The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1865-08-30
A Capital Hit.

.e'Webster's great American Dictionary
thus defines word in common use:
DEMOCRAT, n. One who adheres 10 gov.
eminent by the People, or JdUors The extension
Of the Right.of Suffrage 10 all classes of men.
Democrats should seek new name for
4 their party, or else come out boldly in favor
OF negro suffrage"
This Is quotation from the Johnslown
Tribune, which quotes from the Dictionary
We do not know that when rightly UNDER
stood, The Democracy have any objection TO
the definition. They always went in for a
Government By The people. They never view
ed the "LoyaI League" however, as all the
people. Nor did they consider Provost
Marshals the people. Nor did they view
the North as the people, considered apart
from The South. Nor did they believe that the
people who were worth over twenty thous-
and dollars were not people Nor did ibey
consider poor people as lot people, as has
been done in some of the New England
States. Nor did they lool. upon naturalized
foreigners as not people. Nor did they
ever make any other iuvidious distinctions
in regard TO the people. They took the
definition as it was understood by our fore
fathers who believed that t0hite men were
the people, and who accordingly ingrafted
the word white in nearly every State Consti
tuition in the Union. In forming the Ma
tional as we'll as the State governments,
t1hite people were considered The people by
our forefalhers. ALI Abolilionists oppose
these governments both State and National;
and hence in opposing them must be trail
tors in heart. They want all these State
governments and the National government,
as formed by our ancestors, broken down,
and new governments Instituted, in which
negroes shall have the righ; 10 vote and TO
hold office. This is covert treason, for it is
openly opposing the governments which
protect them. We cannot see this in auy
other light.
Men who oppose the government made
by our torefaihers 10 be controlled by white
people are traitors. AboIi,ionsts oppose
this government. Therefore AbolIionists
are traitors. They imagine that they un-
derstand the Dictionary better than their
ancestors and better than modern Demo- /
Gratis and this conceit leads them 10 oppose
the State and National governments, and
not only 10 oppose them, but 10 violate their
Constitutions openly and in 10 secret Goa
claves What they call government by
the people is government with bayonels /
at every election window, and with the
elections carried by public fraud, in select
or tai sroo in ho n 90 hnpoo
and vote, ard 10 preventing others with
Democratic antecedents from going home.
This is their government by the people,"
Now for the second part of the definition,
'' In Eauor Of tie Right of Suffrage 10 all classes
Of men," The Bible says that Eve was the
mother OF all EUing, bu; We are notsto infer
tha; she is necessarily the mother of ba-
boons and monkeys, and when the Diclion- /
ary says all classes we are MOTTO infer.tha, it
means all races. "Class means a number
of persons it society supposed TO have
some resemblance or equality in rank, edu- I
cation, property, talents, and the like" If
even our neighbor had studied botany or I
natural history either he would have known /
hat class does not mean a race nor a ee- i
aus neither, nor even a species, but only a
division of these orders. And according 10
his all classes means all classes of the Thiie
nan The divisions of the species of race. Our
orefathers so understood it when they in
'orPoraled it in our various State Conslitu-
ions.
Now permit Us to try our hand on defni-
lions. abolition" means nier desiruc-
ion, and "Abolitionisl'; meads a person
who favors abolition" Therefore an Abb
itioist must be an utter desiruclionist.-
Pretty near correct for :hey have destroyed
Ill they ever laid their hands on. They
ion't need "uew nane."-JOknstOlOn Dem
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