The herald. (Smyrna, Del.) 1870-1871, 1870-10-01

IT, Democratic Party of Dclawnre, in
&S8x tate OOnpemtien assembled, declared
1. Their devotion now, as in the past,
to the Federal Unioa, as established by
the Fathers of the Republic, and to the
Constitution as made end adopted by
Them which is the only bond CT Union
q To the rights of the people and OF
The States secured by that Constitution
8. To Constitutional civil liberty,
which can only be secured and pefpeth-
Afed by strict adherence to tho Consti-
kmtion thus formed.
4. They further declare that the Fed
erAl Government and the Government
bf the State of Delaware were framed by
white men FOR the benefit OF White men,
and that TREY are unalterably opposed TO
any association with negroes politically
or socially, and 10 any participation by
negroes in the management of the affairs
hnd interests of either the general or
state government,
3 They declare their inhexible oppo-
s1tion to the SO called fourteenth and fif-
teenth amendments to the Federal Con-
Htitution, and denounce them as frauds
upon the people, imposed by military
pewcr exercised by corrupt Federal
administration.
8. They declare their opposition to
the reckless extravaganza and wasteful
expenditures of a Republican Congress
and Federal administration, and to the
jndiscriininate appropriation of the pub
lic domain to private corporations.
Y. they denounce as unconstitutional
and as aggressive upon the rights and
liberties of the people of the United
Mates, and the people of every State,
&he act passed at the last session of Con-
jzress for the enforcement of the so called
18th amendment to the Federal Const..-
utlon.
E q F,hn.. ans.o,..,>o =. . ,...,. q, 4,
al and every act pac,ou by Congress
having fn- rs sss,Jcct the equalization, So
c=$ily on politically, of the negro race
W1th the white race.
%. They denounce the attempt by
Congress to force equality of the negro
RAGS with the white race in our free
schools, and are in favor of our public
4chools remaining as they ever have
9een--open to white children exclusive
# 10. They hereby declare that they do
3aot want. and will not seek the negro
vote, hut will rely exclusively upon the
votes of white men. hereby declaring
& tint the Democratic party of the State of
Delaware, is now, as it always has been,
Exclusively a WHITE MANS PARTY,
shsx sasdiaY. nxts the White yot
mer divisions or associations, to unite
with them in the maintenance of the SUI
n preinacy of the white race in this State,
And TO the extent of their ability
throughout the United States.
IL. They are in favor of combining to
Che white race exclusively. the right of
suffrage.
IL. They are in favor of wise and
Economical administration Of the FEEDER
nj and State governments.
M IL. They call upon their fellow citi-
&ens who have heretofore opposed their
party organization, to join them now in
kebuking this base and desperate at
<empt of falling party to prolong its
Isower. at the cost of degrading Ameri-
<An citizenship, and risking our last
hope for self-government by free and
intelligent nation of white men, upon
whose virtues and intelligence we can
None rely for its maintenance.
IA. That while they are opposed to
{sginging the question of the proper rela-
f1ons of capital and labor into political
ontroversies, yet in view of late Radical
propositions to disregard all questions of
race In the population and industrial and
Political regulations of they country,
*uey declare that our republican syste m
III best maintained when labor is we'll
Paio, ana Is IN greatest danger when
AsiaL;c hordes are IS listed to Invade us,
e and engraft their theories of "cbeap La
Dor" upon our present system.
10. Relying upon the patriotism and
uevotion of the white people of this State
70 their own race, they hereby declare
fheir determination to enter vigorously
upon the approaching political campaign
md to show 10 the people of the whole
y eountry that the people of Delaware at
We present day, Initiating the example
NJ their patriotic fathers, will maintain
nnd perpetuate white mans govern
Uaeut, uncontHnlinatcd by any associa-
tion or participation therein with the ne
gro race.