North Branch democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Pa.) 1854-1867, 1865-09-13
A CAPITAL Hir.

'Websier's great American Dictionary
thus de fines word III common USE:
DEMoCRAT,n. Que who adheres to gov
erI uenI by the People, or furo,s The erten
SION Of The R'ght Of Suffrage 10 uH c!usses of
men.
Democrats should seek new name for
thelr var'y, or else come out boIuly in iavvr
vi hegru suffrage"
IhIs - a quotation from The Juhnstuwn
We do not know that When rig4 ~ under
sloUd, The Den .crAcY have any objection 10
the definI'iun. They always went in lur n
Government by the people. They never View :
Ed The IL yaI Leagu,," huweser, as all The
people. N"r dlu they cousldel Proves. Mar
stals the people. NuI did they view The
North as the pc opie c,nsluered apart trom
the South. NOI did they Lcl,eve That the
people who were worth over twenty thuus-
aud doIIals were hot people. Nor dld lucy
Outsider po3r people hot people, Us has
been done Ill sun.e ul the New EnsIa Ianu
States. Nor did they look upon natur, lied
toIeIgners As hot people Nor did they ever
make any other Iuvldluus distinctions IN re-
gard To The people. Tney took The definition
as II Was Understood by'Uur turefathers who
believed that lcitte inen were the peuple, I'D
who accordingly lngratted The word phite
III nearly every Srate Constitution in the Tn
Ion. In iUrIning the National as we'll as tie
Srare governments, lDhite people wero cvn-
sldcred the people by our tureiathers' All
AbU.ltlonists oppose these governments both
Stale and National aud hence in opposing
them must be traitors IN heart. They want
all these State governments, as forme d by our
ancestors, broken down, Bnd new govern
ments instituted, in which negroes shall
have the right TO vote aud hold Office. THIS
10 covert treason, tor it is openly oppusing the
governments which project them. We CAN
not See this in any other light.
Men who oppose the government m ade by
our fGrefa,hers to be controlled by white
people are aitors. Abolitionists oppose
this government. Therefore Abolition lists
are traitors. They imagine that they un-
de-stand the Dictionary better than their
ancestors and better than modern Democrats
and this conceit leads them to oppose the
State and National governments, and nn,
only to oppose them, but to violate their
Co Isr itutions openly and in secret conclaves.
What they call guverWnent by the people
is government with bayonets at every
election window, and with the elections car
ried by public fraud, in selecting certain men
in the army TO 60 home and vote, and in
preventing others with Democratic antece-
dents from going home. This is THEN "gov-
crnment by the people"
Now for the second part Of the ion,
I'm favor of the Right of Suffrage to all
C asses Of men," The Bible says that Eve
was the tn" her of all HUing, hut We are not
to infer that she is necessarily the mot her oi
hsb"ons aud monkeys, and when the Dc
tl"nary says all classes, we are not to infer
that II means all races. ''Class means a
number of persons in suciety supposed 10
have oome reseu bance or equality in rank.
II even our neIghbnr had studied bntany or
natural history either he would have know,
tfs' class DIES NOT mean race nor qe-
nus "ri'her, nor e'ena species, bEt only
H'vis'''n Of these orders And according r,,
'h's all ctusses means all classes OF the lrhite
man tie divisions Of the species of race -
Our f'reia theirs SD understood il when they
INC rporsted 1t in our various State ConsrI-
tufIons.
Now per nit us t" try our hand ON drfini
tions. "AbnIi,inn" means utter des, rucl ion.
and "Abuli.ionisI" means pers"n who IL.
v"rs "AboIiuon," Therefore an Abnlitirn.
ist must be an utter des'ruc,ionist. Pretty
near cprrecr, fo; they have destroyed al tbs y
ever LAID their hands on. Tney don't need
a "new name.--"J .hnsfopn Democrat,