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Platform Of The Democracy In Ohio

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Day
1
Month
September
Year
1865
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Public Domain
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1. ', That the Fedf?at &ovi-:- i.u'y hy virtueel' tbo j i Ltiu! : ' .: .tuii.'t!, üvjJ peiueMM noJ . ■ a-. giüMtcd by tfcat instrument j 2. [Irsp .', That tito expiTienco nf (tsnra bas demoflstrated, in j . ii f-n , tüa windom ot' our I in fusistm'g upon :i strict ' -ni t tliü Fe'jtJiaí Cíjtitütiii]i ; ■ i:iu:;y ibhof the snjjfci.stry by ' vi.il .ïiiom, tlie most plain and palj. ■ : i. Ij 1 f , . i üer :ijid spirit (f tbat l ii and ure defended, j "'" '-. States tire ossential to the i Líepubkieau i . . at, ■ :■'. ros! -i'ity of tLo : al are, therafore, unaïtër-, ■ lioii of all i of a Fisdara! Oov ' !e co'usequenös of ' .; e that ö-ó.vern.iaj)t, and opi tilt! , : id. That tbo Domoeraoy itïtaia and derend, an they retófot'e ácins, fta esstshtiiíj : of our fedra syate ■ i1 itneut, l o triië doctrine of Stato - no t ríuliiSoaíion, not seccs.fiou tliat systeni as luid inia and Kentucky vii" lTüb, as interpretad by ibiiir 'a,utiinr'a - the 6nè by Madisan, in ;t in 1799, and the othur by agurál of 1801. , Tbat the ordiüunce of ■un Wiüg void, tlie so cailod seo'i"i! Stattj afe aüW ín the Unioa as , and are, thcroforo, ontitled to all d figljt'á oí' tho States, and to representátíon iu Corigresc, ' to vote at the future elecïions of léñt and v;.o "i-oideüt; and any . f tho Generat Governmeafc, or üpartiïisnt tliereof, to deprive Ihem ■ esa righ'ts, would be aa assault upou th'e'rightti of r.'cry State iu the Uuioa, fort tb u.'erthrow tho Govern; orJaiued by the Constitution. li)ëH, ïhat to cach State boright to detormioe for itself j itilifioatiopo of its eleetors, and tho Oenèral Covorüinent eannot, nor can : pirimeütthereof, iutoriere dirently :ootl-; wit Ii the exeroise of' Üiis i lut a píilpabio violation of : onsiitCtioD, and of the reservod j ! ights of the States. 7. Resolved, That the eñorts now made to eonfer the ï'ig'nt of suifapon íiegroes is aa iuaidious atttjiiiiit to overthrow popular i íoging the right to vote into dis. I gfaoo. That the negroes are oot competent to tho esercise of that right, nor ooi-ssary to their safety or proteotiou ; on tha contrary, its exercise by thanij if attomptod, would be frought by terrible oaiamitjëa to both them and the whttee, Wo are, therefore, unequivocally opposed to negro suflrage. 8. KesolrcJ, That experienoe of 4,000 ycars hasdemonstrated that negroos are uït equal to white men, and' all atlempts to place thern on a footiug of equalUy, politicallv ünd socially with the whites, ■over have proved, and ever will prove, iaillifes, and al! sueh atteuapts ever hio nnd ever vriJl prove iiijurious to both races. 9. llesvi cf.d, That the Government was jnade by white men, and so far as vd have the power to presorve it, it shall continue to bs ii Government of whito H). Resolved, That under the rule of Aboiitiüiii-m, and especially under the receut military ordors iu Kentuoky, tlie cmigratiou ot' negroes into Ohio, is a '.ving cv'i, aid iu order that white labbr S.hould be protected against negro ui the pejpliaagmust negro pauperjsju. it is the duty of the Legislaturo to dis ou rage negro immigration iato our .Í.U. 11. Resolved, That the war having ceasdd, it is the duty of tho Government, State and Federal, and of every oitizeo, to sinve. to heal tho wouuds inflicted by it, and to bring about a fraternal fealiug i the paople of the different nf the goverument. 