The daily gazette., 1876-09-22
Mr.. Toscmsemd's Reply to Mr.
Jenkins.

DAh. EDITOR. IL appears IN Wnat IeW
remarks I made in Wilmington last !
Tuesday evening, at the Democratic |
meeting, / gave great offeDse to the |
carpet. bagger of the Commercial whom (
the Wilmington negroes have nonina. |
ted to disgrace seat in our Legisla- |
ture, if he can by any deceitful means
be elected. He says Mr.. Bayard's lam !
guage was very chastc and refined,
agree with him that Mr.. Bayard is a |
master of language and law. and made |
one of the ablest kinds of speeches and
showed what Taft, the Attorney Gen.
eral had done; defied the decision of
the U. s. Court, the highest tribunal
ia our land; how Cameron as Secretary
of War had done. Old Thomas Jeffer-
son or Patrick Henry never portrayed
the villanies of old England better
than Mr.. Bayard portrayed the villain.
les of the Republican party, and he is,
in your estimation, very fine gentle
man, whilst he uses fine language to
miserable crowd of you black and
white Republicans, whilst you lie,
cheat and steal, and carry Wilmington
by ten or fifteen hundred votes. had
sat and heard Mr.. Bayard's very able
and learned argument, and If you
had m other wit 10 have understood him
he scored your backs awfullY. So did
Mr.. Campbell, and when they called on
me IL was very late, and saw the set
Of rhinocerous hii1ed set of Repubfi.
cans before me, and concluded to talk
to them in dialect they fully under.
stood. Therefore, Mr.. Carpet-bagger,
threw not shot at short range at the
Republican rhinocerous crowd; and
from the way you crook your tails and
below you must have been hurt very
badly. If live and am called on
again, will make you below worse:
You Republicans call yourselves fine
Christian gentlemen, and start with
lies and fraud on your lips. You de-
clare the negroes your equals in every
respect, and although there is as many
negroes in this county as white Re-
lpubllcans you have not nominated one
negro on your Legislative or Levy
/. Court tickets and the Scripture tells
all hypocrites that they are in danger
of hell fire, and Sam Townsend did
not propose any hotter place for those
Christian gentlemen who have assisted
that atheistical sorcerer, Bob IngersoIl
to SANDER the Democrats. Read the
language this renegade used against
Democrats and before the susceptible
ears of these fine Christian gentlemen.
!, Now you carpet~baggers. your whole
| stock in trade was got up in fraud.
There were only eighteen hundred
, thousand votes for Lincoln. You
, plunged the country in war by first
9 sending John Brown to Harper's Fer.
ry, and the Union would have been
: lost. as the then Secretary of Wal
, admitted to me, If it had not been fol
: the Union Democrats who pitched in
2 and fought the battles and saved the
| country. l gave my individual bond
| for so stand of arms and acoutrements,
and although over age, enrolled my
) name as a common soldier in a compa>
: ny here to defend the flag. No negro
voting then talked of here. After the
, war was over, and negroes given the
= right to vote, you sent nine murderers
: TO the polls at Blackbird to shoot me
7 If l prevented negroes from voting,
: but few Republicans here denounced
+ your act. You hypocrites denounced
l rum drinking, and tried hard to run
a rum drinker for third term. You
: have taken up man for Congress
who drinks. and then hold temper
ance convention to try to get Dem.
4 cratic temperance men to join in and
| throw away their votes. whilst every
Republican will vote the straight
Republican ticket. No odds how
much rum the candidates drink, they
are fine set of Christian gentlemen
to turn their noses up at Democrats
while they are cheating half of their
party, the black wing, out of theil
| rinhto opd a oh ipn foroipp oro for uofas
when the Native American Republican
party enfranchised negroes on purpose
as Chase said, to balance or defeat the
Dutch and Irish, was his Words
:, Another thing these fine Christian
is to divide you ON religion, charge
: the Catholics with wanting to rule.
. Each religion according to the true
and exact Justice and no more, ant
: whenever man seeks to be put for
ward for office on his religious belize
! alone he should by all denomination.
a be left off. A true Democrat know!
no difference in an honest, capabl,
' white candidate. Now, Mr.. Carpe
. Ter at the head of your party man
+ agemeHt, uou complain OI an1
d swearing. 1t would never do to lie
:, you meek and lowly sleek hypocrite
/, have all the swearing to yourselves
+ We intend to fight you Republican
J. with such weapons as will reach you
e understanding and show you off il
: Iyour true colors, and whenever yo'
1t hear me use strong language you ma,
II calculate your Republican action
r. requires me to do it.
10 a.Hl A. SAMUEL TOWNSEND.
4 September 21st, 1876.