Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1870-11-03
The Democratic Meeting Last Evening.
4 YOUNG FOSSIL ON THE STUMP.

YOUNG FOSSIL. ON THE STUMP.
The City Hall was well-filled Tuesday evening
to hear the addresses of Custus W. Wright, Esq,
and other lights of the Democratic party. Mr..
Wright appeared to have halted on his way to
full-dress party and he acclaimed his stilted
speech in the truly rural style of eloquence.
He gave evidence of his erudtion by quoting
Latin and then explaining it. He threw himself
proudly back his left hand on his hip, his right
hand beating the air, and then his eagle. eye
ranged the universe from the 'Archangel Michael
to worm,' from "0lympus to pebble. for
illustrations Of the proposition that inequality is
Heay ems first law. An argument drawn out over
such stretch of illustratio is apt to be thin,
and there were more times than one when the
only point visible was the sharply defined one OF
Mr.. Wright's left elbow. He secuted the idea
that all men we're equal, and said that people
who sought equality were not worthy OF freedom.
Suffrage was not the shield of liberty, and the
cry of taxation without representation was not
applicable to this nation. individuals were not
taxed. but property, and property was represent
ed in legislation because legislators owned prep
erty and would not impose an onerous tax on
it, when their own property must bear lts
share of the tax imposed Women, children
and IDIOTS owned property, and they could not
vote He denounced the Republican party for
reckless disregard of the Constitution, and said
it seemed to have been organized for the aboi-
ton of slavery, and the granting of universal
suffrage, and it had bdsely accomplished those
objects. He quoted Clay, Webster, Calhoun and
to show that two widely differing races could not
live under the same government without one
was in subordination to the other This portion
of Mr.. Wfights speech must have surprised even
the few Intelligent democrats who heard it. 1t
fairly stunk with the purifying carcasses of
dead ideas. One had to remember the necessary
seclusion Of the young mans life as working
partner in the home law practice of Senator
Salisbury to understand or excuse such ghoul-lke
delving in forgotten graves by man scarcely
| thirty years of age.
Mr.. Wright next undertook to show the folly
| of the Republican speakers in declaring negro
suffrage dead issue. He admitted, he said that
| by some means they had been given the privilege
of voting though he limited the Supreme Court
might yet have word to say about that, but the
Democratic party in this State does not want
| their votes, does not want them as members oil
its organization. It is a "White Mans Party,
and negroes shall not have voice in its affairs
| This is the great issue, whether party which
gives the negroes no voice in its affairs, or one
| that admits them to its ranks, shall govern this
State. A party has right to say who shall be
| its members, and such a question is q great anc
living one. Having thus demonstrated that the
most important issue in this campaign is the
fixing of the necessary qualifications for mem
bership in the Democratic party, Mr.. Wright fel
onto the familiar ground Of st. Domingo. Hi
audience here pricked up their ears and watched
critically, as this is one of the speeches the,
know by heart, and they are able to detect an.
failure to tell the yarn in the well established
and approved style. Mr.. Wright, we had almos
neglected to say, is Secretary of State of Della
ware. He spoke for but three-quarters of al
hour, and then gave way for Ignatius G. Grubb
Esq, of this city, who spoke for about an equa
length of time, when the meeting adjourned.
After the meeting adjourned the Germal
meeting at Odd Fellows Hall adjourned to tn
CITY Hail. and Joined the other meeting il
listening to fiery address from Sam Townsend