The Daily empire. (Dayton, Ohio) 1865-1867, 1867-02-19
STATE DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION.
THE PLATFORM ADOPTED.
JANUARY sth, A. d. 1907.
RESOLUTIONS.

RESOLUTIONS.
/. RESOLVED, That the Democracy Of Ohio
steadfastly adhere to the principles of the
party rs %eXpounded by the fathers, and APP
proved by experience that In accordance
with these principles we declare that the
Federal Government Is Il government of
limited powers, aud that it possesses no
powers but such rs are expressly, or by
necessary implication delegated 20 u In the
Federal Constitution ]; that all other powers
are reserved to the states or the people;
that = strict construction OF the Constitu-
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
strictly construed. because all such grants
abridge the natural rights of men that the
preservation of the equality and rights of
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 of0hlo should be regu-
lated by II Federal Congressi In which she has
but two Senators. and the New England
States, with but a little greater population,
have twelve that the tendency of the Fed
cral Government Is TO usurp the reserved
rights of the States and of the people; and
that. therefore, a GENERALIZATION of power In
Its hands Is an ever pending danger. That
such an abs Irption OF power would, while
10 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 have
u like effect, sacrificing the interests of the
many for the emoluments of the few, and
plainly violating the equity aud spirit of
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 4 plain violation of Justice, OF
which no Government can snfely 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 unwisc and despot-
iC; that the tendency of power is to steal
from the many to the few, and that, there
fore, '%cternal 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 It's tendencies Is to govern
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interfering with the business and habits of
the people; hat 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
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 eT post fdctO
law should be made; that the right of the
people to peaceably assemble and consult
upon public affairs IL inviolable; that the
military should be held in due subsection
to the civil powcr; that while the major
ity, as prescribed by the Constitution, haye
the right to govern, the minority have in
defeasible rights; and that n frequent re-
currence to first principles is essential to
the welfare of the State and the people.
.. ResOiUcd, That the States lately In re-
bellion are States In the Union, and have
been recognized as such by every depart
ment Of the Government, and by Prosi-
dent Lincoln, who, In the midst of the war,
invited them TO elect members of Congress
by President johnson, in various procla-
nations and official acts; by Congress,
which permitted Andrew johnson 10 sit In
the Senate as n 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 war was being carried on,
and which further recognized them as
States in the Union by the Congressional
a"pportionment act providing for their due
representation In Congress; by various
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 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 entertains jurisdic-
ton of cases coming from them, which 1t
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
State Is entitled to have two Senator's and a
due proportion of Representatives In the
Congress, and TO vote In all elections of
President and Vice-president 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 10 de-
prive a State of Its reserved rights, and
reduce it to a Territorial condition; that
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Congress, of all representation from ten
States, the proposed exclusion OF those
states, from all voice In the next Presiden-
cial 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 the rights
Of every other State In the Union. That
those measures are parts ola plan TO nulliiy
the Constitution, virtually overthrow the
State Governments, to erect aconsolldated
despOtism 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
/ submit TO such y result; and we, therefore
In the hope that the warning will be
needed, and the danger TO our situations bC
peaceably averted, do solemnly warn the
advocates of the plan, that IL will moi
be submitted 10.
3. Resolved, That Congress is not an
omnipotent law-making power. That the
4. Constitution provides that nc bin shall be-
7 come a law without the approval Of the
President unless II be passed by twO-third'
of each House of Congress. That one oil
the objects Of the present so-called Con
greSs In excluding States from representa-
ton, IL TO pass bills by a two-thirds vote
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