The Daily empire. (Dayton, Ohio) 1865-1867, 1867-02-27
.STAYV DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION.
THE PLATFORM ADOPTED.
JANUARY sth, A. D. 1907.


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proved by experience; that In accordance
with these principles we declare that the
Federal Government Is q government of
limited powers, and that Il possesses no
powers but such as are expressly, or by
necessary Implication delegated TO it in the
Federal Constitution; that all other powers
are reserved to the states or the people;
that a strict construction of the Cdnstitu-
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
lstrictly 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 Is
necessary to the preservation of the Union
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 ofOhio hould be regu-
lated by a Federal Congressin which hehas
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 Capitalization of power In
its hands is an ever pending danger. That
r such an abs lrption OF power would. while
II 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 i'm
pOVerishing the people, fosters an undue
Increase Of the powers of the Federal Gov
eminent that high protective tariffs rave
a like effect, sacrificing the interests of the
: many for the emoluments of the few. inc
plainly violating the equity and spirit of
t 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 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,
l and all attempts to impair this right, either
r by Congressional legislation or Constitu-
h, tional amendment, are unwise 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-unnecessaTily 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
1 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 ep post fdCtO
; law should be made; that the right Of the
people to peaceably assemble and consult
10 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, the minority nave in
a. caagfhla ri0htq. and that a frannnnt rn-
currence to first principles is essential to
=, the welfare of the State and the people.
e 2. ReSoIu6d, That the States lately in re-
. bellion are States In the Union, and have
i been recognized rs 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 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 wal 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
e 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
we're 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
I Supreme Court, which entertains jurlsdic-
: tion 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
! States with unequal rights being a thing
unknown to the Constitution that, by the
express terms of the Constitution, each
D, State Is entitled to have two Senators and a
due proportion of Representatives in the
a Congress, and to vote in all elections OF
President and Vlce-presldent that though
these rights are subject to interruption by
a state Of civil war, they can not, In time of
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, and
reduce 1t to a Territorial condition; that
therefore the exclusion, by the so-called
Congress, of all representation from ten
States, the proposed exclusion of those
II States. from all voice In the next Presiden-
l. tial election, the threatened overthrow Of
their State Governments and the reduction
= OF their States to the condition of %territor-
les, are each and every one of them uncon-
! stltutional, revolutionary and despotic
lmtIsuItss htNlI nillNN " iiNlNi1 VI wv
rights of those States, but also of the. rights
Z. Of every other State In the Union. That
q those measures are parts o faplan to nullity
the Constitution, virtually overthrow the
State Governments, TO erect a consolidated
despotlsm on their ruins; and to establish
. and perpetuate a tyrannical rule of a minor
ity over a majority of the American peo-
pie. That the people cannot, without a
loss of their liberties, prosperity and honor,
n submit to such II result; and we, therefore,
y I'm the hope that the warning will be
needed, and the danger to our situations be
peaceably averted, do sOlemnly warn the
/. advocates of the plan, that IL will not
be submitted to.
3. Resolved, That Congress is not an
: omnipotent law-making power. That the
y Constitution provides that no bill shall be-
:, come a law without the approval of the
President, unless II be passed by two-thirds
|. of each House of Congress. That one of
J the objects of the present so-called Con-
Qress In excluding States from representa-
ton, is 10 pass bills by a twO-thirds vote
q which, were all the States represented,
. could not so pass; and thus TO virtually
abolish the constitutional provision afore-
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