The daily gazette., 1877-03-28
March es, 1877.
Reduction 10. stat. 1asassess

principle Of the Democratic party; car
dinal doctrine OF which is to tighten as
much as possible the burden Of govern
ment. This had been carried to such
perfection up to 1861 tina. the people had
hardly feltthe weight of the national gov
ernment and it was with the hope of ar
irving again at this condition that led to
the nomination and election of Mr.. Til
den to the Presidency.
The Democrats of Delaware made no
pledge in this respect during the cam
pain last fall; but its representatives act
ed upon the governing principle; and the
party is entitled to the credit for what it
has done, especially in these times when
trade in all departments of industry is
languishing. The money that is saved
will remain in the pockets Of the peo-
pie. I'D .f,u4s ,r-- rs
The reduction in the aggregate will, we
are told amount to about S5S,000. This
reduction will be more sensibly felt in
this cityand county. The State taxation
was mot oppressive but still our people
wilAa hzssS that much more money to
rgttind ndnlihstrial works; to improve their
Ssskhss enact dwellings, or add to their
producing eapadity.
The effort made to reduce the tax on
manufactures was not fully successful
The representatives from the lower coun-
ties were not favorable to this, while the
farming interest is languishing to such
an alarming extent. The whole of this
tax upon manufacturers however is small
Ter than most people imagine. We be-
lieve that it amounts to $4,000 in this
city and county; $500 in Kent county
and $500 in Sussex county. The manu-
facturers who frequently make very large
profits certainly have no great room to
complain, nevertheless Gen. Holcomb, Mr..
Ware and some of the members from this
county favored its reduction. The most of
the members however argued that the
manufacturers were greatly favored in
the fact that Al ] the many thousands OF
dollars invested in machinery were ex-
empted from taxation.
We think the Democratic party has
done good work in Delaware while it
also did good work in saving s72,oOO-
oOOat Washington in the last two years.
WENDELL 2 PHILlIPs on Monday night
delivered lecture in Philadelphia. In
politics he was never anything but Rad
lcal Republican. He is now just what h e
was twenty years ago. He adopted long
before that the sentiments of the English
Abolitionists, and INDUCED in the abuse
OF the South until he became wholly i'm
bued with prejudice against the whites O
the Southern section. Unfortunatel,
this intidel and some half dozen other
like Lloyd Garretson, Horace Greele
and Theodore Parker,by their address, in
sinuating manners and plausibl
reasoning, won to their side of politics
large class Of excellent men, such as loy
ed and had followed the wiser reasonin
OF Ellhu Burrett, and others who reall
desired to aid the Southern people to q
rlo OF slavery. Now, such men as wei
actuated by patriotic motives and we,
not governed by malice and hatred S,
fhllllpS IN his true character. They Sc
too, the evi that has been done by fo
lowing. the Radical policy of hate, al
war and determination, instead of t
Christian policy of lore, and moderate
and compromise. Had the latter poll
been adopted the country would ha
saved hundreds of millions of dollars a
trade and commerce would not have be
languishing to-day as it is; nor would G
farming land and real property been Sc
ing for half what they were worth in hs
money under Democratic government
The Phi ladelphia Erening Bnllet
Which is violent Republican paper,
had its eyes opened, and now sees W.
dell Phillips in very different light fr
what 1t did a year or two ago. But Pl
lips has not changed, nor has Morton
Blaine. But the Bulletin has chang
and now in denouncing Phillips it a
denounces the whole policy of the Ra
cal hepubl Ecan party. 1t is quite as
possible Tor the policy Of oppression
nate TO succeed in this country now a.
was previous to 1776; and the Bull
wisely points to its effects in the So
where it declares after this policy
been tried by Grant and his fellows
ten years, there is to day not single
publican State-every one of them
slipped fro m their grasp. altboupb
lorced 100000 negroes to the poll:
their side The Rmlletin says:
WendeL Phillips said last night
we withdraW the troops, the Teyc
ana the howie knife win be the real
lsIators OF that section, and there wi