The daily gazette., 1879-06-07

Tough Company, 10 the only one In the
city, which appears not to have had Its
orders affected BY tho hard times. The
mill is now running full, but has been
doing % for long time. A slight i'm
provement over last year was confessed,
mot vitstanding.
Letter Frssn samuel Townsend.
For the GAZETTE.
MR.. EDITOR II see an apology in your
paper for me on account Of hot weather,
| had none. l can stand the heat, l
think, quite as well o. Mr.. Golden Club
Vincent, who has been spelling for some
time to be called q great man, and his
torian, and benefactOr Of Delaware. His
gas about life boats last winter, blew
up. Next he claims to have been the
principal person in making Wilmington
bridge free, and interrOgated, he says,
candidates of the Levy Court and Legis-
lat,lre. Now, this paper called the Blue
HENS Chicken, started out under the pre-
tence of being an independent paper to
catch subscribers. l sent few commu-
nications to 1t, and was grossly slandered
in 1t, one set of letters Of that character
hailing from "Yankee Corner" l was
not long in discovering the nest of vipers,
and l repeat that, whilst some complain
of the Euery Evening newspaper, it is an
angel Of light compared with the Blue
Hen, run by Vincent q Co. It was q
blackmailing, dirty, lying, gutter-scrap-
ing newspaper, that sunk under Its own
fostering weight of corruption. The very
letter Of Vincent, or this long communi-
cation, shows he, by writing letters to
Democratic and Wing candidates, was
trying to place them under obligations to
him and his leprous paper; aid, no
doubt, some candidates treated him in
his own coin in answering him. 1 have
10 recollection, nor was there q bill
brought forward In the session of 1851
on the bridge subject, except what l
stated, by Ferguson, IS An item In the
lottery grant Of 5000, the journal of
the Senate and referred to Mr.. George G.
Gordon, Messrs. Wood and Eddy's At
torney. Now, Vincent l know you
pretty well and have no desire to raise
old questions that have slept so long, but
you, like an oyster planted At Egg Har-
Dor, have tried to grow on new shell,
and puff away as though you were and
had been of some importance; and the
position the black and white Republicans
of Wilmington have. given you, has
astonished us like some of those freaks of
nature that there was no accounting for.
Still, although you are an old offending
sinner, bear you no i'll will, but when
you beich forth such torrents of self
laudation gas as the life boat and bridge,
have to hold my nose and laugh at your
impudence and assumption. l would
not be surprised next to hear you say
you were with Christopher Columbus
and dictated the course he should steer
to strike the new continent. Your
scraps of picked up history Of Delaware
and the grea. pitched battle near RehO-
both where one and half persons were
killed, and two and half persons
wounded, is Vincent all over. You
have taken great pains to hunt up the
vote on the Convention subject in Ap-
poquinimink. Temperance meddlers
tried to get q pledge from me, if l was
elected, that would favor putting in an
article in the new Constitution to pre-
vent the sale Of spirituous liquor. OF
course l refused to pledge beforehand to
anything from disorganizers and prefer
ed defeat, and had, afterwards, the
pleasure of helping defeat the new Con-
stitution in this hundred by eighty ma
jority, but / afterwards had the further
pleasure Of welcoming In my opponent,
Mr.. Gibbs, into the Democratic party,
where he now remains. Your success
and election in Wilmington was caused
by deceiving and begging deluded ne
groes to vote for you. In conclusion,
| think it cool piece Of impudence In
you to say that attacked you unjustifi-
ably. Hereafter tell the truth on such
matters as life boat stations and the free
ing of the Wilmington bridge, and there
will be no need for me to say any thing.
Ifanyother man had written such intern,
stuff as you did would contradict it.
SAMUEL TOWNSEND.
Townsend, June 9th, 1870.
p. s. 1850 was an exciting political
year. The Democratic State Conven.
ton was held in Milford, and after ali
exciting struggle, William H. Ross, wa,
nominated for Governor, and George
r. Riddle, for Representative to Con-
gress. The members of the Legislature
who might be elected would have the
electing of the U. s. Senator. Sussex
elected 7 Representatives and 2 Sena
tors, one holding over; all Democrats
New Castle elected William Smith ant
Bassett Ferguson, Senators, one Whil
holding over. She also elected 7 Demo
cratic Representatives, named as follows
| William p. Lodge, Brandywine Aquills
Derrickson, Mill Greek; Abraham Boys
Wilmington city; James o. Rodgers
New Castle; Nathan 7. BOulden, Pen
cader; A. o. Newton, Red Lion; Sam
uel Jefferson, st. Georges; Kent, al
Wings. Now, ask all sensible meI
what do you suppose these democrat.
cared for, or were Influenced in the leas
by Vincent and his leperous, ,blackmailinl
sheet called the Blue Hens Chicken
There was no bill, am sure, introduced
at that session to buy out and make
Wilmington bridge free, and have the
answers from the three members living
Lodge, Derrickson and Newton, and
the said bridge received an appropriation
to buy out by the rider Ferguson and
agreed on to be put as condition fol
Ferguson's vote for Wood and Eddy's
lottery bill. Therefore, Vincent, YOU
blowing about having = leading part II
freeing the bridge is Internal stuff, ant
| YOU know it. SAMUEL TOWNSEND.
After the 9th Of this month thtse Ger
tiflcates can be converted into four pc
cents and their holders will thus secur'
till July, so that the scheme could no
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