Wilmington daily gazette., 1874-03-20
Tho Negro and His Allios.

In former number Of the GAzETTK wo made
use of these words;
"The C0mmeyc,aI will ind that the people Of
Delaware cherish too fondy the laws ard institu-
tions of their fathers to suiler them 10 be trodden
under loot by the negro 10 whom alone 1t looks
for the aid to do its mischievous work"
We maintain that the language though TO q
certain extent metaphorico is nevertheless true
aud expresses IN a mild way just " hat we serious
y apprehend should the people allow the nc-
groes ami their allies 10 carry the next general
election, OF i'll other words the Radical party to
secure controlling majority in the Legislature
We also believe that the Democratic party en-
tertains the same opinion that We have expressed
No Democrat could have witnessed even the pro-
ceedings of the New Castle Convention and not
have his fears awake ned for the Institutions of the
State should such mong fel party secure the
power to repeal the present laws.
Without the vote OF the negro tue Commercial
knows the Radical rarty would fail everywhere
III the State, in this city; it would not dare
TO 60 into an election with any hope OF success
were it not that the legislation of the General
Government, in order 10 control the political
power within the Southern States, clothed the
negro with the right OF suffrage in Delaware
against tue VIII III ulhloiNl Hl htf ptopIt. We
thereto1c .Ay without the hesro's aid Tho laws
roi ned by john III. Clay ton and Willard Hall and
their colaborers could not be changed 10 suit the
views of the Radical party Of this day with ne
gro aid.
Partly to prove that the Commercial asscuis to
this we quote from its reply to our remarks as
follows:
"The Republican party, however lew or many
of its votes may lie cast by coiorcd men, las GER
tain principles, 10 which all is members give
their adhesion and support, and which are not
only kept secret but are again aud again publicly
proclaimed. To these its colo:ed members are as
sincerely devoted us any men crn be. and through
out Delaware, to-day, none are more steady, more
precise, more strenuous in their party allegi
ance than the colorrd cltizeus, and none more
wiling to overstep in action the borlds OF what
has been laid down as the perty's policy, by its
Conventions or other official opponents. 1t is,
therefore, false TO say that the influence of colored
Republicans Is Ii dangerous eue or one cXerted
in injury OF the general Interests since the precise
extent 10 which their wishes 20 ls the limit of
ther party's aVowed platform, against which no
such charges can be maintalned.'
That is the kind c! specious pleading with
which the Radicals met all such charges as we
have made IN the States wherein the negro has
raled, ard only TO ruin he good works which the
whites had labored lor i century To perfect.
such was the language OF The orhein and the
Southern Radical newspapers several years ago
when the negro was forced into power aud kept
there by Federal bayonels And now that The
work OF destruction has been aIlnest complete
many of these very Radical organs in the north
aud the south are denounclng the very people
whom they helped TO power as being unht to GOV
eIn any State. The promises of the Radical par
ty IN the South were fail as those made by the
Radical party OF Delaware. But We need not go
to The South. The evils that flow from the cor
rupion OF the Republican party aud its unwise
legislation ale being published every day and
from all points of the county.
The names which the Comm,eye,ai calls 10 Its
aid are those of valuable and Ligh-miuded citi- |
zens. Certainly they would not see the ne;roe,
trample the wise laws under which our State now
is governed in the dust. But they are not ncn Of
political influence, and would be Just a. unable to
prevent political mischief here alter the Radicals
and negroes had succeeded III getting into power,
as the good men in the Radical party Ia other
places have proven to be-