The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1868-10-01
Democratic State Platform
Unanimously adopted at Columbus, Jam
tarY 8, 1893. - :

aary g, 1868. -s55g7zi-..- n
Resolred That the Democracy of Ohio con-
gratulate the country upon the improved aspect
OF political Affairs evidenced by the State
elections of 1861, and that they look forward
with hope and confidence to the result of that
momentous struggle upon which they are abOit
to enter and upon which depends, in so great a
degree, the future peace and prosperity OF the
Union.
ResoJred, That unalterably opposed to the
doctrines which lead to consolidation, we renew
with unfiagging zeal and increased energy, onr
attachment to that political creed which has
ever been so staunchly adhered to by our organ
ization through days of trouble and disaster. as
well as good fortune and prosperity, which was
expressed by Thomas Jelferson: Equal and
exact justice to all men, of Whatever state or
persuasion-religious or political-peace com:
merce and honest friendship with all nations,
entangling alliances with none; the support OF
the state Governments i'll all their rights, as the
most competent administration of our domestic
concerns, and the surest bulwark against anti
republican tendencies; the preservation of the
General Government in its whole constitutional
vigor as the sheet anchor of peace at home and
safety abroad; jealous care of the rights of
elections by the people; and the supremacy of
the civil over the military authority
ResoIoed, That we condemn the Legislative
usurpations of Congress- and particularly the
several acts of reconstruction, socalled, as vio-
lative of the constitutional compact between, the
Itates, and utterly subyefsiye of every princi-
Sc of self government that distinguishes a free
Re8oloed, That we are opposed to any measures
which recognize that the integrity of the Uhfon
was ever brokun--that any of its members were
ever out-and that we determinedly insist that
the Southern States no longer being in insurrec-
tion, or at war, with the Federal Government
are entitled to the full State recognition and
constitutional representation in Congress, and
The electoral college given to all the States, and
the denial of it to them by Congress, and its eff
forts to dictate by military force government
for them, are unconstitutional revolutionary
and despotic. :-I.gx4 .sibHI J
pie and policy, to negro suffrage; that in the
State of Ohio-haying by the emphatic majority
of so 600 rejected for herself-is sternfy OPPOSED
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that we stigmatize such an imposition by the
Federal Government as a most base usurpatfon,
ResoEged, That the practical effect of the so.
called Reconstruction acts OF Congress is toc1e-
liver over ten States to the political and social
control of negroes, and TO place the lives, hbcr-
ties and fortunes of the whites residing therein,
in the hands of u barbarous people, and thatIit
would inevitably lead either to a war of races or
to the AfricaniZltion of the South -tiI'i
ResoIced, That notwithstanding the enormous
and conceded frauds in the creation of the pub
lie debt the faith of the country is pledged its
the terms of the several acts of Congress under
which the bonds representing the debt were IS
sued, but not otherwise, and we are opposed to
any plan for extending the times of payment,
thus increasing the amount of gold interest to
more than the principal, or to any deelaratlon
nv Congress that the principal is payable in
gold, which would virtually add more than q
thousand millions to the burtheno of the debt and
to the whole insane financial policy OF which
these measures are part. 49, " -
ResoIUed, That, neither forgetting nor denying
our ancient faith, that gold and silver coin form
fine currency of the Constitution, we declare that
the tiye-tWenty bonds should be paid in the same
currency received by the Government for their
issue and that by the withdrawal of the monopT
DIV granted to the National Banks, this result
can be accomplished without an undue or dam
gcrous increase of paper money, now the only
Circulating medium, thus relieving ourpeopie
from the burthed of Il debt, the tendency OF
which is always to corrupt and enslaye, and our
Government from the feproach of paying a IA
yored class in gold while discharging its debts
to all others, including pensions to widows and
soldiers in an inferior currency.
- p1ooJred That this Diam violates no law inn
pairs no contract breaks no faith, and instead OF
retarding a return to specie payment, is the
shortest because the only safe way OF reaching
PesoIsed THAT all the property of the country
including the Government bonds, which receives
the equal protection of the Government, should
bear an equal share in its burthens.
Reso1eed; That we Indignantly reject the
te masses of the people belong to tie Govern
ment under which they live, which in another
form is contended for by the monarchies of Eu.
rope including Great Britain-ronce subject
ALWAYS a subject-that we, on the contrary
maintain that an individual can, by emf grafton
and residence in another country, forswear his
previous allegiance and bic admitted into all the
civil and political rights of his new home--that
naturalized citizens are -entititled TO all the
ct Is g. RssMesn m s ana nte r, p2Msls S
it is the duty Of the Federal Government to pro.
tect and maintain them by every means within
Resolred, That the people will sustain Andrew
johnson, President of the United States, IN his
struggle with Congressional .usurpation, and
that We pledge the Democracy of Ohio TO sup
port him in. all Constitutional measures to re,
iieve the white people of the South from the ne
rro governmcntnow being imposed upon them
Reso1red, That the fortitude and galkantry ol
our soldiers in the recent civil wan in defense oi
the Union entitle them to the gratitude of lths
country, and they should ever be Remembered
by it in its bounties- t.ttt.t t.tt.tC Vote
Resozued, That the Democracy of the country
have neither the the purpose nor desire to re-es:
tablish slavery nor to assume any portion of 4ht
debts of the States lately in rebellion.