Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1847-03-11
Slavery in Delaware,


for tie purpose Of securing votes. Having
formed league with few Of the leaders OF
the Liberty Party in this Senatorial Dis
trict, the locoS would fain make the voters Of
that party believe that they are the special
and LonG fde friends of Freedom. TO this
enl, (and with a view Of thereby catching a
few abolition votes for their candidate for
Senator they have caused it to be promul>
gated through this region, that the project
for the gradual abolition of slavery in Del.
aware, was brough, forward and carried
through the house by "democrats,' and ulti-
mately Dictated by the Wings! Knowing
either personally or ty reputation, nearly
every member Of the Legislature, we at once
pronounced the story sheer fabrication
an unmitt,gated falsehood- solely
for present political effect in this vicinity.
In the FIRST place, il is not true that it pass
cd locofoco House, for the Wings have a
decided majority in that body; and farther
it is not true that is passed locofoco Sem
ate, for the locos have not and never had
majority there. Only few weeks since,
the Wings in the Delaware Legislature,
in joint ballot, elected to the U. S. Senate
the Hon. Presley Spruance, gentleman
who has done perhaps more than any other
person in the State to advance the cause of
emancipation. The abolitionists will also
remember that those true hearted and gal
liant Wings of Delaware, John NJ Clapto,.
and John w. Houston, were the slone stars
of Freedom fom the slave States, on the
Wilmot Proviso.
1t now remains to be seen whether the
abolitionists are SO silly and short-sighted
as TO be duped into the support oflocofocoi> m
by such wi!ful perversions of the truth. We
do not believe it-bu. the lapse of few
weeks will decide the question.
p. S.--We have jus: received, through
the N. Y. Tribune, the following communi-
cation from Delaware, which contains an
authentic statement Of facts relative to the
political complexion of the vote in the le-
eislature Oh the gradual emancipation bill,
and fully confirms all we have said on that
point.
STATE OF DEL MARCH 2, 1s47.
In the Tribune of the LIST March, YOU
ask who will send yeu the political complex
ion Of the Yeas and Navs in the Legislature of
Delaware, on the bill for the Gradual Abolition
of Slavery in that State. That bill passed the
Representative oranch in Delaware BY vote
OF nearly or about two to one-THE WIGS ALL
VOTING FOR IT except two. In the Senate oil
the Wings voted for it except one. With the
exception Of one Democrat, all the rest of that
party voted against Gradual Abolition.
VERITAs.
We entreat all, says theT:bune who believe
there is any real Democracy in that party
which assumes the name-all who vote with
that party because il is called Democratic to
ponder these facts. Why should they not
Are they not pertinent and decsive? How
can any man pretend to the least fgment ot
genuine Democracy who opposes the Gradual
Abolition of Slavery in State where it NAV
be effected so safely and with so little injury
to any ono as in Delaware: Why 10 it, how
is it, that those who live and fatten upon sanc-
timonlous professions of Democracy are so unl-
formly the most Jealous for extending and |
stubborn in unfolding the cnslavement of Men
and Women?