The Daily empire. (Dayton, Ohio) 1865-1867, 1867-06-08
SfAHE lENOCRlTIE CONVENTION.
THE PLATFORM ADOPTED.
JANUAR Y Sfh, n. ~. 1891.


proved by experience that n aecorlanee X
with these principles we declare that the |,
Federal Government IL government Of
limited powers, and that IL possesses no
powers but such as are expressly. or by /
necessary implication delegated to il ia the
Federal Constitution; thar all lother powers
are reserved 10 the atates or the people /
that strict construction OF the Csustitu-
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
Istrictly construed, because all such grants
abridge the natural rights Of men thut 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 |
llegislate for or administer the local concerns |
ofthe States that it would be monstrous |
that the local affairs OfOhiO should be regu- |
Hated by "a Federal Congress in which she has |
but two Senators, and the New England |
States, with but little greater population, |
have twelve; that the tendency of the Fed |
leral Government Is 30 usurp the reserved |
rights Of the States and Of the people and |
that. therefore, a Capitalization Of power in |
its hands Is an ever pending danger. That
such an abs brptiou OF power would, while |
IL lasted, be destructive of the liberties and
interests of the people, and would end
either In despotism or destruction of the
Union that National debt, besides inn
pOverishing the people, fosters an undue
, Increase Of the powers of the Federal Gov
ernment that high protective tariffs have
a like effect, sacrificing the interests of the
many for the emoluments of the few, aud
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
ntalU IN hn ~ hui ala tn IA
liberties of the people; that unequal tax
. alton Is plain violation OF Justice, Of
: which no Government can safely be guilty.
That to each State belongs the right to
a 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-
Q &c that the tendency of power Is to steal
v 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
y 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
u the people; that the freedom of speech and
II of the press is essential to the existence Of
e liberty that no person not in the military
u OF naval service, or in the bounds where
l. martial law legitimately prevails can law
9 fully be deprived Of life, liberty or proper
e ty, without due process of civil law; that
q the courts should always be open for the
Ie redress Of grievances; that no &c post JdctO
3 law should be made; that the right of the
Is people to peaceably assemble and consult
l. upon public affairs is inviolable; that the
70 military should be held in due subsection
y to the civil power; that while the major
N ity, as prescribed by the Constitution. have
Di the right to govern, the minority have in
e, defeaAble rights and that a frequent re-
ln,,r fs frat p1iu tz tp
IN the welfare of the State and the people. .
2. Resolred. That the States lately in re-
IN bellion are States in the Union, and have
"a been recognized as such by every depart
ment OF the Government and by Presi-
dent Lincoln, who in the midst of the war
g" invited them to electmembers of Congress
ls, by President johnson, in various procla'
,o nations and official acts; by Congress
. which permitted Andrew Johnson to sit il
NC the Senate rs n Senator from Tennessee
mt and members from Virginia, Tennessee
M and Louisiana to sit in the House of Repre-
sentatives after these States had seeded
and while the war was being carried on
an and which further recognized them "a
" States in the Union by the CongressiOna
el- appOrtiOnment act providing for their due
al representation in Congress; by various
I. tax laws, and especially by the direct tax
- lby the resolutions submitting amendment
'A' to the Constitution for their approval, anC
N by various other acts and resolutions i'm
tn parting the same recognition; all of whicl
lIe were passed since the attempted secession
of those States, by the Judiciary of th
NJ United States, which holds Federal Court
Gil in all those States, and especially by tn
pss Supreme Court. which entertains jurisdic
tion of cases coming from them, which
" could not do were they not in the Union
ow That being thus in the Union, they stan
len on an equal footing with their sister State
It, States with nnequai rights Delhg a thin
express terms of the Constitution, eac
State is entitled to have two Senators and
'lA due proportion of Representatives III tn
Congress, and to vote in all elections {
hia President and Vice president; that, thong
ech these rights are subject to interruption b
Is state Of civil war, they can not, in time
on peace, be suspended, much less destroye
Z of without a plain violation of the Consttl
hat ton; that Congress has no power to d.
reat priye State of its reserved rights, al
can reduce 1t to a Territorial condition; tn
air therefore the exclusion, by the so-callC
Congress, OF all representation from I,
ya States, the proposed exclusion of tho
States, from all voice in the next Preside
'"e tial election, the threatened overthrow
their State Governments and the reductit
OF their States to the condition of terrific
rom les, are each and every one of them unCo
the lstitutional, revolutionary and dcspot
IT, measures, destructive not merely OF /
'"' rights of those States, hut also of the rigl
ut Il Of every other State In the Union. III
that those measures are parts offs plan to nulli
rect. the Constitution, virtually overthrow
lac, State Governments, to erect n nconsOlidat
'as' despotisnl on their ruins; aud tT 'estahli
and perpetuate tyrannical rule of a mine
1ty over n majority of the American pc
rom pie. That the people canpot without
At loss of their liberties, prosperity aud hon
fact submit to such II result; and we, thereto
in the hope that the warning will
Il !" needed, and the danger to our situations
cked peaceably averted, do solemnly warn
advocates of the plan, that it will l
be submitted to.
ty of 5. ResolUed, That Congress is not
liver, omnipotent law making power That
JEFF Constitution provides that no bill shall
the come law without the approval of
Y be- President unless it be passed by two-thil
of each House of Congress. That one
the objects of the present so-called CO
K for gresS I'm excluding States from represen
of a ton, Is to pass bills by u twO-thirls "
will which, were all the States represent
lse it could not SO pass and thus to virtrla
og.- abolish the constitutional provision afo
said That II this precedent be acquiesI