Delaware State journal and statesman. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1855-1870, 1863-11-24

Allderdice' Chairman Of the County Com
mliIee also spoke at some length, in his usu-
nj happy and eloquent style, congratulutug
the Union men on the election Of MIR,
Smithers.
On Friday night, Hon. n. b. smithers
was serenaded at his quarters at the Wash
ington House, in this city.
The following article has been handed
us for publication by gentleman of this
County 1t aims so directly at Il point
upon which the public mind desires infor
nation, that we give it a prominent place
in our columns, hoping it mag attract
the eye of some one well enough posted
and willing to throw light upon this now
very dark subject:
The Copperhead Manifesto.
" The Thief doth fear each bush an Uiiicer.'
Will Samuel Jefferson, William G.
Whitley, Thomas F. Bayard, Thomas NJ
Ogle and others, signers of the Nantes
to, dated New Castle November 18th,
1868, addressed to the faithful of New
Castle County, in the State OF Delaware,
each or all, be pleased TO inform us, how
public military and civil order, dated
November 18th, 1868, and made known to
us on the 18th of the same month"; could
by any possibility, be printed, delivered
and published in every Hundred through
out the State on the morning of the 9th
Of November, the day appointed for hold.
ing the special election for representa-
tive in Congress the knowledge whereof
must necessarily have been made public
before nine O'Clock, A. NJ, to prevent
one vote being polled by the faithful.
The said Samuel Jefferson and others.
say in their Manifesto, 1--WE do hereby
recommend to the Democrats of New
Castle County, whether OFFICERS OF ELEc-
TIoN or voters, to submit to their disfran-
chisement and take no part in the said
Special Election" Oh We virtuous keep
ers OF the consciences of others recon-
mending to "oilicers of election to vio-
late their oaths of office, and in the same
paragraph for them "to rely upon the
official oaths and consciences of the next
House of Representatives in the Congress
of the United States to declare null and
void, an election held in strict conform.
ity to law which you ignored, foreseeina
that the puppet which you set up on the
18th September, 1868 would be knocked
down, wiped out, and annihilated, YOU
looked around for some excuse, and hap.
PLY found your consciences too tender to
take the oath of allegiance to the Consti
tuition, recommending to others who hay
ing, on being naturalized, sworn fealty tc
the Constitution, to abstain from exereis
ing the rights of franchise which all for
eigners on landing in the country are Sc
anxious to obtain-and to the native. VIII,
never had been called upon to swear fealt,
to the Constitution, to avoid the possibil
lty OF being called ON TO do SO. vii
Samuel Jefferson and Others be please,
to further inform us, how so many signer
OF the manifesto were notified, on the III
day of November, to attend the meetin.
on that day, when their residences ar
from five to fifteen and twenty miles iron
the place Of meeting, has each member q
the party a telegraph wire running to hi
own door! We saw no beacon fires alon,
the hills.
Is there not testimony enough here t.
convict you, Samuel Jefferson and Others
of willful deception, to use no harshe
term ? for it is manifest that it was impos
sible, that an order made known on III
18th, could be considered by men in Ne,
Castle, who had to assemble from all part
of the county, have the same discussed
examined, and manifesto written on
signed, printed in handbills and publishe
in every Hundred and voting poll in tn
State, early on the morning of the l9t
November, 1863
Confession is good for the soul. Com
5 out Samuel Jefferson and others, comics
that you saw the hand writing on the wal
when on the 18th day of September, 1865
you feared to insult the best men in YOU
party, by offering to any one of them III
nominations you then shaped yourcourso
took an old worn-out hack from anothe
State, set him up to be knocked dow
without remorsej knowing that the ranl
and file of your party would at any mo
ment obey your order "eyes right, eve,
left right'about face, dismiss,n at tn,
command of the fugleman. So Copper
heads, these are the gods We worsbin