Middletown transcript., 1874-05-30
Communicated

to public notice, at the Deer Park Hotel, Newark,
Del, on Monday evening, May 25th, 1874. The
meeting was called TO order by the President
James H. Ray, who stated the object Of the meet
ing 10 be the reorgan ization of the Association
for the approaching campaign.
On motion the chair appointed Messrs. A. q.
Fisher, James Springer and William Dean
committee 10 draft resolstions expressive of the
sense of the meeting. The committee retired and
after brief interval returned and reported the
following Preamble and Resolutions which on
motion were read and adopted, seriatim =
WHEREAS, It is alike the right, the privilege
and the duty of the American people, or any
portion of them, from time to time to assemble
and take counsel together, to discuss the charac-
ter and conduct Of their rulers to criticise the
administration of their government; to expose
corruption and vsnality whenever found, and to
adopt such measures as, to them, sh hall seem most
likely to secure honest and faithful performance
of their respective duties in accordance with the
requirements of the organic law, and
WHEREAS, The Administration of the Federal
Government by the Radical Party, since its ad-
vent TO power, has been continued series of
usurpations and outrages upon the rights of the
States and the liberties of the people, culminat-
ing in their subsection and AFFECTION to negro
domination, misrule, turbulence and anarchy;
and
WHEREAS, The same revolutionary violence
which brought forth these outrages is daily
Matching and spawning new usurpations and
despotisms, prominent among which is the Civil
Rights Bill, recently passed by the United States
Senate, which has for its object tho thrustng of
negroes into our churches, cemeteries, colleges,
public schools, hotels, and places of amusement,
and,
WHEREAS, If the Radical party be not at once
arrested in its mad career of unauthorized tyran-
| nical legislation, the State of Delaware may soon
present the same ptiable and appalling spectacle
which her sister States OF South Carolina and
Lossiana now present to the civilized world
and
| WHEREAS, Our only hope of escape from this
| impending danger is in the speedy organization
| and union of the friends Of free constitutional
| Government throughout country to hurl
| these miscreants from power and to restore the
| Government to its constitutional limitations
under the control and guidance of the Demo-
cratic party the only party, in the country that
has shown itself capable OF conducting the affairs
of the Government in the interests of the people
of all the Statss and in strict conformity with the
provisions of the Fe -eral Constitution, there
| fore,
R.solpcd |. That the powers delegated to the
general government defined and specified in
the Constitution of the United States, and that
no authority either expressed or implied, is con-
| ferred upon Congress by that instrument TO leg
isa,e negroes into our churches, cemeteries, col
lsges, public schools, hotels or places of amuse-
ment and that any attempt to so legislate is sub
versivc of the Constitution, gross infringement
of the rights of the States, and dangerous to the
liberties of the people.
| Resolped2 That the unauthorized interference
| of the General Government with the local affairs
| Of any State, to any extent, under any pretence
| whatever should be at once repudiated and con-
| dpmned by all classes in every section OF the
| Union, rs all such acts tend directly to the de-
struction of our Fedora system, and to the con-
soidation of all power in centralized despotsm.
| Resolped ). That no power is delegated TO Con
gress TO impose taxes GU The people except to col
lect revenue for the purpose Of deirayng the
current expenses OF the government and Tor the
payment Of the Federal debt, and that all other
duties imposed for the purpose of protecting one
branch Of industry al the expense OF another are
in violation OF the Federal compact, and subver-
sive OF the rights Of the people.
Resolced l. That agriculture being tie great
est of all interests 1t our country, we are there
fore opposed 10 the great hurihen of taxation
heaped upon that interest in the shape Of duties
levied ON iinportiiloHs of the necessares under
the pretext that ii is protecting . American In
duslry," which is only sugar coated covering
by which to deceive and rob the American
farmer.
Resoised s. That the wide spread stagnatior
|
suspensions of enterprise, uncertainty i'll tht
present and hesitation as to the future every
where visible are mainly attributable 10 the is
sue of IN lriedeenable paper currency OF nuctu
ating value, and that any and every attempt a
further imitation is Il violation OF the pledget
faith of The Government and has direct ten
dency to PROSTATE the industry Of the country, II
, inhct rum, want and suffering upon the peopl
and to corrupt the fountains ot public and pri
vale virtue.
Resolpea c. That our warmest thanks are due
f and are hereby rendered, to two Senators
the Hon 4. +. Bayard and the Hon Eli Sails
bury. for their manly exposure OF the Executiv
interference in the local affairs OF the State Q
} Louisiana, their opposition TO usurpntion and i'll
Hation and their eloquent advocacy OF the right
of the States and the liberties and interests {
the peoples they have proved themselves faith
full and able representatives, of the State OF Della
ware, and on their return will be greeted by he
people with the welcome paudit, "Well don
thou good and faithful servant
Res0ired 7. That the Democratic citizens an
voters of WI ite Clay Creek Hundred do hereb
q respectfully request the Democrats of New CAST
County 10 meet in their respective hundreds an
i, organize for the approaching campaign TO assis
in nominating our hest men for office and 10 Sc
that no candidate is placed before the people wh
does not come up 10 The Jellersonian standard :;
SIS he honest? Is he capable? Is he iaithit
to the ConstitutonI
Resolped 8. That now, heretofore, EN-
9 phatically declare that we will support candi
r date for office who tampers with the negro Sc
= licits his vote; we lay no claim to his support
] we are satisfied TO leave him with the Radici
, party, his political owners and masters, and Il
/ him remain perpetual monument of the inf
, NOUS legislation which clothed him with the a
= tributes oActizenship, transferred him from tf
S fields of labor, to which he was best adapted
/, with all his ignorance about him TO the Halls {
+ National and State Legislatures and retains hil
: there the willing and subseryient tool OF his Rat
ical masters to enable them to more efiectuall
plunder and mpoyerish the people.
On motion ordered that the above premable an
resolutions be published in all the Democrat
and conservative papers of the State.
), On motion the meeting proceeded to elect off
GERS for the ensuing year, when the followin
gentlemen were unanimously elected -
Presidont-George G. Kerr.
Vice Presdent-Wm. II. Smith.
Secre.ary-Joseph Dean, Jr.
. Assistant Secreary-Wm. Mckeowan.
J Treasurer-James Springer.
On motion the of thanks of the Associate