12. Jtcsolvëd, That the vator and for1 tr tró pa bave never been eurpassed, audtheir patrioo devotion to the cxuitiy om aever ba oblttcrated fre noriüs. Resölaed, That wo regard a fctbriái diíbt as a naiional curse, aud ín viow of our imiuensa debt, Federal '. State, aad oí thü'enormous expenfliturea oí o'ur Federal and State Goveratnieit i, vt'o detnaud an exerciee of the iposí rigid eeonoúiy by both ; that all ííixíition bj eíther ehall Lo períeotly fair and equitablo; that publio expenditures shaíl be reduced to the lowest poacs í-tandai-J consistent with the pub. lio Bafeíy ; that useless offices, civil and military, ehall be aboliahed, ana unnecGseary cíücors dispensed with ; and that the tariff aud 'mternal revenue laws shall be roduced to the oxact reyenue point PulÉaiènt for the Governmeut to be ecohptgioally nndhonestly adrainistered. 14. Revolved, That we most explioitly condemn the polioy oí the party ia :r in croating tbou8ai)ds of millions df G-overument debt, and attempting to exonérate the holders thereoí frorn all obiigat.ions to pay their just proportiou of taxes for t-Lo support of the State in whioh they resido, and thereby oreat.. odious aud privileged moDeyed aristocraey ; and declare it tobe tha itamedíate duty of Congress and the State Legislatures to use all the legal and coníitituEíohal they possess to subject noney so investod to a burden of taxation oqual to that imposed upoa other propeity, for Federal, State and municipal purposes. 15. Resolved, That Federal taxea shouid as far ns posaible, bs eollected by tho Countj Trousurers oí the State, and the people be relieved thereby from the horda of Federal tax-gathorers, who are now eating up thoir subatanca. Resolved, That the four-dollar militia commutation tax is oppressivo aad ought to be repealed. 17. Rosolved That the freedom af h, ot' the press, and of elections, '.lts, aad trial by jury, are the hirU)-right3 of all American citizens, trateed by both Federal and State . .; that we will defeod aud maiiitin them aa snch iq every extremity : and thnt we denounce, especially, the arrest of cit!.ena by military authoríty, iu Statos or places where the civil . 'lis are unrnnlested and their imament or trial b military 1 M"!ik, a-i palpnblti iiifruotimta oí' the Cunslivutiot), ;sud olti'gt's upon public lib-crty and privato rigiit. 18 RcsolveJ. Tliat tlio continued suspension of t hu writ of habcas corpus i iücl thö teniinnitiuri of thü war, and viLen ;.it" pretensa of tlio necossity ia pü.st , tlio dcnial of (beright of trial lij jury, and the trial of citizcus, not in the in'tliuiry service, ty inilitary HiuniKBiuu, and iho opaa iiitcrforcnaü vvrth cleetioriH, by military [luwei-, as iu recent instanc os i Ki.'iitacky öud 'J'onues.see, are i'evolotionary violatiur.s of tlio Constitution,. threa.tciiing tlic very ejdstenoa of our most auoieut and íaüímB rigLt ; that they p;i: íoiid a duugpr k the liborties of tl. o coup.try gr-aler than has ever befo incnacod Üiem, and which t ia the duty of ali good citizuus to meet with tho most detfcnnined opppsitian and inost sieeplees vigi'anee. 19. llcsolved, That whilo we wilt res(luU'ly :ind pi'rsistently oondemn all infractions ot' the Ct.nsf il ution by -whonisöovér CiMiiinittedj-md while we règret the tonus of pücilicatioi) ngreed to by. Gen. Sherman, io April last, were not at once ratified by the Federal Esec.utivc, we will, niiveitholcss, stand by President Johuson, iu all Oowstitutional efïorls to restore to tlio" Statos the oxercisa of thoir rights and powers withia the Uuion.

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