The Daily empire. (Dayton, Ohio) 1865-1867, 1867-05-20
STlTE DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION.
TIE PLATFORM ADOPTED.
JANUARY Sth, 4. D. 1867.
RESOLUTIONS.

/. Resolped, That the Democracy ofOhio
steadfastly adhere 90 the principles Of the l
party as expounded by the fathers, and APP
proved by experienced; that IN accordance
with these principles we declare that the
Federal Government Is government OF
limited powers, aud that it possesses no
powers but such as are expressly, or by |
necessary implication delegated to 1t in the |
Federal Constitution that all other powers
are reserved TO the states or the people |
that a strict construction OF the CSnsttu-
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 OF men; 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
lleglslate for or radminister the local concerns
of the States that IL would be monstrOus
that the local affairs ofOhio should be regu-
Hated by Federal Congressin 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 ofthe States and of the people and
that. therefore, "A Capitalization of power in
its hands is an ever pending danger. That
such an abs rption OF power would, while
it lasted, be destructive of the liberties and
Interests of the people, and would end
either In despotism or q 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
a like eject, 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
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 a 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-
l 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
J TO enlarge its authority by usurpation, and
G 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
the people: that the freedom of speech and
= liberty: that no person not in the military
o 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
= law should be made; that the right of the
y people to peaceably assemble and consult
d upon public affairs is inyiolable; that the
military should be held in due subsection
% to the civil power; that while the major
ity, as prescribed by the Constitution, have
the right to govern, the minority have in
5, defeasible rights and that a frequent re-
o currence to first principles is essential to
,f the welfare of the State and the people.
2. Resolved, That the States lately IL re-
bellion are States in the Union, and have
been recognized as such by every depart
ment of the Government, and by Presi'
is dent Lincoln, who in the midst of the war
4 invited them to electmembers of Congress
by President johnson, in various procla
nations and official acts; by Congress
u. which permitted Andrew johnson to sit II
nj the Senate as o Senator from Tennessee
" and members from Virginia, Tennesse
ut and Louisiana to sit in the House of Repre-
he sentatives after these States had seeded
Sc and while the war was being carried on
n and which further recognized them a
n States in the Union by the Congressiona
or apportionmeut act providing for their du
r representation in Congress; by variou
tax laws, and especially by the direct tax
n, by the resolutions submitting amendment
in to the Constitution for their approval, an
nd by various other acts and resolutions i'm
OF parting the same recognition; all of whic
n were passed since the attempted secessiO
*, of those States, by the Judiciary of tn
as United States, which holds Federal Court
in all those States, and especially by tn
Supreme Court. which entertains jurisdiC
oT tnfr from than which
an could not do were they not in the Uniol
That being thus in the Union, they stan
on an equal footing with their sister Stat
ell States with unequal rights being a thin
me unknown to the Constitution; that, by IL
WI express terms of the Constitution, eaC
ecu State is entitled to have two Senators and
IN due proportion of Representatives in Il
'm Congress, and to vote in all elections
IN President and Vice-president; that, thoul
es, these rights are subject to interruption
t uIu a state of civil war, they can not, i'll time
tn tne peace, be suspended, much less destroye
Ihs UnS without a plain violation OF the Constit
ulu tion; that Congress has no power to d
nHe' priye q State of its reserved rights, al
reduce it to Territorial condition; tn
therefore the exclusion, by the social
im- Congress, of all representation from t
n at States, the proposed exclusion of the
,0 n States, from all voice in the next Preside
ii tial election, the threatened overthrow
anu their State Governments and the reducti
ort- OF their States to the condition of terrific
way les, are each and every one Of them unco
II stitutional, revolutionary and despo
measures, destructive not merely of I
'oP Irights of those States, but also of the rlgl
ded of every other State in the Union. III
,uld those measures are parts of plan to null
the Constitution, virtually overthrow
State Governments, to erect consolidai
bod despotism on their ruins; and to establ
lev, and perpetuate tyrannical rule of min
v{. lty over a majority of the American p'
left lple. That the people cannot, without
not loss of their liberties, prosperity and hon
submit to such result; and we, thereto
!, in the hope that the warning will
ue- needed, and the danger to our situations
UE- peaceably averted, do solemnly warn
lori advocates of the plan, that it will
be submitted to.
8. Resolved, That Congress is not
|, the omnipotent law-making power. That
oent Constitution provides that no bill shall
come law without the approval of
President, unless it be passed by two -thi
'ect- of each House of Congress. That one