Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-09-18
The Platforms Of the Democratic and
ii % Republican Parties. mi
III
The Democratic Platform
20 'oi % Adopted 's'' '-ls .s5a
JANUARY, sfh, A. ID. 1867. j.

Il. rRssosrsd. That the Democracyo Of Ohio stead
fsstly adhere to- the principles Of the party
pounded by the fat ers, and approved by expert
see sIs hs Fde S
ment of limited powers, and that it possesses
npicstiob, delegated to it the Federal Constia,
ton: thatsll other R9wers are reserved :? ths ns
The Cons S indispensa able to the pTeservs
tioq Of the reserved rights OF the states and the
TsSR hs al g1F5ss 3
stEued because all such grants abridge the natural
rights Of men that the pressryaton Of the sauali9
he People is feces M sary to the preservstions Of.
the e 6nisn 30 that the Federal, Gfyernment is
concerns of the States II that it would be
that the Local affairs f ef Ohio should be regp-
bss oy ssa the Engsad
States. With but little greater poPnlation, have
ment Is to usurp the reserved rights of the States
and of the people: and that, therefore centraza-
n OF IN H d Is ah ever % poMer would
while it lasted. be destructive of the liberties and
interests OF the people, and would end either in des
adeht. besides impovershing the people fosters an
undue increase Of the powers of the Federal Gov
efect. tacricne the interests Of the many for tie
Of tbs fsT and plainly a violating tH The
8s Ederdi 1apst1e same tendency, BE-,
seoaona is sssssidf Ss only to rs prosperity, 6lt
also to the liberties of the peop1e that u l.
scs sGsft a1aS saa can s'9sga sasg dslsy ss
sThat to each State belongs the right to determine
the Qualification Of It's electors, ard all attempts to
OF eanstientions am nent are unwise and des-
poe that the tendency of power is to steal from the
ssny to the the few and that thsEsfSrs :. ssrlsi ys
government is to enlarge its authority by usurpa-
ton, and therefore government needs to be watched;
that ther of its tendencies is to govern toe much
unnecessarily and vexatious1y interfering with the
business and habits of the people, that the freedom
of speech and of the press is essential to the exist
eDce efliberty: that person not in the military
naval service, or in the bounds where martial law
life liberty or property witho ut due process of civil
law: that the should always be open for the
should Be made that the right Of the people to
peaceably assemble and consult upon public affairs
is inviolable that the military should be held in
due subjection to the civil power; that while the
majority, as prescribed by the Constitution, have
Their ght to govern the minority bave indeteasible
is essential to the welfare of the State and the
people. -. O.. l-,Lt.,lE
States in the Union. and have been recognized as
such byevery department. of the government. and
invited them to elect member of Congress; by
President johnson. in various proclamations and
official acts: by Congress which permitted Andrew
Johnson to sit in the senate as Senator from Tenn
essee, aud members from Virgins, Tennessee and
ter these States hal seeded and Wuile the was
ing carried on, and which further recognized them
rs1PprsseEsason in Congress- by various tax laws
submitting amendments to the Constitution for
approval and by various other acts and resou-
were passed since. the. attempted secession
# those States BY the bod. Jufiosry Of the
a eboss States apS bS the
Court. which entertains jurisdiction of cases COM
Df thus nGs % Ss
stand an equal footing with their sister Sta es
WITH uneauai rights being thing unknown
the Constitution each State is entitled have two
the Consress and to vote in all eections Of res II
dent and Vice Presidents: that, though these rights
they not. in time Of peace, be suspended. much
les desgoyedi without plain violation of the
Stare of its reserved rights. and reduce it to a
Territorial conditions; that therefore the exclusion
BY the so;ca led Congress, Of all representation
tia election The threatened overthrow Of their State
GoFernments and the reduction of their States to
the condition of territories are each and every ne
Of them uncons titutiOnal, revolutionary and des-
Of those States but also Of the rights of every 9TH
er State in the, Union. That those measures are
pserbroM tbe Sate GSTern@ents to erect oon
solidAed despotism on their runs and to establish
O bs peOee Tba h
pie cannot, without loss of their liberties. pros
the Ee will
ed, and the danger to our situation be peaceably
averted. do -soIemnly warn the advocates OF the
plan. that it will not be submitted to.
2. Resolved, That Congress is not an omnipotent
law-makine power. That the Constitution pro-
vides that no bill shall become law without the
approval of the President, unless 1t has passed py
two-thirds of each House of Congress. That one
of the objects Of the present socalled congress IN
excluding States from representation. Is TO pass
bills by tysothTds vote which, were all the states
represented, could not pass and thus 10
abolish the constitutional provision aforesaid nat
if this precedent be acquiesced in, there Will pe
nothing to prevent bare majority OF Congress, al
any time in the future, from nulifying the consti-
tutional veto Of tue President and usurping uncon-
troed legislative power. by exclusion of the mi
nory from their seats. That the exclusion of even
in single State might give this control, and pre-
text Tor such an exclusion would not be wanting to
an unscrupulous and revolutionary party.
T. Rss0LUsd, That the people. and especially those
of the agricultural States have suffered too long
the exactions of high protective tariffs and the
representatives. of agricultural and laborng pop
ulation. We demand that their substance shall no
longer be extorted from EN- in order to fill the
pockets of eastern monopolists.
s. Res0Lred, That unequal taxation is contrary to
the first principles of justice and sound policy, aud
We call upon our Governments, Federal and State,
10 use all necessary Constitutional means to remedy
g Rssozpsd. That the Radical majority in the So
called Congress have proved themselves to be in