Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1856-06-20
THE CHEATING pARTY.


They have staked success upon their power
to cheat the people. The one principle
which defines sham democracy in this day,
is to support the repeal of the Missouri
compromise and the Kansas Nebraska bill
with all their consequences. The history Of
modern democracy goes back no farther
than the origin of these measures, and here
will we begin to show that it is such sys-
TEN of fraud as will entitle the party sup
porting it to the name ofthe cheating party.
] The pretence under which the Missouri
compromise was repealed was a cheat
Douglas and his co-laborers in this work of
iniquity claimed that the repeal was aresult
of the compromise measures of 1850; that
indeed the repeal was necessary in order to
carry out those measures. But no man who
was concerned in passing the compromises
of 1850, ever dreamed that they involved
the repeal of the greater compromise of
1920. Douglas and his co-repealers, as if
the very knowledge of truth had been lost
with regard for it, placed this barefaced
lie in the forefront of the repeating meas
ure.
The purpose and design of the Kansas
bill was a cheat. The apostate democrats
who passed it, said its purpose was to make
Kansas free state, but while this foul fraud
was on their tongues the world knew that
without the Kansas bill that territory must
be free. At the same time the whole South
was voting for this bill in order to make
Kansas a slave state. They now claim
that the bill was intended to make it slave
state, and that it was divided from Nebras-
ka in order to throw it more completely in
to the power of the Missourians. Recent
events have branded the lie, with which
Douglas and his fellow traitors urged the
bill, inefaceably upon their brazen fore
heads.
The passage of the Kansas bill was
cheat worthy of the blacklegs who origin
ated it. 1t was passed in the name of the
people of the United States, but no single
citizen asked for such a measure; no man
petitioned for the repeal of the Missouri
compromise; and so thoroughly convinced
of the public sentiment against repeal, were
the Williams who concocted the scheme, that
they dare not wait till new election of
members of Congress could take place, but
under party discipline forced the measure
through.
The whole action of the general govern
ment in executing the Kansas bill has been
stupendous cheat. No possible chance
has been given to freedom. Such tools of
slavery as Lecompte the Judge, Donald
son the Marshal, and Shannon the
Governor, have ruled Kansas in the inter
ests of slavery. The moment Reeder was
found favorable to freedom he was removed
The U. s. troops have been shut up in their
forts, and Donaldson the Marshal, and Jones
the sheriff, have been permitted to execute
the writs of an Internal court, by the aid of
a still more internal mob. The results are
seen in cities sacked, villages plundered,
buildings burned, citizens murdered, and
the universal reign of terror.
The leaders of the sham democracy as
semble in Cincinnati in June, 1856, and en-
dorse this whole series of cheats and william
les in the name of the people, and this en-
dorsement is another cheat. They know
that the people condemn the whole vast
scheme of fraud. They know that even
their own followers donot approve it. They
admitted this fact moro plainly than words
can do, when they dropped Douglas. who
eoncooted the crime, and Pierce, who exc
cuted it.
Even the conventions own endorsement
of the cheats and crimes ofPierce and Doug
las was itself cheat. The northern dele
gates to the Cincinnati convention, as was
well known in that city, would gladly have
cast the works of Douglas and Pierce over
board as they did the men. But how then
was the southern vote to be secured for
the democratic candidate?
The nomination of Buchanan was cheat
It's intent is to carry on the measures of
Pierce and Douglas or rather of the south
ern slave drivers whose tools they are, with
the name of a man who had no hand in
in their measures. They believe that by
casting overheard Pierce and Douglas, the
people will be induced to believe that their
works have gone with them; and by taking
up new man they hope to persuade the
people that they mean to take up new line
of conduct.
The plan of the campaign is cheat
The leaders of sham democracy impious-
ly baptize themselves national, and with |
this word they hope to win. But what kind
of nationality is there in that democracy
which has no hope of carrying single |
northern state by the force of its principles
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