The daily gazette., 1879-03-24
LETTER FROM sAM'L TOWNSEND
For the DELAWARE GAZETTE.


see the Middletown Transcript says
New Castle should make an early strike
for the division OF the county before Will
miDgton gobbles all up. New Castle city
and hundred has always handled the two-
county proposition very giDgerly,. .believ-
ing that a whole loaf was better than a
half-loaf, and to secure the courthouse
and one county for all time. Bad counsel
has prevailed there, and she started the
500, 900 new couri-house project his ses-
| sion, and it pat me in mind of fellow
striking hornets nest-the hornets
poured out in such numbers that New
Castle became paralyzed and made no
| fight in the Senate against the Whining
ton courthouse removal. The bill. passed
SO quietly that the yeas and nays were
not called /; and in ;he House the great
est defense of the ancient courthouse
town was made by +. X. Cochran, St.
Georges Hundred representative, who
talked down all open opposition. But
there were silent parties from Kent and
Sussex who voted down his fair PROPOSE
ton TO leave IL to vote of the peo-
pie at the next election. They
refused that when they knew that Appo-
quinimink hundred had no member in
the Legislature. This question not been
agi ated before the election, but we OF
Appoquinimnk should be trampled on
without the right of being heard. When
two years ago you turned in your agony
under the Republican lash and begged
the Democrats of Appoquinimink bun-
dred TO save you, we did it with 800
Democratic majority. Appoquinlmink,
Blackbird and New Castle hundreds have
made and kept New Castle county Demo
cratic, and the members of the Legisla-
ture of this county are dressed in Demo
cratic livery by the eXertious of New
Castle and Appoquinimink hun
dreds and Sussex reaches forward
and helps to stab us TO the heart,
whilst up county politicians helped tie us
to the stake, where we could make nc
contest or defense, and we were refused
the privilege TO give our opinions on the
question by vote at the next election.
You have done your worst and brought
on a crisis IN this State, and let come
what may, we cannot be worsted, Tor We
, are DISTINGUISHED and no voice allowed to
us to protect against heavy taxes Tor un-
, necessary new Court-houses. Kent and
Sussex, il is reported, by voting as they
,
out of New Castle county, and conse-
quently prevent fairer representation
than we now have got. We have told
: some OF the people of Kent and SUSSEX
: that this county, up to the Christiana
: creek, or what would be New Castle
D county, would be principally county OF
farmers with interests like Kent and Sus
sex; but that, it appears, has made NJ
. difference with them. Their determine
: ton is for all time, if the people of New
Castle county are towards enough u
allow them, to hold us in bondage
: although we outnumber both counties
n When selfishness of this kind is allowed
!, to rule the two lower counties, Court
house questions sink into insignificance
New Castle county can build Court
house or dozen OF them without callin.
9 on you for State aid, as you have don'
for railroads and now cannot, or will not
pay the interest you borrowed. Th'
: banner of New Castle county ought, ant
5 | as one, am ready to help unfurl 1t ant
= nail 1t to the masthead fol representation
a in New Castle county and State of Del
r aware, according to population. We o
the old Democratic white mans hundred
are now unrepresented; we cannot b.
= worse off than we now are, come wha
: may, and the day Of reckoning for Ken
and Sussex commenced from the hou
you cast your vote for Courthouse re
y moval, for if we are TO be imposed on w
!, would rather it be done by our brethrel
n than cool calculating strangers. Gu
s br,ther's heart might soften, but coo
:. selfish strangers never.
SAMUEL TOWNSEND.
- Townsend, March ~, 1879.