The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1868-08-13
A TRACT
For the Poor and LobOring Men Of
the U. s., on Democracy.
BY THE SON OF A BLACKSMITH.

! am the son Of blacksmith.
was brought up to hard labor in
the shop and in the field. Know
ing by experience what it is to be
poor and TO labor for my bread,
have always felt deep sympathy
for the poor and laboring classes Of
men. My father was a revolution
ary soldier, and was q Democrat
in the true sense of the term.
myself have, from my boyhood,
been q Democrat. Democracy is
Tight-it is the strength fthe peo
pie; that is the meaning of the
term. A Democratic government
is government founded by the
people, in which all exercise their
rights equally. the rich and the
poor alike. The home born citi.
zen and the naturalized foreigner
have equal privileges.
Although | am a Democrat, l do
not belong to what is called the
Democratic party, and l will now
give some of the reasons why do
pot belong to that party, and will
not vote with it.
1st. There is no Democracy in
that party except tho mere name.
Formerly there were some Demo
Gratis in that party, but they have
all gone out into the Union party.
The men who now rule what is
called the Democratic party are
Aristocrats. They do not teach
the doctrine that all men have
equal rights; they do not hold, as
our fathers did, "that all men are
created equal" and therefore have
equal rights.
I'd. 1t was a branch of that par.
ty that rebelled against the gov
ernment, and involved the nation
in most desperate and bloody
war, killing hundreds of thousands
Of our best men, and involved us in
a debt of thousands OF millions OF
dollars. The other branch of the
party, by their influence and op-
position 10 the government, en-.
couraged the rebels to hope for
success against the Union. And
now they aim TO restore their reb
el brethren to power again. l can
not vote to sustain such party.
3rd. The leaders of that party
are bad men. They deceive the
people by false representations. /
heard one of them make q speech
that was full of lies "frae end to
end" as Burns said of some books.
He deceived most Of his hearers
The most of them believed that all
was true, and shouted applause,
and, doubtless, voted for him to be
q legislator. These are some of the
reasons why ! will not vote with
that party. The good name, Dem
ocrat, enables them to deceive the
people.
There is Republican party in
which there is true Democracy, and
with that party Intend 10 vote
and for this intention | will now
} offer some reasons.
lst. Republication is but auoth
er name for Democracy, and there
! fore it is right. Our government
, is Republican. The Republican
party is properly called the Unior
party, because there is init a unior
, of good and true men from all par
ties, and because it sustained tn,
! Union of the States. In this par
ty the doctrine of equal rights il
maintained both in theory ant
=, practice. The Civil Rights bill ant
= the laws for the reconstruction o
tho rebel States are the most Dem
. ocratic laws ever passed by q Ma
" tionaI legislature. And these law
were enacted by the Republican
=, party. For those members of Con
gress who call themselves Demo
Gratis voted against those Demo
, cratic laws, and that clearly
= proved that they arc not Demo
Gratis. Hence l, Us q Democrat
| stand with the Republican party
because it is a trle Democrati
{. party.
I'd. The Republican party ha
0 done moro to promote liberty ant
protect the poor than any othe
+. party in the world. OF this th
v Civil Rights bill, reconstruction
laws and revenue laws are incon
/. trovertibIe evidence. The ricl
r men are taxed TO pay the enormou
}. debt the Democrats brought upol
f the nation, and not dollar is, b.
|: direct tax, exacted from the poo
O laboring classes. / am poor; | d
\ not own a horse to ride, or hous
n to dwell in, and yet the govern
4 meht might have exactod OF m
!. five dollars or more every yea
~ but / have not been compelled t
Y pay one cent. Something nigh
be exacted from almost every one
| but unless man is so rich as 10 hav
;. an, income OF more than q thousan
dollars ho pays no directtax Poo
men ought not to allow themselvc
to be deceived by the false reprc
sentations which designing mo
n make to get themselves into Office
4. Now |, as poor man, feel tina
n it is q benefit TO me and TO ever
r. other poor man to have a party
10 the helm of government that hi
1r compassion for tho poor, and doe
ID secure to them all their rights
i. Wo ought not to vote against OF
10 best friends while they are doin
ID right. and the best they can do +
a. us and for the nation.
r. Sd. The Republican party viii
to there are some bad mon in it, h
th the great mass of good and 10y
men of the nation, and these pr
:. Al nNA hon