The daily gazette., 1878-10-04
Letter from Samuel Townsend.
HE READS LECTURE TO HIS FRIEND
JOHNNY"

HE READS A LECTURE TO HIS FRIEND
JOHNNY"
For the Gazette.
Mr.. JOHNSON Il send you slip cut
out of the Wilmington Herald, in regard
to currency and the Representative to
Congress from Delaware. ! wish you to
publish it in your paper under this writ
ten heading, and also below said Herald
article, my criticism on it. The Herald
says:
"Dr. Prettyman, it is said, is to receive
the Greenback nomination for Congress.
We fear that if Mr.. Martin be driven to
defend the extreme views of Senator
Bayard, upon the financial question AS
no one suspects him Of having any Of his
own he will have great deal of trouble
to win. The loss of Democratic Con-
gresham in this State, must be avoided
by all means, as Delaware will count as
much in the next House of Representa-
tives, if the Presidential election goes in
to it as Pennsylvania. Can we win with
Martin ?"
do not know who wrote this article
for the Herald, my old friend John o.
Byrne, or one of his sons, or somebody
else. But, say this to John OByrne,
such pieces in the Herald hurts you, for
you have told me you came to Delaware
with your children, to make Delaware
lyOur home, and know you to be good
Democrat then why do you fear the
nomination of DIR. Prettyman for Con
gress, by the Republicans? Did not the
Republicans enfranchise the negroes tC
beat you Irish and Germans? Did the
Democratic party, from the foundation o
this liberal government, ever propose ol
do such mean act as to give negroes equa
privileges and rights with white foreigners
J who come among us to make this coun
| try their homes? No. Therefore if DR.
Prettyman accepts the nomination of the
lRepublicans of Delaware, for Represen
tative to Congress, if he were a saint, o
devil, he does not deserve the support o
I one Democrat; and / tell you and al
whom it may concern, no greenbacl
question can supplant or override thu
! negro franchise question. 1t was damn
ing insult to the American white peo
3 pie and also to the foreign white peopl
: who come to America to make thei
= homes. furhertell you, and all green
: hackers as they are called, that talk ,gil
a not make money more plenty; it must b.
uOllt ny WOfh aiiu ctcNONy Va liiS iiio'oN
and all thieues punished. | know Ed
ward l.. Martin, and l knew his father
i and you may rely that Edward l.. Marti
= would not dare, nor is he corrupt enoug
a to accept nomination from the Demo
G cratic party, and then spit on its platform
That platform at Dover, at the sam
State convention that nominated MartiI
, declared that Democrats, of Delaware
were in favor of gold and silver, and pa
70 per that could be converted at the. will {
n the holder into gold or silver. Is this NJ
: old Jacksonian Democratic doctrine
d Then, why growl and look doleful I
\ though you had lost your daddy, an
=. fear Martin would follow Bayard in b
10 exclusive gold ideas. Martin has h
honor at stake, to support the platfor
THAT was re-enacted when he was nom
10 mated, and if he failed to obey it,
ID course one term would wind him Il
as But, what is the use of harping on Ba
ut ards gold currency mania, has not Ba
IL ard been beat over and over again in u
a Senate on this question? But is n
Bayard as sound as the soundest Dem
crats on this cursed negro franchise que
ltion, and that question in Deidcdre oUe
y rides all othersi Only this week II
p blood was made to boil, at seeing negro
he voting in my hundred, few of course,b
ia that was not the fault of the Republican
They tried to enslave their white Dem
IL cratic neighbors, for all time. Thorn
* Bayard and Edward L. Martin are soul
lg on this great question, and that with II
~ covers a multitude of sins. You ne
= not have any fears and misgivings abo
the election of Edward l.. Martin; t
majority will be so great that you m
make near approach of figures, by bu
he ing a pound of chalk and going to t
mt side of your barn and make the figu
one, and then use up your chalk in ma
H. ing naughts to the right across the bro
" side of said barn. The Republican par
has sunk SO low in Delaware that it
al- more of an object Of pity, than gobl
to be frightened at. Now, Johnny,l 81
you one night, some years ago, at
M Democratic meeting, stand up ike
'et Roman gladiator fearless of Republic
threats and their military, that tried
at break up the Democratic meeting, |
ng, did not succeed. Don't give way agi
to any such croaking as you did IN y
,ill lterdays Herald, if you do, | will COZ
up to Wilmington and use little strc
Language towards you, which thl
, pms will dispel your blues and help Y
=" digestion. SAMUEL TOWNSEND
: Townsend, October 3, 1878.