisiana to sit In the House of Repre-
i sentatives after these States had seeded,
and while the war was being carried on,
and which further recognized them as
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
by various other acts and resolutions i'm
parting the same recognition all of which
were passed since the attempted secession
of those States, by the judiciary of the
United States, which holds Federal Courts
in all those States, and especially by the
Supreme Court, which entertains jurisdic-
ton of cases coming from them, which it
, could not do were they not in the Union.
That being thus in the Union, they stand
on an equal footing with their sister States
, l-StateS with unequal rights being thing
; unknown to the Constitution that, by the
express terms of the Constitution, each
State is entitled to have two Senators and a
due proportion of Representatives in the
4 Congress, and to vote in all elections of
! President and Vice president; i that, though
= these rights are subject to interruption by
u state of civil war, they can not, in time of
Z peace, be suspended, much less destroyed.
without plain violation of the Constitu-
! J tion; that Congress has no power to de-
Z prive a State of its reserved rights and
4 reduce it to Territorial condition; that
Il therefore 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 Presiden-
| tlal election, the threatened overthrow OF
: their State Governments and the reduction
: OF their States to the condition of territor-
e les, are each and every one of them uncon-
q stitutional, revolutionary and despotic
u measures, destructive not merely Of the
a rights of those States, but also of the rights
d of every other State in the Union. That
: those measures are parts of plan to nulify
y the Constitution, virtually overthrow the
Il State Governments, to erect consolidated
G despotisn on their ruins; and to establish
5 and perpetuate tyrannical rule of minor
ity over majority of the American peo-
: pie. That the people cannot, without d
4 loss of their liberties, prosperity and honor
1. submit to such n result; and we, therefore
in the hope that the warning will be
, needed, and the danger to our situations bt
n peaceably averted, do solemnly warn the
= advocates of the plan, that it will moi
;, be submitted to.
3. ResOIUed, That Congress is not an
= omnipotent law-making power. That th
:, Constitution provides that no bill shall be-
p" come n law without the approval of the
e President, unless it be passedby two third.
d of each House of Congress. That one oi
II the objects of the present so-called Con-
| " =