The daily gazette., 1879-08-05
SECOND EDITION
Letter Tre.n samuel Tewnsend-
M. tl,6 lAlefiA.

Latter rr0sm Samuel TOWnsen~-
Forths GAsette.
fsv more lines on the tramp subject:
einoe i wrote last week, i have receiveu
the Dover Sentinel In which SAID tramp
law 10 published, and followed ny, ~
doubt, the opinion Of agood lawyer VIII
states that about twenty persons nav
besn commit tied to Dover Jail for thirty
daya: that there Ia no power given ~
said isw to commit for thirty days al
that have beeu committed could % re-
leased st once by writ of habeas corpus,
and. further, SAID prisoners could sue Ioi
false imprisonmenf. AS TINS uissaaoe.Wui ~
law was passed At Dover and the nrst at
tcmpt made at Dover to carry it out, !
think iI the mr. oper place to m AXE q test
case for false imprisonment. VIII beiP
70 csutribute for fee fer good lawyer
te auuihilate said law, and save omcers
OF this State from getting into tronoie In
trying to carry 1t ou.. 1T 10 one OF the
lot Of laws manufactured BY the coru,
not In the State House, but round Dover
green. and tried to be legahZed by what
20 csl the Legislature /; and, for the
benent Of said Legislature, copy the
7th section, which reads as follows -
"Any person arrested as q tramp under
the prO visions of this act, shall be enti-
tied TO . trial BY jury, II he demand the
same, upoE entering into recognizance
with one or more surety, in the sum oi
$500, conditioned for his appearance at
the next session of the Court of General
Sessions OF the Peace to answer the
CHARGE Delaw areans hide your diinin :
ished heads after this and say no more
about Connections Blue Laws. Shall be
tried by Jury II he demands it A pretty
concession indsed, but to crush the poor
man. They put excessive bail of five
hundred dollars, on purpose to Jail him,
believing he could not get security. Now
remove some of the Legislature who
voted for this law one or two hundred
miles from home among strangers.lf i've
hundred dollars bail was demanded OF
them, some of them would as the tranps
be forced to 60 to Jail. Why does the
Railroad company take such interest II
this sAnti-Americant tyrranical lawr They
only have the right of way to 66 feet fol
. railroad, but no other right to ordel
people off this 66 feet and if ever tn,
railroad company breaks up, the land
and public road revert back to Origina
farms. The only right the railroad ha
Is to use said land Tor railroad purpose
oa 1t, so good lawyers say, and that NJ
doubt Is correct. II these tramps are q
dangerous ~ some railroad men pretend
do they suppose farmers and citizen
generally would arrest and per,ecut
these men, and incur their hatred, VIII
have done them no harm, only merel
asked them for work, and If none, fo
meat and bread to satisfy hunger. /
1875, the year of the great peach croJ
these men they call tramps, picked thou
ands of baskets of peaches, and the rail
road that year got neariy all the none
the peaches sold for, and these { 'amI
thereby contributed thousands of dollai
to tho Golfers of the railroad company
think the policy of the railroad conpan
fOWQrd WhA At thew call trQulns ia Ura.
mistake. and If bad results follow the
may blame themselves. / think / kno
the people of Dleaware too we'll to b
heve they will ard, or countenance, c
assist In carrying out such an Illegal frea
of pretended law, as the tramp law
and that $50 paid for drawing said la
was wastei. Just think of working DO,
white men In chain gang on our publ
roads, as the second, third and fourt
sections Of said law PROVIDE and son
Of these poor men may have passe
through fire and b9ttled tor the old III
Of our country, and then after laying
the Overseer's whip from cracking
over the negro, restore il to a
overseer to crack it over poor viii
soldiers and others, because the
ask for work, and meat, and bre Il
and occasionally ride a few miles {
freight trains. / think L know a your
lawyer in Dover that can, before OIL
Judges, knock the bottom ont Of th
tramp law and dissolve 1t into thin a
in 20 minutes; and, as the tramp bantlII
was hatched in Dover, its funeral cratic
should be delivered there, so some
these Dover greenlaw makers mi
take warning aud pity on the poor Legi
latura that coputenanced such pronu
ciamentoes and attempt 20 make the
laws. SAMUEL TOWNSEND
Townsend, August 4, 1879.