Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1880-09-30

Editorial Extracts From the Eastern
Shore Exchanges.

FNhoAS bANtbahScss
The Deldplredn is after the Morning
Ne,os, because the the latter ediioriaily
called upon the State Legislature ito re-
move the color line, which separates and
Injuries the schools Of the State, &c. The
NetDS has since taken back this utterauce
unqualihedly, and the DeLHcayean
says 1T is amusing to see the NerS
recanting, and we should feel that we had
done the editors of tnat sheet some good
if We could only believe the recantation
was sincere, aud not for the purpose of
hood.winking aud misleading the people,
and quilting the MASSES into voting the
Republican ticket We have no faith in
their recautations, ard We reterate all the
charges made in our issue Of the 18Th
inst, aud say that the editors of the Daily
Netns are in favor of removing the color
limo, and of white children and negroes
attending the same public schools. and
that 1t but fortshadows the policy of the
Republican party il il should come into
power. That paper may have pnt forth
its cloven foot little too soon. and would
like again to hide i. from public view for
the present but its hideous form il none
the less, aud will, VIXEN opportunity offers,
be uncovered"
Our noble little State is doing much that
is good in every way, and much that is
good specially in the cause of education,
but not by any means all tibet she ought 10
do. Therefore we are glad to have men
of mind and influence, like Senator Bayard,
speak out, as he did recently on this i'm.
portaut subject We welcomed the reso-
lutions of the State Teacher Association
L in fnunr "A rNtfnFf,, IA I'D
department in Delaware College - Neoark
! Led9er.
! The Republican press anu orators are
continually asserting that the Democratic
! party cannot be trusted with the manage
ment of the Federal government, but the
assertion il having but little effect upon
the people who know that if it had not
been for the members of this party,
secession would never have been crushed
Such an impression can not be made upon
the people when the states of Maryland
Delaware, West Virginia, Kentuckey and
Missouri furnished $50, 600 Union volun.
teers, when but % 0O0 Ropublicau votes
were cast in those states for Mr. Lincoln
in 1860 --SUSSea J0Hrhdi.
In some hundreds the Democratic col
!
receive the taxes of colored men unless
presented by them in person. 1t seems
as though the prime object of tax is not
to obtain revenue for the State, bnt is q
test of qualifications for the exercise OF
suffrage, according to these ''most potent,
grave and reverend Democratic statesmen,
law givers and expounders of the Oonsti-
tuition and human rights Another plan
of qualification. -AtJoI Ne,oS.
Very likely the Democrats might have
saved tbs Union and resumed specie pay
meuts, and done power of other things
IL the Republicans had not got ahead OF
them and done the work just when it was
needed. But there is certainly one thing
they never would nave done--abolsh
slavery. General Lee proposed it as q
Confederate war measure, but the Southern
Democrats asked death and ruin sooner
than surrender slavery The survivors are
now fighting the old contest over again.
A Union general heads a rebel army
Bredkrdter Light.