The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1869-08-17
The White Mans Platform
Adopted by the Ohio Dc-
rnOCrncS. at Columbus, July, Z.
1860.

!. RESOLVED. That the exemption from tax
alton of twenty-five hundred million Of dol
lars in Government bonds and securities il I'M
Just TO the people, aud ought not be tolerated,
and that we are opposed TO any apuropria-
tion for the pavmeut of interest on the Fed
eral bonds until they are made subject to
Federal taxation.
9 RESOLVED. That the claims Of the bond
holders that hords bought with greepbacks,
aud the principal of which is ny lsw payable
in currency, should nevertheless lie paid in
gold is unjust ard ext"rtionats anA # persis-
ted in will inevitably force upon the people
the question of fefudiation.
8. RESOLVED. That We denounce the ma
tional banking system as one of the worst
outgrowths of the bonded debt, in that it
unnecessarily increases the burden of the
people thirty millions of dollars annually, |
and we demand its immediate repeal:
4. RESOLVED, That We denouncs 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, approzimating free
trade as closely as possible.
s. Resolved, That the Democratic party of
the United States has always been pre-emi-
nentiy friendly to the rights and interests Of
the laboring man; that 1t Is in favor of a
limited number of hours ef labor in all Gov
eminent 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 these lands to
swindling railroad corporations, and is gene
rally friendly to the measures advocated by
the Labor and Industrial Congress, and as
party, pledges, if restored to power; Its IN
huence 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 1t. and that the
attempt to regulate suffrage in Ohio by means
of the so-called Fifteenth Constitutional
Amendment, is subversive of the prineipies
Of the Federal Constitution.
I. RESOLVED, That the policy and iegisla-
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 q President, Emperor, or Congress. is
fatal to liberty and good government; tnat
consolidation in this country means the ab-
solute dominion of monopoly and aggregated
capital over the lives, the liberty ana the
property of the toiling masses.
s. RESOLVED. That the numerous 'palpable
and high handed usurpations of the party IL
power, and their many public and private
acts of tyranny, trampling under foot the
civil law and the guarantees OF the Consti-
tutiop, and their continuing to deprive th'
Southern States of Representation in Congress
screening States by military rue, prov
them to be the party of despotism and un'
worthy the confidence and support OF fre'
people.
o. RESOLVED, That the trial and sentenc
of death by military commission OF eltl
en- of Texas, not in the military service
while the civil courts are in the unobstructe'
exercise Of their functions IN that State. an
in time of profound peace, and the approva
Of that sentence By President Grant, are i
violation of the most sacred rights of Amer
loan citizens guaranteed by their Constitution
both State and Federal, and deserve an
should receive the severest condemnation
.yery lover of liberty and col stitutional gc'
eminent. 1}oye,
10. RESOLVED, That the attacks oL Ok. of N
late General Assembly are false in statel,eu
malicious in spirit, and unworthy of thei
high position.
IL. RESOLVED, That the Fifty eighth Gener;
Assembly @as called upon to make large an
extraordinary appropriations to rebuild tn
burned Lunatic Asylum, 10 provide Refori
School for girls, 10 construct a new Bin
Asylum, TO make an appropriation to meet
judgment of more than eighty thousand do
lars, recovered In the Supreme Court of til
State.in favor of the Life and Trus. Company
and to supply deficiency of more than fv
hundred thousand dollars of the precedin
Republican Legislature all of which, ,togethe
with the extra compensation paid to mem
bers under a law passed by 4 Republics
Legislature, without an increase OF the Stat
levy; notwithstanding all these things, tn
appropriations are much less than those o
the, preceding Republican Legislature-an,
that, too, without abstractipg eight hundre,
thousand dollars from the relief fund for th
manned and disabled soldiers and their fam
lilies.
IL. RESOLVED; That We hereby return ou
thankst to the late General Assembly for thei
economical expenditures in the administra
ton of the State Government, and for tn
exposureof 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 suboriinates.
ID RESOLVED, That we extend the righ
hand of fellowship, and recognize as brethrel
in a common cause, all conservative men no
heretofore Democrats, who will unite with Us il
rescuing the Government from the unworthy
hands into which it has fallen; and we pledgt
the united and cordial support of the two hun
dred and fifty thousand Democrats in Ohic
whom we represent to the ticket nominated by
this Convention, and presented by us to the suf
frages of the people of Ohio