The States and Union. [volume] (Ashland, Ohio) 1868-1872, 1869-09-22

tions on salt, sugar, tea, coffee, and
other n~eccssaries, uncomfortable OPP
pressive especially upon the people of
the West ; and that VIC demand its
repeal, and the substitution of another
based upon revenue principles alone,
upon the closest possible approxima-
ton to absolute free trade.
4. Rcsolrcd, That the Democratic
party of the Uuited States have always
been permanently friendly to the
rights and the interests of the laboring
.naIr ; that they are in favor offs limit
ed number of hours in all manufac-
turing neutrality-suspicious. dictated by
the physical and mental well-being OF
the laborer. That they favor the
most liberal laws in regard TO house
hold and homestead exemption from
sale and execution. That they also arc
in favor of liberal grants of land from
the public domain to the actual settler
without any cost, and are opposed to
the douatiOn ofthcm to 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 practical appliction.
5. Resokccd, That the attacks of
Governors Hayes and Lee upon the
doings of the late General Assembly,
are false in fact, malicious In spirit,
and unworthy of gentlemen occupy
ing their elevated positions.
6. Resolred, That the late General
Assembly were called upon to make
large and neutrality-suspicious.
to rebuild the burned Lunatic Asylum,
to provide Il Reform School for girls,
construct a new Blind Asylum, to
make appropriations to pay owe $50,
900 Of a Judgment obtained in the Su-
preme Court of the State in favor of
the Lite Insurance and Trust Com
pany, and to meet a deficiency of over
$500 900 of the preceding Republican
Legislature, all of which, together with
the extra compensation paid TO mem
bers under a law passed by a Repub-
lican Legislature, were provided for
without an increase of the State levy,
and theappropriations in the aggregate
are much less than that of the preced-
ing Republican Legislature, without
ab~stracting 100000 from the relief
fund for the MANNED and disabled SOL
diers and their families.
Z. Resolved, That we hereby return
our thanks to the 5Sth General AS
sembly, for their enconmical expendi-
lures i'll the administration oftho. State
Government, and for the exposure of
the wholesale frauds in the erection of
State buildings, whereby the people
were swindled out of half a million of
dollars, by the negligence of Repub-
Iican State officials and the dishonesty
of contractors.
s. Resolred, That it is the right of
each State to decide for itself who
shall possess the elective franchise
within it ; that by the attempt to reg
ulate suffrage in Ohio, by the means
of the so-called 18th constitutional
amendment, is subversive of the
principles of the Federal Constitution.
8. ResolUed, That tho policy and
legislation of the Radical party direct
ly tend to destroy all the reserved
rights of the States and convert the
Republic into a consolidated despotism.
That, whether such despotism be eN-
ercised by an Emperor, a President,
or a Congress, the result would be ia
tai to liberty and good government.
That consolidation in this country
means the absolute dominion of mono
poly and aggregate capital over the
lives, the liberty and the property OF
the toiling masses.
10. Re8olUcd, That VIC denounce the
National Banking System as one of the
worst outgrowths of the bonded debt,
which unnecessarily increases the bur-
den of the people thirty millions OF
dollars annually, and that we demand
its immediate repeal.
IL. Resolued, That the trial and SEN
tence to death by military commission
of a citizen of Texas, not in the mill
tiary or naval service, when the civil
courts were in the unobstructed ex-
ercise of their functions in that State,
and in the time Of profound peace, and
the approval of that sentence by Pre-
sident Grant, are violations o. the
most sacred rights of American citi-
zens, guaranteed by their Constitutions
State and Federal, and deserve and
should receive the severest dondem-
nation of every lover of liberty and
Constitutional Government.
12. Reso1red, That the numerous
palpable and high-handed usurpations
the party in power, their many public
and private acts o%ftyranny, trampling
under foot the OWL law and the guar
antees of the Constitution, their corr-
tinuing to deprive sovereign States of
representation in Congress, and to
govern said States by mere military
rule, show them to be the party of des-
potism, unworthy the confidence and
support of a free people.
ID. Resolved, That we extend the
right hand of fellowship and recognize
as brethren in a common cause, all con-
servative men not heretofore Demo
Gratis who will unite with us in rescu-
ing the government from the unworthy
hands into which it haa fallen, and we
pledge the united and cordial support
of the, two hund5ed and fifty thousand
Democrats in Ohio whom VIC represent
to the ticket nominated by this Con-
vention and presented by us to the
suffragcs of the people of Ohio.
Phil Sheridan denies that he is on