Peninsular news and advertiser. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1872-1904, 1872-09-27
"THE LAY OF THE LAST MINSTREL"

sarcasm with which Patrick Henry an
initiated the tory plaintiff in suit for
indemnity, for a steer, which had been
taken to splice out the rations of the
starving patriots of the Revolution. APP
pearing for the defendant, the eloquent
son of the Emerald Isle delineated in
glowing colors the sufferings and hard
ships of the American army, it's final
victory over the enemy, and the happy
rejoicings with which it celebrated its
triumph. With scorching invective he
portrayed the character of the avaricious
Hook, who, amid these festive scenes,
when a new born nation fired salvos Of
artillery and sang p@ans of praise, OBJ
truded upon the harmony with his harsh
and hateful discord of "BeefI'' "Beef!"
''Beef" Oh for some Patrick Henry
to paint on the canvass of history, for
the dilectation of posterity, the worthy
anti-type of this tory pleader for BEEF"
1t can be found in the DeldlUaredn, the
''organ" of the Democracy of Delaware.
Hear it: 1.-THE Democratic party does
not seek the votes of the negroes, and
does not expect or want them. OURS is
A WHITE MANS PARTY, and we say
that we do not intend to affiliate politi-
cally with negroes. Our appeal is to
aUhite men alone"
This is the song which this doleful
minstrel sings to-day. Aye! even to-
day when, through the incandescent
heat of bloody strife, upon hundred
battle fields, the nation has met the
grandest question of the ages, forced to
issue by the enemies of human liberty
and human rights; when ithas triumphed
gloriously in this conflict and sealed its
trophies in its magma charta when the
righteousness of it's cause has been vim
Dictated by the verdict of the world I;
when even its bitterest and most unyield-
ing contestant-the Democratic party
has, in apparent good faith, accepted
the issues as accomplished, and finally,
in National Convention, ratified the
covenant when ''new departure" has
become living fact, patent to all men !;
when humanity everywhere rejoices over
the hearty accord of the acquiescence in
the inevitable, and the Nation exults in
being ready finally and forever, to step
away from the dead body of the past
amid all this harmony amid all this re-
joicing, we hear the shrill pipings of this
last minstrel, and the song that greets
and CRATES upon our ears is the sad re-
frain of ''Nigger!' 'Nigger!" "Nigger!''
"Ours is a White Mdn'S Party" This
is the watchword; and by whom spokenr
By the Deldlcdredn, protesting to speak
in behalf of the Democratic party. OF
the Democratic party where? Not of the
Nation surely, for we have seen that the
National party repudiates utterly such a
disgraceful creed. No, it is for the
Democracy of Delaware that this oracle
speaks. How absurd, how supremacy
ridiculous, and yet how sad withal, tC
see this tail end of great national or
ganization wagging itself in the face Of
the world, bearing aloft the cruel, pros
criptive, anti-Christian motto Of the
''White Mans Party" Brave, chival
: rous, magnanimous men !-waging {
, political crusade against race of fellow
beings for no other reason than that
their skins are black men created b.
, the same God as themselves, redeemed
by the same Christ, hoping for the samt
} heaven; men against whom Divin,
Y Providence has made no discrimination il
9 the bestowal of his natural gifts thu
! same sunshine warns them and give
e them light the same atmosphere sup
n plies them with life they have the SAM
e organs and the same organization I; the.
I have similar wants-similar hopes ant
o aspirations; and in natural and acquires
n capacity many of them would put to tn
S blush the bigoted brawlers who woul'
# ride to preferment and power on tn
e wave of popular prejudice which the.
h would fain arouse by the wicked, bruta
If cry of ''White Mans Party"
is Who are the men who presume t
II promulgate this anomalous platform t
d the pitiful fragment of once grea
IL party? Messiers of the Deld,Cdredr
E. haven't you ridden this hobby sufficient
e. long? Haven't you scrambled to powe
ir and to place often enough over the pro:
Y, trate form of the poor negro? Hav
IS you no instincts of humanity left in you
o. bosoms we, whose proud boast it il
to that you trod barefooted the boys {
S, Marshy Hope, and, from thence, by VII
o. tue of the institutions of countl
III which patents no royal road to FAM
Id rose to high places? If no; if the fee
or ings of humanity-the spirit of the r.
ra ligion which you profess; if comma
i'd gratitude for the benefits accruing to yo
tie through the open avenues to PROMOTE
O. which you have enjoyed-if all thei
Ell considerations will not move you to
is sist from placing ban upon others
I'd the human race, then let ''decent L
u spect for the opinions of mankind" clo
at your mouths against the utterance
e. the cry-''a White Mans Party" Plea
" remember that this is the last quarter
al the nineteenth century; and when Il
sentinel, ON the watch tower of the age
It's shall hail the world for the hour
nd day, by the finger-mark ON the dial pla
nd of time, and civilization and progre
he answer back from the nations of Il
'ty world,-from England in her enlarg,
10 liberty and extended suffrage; fro