Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-07-21
THE OHIO DEMOCRATIC PLAT

THE OHIO DEMOCRATIC PLAT
FORM
At the request of very many of ou
readers, we republish this morning tn
platform adopted by the Ohio Democra
| cy in their State Convention held on tn
1st of June last.
THE PLATFORM.
Gen. w. w. Andrews, of Auglais
county, chairman of the Committee OF
Resolutions, submitted the following plat
form of principles:
The Democracy of Ohio, coming TO
gether in spirit of devotion to the doc
trine and faith of free, representatiy,
government and relying for success upor
the discretion and intelligence of th,
people, deem the present convention 8
fitting occasion to reassert the following
time, honored principles of the Democratic
party:
That the Federal Government is one OF
limited powers derived solely from the
Constitution.
That the grants of power made therein
ought to be strictly construed by the
departments and agents of the Govern
ment and that it is inexpedient and dan
gerous to exercise doubtful powers.
That the Constitution of the United
States is founded on the fundamental
principle of the entire and absolute
equality of all the States of the Union,
and it is not competent for Congress to
impose upon them any conditions or re-
strictions in respect to their internal con-
Germs which the Federal Constitution has
not imposed.
That the liberal principles embodied by
Jefferson in the Declaration of Independ-
ence, and sanctioned in the Constitution,
which make ours the land of liberty. and
the asylum of the oppressed of every ma
ton, have ever been cardinal principles of
Democratic faith, and every attempt to
abridge the privilege of becoming citizens,
or owners of the soil among us, ought to
be resisted with the same spirit which
swept the alien and sedition laws from
our statute books; and in order that we
may more distinctly declare our views of
the measures and policy of the present
administration:
THE TARIFF.
Resolved, That we denounce the pres
ent tariff, as well as the substitute lately
introduced in the House of Representa-
tives from the committee on Ways and
Means, as a gigantic robbery of the labor
and industry of the country; that they are
solely designed to advance the interest of
few thousand monopolists, and that this
should no longer be submitted to, and
that no candidate for Congress, nor for
any other Office, is worthy of support
who is not in favor of a low revenue
tariff, which closely approximates to free
trade; that, in the arrangement of any
revenue tariff, all the necessaries of life
should be absolutely free of duty.
TAXATION.
Resolved, That the Internal Revenue
system of the United States is uncomfortable
in its oppressive exactions; that it should
be remedied; that its annoyances of
stamps, licenses and taxes upon sales and
income should be abolished; that the tax
itself should be collected by State and
county officers; and that the multipliea-
ton of officers is wholly unnecessary except
to eat out the resources of the tax payers;
and that we pledge ourselves to effect a
thorough reform in this particular.
CORRUPTION AND IMBECMITY.
Resolved, That we denOunce the pro-
fiigacy in the present administration of
the Federal Government; the corruption
which has entered all its official stations;
the favoritism which, overlooking fitness
for Office, has appointed to positions of
public trust friends or tools of those who
control public patronage; and the imbe-
cility which direct the destines of the
Republic without an apparent purpose,
and manages its affairs with such embar-
rassment and disaster to the material in
terests of its people at home, and with
such disregard of the rights and liberties
of its citizens abroad.
THE LAND MONOPOLY.
Resolved, That the land monopoly is
one of the great evils of our country and
against its spirit and institutions; that the
whole of our public lands ought to be
held as sacred to secure homesteads for
actual settlers: we therefore denounce the
recent action of Congress in making grants
to mammoth railroad corporations, which
are already too powerful, and may be-
come dangerous to free people.
THE FIFTEENTH AMENDMENT,
Resolved, That we regard the act re-
Gently passed by Congress to enforce the
Fifteenth Amendment as unconstitutional,
unjust and oppressive, an invasion of the
rights of the States, suppressive of the
best interests of the people, and therefore
demand its unconditional repeal.
TAX THE BONDS.
Resolved, That the power of the Fed
eral Government to assess and collect
taxes on the bonds of the United States.
is clear and unquestioned, and we demand
of Congress that share of taxation equal
to fair average of the amount levied in
each State on money loaned, shall be as
sessed and collected from all investments
in bonds.
NATIONAL BANKS.
Resolved, That we are opposed to the
system of national banks, and demand
the immediate repeal of the law creating
them; and that in place of the notes of
sucn DanKs, the treasury notes OF the
United States shall be substituted.
TRUCKING.
Resolved, That the Democracy SYM
pathise with the effors ofa people strug-
Cling for self-government, and we de
nOunce the trucking of the Federal ad-
ministration to Great Britain and Spain
and the efforts of the party in power to
reduce whole States in our Union to
condition of vassaisge to the general Gov
ernment.
PAST DIFFERENCES BURIED.
Resolved, That the thanks of the
Democracy of Ohio are extended to our
Senator, Allen G. Thurman, and the Demo-
cratic Representatives in Congress, who,
though in small minority, have bravely
contended for the principles of Democracy
and the interests of the people, and that
upon the foregoing platform we cordially
invite all the electors of Ohio, without
regard to past differences, to vote for the