DEMOCRATIC FRAUDS

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Political pamphlet “DEMOCRATIC FRAUDS. How the Democrats Carried Pennsylvania in 1867.” 11p. quarto, and reads in part: “...At the Pennsylvania election of October 7, 1867, the official returns on the State ticket gave to the Democratic party a majority of 922 votes. As Pennsylvania is everywhere recognized to be the political battleground of the Union, and as the State had for some years given moderate Republican majorities, this result was regarded as of great significance. Throughout the United States the exultant Democracy were stimulated to fresh exertions, while loyal men were correspondingly discouraged. We heard from every quarter that the long expected reaction had at last set in - that reaction so often prophesied which was to restore the sweets of official plunder to those whose long career of power had culminated in a desperate civil war, and in the narrow escape from destruction of all our institutions. Where success was of importance so incalculable it was worth every effort to obtain. That the result should be the expression of the will of the majority was a matter of absolute indifference. In 1861, the Democracy of the South had refused to submit to the rule of the majority, and the Democracy of the North had justified them in their resistance. The Pennsylvania wing of the party lacks the hardihood to follow the example, and seeks to attain the same end by knavery rather than by force...” with subsections entitled “How American Citizens are Manufactured.” pertaining to naturalizing Irishmen; “How the Fraud was Consummated”; “How Elections are Managed in Philadelphia.” and more. VG.

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