The States and Union. [volume] (Ashland, Ohio) 1868-1872, 1869-10-06
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Adopted by the Ohio Democratic
State Convention, July 7, 1869.


State Convention, July 7, 1869.
1. Resolred, That the exemption
from tax of over two thousand five
Hundred million dollars in govern
ment bonds and securities, is unjust to
the people and ought not to be tolerat-
tedS and that we are opposedAto any
appropriation for the payment of in.
terest on public bonds until they are
made subject to taxation.-
| q esolued, That the claims of the
bond holders; that the bonds which
were bought with g~reenbacks and the
prineipalO of which is by lawpayable
in currency, should nevertheless be
tpaidin-gold, is unjust andextortionate
and if persisted in will inevitably force
upon the peopleEthe question of repu-
d~iation.
8. RESOLVED, That we denounce the
high-protective tariff, which was de-
signed only in the interests of New
England manufacturers That said
tariff is Also, by its enormous imposi-
[tions on salt, sugar, tea, coffee, and
tother n-ecessaries, uncomfortable OPP
pressive especially upon the people of
the West; and that we demand its
repeal, and the substitution of another
based upon revenue principles alone,
upon the closest possible aPproXima-
~tfon-to absolute free trade.
| 4. Resohred, That the Democratic
party of the Uuited States have always
been permanently friendly to the
rights and the interests, of the laboring
NAM; that they are in favor ola limit
ed number Of hours in all manufae-
turing Neutrality-suspicious. dictated by
the physical. and mental welLbeing OF
the ,1aborer.s That: they favor the
most liberal laws in regard to house
hold and homestead exemption from
sale and execution. That they also are
in favor of liberal grants Of land from
the public domain to the, actual settler
without any cost, and are=epposed to
the douation' 1ofthem tUI swindling
railroad corporations, and that they
are generally friendly to the system Of
meaures advocated by the labor and
industrial congresses, and we pledge
the Democratic party. if, restored to
power, to exercise their influence in
giving them practicalappliction.
SIS. Resoleea,I That .othey attacks of
Governors Hayes and Lee upon the
doiIgs' of the late General Assembly,
are false in fact, malicious In spirit,
and unworthy Of gentlemen occupy
ing their elevated positions. ~1''' . : !
e., Reso7red, That the late General
Assembly we're called upon to make
large and extraordinary appropriations
to rebuild the burned Lnhatic Asylum,
to provide q Reform School for girls,
jconstruct a new Blind Asylum to
make appropriations to pay over $50,
preme Court 6fn fheState in favor OF
the Life Insurance and Trust Com
tpany, and to meeta deficiency of over
$500, 600 of the preceding Republican
Legislature, all Of which, together with
the extra compensation paid to mem
bers under a law passed BY q Repub-
lican Legislature were provided lfor
without an increase of the State levy,
and the appropriations IN the aggregate
are much less than that of the preced.
ling Republican Legislature, without
abstracting $500, 900 from, the relief
fund fol-. the MANNED and disabled;sol-
diers and their families. g - aarrl
4. Resohped, That we hereby return
our thanks to the 59th General As,
sembly, for their enconmical expendi.
lures in the administration ofthe State
Government, and for the exposure OF
q the wholesale frauds in the erectionot
State buildings, whereby the people
were swihdled out of; half a million Of
do1lars..'Iby The negligence of Repub7
lican State officials and the dishonesty
OF contractors. H. s.Ea 10 aaG-eI
8. ,Reso1sea, That It is the right OF
\ each State to decide for itself who
shall possess the elective franchise
wfthinlnd that1by theiattempttb reg
ulate suffrage in Ohio, by the means
! of the rso-caHed 18th Constitutions
, amendment, is subversiye of the
y principles Of the Federal CONSTITUTIONS,
g. Res0tvsd, That the policy ant
legislation of the Radical party direct
ly7 tend to- destroy allIthe RESERVED
I rights OF. ithe.sStates and convert thu
4 Republic into a consolidated d~espotism
v That, whether such despotism be ex
ercised by an Emperor President
or a Congress, the result would be ia
tai to liberty and good government
That consolidation in this country
means the absolute dominionof mono
poly and aggregate, capital over th,
7 lives, the liberty and the property o
q the toiling masses,lsE 10 .r9t9 aomfr5
10. ResoEeed, tThatwe denounce thu
] National Bank,ngS ystem.as one Of The
? worst 7~outgrowths of the bonded debt
which unnecessarily increases the bur
2 den of the people thirty millions o
! dollars annually, and that we demane
3 its Immediate repeal. ado aTs - =
! ST H. Resolved, That the trial and sen
' tence to death by military commission
, of a citizen nf Texas not in the mill