The Daily empire. (Dayton, Ohio) 1865-1867, 1867-06-22
STATE DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION.
The ePLATFORM ADOPTED
J.fNUARP Sth, "A. ID. 1857.


RESOLUTIONS.
1. Resolved, That the Democracy ofOhio
lsteadfastly adhere to the principles of the
party as ex pounded by the fathers, and APP
proved by experience that in accordance
with these principles we declare that the
Federal Government Is u government Of
limited powers, and that it possesses no
powers but such as are expressly, or by
necessary implication delegated 20 Ii In the
Federal Constitution; that all other powers
are reserved To the states or the people;
that a strict construction of the Censtitu-
tiOn 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 tllat the
preservation of the equality and rights OF
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 1t would be monstrous
that the local affairs OfOhiO should be regu-
lated 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 OF the States and OF the people; and
! that, therefore, n Capitalization Of power in
, It's hhuus - ulA NNti DtliNlilk NhuktEs uhb
such an abs lrption OF power wouldy~While
it 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
Ipoyerishlng the people, fosters an undue
increase of the powers of the Federal Gov
ernment; that high protective tariffs have
like effect, sacrificing the interests of the
many for the emoiuments 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-
: 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 I;
: 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
! 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
e fully be deprived of life, liberty or proper
n ty, without due process of civil law; that
a 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
/ people to peaceably assemble and consult
upon public affairs is inviolable; 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
= defeasible rights; and that a frequent re-
Y currence to first principles is essential to
, the welfare of the State and the people.
2. ResOlUed, That the States lately in re-
c belliOn are States in the Union, and have
v been recognized "a such by every depart
# ment of the Government, and by Presi-
dent Lincoln, who, in the midst of the war,
IT invited them to elect members of Congress
70 by President johnson, In various prOcla-
If nations and official acts; by Congress
,r which permitted Andrew johnson to sit in
the Senate as Senator from Tennessee
s. 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
,t and which further recognized them al
n States in the Union by the COngressiona
~ apportionment act providing for their due
e, representation in Congress; by variou,
q. tax laws, and especially by the direct tax
by the resolutions submitting amendment
to the Constitution for their approval, anC
r by various other acts and resolutions i'm
y parting the same recognition; all of whicl
II were passed since the attempted secession
IL of those States, by the judiciary of tn
D United States, which holds Federal Court
IS in all those States, and especially by tn
u; Supreme Court. which enteTtains jurisdic
III ton of cases coming from them, which
~ could not do were they not in the UnioT
That being thus in the Union, they stan
oil on an equal footing with their sister State
States with unequal rights being thin
-, unknown to the Constitution; that, by tn
u express terms of the Constitution, e0c
"a State is entitled to have two Senators and
lat due proportion of Representatives in I'll
IN Congress, ana to vote In all elections
President and president; that, thoug
IL these rights are subject to interruption
Sc a state of civil war, they can not, in time
a peace, be suspended, much less destroye
:, without a plain violation of the Constitl
,ho tion; that Congress has no power to d
prive State of its reserved rights, al
reduce it to a Territorial condition; tn
II a therefore the exclusion, by the social,
in Congress, of all representation from t,
e. States, the proposed exclusion of tho
States, from all voice in the next Preside
uld tial election, the threatened overthrow
Her their State Governments and the reduct
der OF their States to the condition of terrific
~ les, are each and every one of them uneo
stitutional, revolutionary and dcspO
ay- measures. destructive not merely of t
rights of those States, but also of tile rigl
- of every other State in the Union. II
those measures are parts of a plan to null
the Constitution, virtually overthrow t
State Governments, to erect consOlidat
Ap- despotism on their ruins; and to establl
and perpetuate tyrannical rule of mint
2 ity over majority of the American pt
- pie. That the people cannot, without
les, loss of their liberties, prosperity and hon
wal. submit TO such n result; and we, thereto
iiy In the hope that the warning will
- needed, and the danger to our situations
peaceably averted, do solemnly warn
advocates of the plan, that 1t will I
be submitted to,
5. ResOIued, That Congress is not
omnipotent law-making power That
N Constitution provides that no bill shall
~ come law without the approval of
President unless it be passed by two-thi
of each House of Congress. That one
the objects of the present sO-called Ct
,,raea n aNspmdin0 States from re pnrasan