The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1869-07-13
The White Mans Platform!
Adopted by the Ohio Dt-
naOCraCy, at Columbus, July Z,
1853,

naOCraCy. at Columbus, July J,
1863,
|. RESOLVED, That the exemption from tx
alton of twenty- FIVE hundred million Of Dbl
lars in Government bonds and securities ism
Just to the people, and ought not he TOLERATED,
and that we are opposed to any approprn-
ton for the payment of interest on the Eel
eral bonds until they are made snhjectto
Federal taxation.
Q, RESOLVED That the claims of tbs toni-
holders that bonds bought with greenhacls,
and the principal of which i6 Ivy law payable
in currency, should nevertheless he paidin
gold, is unjust and cxtortionats, and # perss-
ted i'll will inevitably force upon tho people
the question of repudiation
). REsoL. Ed That we denohnCe the III
tioual banking system rs one of the woEt
outyrowths of the honiet debt, i'll that it
unnecessarily increases the burden of he
people thirty millions of dollars annually,
and wa demand its Immediate repeal.
4. RESOLVED, That we denouncs the pres
ent high protective tariff enacted in the il
terests Of the New England manufactures for
its enormous imposition OF dutis5 on salt
sugar, tea, coffee, and other necesSarie5 rs
are oppressive, especially upon the people Of
the West, and that we demand its repeal and
the substitution of another based upon revs-
nue. principles alone, approximatins fr,e
trade as closely as possible.
5. RESOLVED, That the Democratic party Of
the United States has always been pre-em-
nently friendly to the rights and interest; 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
physical and mental well being Of the labor
ers; that it 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 thess lands to
swindling railroad corporations, and is gene
rally friendly to the measures advocated by
the Labor and Industrial Congress, AMI 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 10 regulate suffrage in Ohio by means
of tie so-called Fifteenth Constitutional
Amendment, is subversive of ths 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-
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 alb
solute dominion of monopoly and aggregated
capital over the lives, the liberty and the
property of the toiling masses.
s. RESOLVED, That the numerous palpable
and high handed ususpations of the party in
power, and their many public and private
acts of tyranny, trampling under foot the
civil law and the guarantees Of the COnsti-
tuition, and their continuii G to deprive the
Southern States of representation in Congress
-governing States by military rule, prove
them to be the party of despotism and un-
worthy the confidence and support of a free
people.
0. 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 uuobstructed
exercise Of their functions IN that State. and
in time of profound peace, and the approval
of that sentence by President Grant, are in
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 of
every lover of liberty and constitutional gov
ernment.
10. RESOLVED That the attacks of Cover
nors Hayes and Lee upon the doings of the
late General Assembly are false in statement,
malicious in spirit, and unworthy of their
high position.
II. RESOLVED That the Fifty eighth General
Assembly vas called upon to make large and
extraordinary appropriations to rebuild the
burned Lunatic Asylum, to provide a Reform
School for girls, to construct new Blind
Asylum, to make an appropriation to meet a
judgment of more than eighty thousand dol
lars, recovered in the Supreme Court of the
Staten favor Of the Life and Trust Company,
and to supply deficiency of more than five
hundred Thousand dollars of the preceding
Republican Legisla ature- all of which, together
with the extra compensation paid to mem
bers under a law passed by Republican
Legislature, without an increase of the State
levy; notwithstanding all these things, the
appropriations are much less than those OF
the preceding Republican Legislature-and
that, too, without abstracting eight hundred
thousand dollars from the relief fund for the
manned and disabled soldiers and their fam
lilies.
II. RESOLVED, That we hereby return our
thanks tn the late General Assembly for their
economical expenditures in the adininistra-
ton Of the State Government, and for the
exposure of the wholesale frauds in the erec-
tion of State buildings, whereby the people
were defrmlded out.of half million of dollars
by the negligence and corruption of Republican
State officials, and the dishonesty of their ap-
pointees and subordinates.
13 RESOLVED, That we extend the right
hand of fellowship and recognize as brethren
in a common cause, all conservative men moi
heretofore Democrats, who will unite with us in
rcscuing the Government from the unworthy
hands into which ii has fallen; and we pledge
the united and cordial support of the two hun
dred and fifty thousand Democrats in Ohio
whom VIC represent, to the ticket nominated by
this Convention, and presented by US to the sui
frages of the people of Ohio.