The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1865-10-03
A GREAT FRAED.

A GREAT FRAUD.
The true object of Democratic institutions
is to promote the security, happiness, freedom
and prosperity of the people, under a govern
ment of their own framing, and under laws
enacted by the representatives of their own
choice-The government the United States
is of this kind.
Politicians, ambitious of place and power,
and who have for more than thirty years plot
ted the overthrow of Democracy, have during
all that time been guilty of great fraud on
the workingmen of the country.
In the name of Democracy they secretly
pledged themselves TO overthrow the rights of
the Democratic masses.
In the name of Democracy they ruled the
country for nearly thirty years, for the pur-
pose of building up arstocracy who should
maintain their power by virtue oftheir pecuI-
lar property.
In the name of Democracy they attempted
to make property in Workingmen-which is
the most anti-Democratic kind of property
the great object of legislation, to the neglect
of the other interests of the country.
In the name of Democracy they endeavored
to shut out free workingmen from the South,
and from the territories by making slave labor
profitable and free labor Improbable and dis
graceful
In the name of democracy they held high
positions in the gift of the people, which they
used only to betray and sacrifice those who
trusted them.
In the name of Democracy they broke up
the Democratic Party, in order to prepare the
way for carrying out their plans.
And when traitors filled the land with bloody
graves and desoate homes, there are polite
ians who called themselves "Democrats" who
are the enemies of Workingmen under the pre-
tense of being their friends.
In the name OF Democracy they advocated
dissolution of the Union.
In the name of Democracy they declared
that the American Union was not Uuion but
a Confederacy.
In the name Of Democracy they advocated
the interests of traitors who hated freedom
and who believed that Slavery was the true
condition of all Labor.
In the name of Democracy they declared
the government had no right to defend itself
against traitors.
In the name of Democracy they declared the
war failure.
In the name of Democracy they sounht to
disfranchise the soldiers.
Ia the name of the Democracy they repeal
ed the Tariff of AZ, and prostrated the work
/ ingman's interests in the North.
In the name of Democracy they adopted
the Fugitive Slave Law and made of the'free-
men ofthe North "hounds" to hunt down theil
runaway slaves.
In the name of Democracy they stirred "
the .laboring men and filled the streets o
New York with bloodshed, arson, and riots
and disgraced US in the eyes of the world.
In the name of Democracy they denounced
the heroic soldiers of the Union as "BuJ
! Dogs and He'll KouadS' who were engaged il
murder and arson, and not in a noble effort t.
save our democratic institutions from dS:ruc
ton.
Workingmen of the Union! The man wht
advocates such doctrines is not a Democrat
but al enemy of Democracy, and the foe o
every laborer, Comrades ! Think for your
selves Stand firmly by your own interest
the interests of Labor everywhere
This same party have nominated Davis an,
Linton and now ask the votes of the soldie
and the workingman to elect them.
nsA. John Van Buren's nomination by tn
Cop. Convention in New York, taken in con
nection with his frequenl somersaults durin
the past twenty years, reminds US of stor
which illustrates well the stability of hi
character Wbap bis faith woe ruuDinU fo