The Daily empire. (Dayton, Ohio) 1865-1867, 1867-04-11
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steadiastly adhere to the PRINCIPLES of The
party as eNpounded by the fathers. and an
proved by experience; that I'm accordance
with these principles we declare that the
reuerni government Is n government of
inll.eu powers ana that II possesses no
powers nut such ms are expressly, or by
necessary implication delegated To- II I'm he
Federal Constitution that allother powers
are reserved Tn the states or the people F,
that q strict construction of the Csnstitu,
Jon Is indispensable to the preservation of
the reserved rights OF the States ana thr
people; that all grants of power to Govern
ment, whether State or Federal. should he
strictly construed, because all eucb Grants
abridge the natural rights of men that the
preservation of the equality and rights of
the states aud the rights Of the Deonle IL
necessary to the preservation of the Union.
that the Federal Government Is untitled "a
leRlslate for OF administor the local concerns
OF the states that IL would be monstrous
that thclocal Affairs OfOhio should be regu-
lated by a Federal Congressin which she has
but two Senators, and the New England
states, with but II little greater population.
haNetwelve; that the tendency of the Fed
eral Government Is to usurp the reserved
rights of the states and of the people and
that. therefore, a Capitalization of power In
IT'S hands rs an ever pending danger. That
such an aus lrption 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
Unton that u National debt, besides linz
poverishing the people, fosters an undue
increase of the powers of the Federal Gov
crnment; that high protective tariffs nave
a like effect, sacrificing the interests of the
many for the cmoluments 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 tenn
dency, beside c|Orrupting 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 upwise and despot.
ic; that the tendency of power is to steal
from the many to the few, aud that, there
fore, eternal vigilance is the price of lib
crty = that the tendency of government is
to enlarge It's authority by %usurpatiun. and
therefore government needs to be watched
that another of its tendencies Is to govern
too much-unneceSsarily and vpXatiOuslv
Interfering with the business and habits of
the people; that the freedom of speech and
- nv llNNH - NNNNitldl 70 lllt existence OF
liberty that no person not IN the military |
or naval service, or In the bounds where |
martial law lcgitimately prevails, can law
fully be deprived OF life, liberty or proper
ty, without due process of civil law; thai
the courts should always be open for the
redress of grievances that no er post IactO |
law should be made; that the right of the
people to pcaccably 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, rs prescribed by the Constitution, have
the right to govern, the minority have in
defeasible rights and that II frequent re-
%currence to first principles is essential to
the welfare of the state and the people.
,. ResOlred, That the States lately in re-
bellion are States In the Union, and have
been recognized "a such by every depart
mcnt of the Government, and by Presi-
dent Lincoln, who, In the midst ofthe war,
invited them to elcctmembers of Congress
by President johnson, in various procla-
nations and official acts; by Congress,
which permitted Andrew johnson to sit I'm
the SENATE as a Senator from Tennessee,
aud members from Virginia, Tennessee
and Louisiana to sit In the House of Repre-
Sentativcs after these States had seeded,
and while the wal was being carried on.
and which further recognized them as
States in the Union by the Congressional
apportionment 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 i'm
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 it
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 Senators and n
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 to de-
prive a State of its reserved rights, and
reduce 1t to II Territorial condition; that
therefore the exclusion, by the sO-called
Congress, of all representation from ten
States, the proposed exclusion of those
states, from all voice in the next Presiden-
iltl tlNNllpi' Lut lnIttltIltu overthrow OF
their State Governments and the reduction
OF their States to the condition of terrltor-
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 nullify
the Constitution, virtually overthrow the
State Governments, to erect consolidated
despotism on their ruins; ana to establish
and perpetuate Il tyraunical rule of minor
ity over a majority of the American peo-
pie. Tint the people cannot, without IL
loss of their liberties, prosperity and honor,
submit TO such u result; and we, therefore,
In the hope that The warming will be
needed, and the danger to our situations be
peaceably averted, do solcmnly warn the
advocates of the plan, that Il will not
be submitted to.
8. ResolUed, That Congress Is not an
omnipotent law-making power. That the
Constitution provides that no bill shall be-
come n law without the approval of the
President, unless it be passedb by two-thirds
of each House of Congress. That one of
the objects of the present so-called Com
grcSS In excluding States from representa-
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