The Daily empire. (Dayton, Ohio) 1865-1867, 1867-04-17
.S7A7E DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION.
THE PLATFORM ADOPTED.
JtYUABr sh, 4. d. 1851.

RESOLUTIONS.
l.. Res0ircd. That the Democracy ofOhio
steadnstly adhere to the principles Of the
party as eXpounded by the fathers, and APP
proved by experience that In accordance
with these principles we declare that the
Federal Government Is a government Of
| limited powers, and that It possesses no
powers but such as are expressly, or by
necessary implication delegated to it i'm the
Federal Constitution that allOther powers
are reserved to the states or the people;
that a strict construction of the Censtitu-
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 bu
strictly construed, because all such grants
abridge the natural rights Ofmcn that 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 Us untitled to
? lcgislatc for or Administered the local concerns
of the States that IL would be mOnstrous
I that the local affairs ofOhio should be regu-
lated hy "A Federal COngrcssin which she has
but two Senators, and the New England
e States. with but a little greater population,
lhavetwclvc; that the tendency of the Fed
eral Government Is to usurp the reserved
! rights Of the states and Of the people; and
! that, therefore, q Capitalization of power in
, its hands l. an ever pending danger. That
b. SUM hNI fAN" 70 N'NA'iA w N'NNNA ~ " AAAAE
il lasted. be destructive of the liberties and
81 interests of the people, and would end
either I'm dcspotism or a destruction Of the
Union that % National debt, besides i'm
-, poverishing the people. fosters an undue
ID increase Of the power of the Federal Gov
crnmcnt that high protective tariffs have
a % like effect, sacrificing the interests Of the
, many for the cmOlumcntS of the few. and
u 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
dcncy. beside c%orrupting the Government,
$ aud that. therefore, economy is essential
4 not only to the prosperity, but also TO the
liberties OF the people; that unequal tax
alton is q plain violation OF justice, OF
which no Government can safely be guilty.
a That to each state belongs the right to
3, determine the qualification of its electors,
and all attempts to impair this right, either
r by Congressional legislation or COnstitu-
tional amendment, are Unwisc and dcspot-
g ic that the tendency of power is to steal
u 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 hc watched {;
that another of its tendencies Is to govern
a too much-unHeccSsarily aud vcXatiOusly
~ interfering with the business and habits of
u the people; that the frccdOmo of speech and
lNs INC llt~~ Is t~Ntllllsll " lilt NNl@lNlNt a
liberty that no person not in the military
or naval service, or i'm the bound where
martial law legitimately prevails, can law
y fully be deprived of life, liberty or proper
lie ty, without due process of civil law that
te the courts should always be open for the
or redress of grievances; that no er post JdctO
H., law should be made; that the right of the
nc people to peaCeably assemble and consult
of upon public affairs is iu%viOlablc; that the
al military should be held in due subsection
a., to the civil pOwcr that While the major
TT ity, as prescribed by the Constitution, have
the right to govern, the minority have in
f. dcfcaSiblc rights; and that a frequent re-
lo currencc to first principles is essential tC
H' the welfare of the State and the people.
ry >. EcSOICed, That the States lately in re-
.eR bclliOn are States in the Union, and have
been recognized "a such by every depart.
', mcnt of the Government, and by prcsi
'ul dent Lincoln. who, in the midst of the wal
all invited them to clectmembcrs of Congress
he by President johnson, in various prOCla
,o- nations and official acts; by Congress
- which permitted Andrew johnson to sit i
81 the Senate as n Senator from Tennessee
and members from Virginia, Tennessee
.ti- and Louisiana to sit in the House of Repre-
N scntativeS after these States had sccCdeC
seq and while the war was being carried Oh
aud which further recognized them a
States in the Union by the Congressiona
aDportiOnment act providing for their dl
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1t! tax laws, and especially by the direct tax
ned by the resolutions submitting amendment
IAN to the Constitution for their approval, an
mr. by various other acts and resolutions i'm
" parting the same recognition; all of Whic
were passed since the attempted %secessiO
fe- of those States, by the Judiciary of tn
,ev United States, which holds Federal CourI
in all those States, and especially by I'll
supreme Court, which entcrtainS iurisdiI
ate ton of cases coming from them, which
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
on States with unequal rights being n thiJ
and unknown to the Constitution that, by q
nm express terms of the Constitution, eat
~, State is entitled to have two Senators and
~, ~ due proportion of Representatives i'll Il
ike Congress, and to vote in all elections
race President and Vice-president that, thouy
We these rights are subject to interruption
-, 4 state of civil war, they can not, in time
peace, BE- suspended, much less destroyC
without Il plain violation of the COnstit
ton that Congress has no power to d
priVC Il State of its reserved rights, al
reduce it to u Territorial condition til
''O' therefore the exclusion, by the social
ASH Congress, of all representation from t
into States, the proposed exclusion of tho
States, from all voice in the next Preside
tial election, the threatened overthrow
their State Governments and the reducti
ne Il OF their States to the condition of terrific
n he les, are each and every one of them unco
TO q stitutional, revolutionary and despO
lim- measures. destructive not merely of I
ism, rights of those States, but also of the rigl
'ary. Of every other state in the Union. III
mis- those measures are parts ola plan to null
no the Constitution, virtually overthrow
The State Governments, to erect n COnsOlidat
gh a dcspotism on their ruins; and to cstabl'
noes undergraduate n tyrannical rule of a min,
they ity over a majority of the American pI
hem pie. That the people cannot, without
/ the loss of their liberties, prosperity and hon
OF submit to such n result; and we, thereto
i'm the hope that the warning will
table needed. and the danger to our situations
5 eN- peaceably avcrted, do sOlcmnly warn
great advocates of the plan, that it will
be submitted to.
B.. Resoiced, That Congress is not
COM omnipotent law-making power. That
iquor Constitution provides that no bill shall
runlH come Il law without the approval of
President unless it be passed by two-thi
of each House of Congress. That one
TO the objects of the present sO-callcd c,
nun grps. In excluding States from TpDrespu