Middletown transcript., 1869-03-20
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Corrspondenes Of the Aiddetown Transcript.
KENT County, Nd.
Editor Transcript. The fall campaign for po-
litical Offices was inaugrated at the Metropolitan
centre for Kent County one evening last week.
meeting has been held, of the faithful, and in
accordance with the ukase of the Autocrat the
offices have been distributed. 1t is decreed who
shall be Sheriff, who shall be nominated for
County Commissioners, and who shall be allowed
to aspire to Legislative honors. Capable, honest
men are thrust aside to give place to Others who
know better how 10 WELD the whskey influence.
Life long Democrats are snubbed and oversaugh
ed, to make room for onservatives-and gem
emen of sterling abilities and of the highest char
acter are shelved-that the Chestertown Junta
may secure the proper tools to do their bidding.
The nominations are virtually made and if we
may judge from the past nomination is tanta-
mount to an election. The whole business is cut
and in the process of drying; away in midsum-
mer, or early fall, primary meetings will be called
in the districts to ratify the DEGREES Of the Re-
gency, and strange to say, it will be done. 1t
always has been done and may be expected again.
Between this time and the day of nomination the
dictator and his clique will be as busy as beavers,
in whipping in discontented democrats, in honey
fugling lukewarm conservatives, and where it
can be done, bamboozling sturdy republicans.
The rural districts to be kept in blissful ig-
n0rance until the web Of influence is woven and
spread, and there is no possibility of escape.
There will be some surprise at this early revela-
tion, and doubts may arise as to its credibility
1t can be proved by the exhibition of the pro-
gramme.
Two of the present County Commissioners, who
have been Whgs-Unionists-R and
are still Know-Nothings, are to be retained The
other is an old Democrat, and cannot he manpu-
lated by the Regency. more plant cunserva-
tive must take his place. Conservative that is
thA rN.1 Is,I ~fa a..l,l Hi
with feminine skill of acidulous fruits and sac
charine mattcr-a sweet morsel is a conservative !;
not perhaps so healthy diet tor the democracy
as their old regimen of honest hog and hominy
but Democracy is growing delicate and if the
sourcst crab-apple Radical can be simmered in
sugar and made conservative he is easily swal-
lowed, no matter how indgestible. Conservative
is TO be made Sheriff. for whom an old democrat
is to be set aside. One of the best, most indus
trious and Efficient Legislators the county has had
in many years, is ordered to stand back, TO make
room for Conservative, who declares open war
against the clique who will nominate him. lie
has taken ground against the town Regency, and
he must be got back by an office. An old demo-
crat who has waited long for something to turn
up, and labored hard for his party Is as "a sop
| to Cerberus" to be made a collector, How do
know the secrets of the Cabal2 All parties and
factions have their eaky vessels, and the mongrel
| party now ruling in Kent county is not an excep-
ton. The men selected to be nominated, and
elected next fall can be named now. How long
will the intelligent yeomanry of Kent COUNTY
| submit to this usurpation? How long is the glo-
rious old Democratic party to be compelled to
| bow the knee to this modern Baal called copser-
vatism2 Just so long it refuses to unite against
the Court House regency. Never will the rur.
districts WELD their proper influence until they
combine and assert their independence. Then
why not rally at once and organize to subvert
the dominant autocracy. This word is used ad-
visedly and deliberately. Every reader in this
County will fully understand it. Let then the
friends of free thought, free speech, and free
Press-the friends of the equal rights of town and
county, meet and make nominations without re-
gard 10 party, and select the best men of the
County for places of trust, both for the Legisla-
ture and county offices, and they can be elected
As suggestion, let the meetings be held at Ga
| lena, kennedyville, Chesterville Hanesvle, and
Belair on Saturday evening March 9th at 3
O'Clock, p. M. and make one united effort for the
emancipation of the County from the thraldom
of the ChestertoWn Regency.
But ''can these dry bones live2' We shall see.
l am not politician. do not profess to beong
| to Party. claim 10 belong to myself read
| lily recognize that ] owe certain duties TO my
country, to my neighbors and TO my GOd--but
none party. The degrading shackles of Party
cannot bind me. pity the man who can lie thus
| bound. lie is the veriest slave, while he is free
indeed whom the truth makes free. In lhe inter
ests of this freedom | urge my fellow citizens o.
Kent County TO assert their independence.
The idea Of vassalage is inherent in, and nsep.
arabic from Party, if its policy is not simply one
ideaism. Take an illustration from the presen Il ly
existing parties. The Republican advocates uni,
versa Suffrage equality before the law, and If itf
platform can be understood, the payment OF thu
government bonds in gold. How many of then
heartily assent to all these dogmas2 No matter
how averse man may be to one of them, OF
more than one, yet he must take the dose pre-
scribed or he cannot be Republican.
So of the Democratic party, man may hearti
ly entertain the idea Of paying the bonds in golG
and as cordially abominatc civil equality will
the negro race. AS party man he must surren
der his opinion on one point to enable him to rs
sert il on the other. But sacrifices must be mad
for the good of the party. Well what then
Why "Jeshurun waxed fat and kicked' Th
party calls in mass of heterogeneous elements
and all who will not or conscentiously cannot
endorse the doings OF this hybrid thing, or objcc
TO the tyranny Of secret conclave are to be tram
pied in the mire.
!, United by "the cohesive attraction of publ,
plundeF" they riot on the spoils of office and stci
at nothing to retain their power. Blessed be tn
man who can afford to speak and vote as b.
thinks right. Wretched is he who ''cannot dig
, and to beg is not ashamed" All honor to III
, toll of mind or muscle that elevated the NAL
above the partizan, and enables him 10 say ''I cal
dig, and beg Of any party am ashamed
am informed that the p. t. Transcript ha
made another guess, and ascribed the authorsh
of these letters to another party. Wonder il h
is right this timer May not IL dozen or a scor
t have hand in? l only throw out the hint as
sernng nothing Truly yours
SNAPS