Wilmington daily gazette., 1872-08-13
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For the t}azstte
;,S. Mn' EDITOR Sir In your pa D :, of the ,,h
!nst,; you have an editorial h'.,,.t '.T IN ''h
teIs N win which you have seen N tn cioss ~ ~
AZ go ,Vu, w snch auihhIitv a, Webster Wall
fu i"it o't 10 Doll, !" Is to leave quickly.
from what have bolt-d to-day orc"nv ,'ate ,Ss
,saa ,"e los'.ion That have done Tor pasf i,zsn
yea''' on Tue same Democratic nla,f,.'n, ~,
.pI"s tlat WE have had IN Delaware fn, y
, ,eas. .'r iast ten years. and tn. sam. a. has
,. y a',"p'ra AMI endorsed hy tn. D-mnra.
sti,i r.mai'. :. inventions up to 1871. Now If
Ia.. ar'a.h IN tht SANE place and on the "a me
platform how can have toit.Jo +, ,'.. ~ oa'o
a"9 Douets belonging to Democratic Marty
MapPea', !" NE u must be such as hay,. o,,.p
",, "u,, are willing to support a platform
uvh Wh., Hanai'ate, made of Republican material
;,s 10, oa - VIC Ciheinnat platform aud who ar,
si,,.n, n w III you please name the con
! WIN the getting up Of that ,latfn,,,o
| ,nlhk the nest reply that can he made to tho
'fetiey, frown, Cincinnati MonoeraI Re-,
publican, Democrats, who charge Democrats
Win D"itiigs the language Of yery dear
aha much respected friend, who i, now alb.
sem from lis nome what can there be said
| Ia 'afof OF the fact that cut and dried. We
snail without crossiGg a ~" or dott,no An
~ vote down our thrOats without mastlca-
| t'ol or digestion, the action Of other men
Who have not been called into our councils.
you say that vixen l became a voluntary
| Delegate to the Dover Convention, that /
Knew MI Greeley ~ name would be before the
baltimore Convention" Now in reply the
Dover Convention was S ate Democratic
Convention, composed entirely of Democrats,
and the suppOsition was that we were send
Ing our Delegates to a Democratic Conven.
ton at Baltimore Now Mr. Editor YOU were
there as well as myself, and lad it been under
stood at the Dover Convention, that no other
candidates but Greeley and Brown were to be
brought before the Baltimore Convention. and
that II would adopt the Cincinnati platform
I say from the expression of sentiment q,
| Dover there would not have been Delegate
sent from the State Of Delaware Yor
further say that taking the position of Dele
gate at Dover, am bound to abide the de
clslon or the Baltimore Convention Or any
action 1t might have taken. think different
II you admit that the Baltimore Convention
had right to abandon their own men ant
principles, and take up Republican candidate
and Republican platforms. they had right K
90 as far rs suited their own IDEAS, and nigh
have nominated Fredrick Douglass, and Pro
fessor Howard Day, or they might just a
Philadelphia platform, ana Grant and VIII
son its candidates. Had they done so would
not have been equally bound to have SUP
ported them as you say am to supper
Greeley. and you would have been bound Il
have advocated their election, would yo
have done 1t? believe from my knowiedg
Of the expression OF the sentiments uf tn
Delegates at the Dove: Convention, had an
one proposed the name of Greeley as 1t can
didate it would have been considered as Al
insult and the person who would offered sue
would have been Klu-kiuxed before he coui
have gotten out of Dover. You say, "yo
do not want to continue any controversy
neither do / Yet when men will state what
know to be false, | must defend myself a
best am able, IOu were not uuder the cir
cumstances required to have said what yo
did unless you mad chosen 10 to do. sti
coutepd that | aM not z "BOlter" in tn
sense referred to in yo4r article, neither will
ever bolt from defence of what l thin
right. Very respectfully
| WILLIAM DEAN
Newark, August 18th, 1879,