Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1870-03-24


LIVE IS6 UES AND NEW MEN
The people of this State are rousing to
sense Of the fact that the old issues are dead
Even negro suffrage is no longer debalable
matter, for it is decided, in the most posi-
tive manner, that the colored citizens, hence
forth may vote. Sensible men, therefore,
do not sit down TO argue whether they
ought to vote or not; when, after long con
troyelsy, the fact is fixed that they do, then
The issue is removed from practical politics,
and we are placed ut liberty TO attend to
other subjects
THIS, we take IL, will he the view OF all
common-sense people, throughout our State.
Some may feel dissatisfied that colored men
should hereafter help to choose legislators,
and public officers, but when it is plain that
by the law, they have the right to do so, it
is useless to debate on that point. The parl
Of wisdom, and Of practical sagacity, is to
take alDant0ga Of this great change in
The situation Of p0rtieS, 10 secure a pub
Tic benefit.
To this purpose we call attention. Old
issues beng settled, new ones must arise
For us Of Delaware, they come up rapidly
enough, out Of our situation as a State.
We lave here heretofore indicated what that
situation is; We need only say, here, thai
it Is unsatisfactory TO the people, and only
advantageous 10 very few men, who ion
themselves and their clique, have held the
reins oil power over us all, for the last ten
years. Tue people demand change; we
need new men, and new measures. We
need Reforms thorough, vigorous, and
| sweeping puriication-in every department
Of the State Government. We need such
u change as has been wrought in the ma.
tional administration, by The policy OF
President Grant, and his glorious success, is
an assurance Of what may be done for our
case.
" New issues, and new men, we say.
As we have sounded the tocs!n, that Ring
rule must be broken, 50 the people send Us
RESPONSES from every quarter, amen, t
that Z There is degree of popular en-
thusiasm In the movement that exceeds gu,
expectations, and it is plain that the pur
pose Of the people is perfectly well defined
The days Of the Dover tyranny are nun
bered, because as VIC emerge from the con
ilict on great national questions as we Ia,
aside the issues that are no longer debata
Ie; We discover how shamciully we hav
suffered from the hands Of that little cliqne
The new issues are all to its discontinue
and the new men that must come from III
! fields, the workshops, and the counting
ii uses, to reform the State, will turn out 1
power, those who have so scandalously mis-
used it.
: Let the dead Past bury lis dead. As 70
us, in the present, we have work to do
hard work, perhaps, but labor Of love, au
I of pride. II should be glorious work, al
ways, to unseat from power, men who hav
ruled the people uniuslly to break tic TO
Of tyranny, and restore justice to the com
monwealth, is call which no good ei,lze
can hear unmoved
r Ia the front then, fellow citizens. lie
; US look our situation in the face; if we ar
poor, oyer-taxed, and oppressed, let II
right our wrongs. when the power is in on
hands to do so.
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