The union Democrat. [volume] (Sonora, Calif.) 1854-1946, 1871-07-01

ventl0n OF C0ll10rnla nelQ at sacramento June
2lst 1871.
RESOLUTIONS.
Resolved, BY the Democratic party of Cal
ifornia:
First-That waving all differences of opin-
ion as to the extraordinary means by which
they were brought about, we accept the natu-
raj and legitimate results of the war, so far
as waged for the ostensible purpose to main.
tain the Union and the constitutional rights
and powers of the Federal Government.
Second-That we regard the three several
amendments to the Constitution recently
adopted as a settlement in fact of all the issues
of the war, that the same are no longer is
sues before the country.
Third-That we demand that the rule oil
strict construction as proclaimed by the Dem.
ocratic fathers, and embodied in the Tenth
Amendment to the Federal Constitution as il
is, including the three recent amendments
to that instrument /; that the absolute equal.
ty of each State within the Union is a funda
mental principle of the Federal Government
that we shall always cherish and uphold the
American system of State and local govern.
ment for State and local purposes, and of the
General Government for general purposes on.
ly, as essential to the maintenance of civil
liberty and are unalterably opposed to all
attempts at Capitalization or consolidation oil
power in the hands of the Federal Govern.
ment.
Fourth-That we demand of Congress uni
versal amnesty for all political offenses.
Fifth-That while we condemn all riotous
and unlawful combinations to disturb the
peace or infringe the rights of any citizens,
we denounce the act commonly called the
"Baycnet bill, passed by Congress, and the
more recent act commonly called the "Ku-
klux bill, J" as enacted for no other purpose
than to complete the work of Capitalization,
and by establishing military despotism to
perpetuate the present Administration with
out regard to the will of the people; that
these measures are not only inconsistent with
the whole theory and character of the FEEDER
al Government, and revolutionary and dan
gerous in their tendency, but are in direct
conflict with the spirit and letter of the Con-
stitution, including the amendments which
they pretend TO enforce.
Sixth-That we are in favor of tariff fol-
revenue only, and we denounce the system
commonly called the protective system, as
unjust, oppressive, prolific of corruption, and
injurious to the best interests OF the country
that the tariff legislation of the Republican
party during the past ten years has destroyed
our shipping, paralyzed industry, and plum
dered the mass of the people for the benefit OF
capitalists and monopolists.
Seventh-That the profigate grants of vast
tracts of the public domain made by the Rad.
ical majority in Congress, to railroad corpor.
atoms, regardless of the rights of settlers,
and without any proper conditions or restric.
tons, are fraud upon the people of the
country.
Eighth-That the failure of Congress to
repeal the odious income tax, the nainten.
ance of vast army of tax gatherers, to harass
the people and eat out their substance, and
the failure to restrict the importation of Chi.
nese coolies, whose competition tends direct
~ to cheaper and degrade white labor, con-
stitute catalogue of grievances for which q
Radical Congress will be held justly account.
able.
Ninth-That we are unconpromisingly op-
posed to substituting railway or other private
corporations out of the public treasury, to
the overwhelming Increase of debt and taxa
ton that laws which impose taxes upon the
mass of citizens in aid of such corporations,
whether in the form of donations, loans OF
| subscriptions, are an invasion of the rights oil
private property and departure from sound
maxims of government, and result in the
bankruptcy of towns and counties that they
lead to gross abuses are prolific source Of
corruption, and violate the cardinal principle
of Democracy, to wit: that governments is in
stituted for the welfare and security of the
mass of the people, and not for the aggran
dizement of q favored few and that the Law
upon the statute book known as the FIVE pei
cent law, ought to be Immediately repealed.
Tenth-That we are in favor of amending
the State Constitution so as to provide add
tional safeguards against the taxation of pr
vate property in aid of private corporation