North Branch democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Pa.) 1854-1867, 1867-01-16
Organize for the Revolution.
Democrats 4!

Democrats
People of America! !!
While you are sitting by your firesides,
toiling at your labor working for money
to support the Bond Holders-the negroes
and 30 protect and care for the poor of our
land, a traitorous, sectional, reasonable,
law-hating constitution-cursing party in
Congress in warning upon your liberties as
never before, as worms eat their way to the
heart of the loved ones in the city of The
dead. The time for argument with the
party in power has passed. The Repnbli-
can party came into power to champion
freedom, honor the Constitution, enforce
obrdence 10 the laws, benefit the negro
give blessing to the whites and protect the
people.
1t trampled on Free Speech.
1t ignored the Constitution and tram
pied on its teachings. r.,.
1t trod civil law under the brutal heel of
military tyranny.
ltturned slaves from happy servitage to
unhappy pauperized freedom.
1t makes tbe poor support the rich
1t exempts bond holders and quadru-
Piles the taxes of poor men.
1t is binding the generous West aud
| South for the benefit of Puritanical New
England.
1t openly defes law, precedent, Consti-
tuition States and people.
1t taxes States ahd people without CIV
ing them representation.
1t swca-s to wipe out boundaries aud
obliterate the great political mosaic of
States, and to retard national progress by
creating despotism which shall make ter
ritories of all States which would demand
but their rights under the Constitution
which govern all.
1t proposes to govern without the con-
sent Of the governed.
1t would make a cowardly minority of
people rule ma joity, still more coward
ly if it tamely submits to such degradation
insult, outrage, and despo,ism.
1t is time People were acting. 1t is
time those who love law, order, liberty,
Union, prosperity, and domestic tranquil
ty were organizing to defend themselves,
their States and their honor.
We must have law-order the Con-
stitution of our Fathers of
States, equal taxation and honest repre-
sentatiOn, Ii We cannot obtain these
without, we must do as did the patriots Of
the Revolution, rise up iE the gigantic
might Of outraged manhood and win our
Independence by the sword and deeds Of
noble daring.
Let crazy, fanatic, impious, besotted,
trpasonablc Congress GO on with it's hell
ish orgies and disregard of Law and Right
Let the madmen there in power run wild,
and become drunk with power. We have,
as Democrats, stood by our fiag-stood in
the ranks of death--have gone down be-
fore the iron hail of those who have rights
as we have in the North-have gwen our,
selves to death-to abuse-to prisons
to mobs and violence, rather than hold
back from the Rights. We have stood by
the government till has gone down. And
now let us leave Congress TO fatten on its
spoliation while we organize ancw-and
prepare for the great movement which
will give us back the Riqht By the ballot
OF Revnlution and the bnyonet.
Democracy is not dcad-it cannot die.
Let us organize as never before-know
who our trne men are and 'alIy from the
East and the West-the North and the
South-for a common cause and COM
mon country,
d. mocrats-stand bv each other-orga-
nize and be bold in educating people for
| the RIGHT.-La Crosse Democrat.