Delaware inquirer. (Wilmington, Del.) 1859-18??, 1860-04-07

FEpERALisM.-lf there is one thing more than
another that should be guarded against in the
management of our government, It is the cen-
tralization of power at Washington. Law and
order must be maintained everywhere but no
one doubts but that can be done without the
interposition of the federal power. In the State
of Delaware we can manage our own domestic
affairs without any aid from the fountain head
to control or coerce us into measures. We are
free independent men, with sufficient thinking
capacity to know right from wrong to make
our own laws, and enforce them, and to man
age everything that appertains to our welfare
or happiness without any external aid what
ever. But this is not always the case. It is
not necessary now to show instances wherethe
government at Washington, through its TOOLS
have descended into Delaware politics TO med
die in our party matters and make our nominal
tions, &c; but when the effort is made again
we will expose the matter, and do everything
that can be done to defeat such frauduently
made ticket.
Until late years, we never heard OF SUCH y
thing as the President of the United States
personally entering the political arena, and
lowering the office to thclevcl of the pot-house
politician II has been found, by experience,
that it is dangerous to elect men to Office who
have had the last :" drop of democratic blood
bled out of them. The remedy is still with the
people. The ballot-box is the grand correc-
tive. If the money and intrigue of federalism
shall succeed in the convention at Charles
ton, and the will of the people thwaIted, the
matter will be carried up to, the grand tribunal
where honest freemen are the arbiters-the bal
lot-box. In the coming convention every
scheme that federalism can invent will be
brought to bear to perpetuate its power and in
fuence Promises will be made and brides
offered (that is Judging from the antecedenis OF
the gentlemen who have had control of the
public money at Washington,) and every effort
will be made to nominate some old dotard
dough-head, that can be used in the future.
The intelligent people of this country will not
put up with this state of things any longer.
They will have men at the head OF aiiairsth that do
not underrnte the people who elect them, and
who feel the responsibility of being accounts
BILE for their actions-they will elect servants,
not masters.
To accomplish this, let all nominations be
made by ballot We can nominate Governor
or Representative to Congress by ballot, as well
as we can nominate Sheriff or Coroner and,
in the future, we will do it. Just let the people
say that we will have all our nominations by
ballot or we will defeat the ticket. There is
no man who is politically honest can object to
this Those who expect to profit by duplicity
may oppose it, but the working, thinking DEM
ocrat, will be in favor Of movement that will
make every nomination popular and the success
of the ticket certain. Men who call themselves
Democrats cannot certainly object TO this kind
of nomination; and men who are fit to be placed
upon the ticket will certainly approve of ii.
We will find all real Democrats in favor Of it.
The greatest liberty to the people is the doc
trine that Democracy teaches anything else
will be repudiated at the ballot-box The
pauper press OF the country will oppose this
movement in order to please its master; but
we trust that the honest masses will take it in
hand, and at our Conventions and County
meetings establish the true and only Demo-
cratic doctrine
ALL NOMINATIONS ny BALLOT