American watchman and Delaware advertiser. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1822-1828, 1823-06-03

sHr. Eau0f,-l have read with attention the re
spectiye pieces concerning the proceedings OF thu
legislature, during the last winter at Dover and
have been in the habit of looking over the paper
for many years past, the coincidence of the circum
stances, so forcbly struck me- that think ever
impartial nal will agree, thatsthey unquestionab
shew the circumstances that have lately occurred
have been premeditaledy designed long before the
happened, and were intended. as has been stated L
render the democratic party subservient to the view
and domineering spirit oil the family who have &C
casioned the destruction Of that majority lor whc
they, the democrats, had toiled and struggled 70
the last twenty years.
The mention of plot that has been laid for th,
last two or three years by this family, to play int
each others hands for the purpose OF graspng off
ces, in order TO aggrandizc themselves aud to maxi
both the federalsts and democrats the stepping
sones by which they were to mount to power, &c
casoned me to make comparison of the facts tina
have happened within tina, period, with the certih
Gates that have been lately published, and it will b.
that these facts, and these certificates have su
a relation, aud such mutual bearing each other
that the most increduIous mind will be forced /,
admit their coincidence, and to acknowledge tina
Intrigue and corruption have indeed been busy t
render aburtive, the ascendanCy the democratic par
~ had attained.
1t cannot be forgotten that when an excitemen
was raised against the members Of the Legislature
in 1921, the ticket formed by the Red Lion meet
ing was objected to, by part ol the democrats il
Christians, Brrndywne and Newcastle hundl eds
and that, at meeting in Wilmington it was agreed
TO organize an opposition to the ticket. That at
mother meeting at which Mr.. Geo: Read, r. pres
deJ, ticket formed, comprising Mr. Charles
Thomas for Senator, and Messrs. Seal, Chandler
and others for represenatives--and that this seec
ton was defended by Mr.. Read, as essentially ths
same as the other ticket for although the men were
changed, they we've all firm and decided democrats
who would act and unite with the party, in all pub
lie measures.
perfectly recollect that at a meeting of the fed
, eraliss at christina few days afterwards, Nj:
Lewis M'Lane recommended to the federalists moi
TO form ticket Of their own, but to support the op
position ticket formed at the meeting at which MIR
Geo: Read, jr. presided. This is the first link OIL
the chain, and 1t will be found 10 have peculiar
weight in clearing up the other circumstances which
followed in its train, Immediately thereafter, and
likewise at the next meeting Of the legislature.
No person is ignorant, that at the election, this
opposition ticket, formed in the three hundreds oil
Brandywine, Chrstiana and Newcastle, with the aid
oI the fsderalists, succeeded, and it was correctly
said and believed that Mr.. v. Do Pont lent his aid
and interest to it, though he had voted for the OBJ.
noXous measures on which the opposition was
founded, ostensi5iy, but it will be shewn presently,
that the family iOmeItted this excitement, not be
cause they cared one lot about the laws they pro-
tsssed to cundemn, but because the schiSm Ope1ed
the route to the prospect Of that power they were
so ambitious to obtain-and by these protest.
they deceived and Sedaced the honest part Of the
community, who if they had been aware of their in
tenti0ns, would have rejected their insdious deyi.
ces with puDlc scorn and public detesta!ion.
AT the ensuing session OF the legislature, when a
Senator was to BE- appointed to Congress- The fruits
OF the support given 10 the opposilon ticket by MIR.
'. Du Pont began to ripeR into action, for il was
then, at that lime, perfectly recolect, generally
reported that Mr. Du Pont had wished to induce the
speaker OF the house OF representatives 10 vote Tor
MIR. Lewis M'Lane for Senator, in opposition to Mr.
Rodney, and it is certain, that Mr. Geo Read ir
applied to MIR. John Harlan, OF the representa-
tives, to JOIN Mr.. Du Pont in voting for Mr.
M'Lane, although Mr.. Read protested to be de
mocra. Here then, is the solution Of the p0LcY Nv
which no federal ticket was organized, because il
was intended that the democrats should be ObLigeI
against their wishes, against their consent and a.
Sdtast their own candidates. 10 be made the tools oil
eleeting Mr.. MI.ane, through the aid, OF the fore
gOthS intrigue and corruption, set in motion by Mr.
&. Read jr. and his friends.
IT the views OF the cOnf2derntes had succeeded i,
would have opened the door for a vacancy in Con.
gress, and then, either Mr.. Geo: Read, senr or
Mr. Geo: Read Jr. were to have been taken up as
the Candidate and as they had afforded aid to the
federasts federal aid would have been given them
the policy then OF forming no federal ticket would
have been accomplished, and the family would have
c:Achted and worn their bushng honors thick up.
on them. Thus ended the FIRST part of this political
drama, to the no small modification of the confede
rates, tor oOe on iOOe, Mr.. Rodney carried hi,
election, against all these wire drawn webs Of polili
cal corruption and tergirersation.
AT the next election the Red Lion meeting pu
the old candidates from Christana hundred on the
ticket, and DR.. Black Cochi and Clarke, were al
so placed ihereon-the first of whom had been OBJ
posed before and the whole we're elected by the nen
pie. -
Nothing daunted BY the defeat, they had begor,