The daily gazette., 1879-07-22
FIRST EDITION.
from the Phila. Press.
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The Frsendiy CommingIing Of two
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CAESAR RODNEY'S RIDE - ALLEN
M'LAND AND HIs PARTISAN TROOP
ERs--DELAwARR, IN THE REvoLU-
TION.
DOVER, July, 1879.
The dependant relations q Pennsyl-
vania and DrslM are under one propri-
etor, and on tlfh same naviyable water,
led to frequent interchangfs- of their
public men. Governors Mexican and
Dickinson at different times acted as
presidents of both States. Governors
Logan and Shippen had family interests
and marriages. - both ID" aware ana
Pennsylvania. FThe Bayar1 family is
DelsVarsap, HennV lvaniall aud also OF
,Ss NsT tsssS soys s.,n seS s@adnt ~
of homogeneity in their tidewater pop'l-
lations.
THOMAS sNsKEASs srfEfs
The higlea rank iever Attained by
Delawarean was that of president OF
Congress or virtually the civil supreme
magistracy, by Mexican. Born just over
the limits Of Delaw are, at the ancient
academy village Of New London, and
bred to the law at New Castle, Mexican
was In public life from 1765 until 1908,
a period of forty-three stormy years, and
he participated In every Important act of
the Revolution and the formative period
OF the ,fepubic, sitting In Uongress for
Delaware "territories," fIom 1774 to
1885, and being the only member who
served during the war without interval.
| During q part Of the same time he was
president of Delaware and chief justice
Of Pennsylvauia he was a founder of
the State Of Delaware aud Of the Repub-
lican political party. and was stern,
hawk-nosed man. 9..t
| McKean's relation to the Presbyterian
communities-so warl,ke ard rebellious
as to make their meeting-holises The sub
jects of general confiscation by the Brit
ish scavalry-made INN the leading in-
fluence in'the ndrthern part of this State.
His peer in tie smiddle county was
General Cesat Hofney, a more slnqual-
flied Delawareah, ,EhIs grandfather hav-
| ing been Speaker of the General Assem-
bly, of Delaware.
McKean's early life was passed in
Delaware, but he drilled to Pennsylva-
MA and died there. Rodney had no am
bition outside the littler State, and in
his will directed the English Church
burial-ground at Dover ohe inclosed at
his expense sllcEeRnand Rodney We're
1.-THE. energetic persohAl fVHes of Dela'
ware in the Struggle. George Read sup
Piled the civil and judicial power. Many
Of these delaware leaders " ent TO thu
school of Francis Allison, and with then
'rlwas Charles Thomson, the secretary o
4 Congress during all the conflict, and it
<kagent to notify Washington at Noun
Vernon of his election to the presi
oeT Ts,e.s.bon } sina.dI.t News Castle iron
Ireland with his brothers whilst a boy
and worked with blacksmith, ant
taught a Quaker school there. Lik'
Anthony Wayne, he attracted franklin
notice and patronage, and was called b,
John Adams "the Samuel Adams q
Fs,aSf1pna Reeei1ins ssshis %
Thomson married the dgrand-aunt o
President Harrison, and lived to be 8
III T1yOI1EI$sss{ass,A {
4 The story of Caesar Rodney's ride t.
A Philadelphia has been often told. Ill
~tlived about two miles below Dover AM
' the same distance in an airline from
John Dickinson's meadow farm. Whel
Mr.. Read, partly influenced by Dickin
son, declined to vote for open indepen
dence, McKesns - n&iye Oh ehiif eoun
try and thorough insurr6ctionist-c
responding in this respect to Samue
Chase in the lower part of the peninsul
, relied upon Rodney to save the homo
u of Delaware. His messenger arrived a
~ Rotiney's jtist as the latter had returned
very weary, from surprising Tory dis
: Isaffection in the flats OF Sussex. Rodne
mounted his horse on Sunday and rod
the eighty miles to Philadelphia, wher
> he dismounted in front of the Sta
Housd lust as the Congress was goin
into s9ssioh. McKean, stahfhigsori th
doorstep waiting for him, put osh IL
hand, and no words were exchanged o
the great subject Of the day. But Deli
Ware voted for the Declaration, and ult
mately Mr.. Read also signed it. I'll
latter wrote the Revolutionary copstitt
tion Of Delaware adopted lat New Ca
!. tie, and was the mild-beaming star {
a the State, imbued with the loyalty {
~ law. IA - - 4 Il
DELAWARE IN THE WAR.
The population of Delaware was abol
II. 800 at the CONNIE nceInent lof. the, p'
triotic war. The General Assembly hes
4 tated to go beyond instructions OF "r'
Cancellation with Great Britain" III
til the deadlock in Cohgress ovsrsRicl
ard Henry Lees resolution, that the co
MES are and of right ought to be indt
IT penijS1t. Then Rodney started to Dow
and exSrted. all his influence uponEtl
v Assefibly &frSugBs sthe cdlntrY peepi
N until Ssta ahtti& &nsswefS Sven tQl!toncl
withShe bthefs deleg ga5s IN congress
I 4 Boston had been evacuated who
: | spring season. The Tories were hume
, olls and bold all through the lower pa
- of the State, and the very day the A
sembly passsd iRstrYetiQas 9tccneufren
--- Christopher MardhaA wrdte ihAhis dial
III. at Philadelphia YESTERDAY an EXPIRE
!; ;s:5c :s:s :s:!f' SS] I ] I: 3
Dover. Powder and ball were sent fro
here under escort. 1t is thong
this trick of the Tories was concerted
ss1 tbis nlace in order to break our meaSu