The Daily empire. (Dayton, Ohio) 1865-1867, 1867-06-17
SFAYT IlNOERAYIE ENEVITHINI.
THE PLATFORM ADOPTED
JANUARY Sth, 4. ID. 1907.


proved by experience that In accordance
with these principles we declare that the
Federal Government Is government Of
limited powers, and that It possesses no
powers but such as are expressly, or by
necessary implication delegated 20 It In the
Federal Constitution that all other powers
are reserved tO the states or the people
that strict construction of the Censtitu-
tiOn Is indispensable to the preservation Of
the reserved rights Of the States and the
people that all grants ofpower to Govern
ment, whether State or Federal, should be
strictly construed because all such grants
abridge the natural rights ofmen that the
preservation Of the equality and rights of
the States aud the rights OF the people Is
necessary TO the preservation of the Union
that the Federal Government Is untitled to
llegislatc for or administer the local concerns
ofthe States that it would be monstrous
that the local affairs ofOhio should be regu-
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 brption OF power would. while
IL lasted, be destructive of the liberties and
interests of the people, and would end
, either In despOtism or a destruction of the
poverishing the people, fosters an undue
increase Of the powers of the Federal Gov
ernment; that high protective tariffs have
n 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
disbursement OF enormous revenues by the
Federal Government have the same ten
dehcy, 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 IT'S 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 !;
D that another Of its tendencies Is to govern
too much-unnecessarily and vexatiously
0 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
s 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
the courts should always be open for the
redress of grievances; that no er post JdctO
i law should be made; that the right of the
- people to peaceably assemble and consult
, upon public affairs is inviolable; that the
i military should be held in due subjecton
l. to the civil power: that while the major
r ity, as prescribed by the Constitution, have
y the right to govern, the minority have in
lpfpa sihlp riuhfQ. and that a frppnnnf ~
currence to first principles Is essential to
e the welfare of the State and the people.
! 2. Resolved, That the States lately in re-
n bellion are States in the Union, and have
been recognized as such by every depart
ment OF the Government, and by Presi-
dent Lincoln, who, in the midst of the war
u invited them to elect members of Congress
e by President johnson, In various procla-
,e nations and official acts; by Congress
n which permitted Andrew johnson to sit In
W the Senate rs Senator from Tennessee
lc and members from Virginia, Tennessee
ID and Louisiana to sit in the House of Repre-.
te sentatives after these States had seeded
and while the war was being carried on
Go and which further recognized them as
x States IN the Union by the Congressiona
v, apportionment act providing for their due
At representation in Congress; by variou!
- tax laws, and especially by the direct tax
by the resolutions submitting amendments
to the Constitution for their approval, anC
s. by various other acts and resolutions i'm
~ parting the same recognition; all of which
he were passed since the attempted secession
Il, of those States, by the judiciary of thu
y United States, which holds Federal Court
ne In all those States, and especially by tn,
Id Supreme Court, which entertains jurisdic
90 tion of cases coming from them, which
p, could not do were they not in the Union
y That being thus in the Union, they stan,
to on an equal footing with their sister State
III. a ~
unknown to the Constitution; that, by tn
express terms of the Constitution, eac
ue State is entitled to have two Senators and
! due proportion of Representatives in tn
&c Congress, ana to vote In all elections {
ng President and Vice-president that thoug
ng these rights are subject TO interruption b
,ot a state of civil war, they can not, In time
- peace, be suspended, much less destroyed
10 without plain violation of the Constitr
M ton; that Congress has no power to dC
-u- prive a State of its reserved rights, an
reduce 1t to a Territorial condition; thu
therefore the exclusion, by the so-calle
-, Congress, of all representation from t.
Wy States, the proposed exclusion of tho
re- States, from all voice in the next PresideI
me tial election, the threatened overthrow
Pa their State Governments and tile reducth
-, OF their States to the condition of terrific
'he les are each and every one of them uncol
'RY stitutional, revolutionary and dcspot
ted measures. destructive not, merely OF q
rights Of those States, but also of the righ
Of every other State in tho Union. Tn
.ss- those measures are parts Ofa plan to nulli
the Constitution, virtually overthrow h
OF State Governments, to erect CONSOLIDATE
ere despOtism on their ruins; and to establi
he and dperpetuate tyrannical rule of mino
% ity over a majority of the American pc
pie. That the people cannot, without
anu loss of their liberties, prosperity and hone
eau submit to such result; and we, therefor
in the hope that the warning will
needed, and the danger to our situations
,s peaceably averted, do solemnly warn /
h.t advocates of the plan, that it will II
'haI be submitted to.
Vhe s. ResolUed, That Congress is not
he omnipotent law-making power. That I
f It Constitution provides that no bill shall b
,on- come a law without the approval of t
President, unless 1t be passed by two-thir
of each House of Congress That one
-. the objects of the present so-called Co
nut gress In excluding States from represent
uis- ton, is to pass bills by a two-thirds vC
4th which, were all the States representt
=, could not so mass: and thus TO virtual