The Daily empire. (Dayton, Ohio) 1865-1867, 1867-02-18
.SlAlE 'ITHIERATlg CONVENTION.
THE PLATFORM ADOPTED,
JAYUABH 8th, A. d. 1857.
RESOLUTIONS.

RESOLUTIONS
1. ResotUed, That the Democracy Of Ohio
steadfastly adhere to the principles Of the
party as expounded bythe fathers, and APP
proved by experience; that in accordance
with these principles we declare that the
Federal Government Is q government Of
limited powers, and that It possesses no
powers but such rs are expressly, or by
necessary implication delegated to u In the
Federal Constitution that all other powers
are reserved 70, the states or the people;
that a strict construction of the Constitu-
ton is indispensable TO the preservation of
the reserved rights Of the States and the
people that all grants of power to Govern
nent. whether State or Federal, should be
strictly construed, because all such grants
abridge the natural rights of men that the
preservation of the equality and rights OF
the States and the rights of the people IL
necessary TO the preservation of the Uuion
that the Federal Government Is untitled to
legislate for or administer the local concerns
of the States that it would be monstrous
that the local affairs o fOhio should be regu-
lated by Federal Congress In whichs she has
but WI Senators. and the New England
States, with but n little greater population,
lave twelve that the tendency of the Fed
cral Government Is to usurp the reserved
rights Of the States ana of the people; and
that. therefore, n Capitalization of power in
It's hands is an ever pending danger. That
such an abs lrptiou OF power would, while
IL lasted, be destructive of The liberties and
interests Of the people, and would end
either in despotism or q destruction Of the
Union that a National debt, besides I'M
poverishing the people, fosters an undue
increase Of the powers Of the Federal Cow
eminent; 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 enOrmOu revenues by the
Federal Government have the same ten
denCy, beside corrupting the Government,
and that, therefore, economy Is essential
not only 20 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 unwisc and despot-
ic; that the tendency of power Is to steal
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 its tendencies Is TO govern
too much-unnecessarily and veNatiOusly
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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 l%egitimately 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 tdcto
! law should be made that the right of the
people to pcaceably 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
ity, as prescribed by the Constitution, have
the right to govern, TIC minority have in
, defeasible rights and that n frequent re-
currence to first principles Is essential to
the welfare of the State and the people.
.. ResOLued. That the States lately In re-
bellion are States In the UNION, and have
been recognized as such by every depart
ment of the Governments and by Presi-
dent Lincoln, who, in the MD of the war,
/. invited them to elect members of Congress
by President johnson, in various procla-
nations and official acts; by Congress,
e which permitted Andrew johnson to sit in
, the Senate as a 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 war was being carried on,
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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, aud
by various other acts and resolutions inn
parting the same recognition all Of which
were passed since the attempted secession
Of those States, by the Judiciary of the
/ limited States, which holds Federal Courts
in all those States, and especially by the
Supreme Court, which eutertains jurisdic-
ton of cases coming from them, which 1t
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
States with unequal rights being a thing
unknown to the Constitution that, by the
express terms of the Constitution, each
; State is entitled to have two Senators and d
due proportion of Representatives in the
Congress, and TO vote In all elections o.
President and Vice-president that, though
4 these rights are subject to interruption by
i A state of civil war, they can not, in time o
9 peace, be suspended, much less destroyed
without a plain violation of the Constitu'
ton; that Congress has no power to de
priye a State of its reserved rights, AM
. reduce it to a Territorial condition; tina
therefore the exclusion, by the so-calle'
Congress, Of all representation from tel
rI States. inc pTOlbOStu tAtluhlpH VI Jloh'
States, from all ~vOicein the next Presldcn.
cial election, the threatened overthrow o
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 dospotiI
measures. destructive not merely of tn
rights of those States, but also of the right
Y Of every other State in the Union. Thn
" those measures are parts ola plan TO MULTI,
the Constitution, virtually overthrow tn
> State Governments, to erect aconsolidate'
despOtism on their ruins; and TO establish
and perpetuatc n tyrannical rule Of minor
? ity over a majority of the American PEG
pie. That the people cannot, without
7, loss of their liberties, prosperity n honor
submit to such n result; and we, Therefore
i'm the hope that the warning will b
. needed, and the danger to our situations b
peaceably averted, do solemnly warn tn
advocates of the plan, that IL will nc
O be submitted to.
o 3. Resolped, That Congress Is not a
omnipotent law-making power, That Oh
Constitution provides that no bill shall be
=, come n law without the approval of Tn
- President, unless II be passed by two-third
of each House Of Congress. That one {
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