Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1874-10-17
CITY AND STATE.



or as infiammable as the managers of the |
party desired or the public expected. 1t
was attended, problbly, by one thousand |
persons, some of whom were from this
city, a few from New Castle, and the re-
mainder from Mddletown aud vicinity,
and was addressed by Congressman ely
mer, of Reading, and Senators salisbury
and Bayard.
Most all those present came from the
country surrounding the town, and
arrived In wagons, carriages and on
horseback about o'clock. Preceded by
the Middletown aud Odessa brass bands,
they paraded the streets, displaying
banners and transpareucies, and creating
some excitement. A dozen horsemen,
with husky faces, ragged clothing and
worn out carpet. bags were In the pro-
cession aud, as printed slips upon their
hats told the spectators, represented
Kellogg, Bullock, Moses, aud several
other thieves, usurpers aud political
vampires of the carpet-bag gang who
have ruinously misruled the South sioce
the war of the rebellion. There was also
in the procession, mounted upon wheels,
small cannon, the property Of the
White Mans party, who, as every body
knows, still lives In Townsend. Now
and then the piece was discharged,
window panes shattered, people IN
nerved and, occasionally, seriously
injured by the explosion.
ORGANIZATION OF THE MEETING.
AT 9 o'clock the meeting was organized,
on a stand erected for the purpose, in a
ten-acre field south Of the town, with
Sewell @. Biggs as President, j. Thomas
Budd, g. j. McWhorter and Richard
Ferguson as Secretaries, and James
/ Kaneely, John Morrison, James NJ.
Vandegrift, George f. Brady and r. IL.
| Armstrong as Vice Presidents. Among
the audience were quite number Of the
gool-lookipg ladies of which Middletown
boasts, and John 2. Cochran and James
Williame. Democratic candidates for
Governor aud Congress ex Congressman
Whitley and Blegs, Lawyers Gruob, Gray,
O'Byrne and Cummins, Coancilmen
McIntre and Taylor, of the Second
ward Recorder Ogle,e Sheriff Herbert,
candidate for Sheriff, Lambson, John W.
Hall, candidate for Governor four years
hence, Samuel Townsend and many other
prominent members of the Democratic
party.
After music by the Middletown band
the President introduced Congressman
Clymer, of Pennsylvania. Mr.. Biggs'
introduction was supplemented by few
complimentary and eongratulatory re-
marks by Senator Blyard, after which
Mr. Clymer rose TO speak aud was re-
ceived with cheers.
MR.. cLYMEn's REMARKS.
lie was present, he said, at Mr..
Bayard's bidding, having laid aside I'M
perative and pressing engagements fol-
the purpose of addressing the people OF
! Delaware, q people who have so stead
( lastly chung to constitutional law and
liberty, and whom he likened 10 his own
law-loylng and Democratic majority.
, giving constituency. He referred 10
| Delaware's association with and subse-
0 quent secession from his own State,
e but as this was matter long
0 ago incorporated into history he
{ dropped It, and commenced
review Of the results Of the late war and
b. the policy the Republican party has since
C that time pursued. WheD the war was
G ended the Republican party promised tc
/ tue entire country peace, prosperity anc
happiness. Tnis pledge having been un-
4 faithfully kept, he appealed to the people
4 TO leave the party which had forfeited III
d word and honor and Join the Democratic
t party which, he claimed, is always hon
' est in the promises II makes. II TIT
V Republican party has proved recreant L
4 its pledges he demanded that Its member
should desert it and join another
l. party with other leaders. Is II tru
?. that all are blessed with peace and secur
" ity IN their person and property Is Il
true that any are refused protection an'
n robbed of their property Answer me, IN,
II Republican friends, whether this be tru
e or not to day in the States Of Louisiana
II Alabama, South Carolina and Florida
Of and If II is true who ie responsible for II
Who has for the past fourteen years hel
1t and now holds the Teius OF the Fedora
r., Government : The people OF the sout
& have been robbed, plundered and ruined
and by whom2 ny the very men th
W Republican party OF the North vomlte
"A ont at the close Of the war; the yer
10 scum of society, who have become th
worst engines of outrage and erin
to be foSnd anywhere. II Is tn
rs class Of men, of whom Kellogg
TX a member, that have recently cause
Us blood to ilow freely in the streets of Ne
~ Orleans and have rendered property the
's- almost worthless. The President shou
- have aided and relieved the oppresse
Il people there long ago, but he did not.
,Is Tact, instead of doing Sc, heslent himse
h- and the vast authority he wields to T
no placing In power the thieves al Outrage
II aud almost distracted people had hurll
from power. Were II not for the FEEDER
raj bayonels Kellogg's Government could II
be stand oyer hight aud the government
oil Moses would not live twenly-four houl
mt From the misgoverned South u
be speaker passed to a consideration OF q
Civil Rights Bill, the legacy and q
he curse. be said, the dead Massaehusel
lon Senator left to be inflicted upon our pc
600 pie for all time to come. The Repu
leans propose TO pass this bill, not
ed, any love Of the negro, but to secu
OF his vote. They first freed him, then ga
He him the right to vote and be a jur'
/. made him everything, in fact, except u
Don which God intended him TO be. III
Inc bill is not to protect his rights but
cal destroy everybody else's. They propo
ter, under penalty of S500, to place b
1 IN in our churches, hotels, schools a
In places of amusement, and, not contt
The with this, they purpose burylng b
md when dead with you. All this is not
ing the purpose Of lettering his eonditie
It'll They would care no more about eleyali
him than they would for exalling no
mas or an OK, If he could not vote. FRI
Is this subject Mr.. Clymer passed to that
NJ. corruption In Washington. He wol
65 not saw ANYTHING againss the Preside
mes but thought if Gen. Grant were
ell honest man he would not associate "
20 the Shepherds, the Willlamses and
lar Richardson's, his (Grant's) politi
se and personal friends and eounselo
wo- After Republican committee
$50, the Senate aud House of RepIes
ers' tatlycs had hurled Shepherd ir
. z. power because Of his outrage
mes acts of oppression, and provided 70
i7si; commission TO govern the District
ker, Columbia, the President appointed as
and, chairman the man whom Congress
me, the nation had stamped a robber, X
ing ardson, closely connected with the II
mics of the Sanborn contracts and W
ain. covered with slime was made
nry .he President Judge Of the U
res, of Claims, placed for life il
,un- position beyond the reach OF
f; 81 Indignation OF the people. Laund
Iuu- | Williams, his Attorney General, who
; Is been guilty of the commission Of fl
lred, upon fraud, was appointed Chief jus
salt of the Supreme Court, and was only
rson hibited from taking his seat by the ref
anne Of the senate to confirm his appOintm
I haven't time to go farther with this
I'd a nor to tell you Of all the great hesto'
laal- Of gifts whom the President has n
d, as office holders. lie wants to be elect
third time and If the Republican ?
refuses 10 give him the nominal
eighty thousand men who
office under him will do 1t. Then, BY
rned, use Of the army, be would receive e
electoral vote from the South. U
b, r. seen complications, however, might Il
d. The election into the House of Reprl
tatlyes, and for this reason he wa
Mr.. Williams elected that he may
ID at with Pennsylvania in that event and
which an honest man as President. He W.