Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1867-10-10
DELA WARE STABBED.

We presume there would be general OPP
position in all the smaller States, and in
Delaware as much as any, to a change in the
National Constitution, by which equality of
representation in the U. S. Senate would be
destroyed. OF course, except by revolu-
tionary measures, it cannot be done, since
the consent of State is necessary, under
the Constitution, before it can be deprived
of its equality with the others.
But, strange though it may seem to the
Delaware Democracy, the only prominent
man who proposes to 90 the length of rev.
olution, in opposition to the present system,
is Ex-Governor Horatio Seymour, of New
York, a Democrat of the strictest school, a
politician whose ideas give nothing but de-
| light to those Southern deities, before whom
| Democracy, especially that in the Border
States, bows in alteration. 1t is surely NOT
pleasant to be stabbed in the house of ones
friend; Messrs. Bayard and Salisbury, and
all the youthful aspirants who hope to fill
their present positions, may very reasona
bly, feel aggrieved that this injury to Della
ware should come from quarter wher
they have hitherto always expected sympa
Thy and support, but Mr.. Seymour certainl,
regards the feelings and interests of his Del
aware friends, very little, if at ALL In hi
recent speech in the New York Convention
the Honorable Horatio used this startling
language -
Il tc IN nut In rr f.f t., NJ,
York to have vote, il is also his natural right t.
have 1t count rs much in the controlling branc
OF the Government as that OF q man in Rhod
Island. II this revolution is begun 1t must go o
r to its logical, just end 1t must not roll on til
, necks Of the majority OF the American peopl
and stop there, but numbers must be representa-
r not rotten boroughs or sham States
And he then went on to say that If Cor
gress persisted in its present plan of Recor
struction, Gas we rather guess it will y 18th
country may not be content with drivin
"you back aUithin constitutional limit
at may go further, and, acting upon do,
, "trines you assert, it may crush you on
! "and make another Senate, based in trui
"upon manhood suffrage"
Mr.. s. may be In earnest and he may no
:. His language, however, can mean nothir
else than threat, that if the Southern Stat
are rc-admitted, without the rebels havir
, control of them, or at least a share in the
j government, he and his party will by rev
/ lutionary means, overthrow the prese
l equal representation in the United Stat
i. Senate, and organize that body on the has
e Of population, or of votes, like the House
, Representatives
y So much for the gallant Horati
,e prince OF the New York Democracy, Pre-
ii dent OF their Convention, speechmaker e
traordinary for them. What do his feIlo
0 Democrats in Delaware think of him, A
}, they ready to be cut down to one Senate
It while New York has thirty .fve, and PEN
d sylvania twenty-five? Or perhaps Mr.. Sc
l. mour's plan may be to lump several State
e say Delaware, New Jersey, and Marylai
N to get district large enough for two Sen
!, tors. How would Messrs. Bayard Al
If Salisbury appreciate that plan?
is We doubt whether this sort of Democra
is will have the support of the party In De-
ware.