The daily gazette., 1874-10-27
For the Gazette.
n Letter from NeiFa1'L.

Mr. EDIToR:-It might be interest
ing to your readers who are not in the
habit of attending Republican meetings
to have short synopsis of one giNca.
The Democracy of Old White Cnv
Creek Hundred, for some weeks past.
have been holding series Of mrctin@-
at which they have had for speakers thr
Hon. Thos f. Bayard, G.. G. Burr and
John OByrnc, Esqs, whose telling
speeches have had such an effect on uur
community that our opponents camrto
the conclusion that they were ling
ground. They therefore conclml,,i To
hold one in Newark, which wa, duly
announced by large posters and other
wise. In which it was announced that
Anthony Higgins and W $. Spruancc,
Esqs., were To be the speakers, or in
other words, the great guns of the Re
publican party were to be on the ground
and unlimbcred for action. Such being
the case the Democracy turned ont i'm
force to Observation-Disclosures ~ Cos
pei eXpounded. Without ttheDcmocratic
masses who were present il would have
been most miserable failure Speak
ing truthfully there could not al the
outside have been more than fifty white
Republicans present and score or SO
of dark featured Republicans upon the
outside, the balance were made up of
Democrats who were in the proportion
OF three to one Of all present. ID. j. Muir
ply Esq, acted as chairman announced
Anthony Higgins as the first speaker.
He commenced firing into the Dcmoc-
racy, what he no doubt thought red
hot shot and shell, yet they all fell
among the Democracy AS harmless as
wet paper balls from II boys elder pop
gun, From the amount of wind that
came forth from the speaker one might
have supposed that n regular hurricane
had brokefortlh and the only wonder
was how so large an amount of wind
could be contained in so small space
without producingprcmaturc explosion
lie undertook to show how heavily the
people of Delaware were taxed, vet he
forgot to make any comparison ofDcla-
ware alongside of some States govern
ed by Republicans, which he could
have easily done. For example, take
Rhode Island whose population is near
y equal and whose territory is less
than ours, and who collect from lis
people two TO three hundred thousand
dollars per annum, for State purposes,
while ours is less that the petty sum of
thirty five thousand dollars, While
our taxes in Delaware for state, coun
ty, poor, road and school, arc less than
three dollars per annum, per capita. -
The amount collected from the people
of the United States for the purpose of
the general government during the last
ten years, since the close of The war,
Will amount to over twelve dollars per
annum per capita, and what do we as
a people get in return for this
large amount of the labour of the com
try, which is no better than being sto-
len from them? Why simply II sci of
plunderiug Office holdcrsand Il standing
army Ia interfere with the management
of our state affairs Wencvcr a stale
acts different from what President
Grant thinks they should, he at once
authorizes that man, ,hisAttorncyGcncr-
al Williams (whO steals the people
money to pay for his carriage and hor-
ses) to at once order an armed force to
put down all state governments who
do not act to suit his master. Mr.. Ilip.
gins told us that the Republican party
did not want the Civil Rights bin pass.
ed for if they did they could of easily
passed it and he said if Congress had
passed it that Grant would have We
toed it, that the Republican party were