The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1870-06-10

uS OCLuONAlOJ ttO OhOA I'm fSh'
ton Oh the 1st inst, at Columbus
adopted the following declarations
The Democracy of Ohio, coming together
in the spirit of devotion TO the doctrine and
faith of free representative government, and
relying for success upon the discrimination
and the intelligence of the people, deem The
present Convention a fitting occasion to reas-
sert the following time-honored principles oi
the Democratic party;
That the Federal Government is one of
limited powers, derived solely from the Con-
stitution; that the grants of power made there.
in ought to be strictly construed by all the
dependents and agents of the Government
that it is inexpedient and dangerous to exer.
else doubtful powers; that the Constitution oi
the United States is founded on the funda-
mental principles of entire and absolute equal
ity Of ali the States of the Union, and it is not
competent for Congress, to impose upon them
any conditions or restrictions in respect to
their internal concerns which the Federal
Constitution has not imposedi that the liberal
principles embodied by Jefferson in the Dec
larssion of Independence and sanctioned in
the Constitution, which makes ours the land
of liberty and the asylum Of the oppressed Of
every nation, have ever been cardinal prinoi-
ples TO the Democratic faith and every attempt
to abridge the privileges of becoming a citizens
and the owners of soil in the United States
ought to be resisted with the same spirit that
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.
ReSolUed, That we denounce the present
tariff bill as well as the substitute lately In
troduced into the House of Representatives
from the Committee on Ways and Means as a
gigantic robbery OF the labor ant i-.c.usttry g
the country; that they are solely designed to
advance the interests of a few thousand mon
opoIies, and that this should no longer be ub-
niitted TO, and that no candidate for Congress,
nor for any other office, is worthy of support
who is not in favor of q low Revenue Tariff
which closely approximates to free trade; that
III the arrangement any Revenue Tariff all the
necessares Of life should be absolutely free of
duty.
ResolUed, That the internal revenue system
of the United States is uncomfortable in its op-
pressive exactions; that it should be immediate
" remodled; that its annoyapces of stamps
and licenses and taxes upon sales and incomes
should be abolished; that the tax itself should
be collected by the State and county officials,
and that the multiplication, ofoficers is who'll
" unnecessary, except to eat up the resources
Of the tax payers, and that we pledge ourselves
to effect thorough reform IN this particular,
Resolved, That we denounce the proAigacy
of the present administration of the Federal
Government, the corruption of which has en-
tered all its official stations, the faYoritism
which, overlooking fitness for Office, has ap-
pointed to positions of public trust the friends
Or tools of those who control the public patron
age and the imbecility which directs the des-
TIMES of the Republic without an apparent
purpose and manages its affairs with such en-
barTassmant and disaster to the material in
terests of its people at home and with such dis
regard of the rights and liberties OF its citizens
abroad.
ReSolced, That land monopoly is one Of the
great evils of our country and against the spirit
Of our institutions; that the whole OfourpubIic
lands ought to be held as a sacred trust to
secure homesteads to actual settlers, we there
fore denounce the recent acts OF Congress
making grants of land to mammoth railroad
corporations which are already too powerful
and may become dangerous to a free people.
ReSolUed That we regard the act recently
passed by Congress to enforce the 18th Amend
ment as unconstitutional, unjust and oppress-
i've, an invasion of the rights of States, sub
seEvient of the best interests OF the people, and
therefore demand its unconditional repeal,
Resolged, That the power of the Federal