Middletown transcript., 1871-06-10
Erhc .MkNfoRn Transcript.
LETTER FROM SAMUEL TOWNSEND.

Mn Enron In your last weeks pa
per called the attention Of white people,
and might say white democrat u The
action Of what purportcd to be Dcmo.
cratic County Convention in Ohio where
at the uotoriou. political hypocFit. Clement
l. Nallaudigham, brought forward a res
olution endorsing what is called tile 10Th
amendment giving negroes political rights
equal to white people; and TO thc pro-
c.rdue> nt what WAS called Democratic
Stat Convention # Pennsylvania, whcrc1t
the 9;li olutiop he li'h ana
i5th I: alol aa4a'm MS. anil ,yory
other - # Jha republicans booking +, N
gro clnaii,y aul in The .isafa,i oaa
Stat, aag Of ill., aail, inst dni CONS.
mauilatan over tie signature II William
Dean. taking exceptions % my calling
Nallauligham hypacrit, and to my pro-
position to establish white mans party
in the late slave States for self prcscrya-
tion.
Now, Mr.. Dean. with regards to the
name Democrat. ! commenced voting in
1881 under Andrew .lack.ons aiministra-
ton, and have voted for every Democratic
President down 10 the present time. Com
mcncing with Martin Nanhurrn. have
voted for james X polk, Lewis t1.s,
Franklin Pierce, James buchanan Ste
phcn A. Douglass. General Mrileland, +,
aud llofatlu seymour, In some local al
fairs in this county, have had difficulties
with men sly ling themselves democrats
aud as retnliatory in scli-dcicnec. lave
no reason TO complain Of my success in
giving them their deserts Now, sir,
only mention my long uninterrupted sup
port of every democratic President since !
have become voter, To show the love |
have formed for tie tame democrat aud
il could serve the white people in Della
ware aud every other old slave State, |
would still cling 10 the name but man
who i, inlrI cndent aud wishes TO help his
fellow white man. must look the situation
in the face lna, Nallandigham aud
others, who call yourselves democrats,
split the democratic party by refusing to
support the nominee, stephen \ Doug
lass, aud voting for john G. Brcckinridgc
This defeated the democratic party aud
elected Lincoln, and from the election in
November, 1850 until the l,h of March
1861, james Buchanan, the then Prcsi.
dent. and democratic sympaihizer with
John G. Breckenridge. by his innction en-
couragcd the rebellion to such an extent
that the leaders were ready to take the
field soon after Lincoln was sworn in
Now this same james Buchanan was u
Pennsy ylyanian md lived within fifty miles
Of thc.placc (Ilarrishurg) where this rcso-
luton was passed last week.
In 1892, Andrew Jack son. n southern
man and Democrat, was president. a re-
hellion was threatened from his native
State and the hot-bcd whcrc the late re-
bellion was hatched, Charleston. jackson
us n true Democrat and union man, put
down said proposed rebellion, and had
James Buchanan been n truc Democrat
and union man, he too, would have put
the late rebellion down and saved mil
lion of lives aud millions and millions Of
dollars, and never, ending taxation.
Now, friend Dean, this croaking for hold.
ing on to the name Democrat. and swal-
lowing any kind of resolutions for the sake
of fholding on to the name Democrat. comes
with III grace from Brcckinridge iisorgan-
ixers Of the Democratic party You could
not accept or vote for Douglas. because he
was in favor Of the people Of territory
deciding by ballot for themselves whether
slavery should exist in il or not. Now
you say hold on to the word Democrat
encn to the swallowing and endorsing Of
the 18th amendment, and as a consequence
every obnoxious law to carry that rcpubli-