Delaware State reporter., 1856-06-27
CIR A N ID
GRAND
ID Il MI q g R "a IN K @
MASS AND
RATIFICATION MEETING!!
THHE DEMOCRACY OF KENT COUNTY
L. will convene in Grand Mass Meeting,
At nnver. ON Thursday. Lnlv 24th. 1856.

NHE DEMOChAG1 hEN OOUNIY
u will convene in Grand Mass Meeting,
At Dover, on Thursday, July oath, 1856,
At 10 o'clock, A. M, for the purpose of rati-
flying the nominations of the Cincinnati Demo-
cratic National Convention, and, also to take
measures for the appointment of Delegates to
the Democratic State Convention to nominate
a Representative to Congress, Electors for
President and Vice President of the United
States, and for other purposes.
All who are opposed to the effort now being
made by the Black Republican-Kn now N othing-
Aboitionists Of this country to dissolve the
American Union; All who are opposed to the
attempts of the secret political societies, known
as Known othings. to institute religious test
as qualification for office: All who are OPP
posed to the corrupt purpose of these same
Know N othing- Abolitionists to prostitute the
National Flag to the base purpose of swearing
away the rights and liberties of the voter: All
who are opposed to the nefarions designs of
the different corrupt factions now existing in
this country to form coalition for defeating the
will of the majority of the citizens of the coun-
try in the selection of the next President and
Vice President: All who are opposed to the
oath Inbound political sociatons--associations
denying to man the right to worship his Crea-
tor according to the dictates Of his own con-
science, and thai would virtually make 'hew-
ers of wood and drawers Of water of all who
We're born on foreign soil All who are opposed
| to the intermeddling by the people Of one State
| with the Domestic, Political, Social and Reli-
| gious institutions of another: All Of whatever
| party heretofore existing, who are opposed to
! the different factions, isms, and sectional or
CARNATIONS of the present day: Allwho believe
that the welfare of the whole country is safer
in the keeping of the great Democratic party
the only National Party in existence at the
/ present time-than in factions that pander to
! local interests and local preudiccs, are invited
to be present.
And all who arc in favor of maintaining in
violate our Glorious Constitution, and the
| rights which it guarantees to the citizens of
each and every State All who believe that the
perpetuity of the Union depends upon the
triumph of the National principles as advoca-
ted by the Democratic party, and laid down
and endorsed by the late Cincinnati Convention,
and prefer the UNION, as it is, and as it should
be, bound together by the ties of mutual inter-
ests and desire of national existence, to the
success of sectional isms which are advocated
and supported by wild fanatics and reckless
demagogues, for the avowed purpose Of sap
ping out the life-blood of our republican insti-
tutions
All, in word, who desire TO see the bless
ings of civil and religious liberty, purchased
by the blood of our Sires and secured TO us by
the sacred guarantees Of the Constitution, en-
joyed alike by the people of every section o.
our country, and transmitted unimpaired tc
generations, yet to come, are respectfully and
cordially invited to be present, without refer
ence to former party associations, and unite
with the Democratic party in unfolding tho
Constitution as it was, the Constitution as it is
the Constitution as it ought ever to remain.
Dg~ A NUMBER OF DISTINGUISHED
SPEAKERS have been invited to address th,
meeting, whose names will be announced mex
week.
ROBERT w. REYNOLDS,
President Of he last County Meeting.