Delaware inquirer. (Wilmington, Del.) 1859-18??, 1860-03-31

few men assumed to themselves the exclusive
management of the Democratic party for their
especial benefits you doing the dirty work of
sandering, in your Gazette, all Democrats who
dared raise their voice against them, and to
reply 10 you we had to go to the opposition
papers. Happily, things are about changing;
Ne have the Popular Sovereignty Democratic
paper, the DELAWARE lNouIRER, established IN
wilmington, with rapid increasing subscrip-
ton In that paper exposed you and your
puppies and offered a bet that as good Demo-
Gratis as there is in the State, were in favor OF
the Governor making certain appointment
gave you and your friends ten days to take the
bet or acknowledge yourselves as liars and hold
YOUR peace You have let the time expire, not
being willing to bet ON your own lies, and not
being able to catch any person green enough
TO do il for yon; you now turn round and pun
lish my urticle after saying you would not, thus
telling another lie; you make long string OF
comments on said communication you have
for the last three or four years swan In the
filth and slime of Buchanism all the time freely
squirting it at Stephen a. Douglas and his
friends you now are pretty fellow to talk OF
sending Douglas your paper, telling him that
nm not his friend, as went outside the Buch-
anan organization to oppose it, You poor,
ptabe, crouchng spaniel, will you ask Judge
Douglas If he considered it any more harm for
mo 10 help get up new Popular Sovereignty
party in Delaware, than 1t was for the Buchan-
an Democrats in Illinois to vote the kepuoli-
can ticket There was but little over Tour
thousand Buchanan administration Democratic
votes poled in Illinois, out of n popular vote OF
near two hundred and fifty thousand. You
need not now further bemean yourself by olier-
ing to kiss Stephen A. Douglas toe he is
q I'D a
the instant he hears him bark Your game and
that of some of your friends is about played out
your political principles have always been dol
lars and cents you was n wing at Elkton, anu
come to Wilmington IN adyenturer, got INTO
the Gazette office, turned Democrat, then tenn
perance fanatic, and now am told YOU some
times risk strychnine whiskey. You so iar
have tried to float in the current; now thatthe
old Buchanan hulk is driven into the breakers,
past redemption, you begin to foreshauoW
your future course by abusing Douglas origl-
nal friends in Delaware, and | suppose when
he is elected you will crouch before him and
tell him you was hisoriginal friend. You should
hy all means take an armfull of your old Ga-
zettes, of the last two or three years, to prove
it. shall try to obtain your daguerreotype
already have few Gazettes saved to forward
ithyour daguerreotype to Stephen A. Douglas,
so he shall not mistake you when you call
With regard to the change in the Levy Court,
YOU and your brother puppks were great set
of fools, and you still assert in your paper what
YOU know to be lies about the matter. did
not 90 to Washington on any such business;
asked those persons named to send letters to
the Governor. solely to benefit the Democratic
party surprising that the two wings OF the
party would come together and here say, u
the Governor had made the change, it would
not have benefited me more than amy other
Democrat in the party. ask no favors OF any
party for myself; am perfectly independent OF
any party patronage; | should not have med
died with the appointments further than to
have recommended for Collector of this Hun
,red a man that was All administration Demo-
crat. and who worked as hard for you buch-
antics last campaign, and against the Peoples
Party, as any man in the Hundred; and say
further that have been basely lied on in this
matter never expected Democrats to oppose
ii, and when / found they did, took little
further interest in the matter. You gudgeon
you ask me why did not call the Democratic
party of the Hundred together. That OF course
would have alarmed the enemy, who then would
have done all in their power to prevent Mr.
Stats from resigning. went and got letters
from such men as ought TO have satisfied the
Governor | could have got nearly every DEM
ocrat in this Hundred TO have recommended
The Governor to have made the change, anu
also most OF the leading Democrats in the State,
If called upon, would have done the same thing;
andas proof that the Democrats OF TINS Hd.,
are satisfied with the part took in the mat
ter, they have since gave me 70 votes al that
was polled) for delegate and in your dirty pa
per, a dirty correspondent lied about this cleo
ton. The three men who were appointed
Judges, Samuel Armstrong, Benjamin Garmon,
and Titus Irons are all respectable Democrats,
who have always voted the Democratic ticket,
even the Buchanan ticket Mt the last election:
These men were such that the whole Hundred
would have been willing to trust to hold the
general election, Notwithstanding your dirty
correspondent slandered these men after they
had published certificate saying the election
was a fair one and no person allowed to vote
that they had reason to believe would not sup
port the Democratic ticket this Fall You
further say, read your paper gratis; some
persons may be led by this assertion TO sup
pose that am a subscriber and will not pay
therefore request you in yonr next paper TO
let the public know | owe you nothing, and
have not been subscriber to your dirty paper
for years; but you may say that am SUD
scriber to the only decent Democratic paper IN
Wilmington, Montgomery's NouiREh-tna.
waves Stephen A. Douglas flag to its mast
head.
You further ask for proof about the chemical
process of altering tickets and naturalization
papers, If you do not already know, ask around
your town and you may find OUT if not, if you
will put up fifty dollars, ] will prove that a mar
come all the way from Wilmington 10 my house
and said certain persons sent him to alter, BY
chemical process, any tax receipts Knight wan
altered that he had operated for the party il
Wilmington in that way. told him no, die
not want anything Of the kind done here. III
stayed all night at my house and went home IL
the morning. told you before that had NJ
desire to uncover the past and would only d.
SO in self defence; therefore advise, you U
keep shady, for tell you and your hackers tina
am prepared for you you may do your worst
know you Buchananitcs are terribly exer
eised at tho the thought of losing your powe
over she Democratic party, as it is now set
tied fact that Stephen A. Douglas is the onl
Democrat that can be elected President, an
lie you administration men hope to proven
being nominated by the two-third rulcj but yo
will observe that n bare majority can and wi
lay down the platform. Douglas friends hay
ing the majority, the platform will be Popula
Sovereignty to the core; then, if the ultra fire
eating secessionists leave the convention, two
birds Of what will be left will be Douglas me
and will nominate him, and the masses in th
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