The Daily empire. (Dayton, Ohio) 1865-1867, 1867-05-28
STATE DEMOCRATIC idITITTI0T
THE PLATFORM ADOPTED.
JANUARY Sth, 4. ID. 1897.

RESOLUTIONS
/. Resoired, That the Democracy OF Ohio
sleaulastly adhere to the principles of the
{ party as expounded by the fathers, and an
proved by experience; that I'm accordance
, win THESE principles we declare that the
Federal Government Is a government of
limited powers, and that 1t possesses no
e powers but such us are expressly, or by
S necessary implication delegated to II in the
! Federal Constitution; that all other powers
are reserved to the states or the peonle .
that strict construction of the Censtitu-
3 ton is Indispensable to the preservation of
the reserved rights Of the States and the
people that all grants ofpower TO Govern
meht, whether stale or Federal. should be
strletly construed because all such grants
aOrldge 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 Union !.
that the Federal Government IS untitled TO
, llcRislatG for oradminister the local concerns
ni the states that 1t would be monstrous
that the local affairs ofOhio should be revu
latcdby Federal Cougrcssin which sbe6as
Dut Two senators, and the New England
states, with but little greater population,
have twelve that the tendency of the Fed
teral Government is to usurp the reserved
rights OF the states and of the people aud
that' therefore, Capitalization Of power i'm
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such an abs irptiOn OF power would, while
IL lasted, be destructive of the liberties and
Interests OF the people and would end
Ietther In despOtiSm or destruction of the
Union that National debt, besides inn
i poFeTlshing The people, fosters an undue
increase OF the powers of the Federal Cow
lernment; 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
lulsDursemeht OF enormous revenues by the
tederal 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
winch no Government can safely be guilty
| mat 10 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-
tlonal amendment, are unwise and despot-
| lc; that the tendency of power is to steal
| from the many to the few, aud that there
lore, "eternal vigilance is the price of lib
erty thatthe tendency of government is
TO enlarge It's authority by usurpation, and
| therefore government needs to be watched
that another of its tendencies Is to govern
700 omuCh-unneceSsarily and veXatiously
| Interfering with the business and habits Of
the people; that the freedom of speech and |
at the press Is essential to the existence of
liberty that no person not in the military |
or naval service, or i'm the bounds where |
martial law lcgitipately prevails, can law |
tnlly be deprived Of life, liberty or proper
| ty, without due process of civil law: that
the courts should always be open for the |
redresso OF grievances; that no er post Gucto |
law should be made; that the right of the |
people to peaceably assemble and consult
a uiaLf III
military should be held in due subjection
to the civil power; that while the major
ity, as prescribed by the Constitution have
the right To govern, the minority have in
deieasiolc rights; and that 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-
hellion are States in the Union, and have
been recognized "a such by every depart
lnent OF the Government, and by Presi- |
dent Lincoln, who, in the midst of the war,
invited them to electmembers of Congress;
ny President johnson, i'll various procla-
nations and official acts; by Congress
which permitted Andrew johnson TO sit I'm
the Senate us Senator from Tennessee,
ana members from Virginia, Tennessee
ana Louisiana to sit in the House of Repre-
sentatives after these States had seeded,
anu while the war was being carried OH, |
and which further recognized them ms
apportionment act providing for their due
representation in Congress; by various
tax laws, and especially by the direct tax;
by the resolutions submitting amendments
10 the Constitution for their approval, and
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
United States, which holds Federal Courts
IN all those States, and especially by the
supreme Court which enteTtains iurisdic-
tion of cases coming from them, which il
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 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
congress, and to vote in all elections of l.
President and Vice-president; that, though
these rights are subject TO interruption by /
Il state OF civil war, they can not, in time of
peace, be suspended, much less DESTROYED.
without plain violation of the Constitu-
tion; that Congress has no power to de-
priye a State of its reserved rights, and
reduce it to a Territorial condition; that
therefore the exclusion, by the so-caled
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-
les, are each and every one of them uncon-
stitutional, revolutionary and despOtic
measures, destructive not merely of the
rights of those States, but also of tile rights
of every other State in the Union. That
those mcasuresare parts ofa plan to nullify |
the Constitution, virtually overthrow the
state Governments, TO erect aconsolidated
despotism on their ruins; and TO establish
and perpetuate tyrannical rule of minor
ity over II majority of the American peo-
pie, That the people cannot, without "A
loss OF their liberties, prosperity and honor,
submit to such result; and we, therefore,
in 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 Ii will not
be submitted to.
8. ResolUed, That Congress Is not an
omnipotent law-making power. That tn
Constitution provides that no bill shall be-
come Il law without the approval of the
President, unless IL be passedby two thirds