Middletown transcript., 1870-10-08
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teenth Amendment but really only Con-
gressional enactment that can be repealed
whenever there is a Congressional major
ity against it) was held in suspense, early
last Spring / had frequent conversations
with prominent Democrats as to what
course it would be best to pursue if Grant,
by proclamation, should declare the said
18th Amendment as carried. They all,
unhesitatingly, agreed with me that it
would be best to drop the name Democrat,
and appeal to all honorable white men of
the opposite party to join with US in the
formation Of "White Mans Party"
Thomas Bayard spoke at Smyrna to a
mixed white audience on that subject, and
Jesse Sharpe, in every conversation / had
with him, was highly in favor of the
movement, and when got out the call for
State Convention, told me in Whining
ton he would be at said Convention, in
Dover, but did not come. Now since
there has been rebellion in the Brecken-
ridge camp in Kent, and particularly in
Dover. feel it my duty to give part Of the
unwrttcn history of that proposed White
Mans State Convention at Dover, on the
9Th of last May As stated, the leading
Democrats of New Castle county were loud
for a White Mans Party, and also the
Democratic papers therein, from the mid
die of April until about the first of May.
The Dclawarean, at Dover, opposed it.
About the 18th to the Goth of April was
in Dover, and there Z. S. Reed, William
Atkinson and others, said they would
procure names for call of State Con-
vention to form a White Mans party, and
that leading men in Sussex, to whom they
had talked, would also sign call, and
they would send them to me to have the
bills printed. After waiting some days,
and these calls not being forwarded to me
as promised, l took the responsibility to
get out the bills over the call of MANY
White Men," for a State Convention to
be held at Dover, on the 9th of May, to
form a White Mans Party, and paid the
even sum of ten dollars out of my own
pocket for said bills. 1 will here state
the reason l called it on the 9th Of May.
There was a Democratic call for a county
meeting at Dover for the 10th of May, and
the first in the State this year. and l
wished to call the white people together
before any party action had been taken,
30 that white men without respect to par
ty could have then and there joined in
equally.
Supposing, if tho Democrats are what
they pretended they were, in favor of
White Mans Government to rule this ma
tion. they could, to man. have joined in,
and therefore need not have been afraid to
take all other white men by the hand as
friends and brothers, who would join in
for the general good Of white men and
their descendants.
A few of US from New Castle, Kent and
Sussex, met at Dover on the 9th of May,
and moro Sunday-like day Inerer sa~
in Dorcr, Those men, who a few days
before we're loudcst in recommending a
White Mau's Party. and denouncing the
Saulsburys for being opposed to it, were
hid like rats in their cellars or somewhere
else. After seeing that there was not the
proper disposition shown to form White
Mans Party, that would to certainty
have been invincible against the Negro
Party, but if organized then might make
split in the white voters and give the
negroes the State, we concluded not to
organize or hold a meeting, or in any
way give encouragement to the Negro
Party, and, therefore went home, with
the full belief. however. that it would have
been for the best if the white voters, with
out respect to party, had met US and form
ed a White Mans Party; for what do we
now see in Kent county, and at this very
town of Dover, one month before the gen.
cral election, and that, too, after the full
tickets have been nominated A call
with many names signed, proposing to
hold county meeting on the 9th inst. to
form a nep or second ticket, on purpose to
defeat the nominated ticket, and hand the
County, and probably the State, ooer to the
Negro Pdtyl
Ten years ago, at Charleston. the Breck-
enridge Democrats split the National Dem
ocratic Party and handed the nation over
to the Republican Negro Party, who have
enacted all the negro equality laws and
tax laws the nation groans under, and now
the last little State of Delaware which has
been under Democratic rule, is to be split
by the ambition of set of Breckenridge
Democrats, and the State, for all they
care, handed over to Republican negro
rule. How much better it would have
been. last Spring, before any organiza-
ton had taken place, to have organized
White Mans Party on liberal basis and
nominations by ballot. But, at this late
day, because some of them we're not put
on tho ticket. and the fear that one of
the Saulsburys will be sent to the Senate
in place of some one of them, they make
a split in the party Chat they held on to
last Spring and now expect, as is re-
ported, promised help from Republicans,
which means negro rOtes and if by such
means they beat the Saulsburys, are they
any better than Tommy Garret and such
men 2 And if some of their names are
correctly reported, have they not received
Office and political favors from the Sauls-
burys, and can any one man of them put
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