The Daily empire. (Dayton, Ohio) 1865-1867, 1867-03-13
STATE DEMOCRATIC CONVECTION.
THE PLATFORM ADOPTED.
8th, 4. d. 1897.


" W. AAAANi ~ AAAAAIAtN We hfiihNN LilNh Nnt
Federal Government Is a government Of
limited powers, and that IL possesses no
powers but such as are expressly, or by
necessary implication delegated to IL in the
Federal Constitution that all other powers
are reserved 10 the states or the people (;
that a strict construction of the COnstitu-
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
strictly construed, because all such grants
abridge the natural rights of men 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 is untitled to
legislate for or administer the local concerns
of the States that IL would be monstrous
that the local affairs ofOhiO should be regu-
lated by Il Federal Congress in which she has
but two Senators, and the New England
States, with but "A 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, a Capitalization of power i'm
its hands Is an ever pending danger. That
such an absorption OF power would. while
IL 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 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 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 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 n 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 y that the tendency of government is
to enlarge its authority by usurpation, and
therefore government needs to he watched (;
that another of its tendencies is to govern
too much-unneCcssarily and vcXatieusly
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
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 eG post JdctO
law should be made kthat 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-
currenCe to first principles is essential to
the welfare of the State and the people.
,. ResoIUed, That the States lately in re-
bellion are States in the Union, and have
been recognized az such by every depart
mcnt of the Government, and by Presi-
dent Lincoln, who, in the midst of the 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 In
the Senate as a Senator from Tennessee,
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
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
DIV Lne RESOLUTIONS submitting dlltnulilelJS
to the Constitution for their approval, and
by various other acts and resolutions inn
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 Court,
in all those States, and especially by the
Supreme Court, which entertains juTisdic.
ton of cases coming from them, which il
could not do were they not in the Union
. | That haipn fins in tho IFninn fhaU gtnnf
on an equal footing with their sister State
States with unequal rights being a thins
unknown to the Constitution that, by TIL,
. express terms of the Constitution, eacl
! State is entitled to have two Senators and
t due proportion of Representatives in tn,
g Congress, and to vote in all elections o
President and Vice-president that, thougl
these rights are subject to interruption b,
u n state of civil war, they can not, in time o
: peace, be suspended, much less destroyed
y without a plain violation of the Constitu
ton that Congress has no power to de
prive a State of its reserved rights, an
reduce it to a Territorial condition; tina
therefore the exclusion, by the sO-calle
Congress. of all representation from te
States, the proposed exclusion of thos
States, from all voice in the next Presiden
If tial election, the threatened overthrow {
their State Governments and the reductio
OF their States to the condition of territoI
les. are each and every one of them uncor
stitutional, revolutionary and despoti
measures, destructive not merely of I'll
rights of those States, but also of the righ'
;, of every other State in the Union. Thi
y those measures are parts ola plan to MULTI
N the Constitution, virtually overthrow I'll
Is. State Governments, to erect acOnsolidate
nc despotism on their ruins; and to establis
is and perpetuate a%tyrannical rule of a minol
ity over II majority of the American PEE
ry Pile. That the people cannot, without
loss of their liberties, prosperity and none
. submit to such Il result; and we, therefor
p in the hope that the warning will I
needed, and the danger to our situations
as peaceably averted, do solemnly warn Il
ID advocates of the plan, that il will n
n; be submitted to.
lst 3. Res0lUed, That Congress is not {
omnipotent law-making power. That Il
Constitution provides that no bill shall b
come n law without the approval of Il
of President, unless it be passed by twO-thir
.er of each House of Congress. That one
the objects of the present so-called Co
10 grcSs in excluding States from represent
ton, is to pass bills by a two-thirds vo
- which. were all the States representa-
could not so pass aud thus to virtual
abolish the constitutional provision afor
said. That if this precedent be acquiesci
in, there will be nothing TO prevent a ba