The daily gazette., 1878-11-02
Letter from Samuel Townsend
For the Gazette.

For the Gazette.
MIR. Schue of the Sunday Dispatch -
i have received from you your last paper
III which you critcse, very weakly, my
last letter in the GAZETTE. Iwould not
make any answer to it, if il wasnot that
/ wish to give you some good advice
gratis. You are a stranger to me, and |
suppose from your name you are Ger
man, my first advice to you is to learn
what Democracy in America is before
you attempt to teach us. Thomas Jeiler-
son OF course was born and raised in a
slave state and owned negroes. George
Washington, whom we Americans think
God never made better man. was born
in the same State, Virginia, and was a
stakeholder; also, James Madison and
James Monroe. General Andrew jack
son was a STAKEHOLDER in the adjoining
State Of Tennessee and twelve States
out Of the original thirteen States, were
slave States. And, of course, when these
men founded the Democratic American
Republic they did not mean or intend
that negroes were equal and as free as
white people, and before any intelligent
foreigner emigratcd to this country,
presume they read our constitution and
wayof doing business, and il must have
satisfied them, for we have increased in
population from three millions to above
forty millions.
Now, with regard to the 18th amend
ment, ii is only Congressional enact
ment, and what Congress can do, it has
the power to undo. The only way to
amend our constitution is prescribed-two
thirds of the States must recommend and
three-foulths of the States adopt-and
these prescriptions were never carried
for many States were held by military
usurpers, and were not as the original
iraRlers meant, free and equal as other
States to act. Now, so far as the green
back humbug is concerned, itsmakes me
laugh to read your blowings; what great
things you are going to do in Delaware.
You have tried all around the compass
to get candidates, and have finally settled
on an ordained minister of the Gospel
for your candidate for Governor. Have
you fellows not sense enough to know
if you even were strong enough to elect
him, he could not be sworn in for Cover
nor, as the Delaware constitution forbids
an ordained minister from holding
office? You are pretty set to ask people
TO observe the law. Your candidate for
Congress introduced bill in our Legis-
lature to give State aid, but called it
lending State bonds to the Western rail-
road, to make the rich richer, at the ex-
pense of the poor taxpayer. | feel sorry
for you German Liberals who are such
admirers of Thomas jefferson and Thos.
Paine, to ease yourselves down to your
present nomination. When Thos. Paine
wrote his Gage of Reason and Rights of
Man, 'he meaLt asJefiersonian white m en-,
for if he had said negroes should be the
equals of white men, in the then new
Republic, Washington, Jefferson and our
old Revolutionary grandsires, would
have kicked him out of the country.
am liberal in my own way of thinking
on religious matters, but would never
countenance the breaking down the line
of color, that the grand first cause our
God made between the white and black
men.
This trying to break down the barrier
between white and black was first made
in paper published in Boston by Abner
Kneeland, and called the Boston Spec
tdtor ; another paper in New ork, pub
lished by Nicholas Canfield, and called
the Beacon and another paper publish
ed in Wilmington, Del, called the Detd-
,rare Free Press. All of these papers
were published over 40 years ago, and if
you have not read them, if you could get
old copies it might amuse and instruct
you. | think you greenbackers made
one great mistake at your State Conven-
ton by leaving out your darling measure
that underlays the lower strata of the
greenback socialist movement, and that
was to meet every Saturday afternoon
and divide all property, and every Mon
day morning take fair start and run on
until Saturday noon then stop short
and divide. 1t is said the Jews had a
general division every Y years, called a
..jubilee," but think some of the green
back socialists would like to improve on
the old Jewish custom and have weekly
or monthly divides. Now, i'll couclu-
sion, Mr.. Scheu, my advice is the same
to you | gave in the first letter l wrote to
you. Drop all your foolish greenback
socialism and come into and act with the
! Democratic party. 1t has made the
country what it is, and so good that you
left vour fatherland and came here. OF
course some aristocrats will slip into the
democratic party, and it would be much
more sensible for you to come with us
and help weed these aristocrats out, than
for you to help take up an ordained min
lister and an old Native American to de-
feat and break up the noble old Demo-
cratic party. 1t almost makes me shed
tears TO think you Liiputian party con-
templates such sad havoc amongst us old
Democrats. SAMUEL TOWNSEND.
Townsend, October 30, 1878.