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ple the proposed XVth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States as in palpable violation of our State constitution, and we solemnly protest against Indiana being counted for said amendment; and we hereby declare our unalterable opposition to its ratification.

11. That any attempt to regulate the moral ideas, appetites, or innocent amusements of the people by legislation is unwise and despotic.

12. That we are opposed to any change in the naturalization laws of the United States, whereby admission to citizenship will be made more difficult or expensive; and we especially denounce the proposed plan of transferring the naturalization of aliens to the courts of the United States, and abridging the powers of State courts in that respect, as a hardship and expense to the poor and friendless candidate for American citizenship: we recognize the proposed change as the off-shoot of intolerant "Know-Nothingism"the "twin relic" of radicalism itself.

OHIO.

Democratic, June 1, 1870.

The democracy of Ohio, coming together in the spirit of devotion to the doctrines and faith of free representative government, and relying for success upon discussion and the intelligence of the people, deem the present convention a 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 all the dependents and agents of the Government, and that it is inexpedient and dangerous 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 restrictions in respect to their internal concerns which the federal Constitution has not imposed;

That the liberal principles embodied by Jefferson in the Declaration of Independence, and sanctioned in the Constitution, which make ours the land of liberty and the asylum of the oppressed of every nation, have ever been cardinal principles of the democratic faith, and every attempt to abridge the privileges of becoming citizens and the owners of soil among us ought to be resisted with the same spirit which swept the alien and sedition laws from the statute books;

And, in order that we may more distinctly declare our views of the measures and policy of the present administration,

Resolved, That we denounce the present tariff, as well as the substitute lately introduced in the House of Representatives by the Committee of Ways and Means, as a gigantic robbery of the labor and industry of the country; that they are solely designed to advance the interests of a few thousand monopolies, and that they 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.
2. That the internal revenue system of the
United States is unendurable in its oppressive
exactions; that it should be immediately remod
eled; that its annoyances of stamps and licenses
and taxes upon sales and incomes should be abol-
ished; that the tax itself should be collected by
the State and county officials; and that the mul
tiplication of officers is wholly unnecessary, ex-
cept to eat out the resources of the tax-payers;
and that we pledge ourselves to effect a thorough
reform in this particular. We denounce the
profligacy in the present administration of the
federal Government, the corruption which has
entered all the official stations, the favoritism
which, overlooking fitness for office, has appoint-
ed to positions of public trust the friends or tools
of those who control the public patronage, and
the imbecility which directs the destinies of the
republic, without an apparent purpose, and man-
ages its affairs with such embarrassment and dis-
aster to the material interests of the people at
home, and with such disregard of the rights and
liberties of its citizens abroad.

3. That land monopoly is one of the great evils of our country and against the spirit of our institutions; that the whole of our public lands ought to be held as a sacred trust 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 become dangerous to a free people.

4. That we regard the act recently passed by Congress to enforce the "Fifteenth Amendment," as unconstitutional, unjust and oppressive; an invasion of the rights of the States, subversive of the best interests of the people, and therefore demand its unconditional repeal.

5. That the power of the federal Government to assess and collect taxes on bonds of the United States is clear and unquestioned; and we demand of Congress that a share of taxation equal to the fair average amount levied in each State on money loaned shall be assessed and collected from all investments made in bonds.

6. 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 such banks treasury notes of the United States should be substituted.

7. That the Democracy of Ohio sympathize with the efforts of all people struggling for selfgovernment, and that we denounce the truckling of the federal Administration to Great Britain and Spain, and the efforts of the party in power to reduce whole States in our Union to a condition of vassalage to the general Government.

8. That the thanks of the Democracy of Ohio are extended to our Senator, Allen G. Thurman, and the Democratic Representatives in Congress, who, though in a small minority, have bravely contended for the principles of democracy and the interests of the people.

9. That upon the foregoing platform we invite all the electors of Ohio, without regard to past differences, to vote for the ticket this day nominated.

States and Territor

ies containing public land.

STATISTICAL TABLES.

PUBLIC LANDS, REVENUE AND NATIONAL DEBT STATEMENTS.

TABLE, showing the area of the land States, the amount of land granted to railroads, sold, and otherwise disposed of, and the amount remaining on hand in each.

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The amount remaining on hand is subject to a reduction of 163,496,626.33 acres, granted by Congress to aid in the construction of railroad lines, and not yet selected and certified to them.

Remaining on hand.

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Banks and bankers

Gross receipts...............

6.300,998 82

Sales

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8,206,839 03

8,383,564 83

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1.244,837 01 1,189.756 22 882.850 73 29.4530 2,116,005 82

Sources not elsewhere enumerated.......

1,284,978 98

8,892.468 56 36,047.965 00 1,248 264 94 1,180 402 90 885.464 30 23 346 00 2,137,110 70 831.371 52

9,014,096 23 36.516.638 41 1 276,9 0 33 1,181,121 22 892.027 80 23,391 CO 2,133,885 41 685,388 46|

877,088 79

771.849 47

703.491 95

3.664 643 29
6.504,001 66
8.503.543 54
9,106,772 37
36.890,571 69
1.303,937 25
1,202,355 19
894,553 05
23.371 00
2,165,728 53
579,264 89
701,496 33

6.015,219 96 3.685.877 59 6,527,512 01 8,587,421 73

6.19,632 89 3 748,653 76 6.589.774 09 8,705,785 35

REVENUE RECEIPTS AND REDUCTIONS.

Statement showing the receipts from the several general sources of revenue for the years ending

June 30, 1869. July 31, 1869. Aug. 31, 1869 Sept. 30, 1869. Oct. 31, 1869. Nov. 30, 1869. Dec. 31, 1869. Jan. 31, 1870. Feb. 28, 1870. Mar. 31, 1870. April 30, 1870. May 31, 1870.

$45,026,401 74 $46.316.552 87 $45,680,565 44 $46.581.253 87 $47.265.439 26 $49,099.254 13 $50,069,610 44 $50,720,282 38 $51,538.039 53 $53.117,025 07 $52,990,086 20 $54 571 871 49 23,430.707 57 24,630.783 69 25,809,646 66 27.241.593 90 28 393 905 45 29.256.702 16 29.178,936 78 29,325.611 08 29.876 368 15 30.277,504 47 30,532,728 32 30,822.208 63 6,099,879 54 6,047 015 45 6,054,218 02 3,335 516 52 3.512.649 55 3.606,511 25 6,366.686 90 6.402,907 00 8,484,278 64

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Penalties .......

Net receipts from stamps
Total

815,776 90

15,505,493 01 15,619,281 47 15,711,608 97 15,796,699 47 15,701,030 50 15,829,332 76 15,882,306 80 15,923,065 14 15.894.359 16 15,768.557 51 15,718 125 35 15,663,364 18

159,124,127 29 162,898,778 15 164,176,806 79 167,216,173 53 169,509,024 73 172,933,301 95 174,382,286 83 175,833,972 43,177,617,576 20 179,824,865 53 180,638,555 01 181,394,914 14

526,854 39 709,073 96

447,282 80 696,392 64

470.107 92 692,504 77

493.238 87

702,321 38

618.889 16 662,638 76

608.908 34 C37,790 95

593,079 24

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STATEMENT OF THE PUBLIC DEBT OF THE UNITED STATES, JULY 1, 1870.

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STATEMENT OF THE PUBLIC DEBT OF THE UNITED STATES, JULY 1, 1870.-Continued.

Debt on which Interest has ceased since maturity.

When Redeemable or Payable.

Authorizing Acts. Character of Issue. Rate of Inter- Amount out

est.

standing.

Accrued Interest.

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