The daily gazette., 1879-02-17
LETTER FROM SAM'L TOWNSEND
For the DELAWARE GAZETTE.

MIR. EDIToR-I send you few lines
on very unpleasant subject to me to
write on. but as a citizen and TAXPAYER
of Delaware l feel it my duty not to
tamely submit without saying a few
words. l see by the reports from Dover
that old pauper Newark, or more latterly
the Delaware College, a name no doubt
adopted for the purpose of more easily
getting It's claws into the State Treasury
the mosquito TO ingratiate itself in
your good opinion, and calls you cousin
whilst 1t sucks your life-blood-this old
college calls itself the Delaware College,
as though it was the only college, and
had right over and above all other COL
leges in the State, to be kept up out
of the Delaware treasury. A long time
ago this old Newark College was fed on
lottery pap, but that pap had to be cleans
ed Of sin first to be put in the State
treasury and then dsbursed TO said COL
lege. In 1S43 the old pauper applied for
State bonds, for its exclusive benefit
They failed in that. Next it was schol-
arships that run down at the heel. Then
the old gentleman became quite seedy
for few years, but as soon as NJ jor
Jones, through his untiring energy, as
sisted by our then U. s. Senators Willard
Salisbury md George r. Riddle, sue
ceeded in getting between eighty and
ninety thousand acres of the public do
main for school purposes for New Cas-
tie, Kent and Sussex counties. This old
pauper Newark College snutied the wind
and took the document Gas il were) out
of Major Jones' carpet-bag, and set up
new business by calling said old college an
agricultural college,a with some old SUI
peranuated chemical machinery, rented .
lot of ground and started in full blast
the so-called agricultural college, pro-
ducing, the following season, . few dol
lars worth ofpumpkins, squashes, turnips,
beets, cabbage aud egg-plants, and ana
lyzed few bags Of phosphate and the
report Of one or two of the commission
ers to me in conversation, was that there
were seren Professors to tAirty.fre
scholars. l can at any time give the
name OF my respectable iutormants. l
supposed the old pauper had gave up the
ghost, but we find this winter that,
although yellow corn is only selling
through our State at 80 and 80 cents per
bushel, and farming interest in the most
straitened circumstances, this old New
York college pauper proposed bran new
scheme, to try to get in the State Treas
ury, as follows:
Each member of the Legislature, num-
bering thirty, are each one to name q
scholar, making thirty, and to pass a bill
10 pay out of the State treasury to the
old college, $225 for each boy, making
the modest sum of $6,75O. Is this not a
at xrt1,a rt.vbt hna
Legislature to select and make cast or
exclusives, and pay it out OF the tax
payersP And, if this proposition was
submitted to the next session, thirty more
and so on. Any party that would pass
such law, would deserve to be execrated
and stamped out, and l, as one, would
help to do it. l am not a member of
any church, but always have had the
independence TO say they all had equal
rights in this republic; and no Legisla-
ture is just o. fit to act as Legislature
that passes exclusive ssctarian laws for
sects or colleges. / do not rscollect of
ever hearing of the Roman Catholic col
lege ever asking to put its hand in our
State treasury and the Methodis.s in
Delaware who, soon after building fine
new college at Dover, had the bad luck
to get IL burned down. Did these Metho-
dlsts bemean themselves by whining
around our Legislature, as the old New
ark college has done for time almost i'm
memorial, trying and getting money out
of our treasury No, these Delaware
Methodists like men built up their col
lege and deserve honest patronage from
the public. hope our Legislature will
hava ha inlapan1nnna fn ininf
resolution requesting that the old New
ark college never again ask help from
our State, and if the State own any of
the institution or fixtures sell it and put
it In the general school fund.-.
SAMUEL TOWNSEND.
Townsend, Feb. Is, 1870.