Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1870-10-20
Two Political transactions.

WHICH WAS A FRAUD AND WHICH WAS HONESTY
THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A DEMOCRATIC SEN
AroR AND A " NIddER."
Some time ago an item went the rounds of the
press telling how colored man had overcome
for number of his race, the disabilities under
which they labored, which prevented any person
not a holder of real estate from voting at the
corporation election in Chestertown, Maryland.
1t was alleged that he had given to thirty or forty
of them square foot of ground each, and this
meeting the requirements of the law, they had
voted and by their aid the Republicans had car
ried the town. Most people and many papers
applauded the action, as it fulfilled the law, and
yet defeated the object of its passage, the prac-
tical Acknowledgement of poor men.
The Democratic papers of this Peninsula, how
ever, most of them subseryient tools OF landed
aristocrats without the first instinct in favor of
| popular Independence, raised a great clamor
over the thing as a g fraud and contemplate
evasion of law and denounced all who aided or
abctted it, in the strongest language IN their
vocabulary. few papers OIL the Peninsula,
one, if we mistake not, in immaculate New York
Joined in denouncing the fraud, but the paper
which above all others was overcome with the
enormity of this villainy, was the hem Ne'cs
published at Chestertown. Well, if this were
| yillainy, let all good men denounce it, and then
pronounce their opinion on this.
The last number of the Freemdn's journal, a
new paper published at Chestertown, contains
All attested copy of deed, now on file in the
| Land Record Books of Kent county, as is cert-
| fed to by Jesse X. Hines, clerk of the court, by
i which George Vickers, citizen of Chestertown,
conveys to nnety-four citizens of that town, to
| be held in common by them, one square foot OF
| land, on Mill street, in Chestertown. Each OF
these citizens becomes possessed Of little over
5-6 inches Of land and the right TO uote az ne
to,rn election in Ciestertoon, by this transaction.
| The gentleman granting the deed in Hon.
| George Vickers, United States Senator for Mary
land, and and one Of the recipients of his bounty
| is James II. Plummer, editor of the Kent Netus,
which no bitterly denounced the transaction allli.
ded to in the first part of this article. The deed
was made in Washington, and scaled in the pres
ence Of Notary Public Of that city, and was re-
corded in the Clerks Office in Kent county, or
the t19th day of May, in time to allow those
named in it to vote at the election, which it is
alleged was carried by the Republicans, by mean
of similar tactics, on the part of colored man
Two of those named in the decd are clergymen
Now, to dull people, or those of merely ordi
nary capacity, these two actions will seem re
markably alike in method, object and result, bu
then in Kent county the difference between then
is very evident One is mean, low-liyed, an!
fraudulent, because it was done by a nigger,
the other muniticent and liberal action, because
it was done by a white man, who has "blood,
land, and seat in the Senate of the Unte
States, as a representative of the sentiment o.
the disloyal portion of the population of Mary
LAM