The Daily empire. (Dayton, Ohio) 1865-1867, 1867-05-09
.STATE DEMOCRATIC CONVECTION.
THE PLATFORM ADOPTED
Sth, 4. ID. 1861.
RESOLUTIONS.

RESOLUTIONS.
l.. ResolUed, That the Democracy of Ohio
steadfastly adhere to the principles of the
party ~ expOunded by the fathers, and APP
proved by experience; that IN accordance
with these principles we declare that the
Federal Government Is a government Of
limited powers, aud that Il possesses no
powers but such ~ are expressly, or by
necessary implication delegated to IL IN the
Federal Constitution that all powers
are reserved to the states or the people
that n strict construction of the Censtitu~
ton Is indispensable to the preservation Of
the 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
abridge the natural rights of men that the
preservation of the equality aud rights of
the States aud the rights of the people Is
necessary to the preservation of the Union
that the Federal Government rs untitled to
llegislate for or administer the local concerns
Of the States that 1t would be mopstrOus
that the local affairs ofOhio should be regu-
lated by II FederalCOngressin which she has
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, u 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 a destruction of the
Union that a National debt, besides inn
2 pOverishing the people, fosters an d
| increase of the powers of the Federal Gov
eminent that high protective tariffs have
q like effect, sacrificing the interests of the
> many for the emoluments of the few, and
= plainly violating the equity and spirit of
I the Constitution that the collection and
disbursement of enormous revenues by the
Federal Government nave the SAINT ten
p dency, beside corrupting the Government,
and that, therefore, economy Is essential
a not ouly to the prosperity, but also to the
> liberties OF the people; that unequal tax
l. 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,
u and all attempts to impair this right, either
c 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, and that, there
q 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 /;
70 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
y the courts should always be open for the
" redress OF grievances; that no eI post JdctO
/ law should be made; that the right of the
a people to peaceably assemble and consult
upon public affairs is inviolable; that the
IL I =. .I.-Il l.. I.,l1 L., I,, .,,Is,.Ns,.
a to the civil power; that while the major
~ ity, as prescribed by the Constitution, have
a the right to govern, the minority have in
defeasible rights; and that Il frequent re-
" currence to first principles is essential To
II the welfare of the State and the people.
~ 2. Resolved, That the States lately in re-
~ bellion are States in the Union, and have
%, been recognized az such by every depart
ment of the Government, and by Presi.
W dent Lincoln, who, in the midst of the war
o. invited them to electmembers of Congress
* by President johnson, in various procla
= nations and official acts by Congress
10 which permitted Andrew Johnson to sit il
GU the Senate as a Senator from Tennessee
W and members from Virginia, Tennessee
~ and Louisiana to sit in the House of Repre-
~ sentatives after these States had seeded
ns and while the war was being carried Oh
and which further recognized them II
ife States in the Union by the Congressional
- | hDlOTllOIllNilb hNb DlON hlll bliN W.
W W representation in Congress; by variou
tax laws, and especially by the direct tax
VI by the resolutions submitting amendment
to the Constitution for their approval, an,
10. by various other acts and resolutions i'm
~, parting the same recognition all of whicI
were passed since the attempted s~ecessio
90 of those States, by the Judiciary of tn
/ e United States, which holds Federal Court
nv in all those States, and especially by tn
us Supreme Court, which entertains jurisdiC
81 ton of cases coming from them, which
bo could not do were they not in the Union
,m That being thus in the Union, they stan
~ on an equal footing with their sister State
W States with unequal rights being a thin
,nn unknown to the Constitution that, by ii
ca express terms of the Constitution, eaC
State is entitled to have two Senators and
due proportion of Representatives in Il
' Congress, and to vote in all elections
y President and Vice-president that, thong
~ ~ these rights are subject to interruption |
=" a state of civil war, they can not, in time
peace, be suspended, much less destroye
without a plain violation of the Constit'
nv ton; that Congress has no power to d
~ prive u State of its reserved rights, al
lu- reduce 1t to a Territorial condition; tn
therefore the exclusion, by the social,
Congress, of all representation from t
States, the proposed exclusion of tho
nv States, from all voice in the next Preside
nnppl tial election, the threatened overthrow
~ their State Governments and the reductl
anu OF their States to the condition of terrific
les, are each and every one of them unco
x stitutional, revolutionary and despo
MI measures, destructive not merely of I
nun rights of those States, but also of the rigl
o'' Of every other State In the Union. III
those measures are parts OLA plan to null
0nu' the Constitution, virtually overthrow
~ State Governments, to erect acOnsolidai
rISu' despotism on their ruins; and to establ
Tue and perpetuate a tyrannieal rule of II min,
ity over.a majority of the American pr
ly a pie. That the people cannot, without
per- loss of their liberties prosperity and non
10 of submit to such II result; and we, thereto
in the hope that the warning will
'um- needed, and the danger To our situations
peaceably averted, do solemnly warn
advocates of the plan, that it will
10 be submitted to.
thls 5. RESOLVED, That Congress is not
the omnipotent law-making power. That
,ern- Constitution provides that no bill shall
,fnb+ come a law without the approval of
7iB"' President unless IL be passed by tWO-thi