The daily gazette., 1877-01-08
"DeIa,care ,oas Stolen..

The State Sentinel has been reused
from its usual equanimity by the remark
OF General Grant, to the effect ''that Del
aware had a fair election and forth
with asserts that the President does not
utter the truth in this regard. The Senti-
HeI proceeds to comment upon the cleo
ton In long and wordy article, from
which we extract the following:
"The election in Delaware was not
falr expression of the will of the people,
because a fraudulent misuse of the leodi
machinery for assessing, 6y the partv in
.potcer, distrdnchised more than t,centv-
tire hundred legal roters. The State of
delaware was stolen; we repeat it, the
State OF Delaware was stolen. This is
strong language; we use it adyisedly.
we use 1t because we are unable to see
lhe moral difference between a fraudu-
tent taking out of vote after it is put in
the Dox, and the fraudulent prevention cf
me exercise OF the right to put it there"
we can assure the Sentinel that it is
entirely wrong. 1t is absurd to accuse
the Democrats of Delaware with having
stolen what already was theirs. The
simple TACT is that the Democrats had
The State by honest white votes notwith-
standing they Lad to 90 to the polls
through bayonets and deposit their bal
lots. by the aid Of these bayonets the
Radical thieves forced 100000 ignorant
negro tools to the polls, hoping thereby
TO govern the whole people of the United
states, and to rob them in every State as
They had done and are doing in the South.
With these s00,O00negro votes the Repub-
lcanparty had annually ''stolen" eight or
tenStates; andamong others hoped 10 steal
Delaware. But the Democrats were
wide awake" and showed the Radicals
trick they little thought of. The ne
gro jurors and L. S. Court traps did not
work very well. Nor did all the Delaware
Republicans care to have 5000 negroes
govern and rob them through scallawags
and carpet-bag Office holders, and there
tore some accepted of the invitation ex
tended by the GAZETTE and other Demo-
cratic papers and came over to the
democratic party, and we are proud to
say they have helped to keep the State in
such good credit that even Gen. Grant
can find no fault with its honorable record
or course Of action; while Governor
cochran issues message SO replete with
good cheer and advice that all parties are
proud OF it. And now it is apparent to
every one that the attempt of the Radi-
Gals to steal Delaware was nreat mis-
take, and is really one of the causes of
Democratic success. And the same fol-
ly by the Radicals has been the cause of
the success of our party in many of the
Southern States, where the rascals
through Returning Boards, had repeatedly
surreptitiously gained control of States.
And what a pitiable sight is now pre-
sented tothe world. After all the trouble.
excitement and expense after ali the
speeches, and the rivers of ink that have
nowed; and mountains of paper have
been used, to secure the votes of the peo-
pie, and these have been gathered, the
sacred chalace supposed to hold the cor
popuG is about to be stolen and handed
TO TWO negroes in Louisiana, and they
are to determine who is to be President.
Surely the remark tha. there is but a
step from the sublime to the ridiculous
never was more fully illustrated. Vor
papu!i, coo Del was fayorite quotation
OF John NJ. Clayton. What would that
great statesman have thought of the ror
popui being boiled down to the voice of
Two negroes But in his day TIE