The daily gazette., 1876-07-06
FIRST EDITION
A Letter from Samuel T0scnsend
For the Delaware Gazette.

A Letter from samuel T0scHscad
For the Delaware Gazette.
Mr.. EDITon-.Last week when | wrote
| a communication defending &. Z: Fisher
done what you or every fair man of my
party ought to do for one another
were you then as we'll acquainted with
man M | was with Fisher. You wrote an
editorial saying what Breckenridgeisn
had done for Delaware, and that as
| Douglass Union Democrat had come to
them. l replied and stated what |
thought John Breckenrigeism had cost
the country, and that the Breckenridge
men had gone to the Union Democrats,
that they were now together for the pub
lie good. We of course understood one
another, and was rather twitting or
joking, but each could defend himself
without help, and the matter was ended
l supposed. But in Saturday evenings
Gazette in stepped fellow from Newark
and says what | said about Buchanan
letting the Union slide was false, that
somebody else said it. The fact il the
| Breckeni idgers told SO many lies, and
made 60 many dying threats, they forgot
or are still disposed to try to lie out. Is
| it not notorious that Buchanan and the
Breckenridge leaders in Washington
and Delaware said there was no power
| in the Constitution to coerce State
back into the Union, and that the first
gun fired would be Il signal for dissolu-
tion. Was not there a meeting held in
Wilmington, in front of the City Hall,
| in 1861 Did not Breckenridge speakers
say that their obligation to the State
was more binding than any obligation to
the Union. Did not the mass assembled
hoot these men from the stand, as soon
as such doctrine was uttered by said
Speakers L WINS Present, and saw it
there is plenty of living proof. Now if
| mistake not, this fellow who signs his
name as Breckenridge man, at Newark,
is the same individual, who, during the
war, told me he was selling his goods to
Southern house in Baltimore, who was
shipping them South to the Rebels.
| Now, if he was not by this action trying
not only to let the Union slide but to
| help make it slide, and | believe, by the
code OF war "A person wilfulIy and
knowingly aiding and abetting the ene-
my forfeits his life. So Mr.. Breck enridge
you forfeit your lite. But often that
you tried suppose to make amends to
the Union side, for you told me you sold
goods then to Union house in Phila-
delphia. Mr.. Breckenridge was this not
going back on your Southern friends
badly, helping to clothe up Union SOL
diers, to go down South to fight your
loyal brethren Breckenridgers. And,
Mr.. Breckenridger, is it not told over
this country, that you went to Dover q
Cannon delegate. and helped nominate
Cannon for governor and then again.
when your breckenridge friends nomin-
ated Greeley at Baltimore, did you not
run of to Louisville and help take part
in the nomination Of O'Connor, on pur-
pose to defeat Horace Greeley, the
breckenridge nemineep You this year
pretend to be great friend of Thomas
+. Bayard. Did not Mr.. Bayard have
the manliness at said Baltimore Conven-
tion in 1872, to get up and denounco the
Greeley nomination; and then why did
you desert Mr.. Bayard in 1872, and 20
for OConnor; and what has O'Connor
done since, that you should desert him
this year and go for Bayard. As to your
charges of Fisher helping friends to high
office,-neither men or any OF my family
or friends are under any obligations TO
q. p. Fisher for offices. Brother Israel
was Clay Whig, and since a Republi-
can. Applied to be Consul to Greenoch,
Scotland: Fisher opposed him and
favouredsDr. Perryman and he, Perry
man got the Office. Israel was afterward
appointed a paymaster in the army,
different influence. l was mistaken
about the trial of Mrs. Surrat.
Fisher never tried her, she was tried by
a military Court Martial, and executed
under sentence from it. However. il
was plainly proved that Booth, Paine,
and others, made her house a headquar-
ters. l did not say | would have hung
her, let her be ever so bad, for there are
very few people who should be hung, and
then only for direct act of killing. As
to old Greeley and me being friends that
10 Ian nhal hn M IS
as opposite as the poles, MIR. Brecken-
ridger. After the poor heart broken
breckenridge disorgani1ers demaned
themselves by nominating Greeley for
their candidate for President, don't call
him my friend. Thomas f. Bayard was
the only man who got up in that Balti-
more Convention and protested against
the humiliating outrage. | really pitied
the remnant of the once glorious old
democratic party, and concluded to walk
with them in the funeral procession to
the grave, but old Greeley in this funeral
procession on the 18th OF October, 1872,
| near his country seat, made speech and
said he was the same unrelenting aboli-
ZIONIST he ever was. l at once stepped
| out OF the procession and tore the Grape
off my hat, and had tickets printed with
the name of the electors left off. /
made speeches and urged the election of
every democrat on the State and County
ticket, except said electors, and 1 did
not vote for one of them. And the dem
ocratic party this year have come to
| their senses and nominated two demo-
cratic statesmen who received the high
est number of votes; one of them for
President and the other for Vice-Presi-
dent. and they will be elected. Had the
Charleston Convention acted similarly
by nominating Douglass and Brecken-
ridge, there would have been no civil
war and humiliation such as this country