The daily gazette., 1876-11-25
The Dela,care Election Lar.

The Deiascare Election La,r.
The Republican and Commercial, find.
ing the people of Delaware are determ-
ined not to be put under the rule of the
negroes and their allies through the help
Of u. S. Courts, U. s. Marshals and u.
s. Supervisors, charge the defeat of the
the Republicans to our State amended
election laws. These laws are to give a
free and fair election and prevent repeat
ing by negroes, and the prosecution OF
collectors and assessors at the oath of
ignorant negroes, before U. S. juries made
up Of partizdns summoned to conrict.
The Delaware election laws make no
distinction in race, color or condition
Every man is free to vote who complies
with them; and every man can do this
if he will, unless he is too poor to pay
the smallest tax. And taxation in Della
ware is lighter than in any of the adjoin-
ing States.
The greatest impediment in the way OF
suffrage in Delaware arises from the
heavy and unwise and unjust discrimina-
ting taxation laid upon our people II
support the ertrdcdgant expenditures o.
the United States officers.
Every white and every black man has
the same right to vote in Delaware-there
is no discrimination. The laws were
made to avoid the traps set to invigle and
convict our collection officers and put
them at the mercy of any irresponsible
and ignorant negro whomight be led to
swear falsely against them.
By economy our taxes are kept low
and men are allowed to vote on the pay
ment of the lightest tax; this tax fol
lows the assessment and many people
puposely avoid the assessors, when the
officers call at the houses where negroe.
live, they are told no men live here; ant
thus some men are left off the assessment
in this way. But every man has the right
70 go before the Levy Court personally
and have his name put on the assess.
ment after the list is completed and
hung up for public inspection. If they
do not do this of course they cannot vote.
In this State for several years, the Re-
pabhcan candidates and their friends
were in the habit of gathering up lists Of
names of negroes and having them all
put on the assessment lists, contrary tc
law they would at elections bring up ne.
groes who had no residence in the county
TO answer to these names, and very often
vote them. This evil had been some.
what abated by the use of stamps upor
the tax receipts to prevent receipts being
contemplated. But even then this wa.
done; and another stamp became neces
sary to pyecent repeating.
Bot the greatest difficulty to our Re
publican friends this year arose from the
rascalities practiced at Washington
These rendered it impossible for them tc
heal their differences in their own State
and hence neither of the factions woult
saise fund and pay the taxes for tn,
negroes, or hunt them up and bring then
10 the polls. This difference was mainl,
created by Mr.. jenkins, of the CONNER
edaI, whose principles seem to lead hin
to want office; but only when other mel
do the work to secure it-he wanted th
Old Ring to run after the negroes an
vote them for HIM. But that was lovin
my neighbor better than myself,and rathc
too much to pile upon either of the Chri
tian chieftains Of that defunct organic;
ton.