The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1869-09-14
ABOLISH THE NATIONAL BANKS.
REPEAL THE ODIOUS TARIFF.
Down with the Radical En-,
pire and Negro Su ffrage.
ECONOMY OFTHE DEMOCRATIC
LEGISLATURE.
Adopted by the Ohio Dc.
mOCraCy. at Columbus, July q
1869,

i. hESOLVED, mat the exemption from TAX
alton of twenty-five hundred million of dol
lars in Government bonds and securities is III
just to the people, and ought not be tolerated
and that we are opposed to any appropria-
tiou for the payment of interest on the Fed
eral bonds until they are made subject tt
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 If 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.
T. 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.
8. RESOLVED That the Democratic party of
the United States has always been pre-emi-
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
eminent workshops, hours dictated by the
physical and mental well being of the labor
srs; that 1t is in favor of the most liberal
laws in regard to household and Homestead
exemptions from sale and execution; that it
is also in favor of liberal grants of land from
the public domain to actual settlers without
cost, and opposed to donating these lands to
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
Aueuce togive them practical application.
s. 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-
ton of the Radical party tend to destroy all
the reserved rights of the States, and con-
verts the Republic into consolidated despot-
ism; that such despotism, whether exercised
by President, Emperor, or Congress. is
fatal to liberty and good government; that
consolidation in this country means the abb
solute dominion of monopoly and aggregated
capital over the lives, the liberty and the
he xa;l;po m esaa
s. RESOLVED. That the numerous palpable
and high handed usurpations of the party in
power, and their many public and private
acts of tyranny, trampiing under foot the
civil law and the guarantees of the Consti-
tuition, and their continuing to deprive the
Southern States of representation in Congress
governing States by military rue, prove
them to be the party of despotism and IN
worthy the confidence and support Of a free
people.
9, RESOLVED, That the trial and sentence
OF death by military commission of citi-
en- of Texas, not in the military service,
while the civil courts are in the unobstructed
exercise Of their functions IN that State. and
in time of profound peace, and the approval
of that sentence by President Grant. are II
violation of the most sacred rights of Amer
lean citizens guaranteed by their Constitution
both State and Federal, and deserve and
should receive the severest condemnation o
every lover of liberty and constitutional gov
ernment.
10. RESOLVED, That the attacks of Cover
nors Hayes and Lee upon the doings OF tn:
late General Assembly are false in statement
malicious in spirit, and unworthy of theil
high position.
IL. RESOLVED, That the Fifty eighth Genera
Assembly vas called upon to make large ane
extraordinary appropriations to rebuild the
burned Lunatic Asylum, to provide Reform
School for girls, to construct new BLIND
Asylum, to make an appropriation to meet I
judgment of more than eighty thousand dol
lars, recovered in the Supreme Court OF th'
State,in favor of the Life and Trust Company
and to supply deficiency of more than fiv'
hundred thousand dollars of the preceding
Republican Legislature-all of which,togethe
with the extra compensation paid to mem
bers under law passed by Republican
Legislature, without an increase of the Stat'
levy; notwithstanding all these things, th'
appropriations are much less than those
the preceding Republican Legislature-ant
that, too, without abstracting eight hundred
thousand dollars from the relief fund for tn
manned and disabled soldiers and their fam.
lilies.
IL. RESOLVED, That we hereby return ou
thanks tn the late General Assembly for thei
economical expenditures in the administra
ton of the State Government, and for tn
exposure of the wholesale frauds in the erec'
tion OF State buildings, whereby the peopl
were defrauded out of half million Of dollar
by the negligence and corruption of Republican
State officials, and the dishonesty OF their ap
pointees and subordinates.
IL. RESOLVED, That we extend the righ
hand Of fellowship, and recognize as brethrel
in common cause all conservative men no
heretofore Democrats, who will unite with us IL
rescuing the Government from the unworth,
hands into which it has fallen; and we pledg
the united and cordial support OF the two hun
dred and fifty thousand Democrats in Obi
whom we represent, to the ticket nominated b.
this Convention, and presented by US to the sui
frages Of the people Of Ohio