The Daily empire. (Dayton, Ohio) 1865-1867, 1867-05-25
S7ATV DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION.
THE PLATFORM ADOPTED.
JANUABY Sth, Il. ID. rS67.


RESOLUTIONS.
/. ResOlred, That the Democracy of Ohio
steudiastly adhere 10 the principles Of the
party rs oNpounded by the fathers, and ap-
proved by experience that in accordance
with these principles we declare that the
Federal GoVernneut Is n government Of
limited powers and that II possesses no
powers but such as are expressly, or by
necessary implication delegated to II in the
. Federal Constitution that all other powers
are reserved to the states or the people
that strict construction of the Censttu-
ton Is indispensable to the preservation of
the reserved rights of the States and the
people that all grants of power TO Govern
mcnt. whether state or Federal, should be
strictly construed, because all such grants
abridgc the natural rights ofmen that the
preservation Of the equality and rights of
r 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 IL would be monstrous
that the local affairs ofOhio should be rcgu-
lated by 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 usurp the reserved
rights of the States and of the people and
} that, therefore, Capitalization of power in
It's hands is an ever pending danger. That
such an abs lrptOn OF power would, while
1t 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
lpoverishing 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 CmOluments of the few, and
plainly violating the equity aud spirit of
la ~ NI,Ng
disbursement of enormous revenues by the
Federal Government have the same ten
Idency, 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-
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 veXatiously
, interfering with the business and habits of
of the press is essential to the existence of
, liberty that no person not In the military
r or naval service, or in the bounds where
martial law lcgitimately 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 Jdct0
law should be made; that the right of the
7 people to peaceably assemble and consult
upon public affairs is inviOlable; that the
military should be held in due subjecton
} to the civil power; that while the major
t ity, rs prescribed by the Constitution, have
the right to govern, the minority nave in
defeasible rights and that frequent re-
currence TO first principles is essential to
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 as such by every depart
2 ment OF the Government, and by Presi-
; dent Lincoln, who, in the midst of the war,
a invited them to elect members of Congress !;
- by President johnson, in various procla-
c nations and official acts; by Congress
G which permitted Andrew johnson to sit in
e the Senate as a Senator from Tennessee
5 and members from Virginia, Tennessee
e and Louisiana to sit in the House of Repre-
t sentatiyes after these States had seeded,
3 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
1 representation in Congress; by various
= tax laws, and especially by the direct tax !;
e by the resolutions submitting amendments
b 10 the Constitution for their approval, and
n 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
Y United States, which holds Federal Courts
in all those States, and especially by the
Supreme Court, which entertains jurisdic-
u tion of cases coming from them, which il
a could not do were they not in the Union.
u That being thus in the Union, they stand
g on an equal footing with their sister States
e States with unequal rights being q thing
e unknown to the Constitution; that, by the
= express terms of the Constitution, each
10 State is entitled to have two Senators and a
le due proportion of Representatives in the
= Congress, and to vote in all elections OF
81 President and Vice-president; that, though
lc these rights are subject to interruption by
+ Il state of civil war, they can not, in time OF
peace, be suspended, much less destroyed
ID without plain violation of the Constitu-
IN ton; that Congress has no power to de-
,f prive a State of its reserved rights, and
., reduce it to Territorial condition that
ID therefore the exclusion, by the so-calleC
" Congress, of all representation from ter
ne States, the proposed exclusion of those
States, from all voice in the next Presiden-
GO tial election, the threatened overthrow O.
mt their State Governments and the reduction
tx OF their States to the condition of territor
Of les, are each and every one of them uncon-
Va stitutional, revolutionary and despoti,
ne measures, destructive not merely of til,
of rights of those States, but also of the right
he of every other State in the Union. Tha
80 those measures are parts ofa plan to nullfl
VI the Constitution, virtually overthrow tn,
'e, State Governments, to erect a aconsolidateI
despotism on their ruins; and to establish
and perpetuate a tyrannical rule of minor
to ity over majority of the American peo
its pie. That the people cannot without
IN loss of their liberties, prosperity and honor
in submit to such n result; and we therefore
ty in the hope that the warning will b.
Irs needed and the danger to our situations b.
es peaceably ayerted, do sOlemny warn tn
u advocates of the plan, that it will no
ty be submitted to.
eU 8. Resolved, That Congress is not al
" omnipotent law-making power. That tn
10 Constitution provides that no bill shall be
come a law without the approval of TN
he President, unless 1t be passed by two third
bry of each House of Congress. That one o
NJ the objects of the present so-called Con