Wilmington daily commercial., 1872-10-26
QUESTIONS ON BOTH SIDES.


mo lodging, cries the Gazette, with its hands
unwashed of so dirty trick as the suppression
of all the evidence against Given. Let it learn
if it can learn-that we never do dodge We
leave that to newspapers without character to
lose.
The Gdzette asserts that the juiy, at the recent
term Of the U. s. Circuit Court contained not
over six Democrats. On the contrary, we are
advised that at least Ten Of the thirty were DEM
ocrats. So much for that, and now sir, how
many more than one-third of the juries Just
summoned by your Democratic Levy Court are
Republicans? Has that body drawn panel for
the November Courts containing any larger Re-
publican percentage than the Democratic ratio
about which you are setting up partisan howl
Next, as to the colored men on one of the
juries summoned to the District Court, some
months ago. The Gazette assumes that the
summoning Of them was disgraceful act on the
part of Marshal Dunn, assumption for which
We see no good ground, if they were intelligent,
sober citizens capable Of duly discharging a
jurors duties Does the Gazette deny that they
were such? Furthermore, does the Gdz2tte OBJ
ject to having negroes on juries2 1t flies the
name of Horace Greeley, for President. Does it
repudiate the platform on which he stands, and
which was formally adopted by the Democratic
Convention at Baltimore That platform ex-
plcity declares (First Resolution) that
1--WE recognize the equality of all men before
the law, and hold that it is the duty of the Gov
ernment in its dealings with the people, to mete
out equal and exact Justice to all, of whatever
nativity, race, color, or persuasion, religious or
political"
"a m 81, "a a,
decision Of the National Democratic Convention
Now does not this equality before the law, and
this equal and exact justice to all'-"of what
ever ndticay race, color or persuasion" which
the Democrats have recognized, and declare to
be the Governments duty does not this justify
and demand that colored citizens, if fit should
be placed on juries, as white citizens are2 Let
the Gazette answer this, and not dodge" as it
did with the Given testimony.
Still again, while we are on this subject, here
is the second plank of the platform adopted at
Baltimore by the Democrats - the platform
whose candidate Horace Greeley, the Gazed
urges on the people. 1t reads thus
We pledge ourselves to maintain the union
OF these States, emancipation and enfranchise-
ment, and to oppose any re-opening of the
questions settled by the Thirteenth, Fourteenth
and Fifteenth Amendments of the Constitution.
Does the Gazette join in this solemn promise,
made by its partyi Does it "pledge" itself to
maintain Enfranchisement which is in other
words, Negro Sufrages Is 1t sincerely devoted,
since the Baltimore Convention, to keeping tile
ballot in the hands of the colored man and
giving him free, fair, equal chance to use it
Let it reply, as to this, without dodging."
Lastly the question is put us by this He,cS-
paper, which reports one side of an important
trial and suppresses the other, what we have
to say as to the importation of Philadelphia
repeaters' at the election of 1870. We have
to say just this; That We have no knowledge
that any were imported, although we have
heard the act charged on the Democratic mana
gers that species of fraud, as we'll as the mani
pulation Of assessments, the intimidation of le-
gal voters, and the manufacture of illegal ones,
being practice long ago adopted by the Tam
many Ring of Now York, as well as its admirers
(uf whom the Gazette has been one,) in Della
ware. We repeat we do not know any facts
which show that any Republican, Marshal Dunn
or any body else, was concerned in any impor-
tation of repeaters either " at the last general
election, or at any other election. And further
we dare the Gazette to make explicitly the
charges which it insinuates, and defy it to prove
them! few weeks ago, it maundered, day
after day, about Republican frauds in tax re-
ceipts, We challenged it to name the men
whom it charged, and produce its proof, and
then it shut up.
We do not, of course, hold ourself at the COM
mand Of every one who chooses to PROFOUND I'M
pertinent questions, but we have fully and fairly
replied to all those put to us by the Gazette. Now
let it answer with equal fairness and fullness,
those which we ask it. Until it does so we shall
considerit lodging and avoiding, as it did one
half the evidence in the Given case.