The daily gazette., 1874-09-07

him in private life induces us to trust
him in public station. My remarks
have been very unprecedented in ad-
dressing you this afternoon but have
endeavored to speak fully to YOU of
your duty to select good men for your
State Government. Your Legislature
next fall will select some one 10 follow
me as the Representative of this State.
All the things Of which have spoken
call our attention to our national Of
fairs. When you consider the condi-
tion to which recollection has brought
US, how the Federal has subverted the
State jurisdictions and destroyed their
Independent action and imperelled
their preservation you will see how
National politics affect our State.
Laws on the U. 8. Statute book to-day
jeOpardize our State's existence; such
are the election laws. Don't let any
man suppose he can sanction q wrong
principle without it returning back
upoh him in the end. I have often
felt amazed that the citizens of the U.
8. could tolerate the Federal action in
the Southern States without raising
their voices in indignat remopstrance
against these acts. Lincoln said that
q house divided against itself could
not stand-that where one State had a
labor which others had found unprotit-
able such union must break. Revo-
luton came and slavery was blotted
out. Now, If on this subject they
could not stand how can a Union of
States continue with one portion op-
pressed by the other, and such things
happen as we have seen for eight years.
l never saw the day when the Democ-
racy wished for a disunion of the
States. We longcd for brotherhood
Of Union. l long for it to-day, and no
word or action Of mine in any degree
shall serve to make one-part of this
country hate the other. This Union
must be founded in justice between
the States. The present injustice and
oppression cannot exist. If the course
of the Republican party shall continue
the hope Union will at present become
realized.
l do not think the North hate the South
ern people. L'e,, ISLANDERS and prejudlces
have been unsparingly used for political ef-
feet. !! Grant can send his Attorney Cen
eral aud make II bargain with n corrupt
judge 10 give him Federal bayonets to sup
port man in office not elected by the peo-
plc OF Louisiana, and thus make the minor-
ity the ruling power he can repeat his
action in Delaware Or Pennsylvania. No
State can be safe from it. II not from a
sense OF justice, then from sense OF sell
preservation let tue people discountenance
these acts. do not propose to catalogue
the wrongs OF the Southern States.
The attempt is now being made TO coin
false stories Of wrongs against the negroes,
TO serve as pretext for further expressions.
The grent danger Is that these political
adventures control the purse and the sword
of the nation. Keep up these present car
pctbag governments aud YOU keep up a
reflex of all the wishes Of Federal oppree-
sion.
Statesmanship 10 our country, the capac-
lty to make laws, TO form tariffs, TO cstablish
u currency, cannot be expected from these
carpet bag representatives. All of them
you have boiled down and you will not get
one judicious sensible legislator as the resi-
dunn. have seen these nen, have served
with them ON committees, and, 30 far US
usefulness in legislation is concerned, they
are worthless But as political workers they
are useful because they are irresponsible and
subject to the beck and call OF their masters
wnnt the people OF Delaware not to lock
at the past but to the future. Having moth
ing to say OF schemes for wasting money;
giving public lands to Railroad corporations
that should 0e preserved for the settlers OF
future generations nor of many other worth
less schemes Of government; thero is some
thing else.
II your personal liberty Is goue what is
your property WORTHY Ii you have no
Courts to appeal TO what Is the use of hav-
ing a title to any thing.
Over und above the minor questions comes
the tight to breath a free mau's breath.
Here thu Senator proceeded 10 read SEN
ate bill No. /. passed May 29I, 1872, known
as the Civil flights Biil.)
This bill passed the Senate by nearly
street party vote and isa bill which propusts
to throw down all the safe guards OF the
State. If this act becomes n law all Della
ware law ID not as q bulirush against II. This
Ia u law which James r. Lotland sought to
pass. When 1t had passed Inc Senate it
went to the House OF Repre- sentatives and
was placed IN it's regular order On the calen.
der. 1t required two-thirds vote to take
it out of It's order. James Il. Loa,nd voted
80 10 do. If It did not afterwards pass it
was not his fruit, he did oil he could. 1t
rests with the people OF Delaware 10 say, il,
at The next Congress he dare help il further.
(Here the Senator read the Sections re
lating TO Inns, Schools, Cemeteries, Thea.
tres, etc)
Now, my friends, here is proposition
ends State existence. What is the reason a
man who keeps an Inn should entertain us2
Common laws gives the answer 1t ia based
on contract, and when you claim damages
your claim is based on contract to keep a
place to entertain you. The SUIT Is founded
upon q contract. 1t is to speak in legal
language ed contractse, arising from or ont
Of contract. A mans rights under one
species of contract are the same as those
uIder another species. II the United States
can interfere In one, why not in another
1t is the principle of contract and the right
of the United States to Interfere. II they
can penalize man for failure to keep an
Inn, they can penalize failure to keep any
other contract.
Marriage is contract, and there ia no
reason why it should not be in this pill
as well as any other contract, What is
there in the Constitution to enable Con-
gress to discriminate Nowhere in his
tory have contracts ever been governed
but by the law Of the place Of making, or
the place Of performing it. Here we have
q proposition to centralize this power in
the Federal Government. 1 will pass by
this question Of ruins. 1t will ruin many
men and few hotel keepers in this State