Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1856-03-21
SIFANIS.

Modern democracy, as defined and repre-
sented by Pierce, Douglas & Co., is fully de-
scribed by one word, and that word is
sham. The aan,e of democracy as applied
to the Administration and its supporters is
sham. They are doing their utmost to
uphold an aristocracy as proud, exclusive,
and despotic as any the world ever saw; an
aristocracy of $4,000 Shareholders. This
aristocracy scout the assertion of the Declar-
alton Of Independence that "ail men are
born free and equal" And though their
Northern allies dare not as yet follow their
example openly, they arc doing what they
can to crush out the doctrine of equal rights,
by opening new regions to be cursed with
barrenness by the blood and tears of the
slave. Such democracy as this is best de-
scribed by the word sham.
The claim of Pierce and Douglas Democ-
racy to be in the line of regular succession
from the great apostles Jefferson, Madison,
and jackson, is sham. Well and truly did
F. P. Blair, Jr, in late letter to the Mis-
souri, Democrat, assert that if Jefferson and
his compeers, who founded the Democratic
party and made it triumphant, were now
alive, they would be read out of the ranks
of this sham democracy. 1t is we'll known
they were opposed to the further spread of
slavery, and hostile to slavery any where.
The avowal of such opinions now classes a
man at once with the Black Republicans
Therefore, F. P. Blair, Sen., and his son,
although among the most distinguished of
jackson Democrats, are now denounced and
cast out, because they do not approve the
repeal of the Missouri Compromise, or the
extension of slavery. Pierce and Douglas
Democracy is also a sham in reference to
the only doctrine it has ever distinctively
taught, viz, the sovereignty of the people.
This sham democracy pretends to believe
that the people of a state or territory have
the right absolute and supreme to regulate
all their own internal institutions. But as
it is sham in name and history, so this, its
only doctrine, is sham also. When it says
the people of territory have this right to
establish their own institutions, it means the
white people, and that these whites have
the right to reduce blacks to a state of hope
less slavery. But as if this were not enough
to stamp their doctrine of popular sovereign
ty a miserable sham, they will not practic-
ally allow even the white people of a terri
ritory to establish their own institutions
When the people of Kansas wished to do
this, and make freedom the law of their ter
ritory, they were driven from the polls by a
horde of rufians set on by the Shareholders
of Missouri. A Legislature was elected by
votes as illegal as those of an armed band of
Canadians would be in an Ohio election
And now when this bogus Legislature has
passed laws which already establish slavery
in the territory, and make it penitentiary
offence to deny its legal existence, this sham
democracy declares its intention to uphold
these laws by the whole power of the gen
eral government.
And now as if this were not enough of
shams, the Pierce and Douglas party are
every nerve to seat in Congress a
sham delegate for Kansas; man elected
not by the people of Kansas, bat by the bor
der ruffians of Missouri.
So much for sham democracy. Will it
deceive the people of Ohio in 1856!