The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1869-09-21
T A X T Fl f B 0 N D S
ABOLISH THE NATIONAL BANKS
REPEAL THE ODI0US TARIFF
Down with the Radical En-.
pire and Negro Suffrage.
ECONOMY EMOCRATIC
LEGISLATURE
Adopted by the Ohio DE.
mOcracy. AT Columbus, July T.
1869.

l. RESOLVED That the exemption from tax
alton of twenty-five hundred million Of dol
lars in Government bonds and securities is ur
Just to the people ,and ought not be tolerated
and that we are opposed to any appropria-
ton for the payment of interest on the Fed
eral bonds until they are made subject tc
Federal taxation.
Q. RESOLVED, That the claims of the bond
holders that bonds bought with greenbacks
and the principal of which is by law payable
in currency, should nevertheless be paid in
gold, is unjust and extortionate, and # persis-
ted in will inevitably force upon the people
the question of reputation.
3. RESOLVED, That we denounce the ma
tional banking system as one of the worst
outgrowths of the bonded debt, in that II
unnecessarily increases the burden of the
people thirt millions of dollars annually,
and we demand its immediate repeal.
A. RESOLVED, That we denounce the pres
ent high protective tariff enacted in the in
terests of the New England manufactures for
its enormous imposition of duties on salt,
sugar, tea, coffee, and other necessaries as
are oppressive, especially upon the people of
the West, and that we demand its repeal ,and
the substitution of another based upon reve-
nue. principles alone, approximating free
trade as closely as possible.
5. RESOLVED, That the Democratic party OF
the United States has always been present.
neutly friendly to the rights and interests of
the laboring man; that it is in favor of a
limited number of hours of labor in all Gov
ernment workshops, hours dictated by the
L oI ill l1,, - L., loI
ers that it is in favor of the most liberal
laws in regard to household and homestead
exemptions from sale and execution; that il
is also in favor of liberal grants of land from
the public domain to actual settlers without
cost, and opposed to donating these lands tc
swindling railroad corporations, and is gene
rally friendly to the measures advocated by
the Labor and Industrial Congress, and as a
party, pledges, if restored to power; its in
fuence to give them practical application.
6. RESOLVED, That it is the right of each
State to decide for itself who shall possess
the elective franchise within it, and that The
attempt to regulate suffrage in Ohio by means
Of the so-called Fifteenth constitutional
Amendment, is subversive of the principles
of the Federal Constitution.
I. RESOLVED, That the policy and legisla-
tion of the Radical party tend to destroy all
the reserved rights of the States, and con-
vsrts the Republic into a consolidated despot
ism; that such despotsm, whether exercised
by President, Emperor, or Congress. is
fatal to liberty and good government; tha,
consolidation in this country means the ab-
solute dominion of monopoly and aggregated
capital over the lives, the liberty and the
property of the toiiing masses.
g. RESOLVED, That the numerous palpabl,
and high handed usurpations of the party il
power, and their many public and private
acts oftyranny, tramping uuder foot the
civil law and the guarantees of the Consti-
tuition, and their coptipui 6 to deprive the
Southern states of representation in Congress-
governing States by military rue, prove
them to be the party of deSpotism and un-
worthy the confidence aud support OF fret
people.
Q. RESOLVED. That the trial and ssntsnc'