The States and Union. [volume] (Ashland, Ohio) 1868-1872, 1868-06-17
PLATFORM OF THE M
A OF OHIO, ADOPTED
JANUARY 8, 1868. 23@' Z.

OOf anu lnuI tucI ioOh VIZ"
hope and confidence o the result OF
hat momentous struggle, and upon
which depends. in so great a degree,
the future peace and prosperity of the
Union.
Rcsoloed, That, analterably oppes-
d to the doctrines which lead to con-
soliiation, we renew with unfagging
zeal and increased energy, our attach
ment to hat political creed which has
ever been so staunchly adhered to by
our orgauization through days of troub-
he and disaster. as well as good fortune
aud prosperity, which was thus ex-
pressed by. Thomas Jefferson "Equal
and exact justice to all men, Of what
eyer state or Observation-Disclosures or
political--peacer commerce and honest
friendship with all nations. entaneling
alliances with none; the support Of the
State Government in all their. rights,
as the most competent administration
of our domestic concerns and the sui
est ~bulwark against municipalities
tendencies ; the preservation of the
General Governments 10 it's whole con-
stitutional vigor as the sheet anchor Of
peace at home and safety abroad ; a
jealous care of the rights of elections,
by the, people; and the supremacy CT
the civil over the military authority"
Z RESOLVED, Tha. we condemn the
legislative usurpations of Congress,
and particularly the several acts of re.
construction so called, as violative OF
the Constitutional compact between
the States, and as utterly subersive Of
every principle of self government
that distinguishes a free PEOPLE.
ResoIUed, That we are opposed tc
any measures which recognize that
the integrity of the Union was ever
broken-that any CT its members were
ever out, and that we determinedly re
sist that the Southern States no longer
being in instruction, or at wal, with
the Federal Government, are entitled
to the full State recognition and con-
stitutional representation in Congress,
and the electoral colleges given to all
the States, and the denial of it to them
BY Congress, and its efforts to dictate
by military force a government for
them are unconstitutional, revolution
airy and despotie.
Resozyed, That we are opposed both
in principle and policy, to negro suf-
frage ; that the State of Ohio-having
BY the emphatic majority of so. 900 re.
iected it for herself-it is sternly op
posed to its forced imposition upon
other States, and that we stigmatize
such an imposition by the Federal
Government as a most base usurpa
ton. a
Resozped, That the practical effect
of the so-called Reconstruction act of
Congress is to deliver over ten States
to the political aud social control of ne
groes and to place the lives. libertie,
and fortunes of the Whites residing
therein, in the hands of a barbarous
people, an that It would inevitable
lead either war of races or to the
AfricanizatIon of the South.
Resoloed, That Notwithstanding the
enormous and conceded frauds in the
creation Of the public debt, the faith
of the country is pledged to its pay
ment, principal and interest, accord
ing to the terms of the several acts Of
congress, under which the bonds rep
resenting the debt we're issued, but
not otherwise, and we are opposed to
any plan for extending the times of
payment, thus increasing the amount
ofgold interest to more than the prin
cipal, or to any declaration by Congress
that the principal is payable in gold,
which would virtually add more than
a thousand millions to the burthen of
the debt, and to the whole insane Fl
n%ancial policy Of which these measures
are a part. T1oF
RESOLVED That, neither forgetting
nor denying our ancient faith that,
gold and silver coin form the currency
of the Constitution, we declare that
the five twenty bonds should be paid
in the same currency received by the
Government for their issue, and that
by the withdrawal Of the monopoly
grantedvto the National Banks this re-
suit can be accomplished without an
undue or dangerous increase OF paper
money, now the only circulating medi;
um, thus relieving our people from the
burthen of a debt, the tendency of
which is always to corrupt and eDslave.
and our Government from the reproach
of paying a favored class in gold, while
ndischarging its debts to all others in
Guiding pensions to widows and sol
diers, in an inferior currency.
ResolUed, That this plan violates no
law, impairs no contract, breaks no
faith, and instead of retarding a return
to specie payments, is the shortest
because the only safe way of reaching
that end. II sl..s no u ss,.4
Resolped, That all the property of.
the country, including the Govern
iment bonds, which receives the equal
protection of the Government, should
bear an equal share in its burthcns.
ResolUed, That we Indignantly reject
the principle derived from the feudal
system-that the masses of the people
belong to the, Goyernments under
which they live, which 10, another form
is, commended for by the m%onarchies of
Europe, including Great Britain,
once a subject always a subject-that
we on the contrary maintain that an