The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1871-09-07
The Wisconsin Democracy.

The following are the resolutions
adopted by the recent Democratic State
Convention of Wisconsin:
The Representatives of the Democratic party of
Wisconsin, in State Convention assembled.
hereby affirm:
/. That we point tn pride 10 the economical
administration and limited amount of taxation
that preTaiied in the State under Democratic rule.
as contr ted with the enormous body of taxation
and prohsate expenditures of the succeeding
Republican State administrations, and that the
Democratic party, if restored TO power, will OBJ
serve economy, retrenchment, and re orm in
every department of the State government.
?. That the wise rction enacted in the Tenth
Amendment TO the National Constitution reserv-
ing TO The States respectively and the people all
powers not delegated to the United States, Is one
of the strongest safeguards of popular freedom:
that the acts of Congress and of the Federal Ad-
mnistra ION, usurplDg powers not delegated in
the Constitution, and breaking down the di-tinC-
ton between the powers Of the State government
and those of the general government, are destruc-
tive 10 constitutional liberty, and threaten the
overthrow OF our existing form of local and
Federal government, and tend to the establish
ment OF permanent centralized despOtism in
Congress and the national Executive, and that we
denounce as vicious offshoot of tn" centralizing
tendencies of the general governme. the frequent
attempts of the agents of the Federal admins
tration to interfere in local political affsirs
3. That We are IN favor of a Ia if for venue
only; that under the preteXt or iai7inS revenue
within the past tel years the Nat onal Congress
has establishe and continues that enormous rob-
berry of the masses 70 the enrichment of the few,
known as the protective tariff system. which has
swept ouc commerce from the and iettered
and oppressed every agricultural pursuit; q sys-
tenn of which the conventions of the Republican
party equivocally and halttngly speak in their
platforms, but which that party perpetuates in
Congre and from which the people may hope
for 10 relief but by the restoration of Democratic
rule,
4 That by corruption and profgacy the present
administration have s4uandered lar portions of
the national domain a. d enormous sums from the
national tr asury: that it is no answer TO this com
nj a hlr hoy h9Vp mai lnrtin of ba
national debt; for, by wise and economical use
of the immense revenue which an unprecedented
taxation has raised. much greater reduction in the
deOt should have been accomplished; but that the
Democratic party oppos oppre sive taxation for
the mere sake of speedy payment o. the debt,
believing that by wisdom and justice in the ad-
juslment of taxes, and economy in the exUendi-
ture. the national debt may he paid with sufficient
rapidity, with ut light burden upon the Industry
and resources of the people: and that We arc OPP
posed to all forms of national reputation, either
of the debt or the pensions and bounties due the
soldiers.
S. That as the late Amendments to the Constitu-
ed authorities to be part of the fundamental law
of the land, they are binding upon the people
that the Democratic party, now in the past,
knows no higher law than the Constitution; that
the time-hOnored principle of strict construction
applied by its trainers and accepted by the wisest
statesmen and iursts of the country should be
observed in all legislation by Congress relating to
the Constitution and is Amendments; that the
Democratic party is opposed to the withdrawal of
civil and pO iCal rights from any class of the peO-
pie, and that demand the removal of all politi-
cal disqualification.
&. That the defalcations. embezzlements, and
corruptions of the National Administration, and
the prostitution of legislation to the demands of
INSCRIPTIONS Hobbies and greedy monOpolics, are
national scandal and Cisgrace-the most danger
ous blow 10 the public credit, and an intolerable
outrage upon the taxpayers of the country.
Z. That as the representatives of con sttution-
loving and law-abiding party, we depresate and
denounce every outbreak of lawlessness and vio-
lence, whether committed at the North or at the
South, and that the acts of Congress which au-
thorize the employment of the standing army to
garrison the places where elections to be held
and to constitute local police in the states, and
which empower the officers of the Federal Admin
istration TO interpose military force for the pur
pose of overawing political conventions of the
people, are subversive of free government, and a
perpetual menace to public liberty.
8. That while the people of this country hope
that in the time to come they may extend the
blessing # our form of government over the en-
Administration in its efforts to annex San Domin-
90 unjustitfable usurpation and wicked at
tempt to lay hold of the faith of this people in
their high destiny, for unworthy purposes of per
sOnal gain.
g. That while it is State duty to foster all
proper public improvements of the rivers within
our borders, that the 'haracter of the improve
ments hegun and rejected on the Fox and Wis
coHsir rivers aud the benefits to be derived there
from, such that il is matter of national con-
Germ which should be persisten ly pressed upon
the attention o. the general government
whereas, Believing that no past habits of assO-
citation and partisan utilization should prevent the
citizens of free country from cooperating to-
gether for the success OF principles that
sary for the public safety and vital to the cause
good government; therefore,
ReSDtred, That we commend the principles here
IN announced to the calm aud candid judgment of
the people of all parties the Ia e, and solicit
in their beh If and for the candidates nominated
upon this platform the support and suffrage of all
of our honest and patriotic fellow citizens.