Middletown transcript., 1872-02-24

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~ lsailsd fhs old DsmossslSe nag in The |
doo9 oo1 ma3s no n0minstion. they wers
sxoste1 hy shs nsvspspcr Age. and the
new departure lssdcfs. 10 % 10 the polls
and vote for this said Republican cspdi-
dses Mcclure. who had spent most of his
life Ii warsin9 on Democratic. lie was.
however. beat near thousand votes by
Gray, the ring candidate. A fiuc begin.
nisg. Caleb. iu Pennsylvania 10 1872
Then again. Connecticut has held the 6rss
pretended Democratic State Convention.
and they. spaniel like. iu their resolutions
have gone further than the Republicans
in huggiug and kissing the negro. There
fore. Caleb. dou't say Democratic White
Mans Party in any old free State and in
this and ell the old slave States, to make
an efficient White Mans Party. = ncw
organisation must be formed. 80 that all
white men 10 il. will have equal chances
Of prefc,ment. Even in Delaware, with
out the aid Of white men who have voted
in the opposite party. we are beat. The
noble white men in this county ut the last
election came over TO Us aud oycrbalanced
the negroes whom the Republicans had la
ken into their party. But on the present
narrow. mean policy Of what is called the
Democratic party. too tyrannical TO trus,
the masses TO nominate by ballot, persons
whom they wish 10 represent them. the
ring has centralized the Office machinery
until il is nearly the same as in = mon
archial government. where all the rulers
come out Of one family.
| White men Of Delaware, let us unite in ono
| party and lie governed by the true principles Of
old Democracy, the rights Of the white masses,
and the win Of their majority. The only way to
ascertain this Is nomination OF all Offices Ay bal
| lot, where the masses can have an equal chance
With. .wirc workers and rings. thorough or
gausa,ion Of the righ, thinking white people Of
the late slave States liberal basis cni hid de-
| iancc 10 the combined white aud negro element
in said States. II We attempt 10 run after the
| free State descriers VIC lose all. Caleb, your
Governor Dcnnison Of Ohio. A. Lincolns post
master general, will not do. Offended Judge
| Chase wi not do. Charles Sumner will not do.
nor any Of that stripe; aud do not see how
General Hancock will do, as some of the Gazette
ring could no, vote Mcclellan because he had
| been General IN tie union army. Is not Ham
cock open 10 the same ot,iecinn2 Was he not
| taikc. OF as the beau ideal al General To COM
| ,nand corps of soldiers as household troops NJ
| thV ciorc ~ the war? aud might not this corps
| VI soldiers have mcn used 10 help establish u
| central government? and further, did not dozeus
4 OF the breckenridge gentlemen ia Delaware, be-
hind his back slaii,lrt sam Townsend or old
| sam. union Douglas Democrat for giving his
| boni 10 the general government for 30 stand Of
arms 10 help keep old Appoquinimink Hundred
| from icing forced out OF the Union? However,
like To see men " no commit wrong have the
honesty to make amends, and since you have ,,,-
common honesty dictate To you 10 leave oil ours
ing old Sam Townsend for giving his bond for
guns To hep save the old hundred where be re-
si-sg was opposed to that mistaken freak of
the southern men In trying to leave the union
| Vow that they have abandoned the idea | nn
| for taking the wic men by the hand as our mis-
taken white brothers, and will help defend ih, M
at the hallprhox rom the degradation of negro
equality that The northern aboliiionists, with
their new departure allies, are trying TO iasicn
on them. II 10 no use TO present any candidate
| TO the late slave States who is nominated ON II
negro equality platform They cannot nor dare
not support such a candidate. II would entail
endless degradation that section where near
ly ali the hegrocs rtsilr. Therefore, II becomes
necessity TO have separate organization from
the, old free State departures and thes
ought not TO complain They lett us without
l.our consent and adopted negro equality plat
form. SAArEL Towns
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