The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1869-08-31
The White Mans Platform !
Adopted by the Ohio De
mocracy. az Columbus, ,BFly 2,
1869,

/. RESOLVED, That the exemption fl0m tax.
alton of twenty-five hundred million of dol
lars in Government bonds and securities is nj,
just to the people, and ought not be tolerated.
and that we are opposed TO any arrrorria-
tiou for the payment of interest on the Fed
eral bonds until they are made subject to
Federal taxation.
Q. RESOLVED That the claims OF the bond
holders that bo-.ds bought with greenbacks,
and the principal of which is lay law payable
in currency, should nevertheless be paid in
gold, isunjust 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 it
unnecessarily increases the burden of the
people thirty y millions of dollars annually,
and We demand its immediate repeal.
4. RESOLVED That We denoupce the pres
ent high protective tariff enacted in the in
terests of the New England manufactures for
its enormous imposition of duties en- 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 pre-emi-
nently 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
physical and mental well being of the labor
"a =, Of tllAr
laws in regard to household and homestead
exemptions from sale and execution; that II
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
fuence to give them practical application.
6, Resolved, That it is the right of each
State 10 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 Constitutions
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 al
the reserved rights of the States, and con-
verts the Republic into q 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 palpablt
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 Constl-
tuition, and their continuiI 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 and support of free
people.
8. RESOLVED, That the trial and sentence
OF death by military commission Of oiti
en- of Texas, not in the military service
while the civil courts are in the unobstructed
. exercise Of their functions IN that State. anc
in time of profound peace, and the approva
of thai sentence by President Grant, are IL
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
eminent.
10. RKsoLyED, That the attacks of Cover
pors HAYES and Lee upon the doings of tht
late General Assembly are false in statement
malicious in spirit, and unworthy Of thei
high position.
IL. RESOLVED, That the Fifty eighth Genera
Assembly vas called upon to make large an(
extraordinary appropriations to rebuild thu
burned Lunatic Asylum, to provide Reform
School for girls, to construct new Blint
Asylum, to make an appropriation to meet
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 hV'
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, tn
appropriations are much less than those o
the preceding Republican Legislature-an'
that. too, without abstracting eight hundred
Thousand QOlldtb uOIl tIo iCAiOi i"hN ASA 80
manned and disabled soldiers and their fam
lilies. ..tss
IL. RESOLVED That we hereby return GU
thanks To the late General Assembly for thei
economical expenditures in the aclninlstra
ton of the State Government, and for tn
exposure of the wholesale frauds in the cree
tion of State buildings, whereby the peopl
were defrauded out Of half million OF dollar
by the negligence and corruption OF Kepu6hca
State officials, and the dishonesty OF their az
pointees and subordinates.
Is. RESOLVED, That we extend the rgil
hand of fellowship, and recognize as brethre
in common cause, all conservative men ne
heretofore Democrats who will unite with US l
rescuing the Government from the unworth
hands into which it has fallen; and we pleds
the united and cordial support OF the two hun I
dred and fifty thousand Democrats IN Ohl
whom we represent, to the ticket nominated b
this Convention, and presented by us to the su
hages of the people OF Ohlc.-