Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1880-10-21

pathc aulnCfls-ss, o--s 4ai.ly EaIAsd Can +
not preserve Ofdel Lets The best
remedy IL the careful policing of the city
upon such OCCASIONS ard the sc'ive work
by good cllzsns OF both sides to Impress
upon the young men, whO do most the
marching, the necessity for order Any
Democrat who breaches to young Demo.
Gratis that this outrage by which their
procession was broken up ia thing
to be avenged, and says they must
go better prepared next time
gives advice which leads to riot and
disorder, aud LIE IL bad citizen. Any
Republican who champions the negroes
who were the aggressors in this affair, and
who showed at every stage preparation
for warfare which is positively startling,
il, no matter what his means or social
position, disturter of the public peace
who is sowing the wind which will cause
all orderly people in time to reap the
whirlwind. II any leaders OF the Repub-
lican party have advised the negroes
to equip themselves with arms in the
fashion revealed Saturday night they we're
accessories before the fact in this
bloody riot. aud the crazy talk of the
negroes about troops from Washington
and aid from Grant shows the material,
politically, which they constitute. Those
who pot such notions into their hsads
have made them bad citizens OF Delaware
and the enemies OF the State, aud it ia not
wonderfulthat they should be discovered to
be living here armed as though in camp,
nor that this stale OF preparation for
strife should incite their young men
into attacking procession of those they
are taught to regard as their enemies.
We want our readers to throw aside parti-
sanship long enough to think what it
means to have the most ignorant and
passionate fifth of our population Taught
that the laws of the State they live in are
| things to be resisted, and that the men
charged with the enforcement of the laws
are their enemies Yet this is
what the talk of the more
bitter partisans who uphold and
sympHthize with the negroes entirely in
this matter, believing without examination
everything they say andrejecting without
consideration everything said by white
witnesses, tends TO. More than this, the
advice of somebody has already in part
brought about such condition of affairs,
which threatens a greater danger to this
city than any conceivable outcome of q
National election.
In the name, then, of peace and order,
let the facts in this case be judged by the
ordinary rules of evidence and human
probabilities, and let the circulation OF
falsehoods oease. One false report, given
By an excitable blstherskite of our acquaint.
ance to the members of reputable firm,
and which We believe has been very
widely circulated, was that Mr. Casper
Kendall was ready to swear that he saw
the beginning of the row and that the first
shot was fired by policeman. How any
one could imagine it possible that Casper
Kendall should have been at Ninth auG
Walnut at / o'clock in the evening we dc
not understand but he Was nevertheless.
interviewed and promptly denied 10
representative of the JOURNAL any
knowledge whatever of the riot, saying ht
was at home at lie time. He was dow
there next morning, ard hat
made some comments on too ire
display of pistols by the police trying t,
t drive Of the crowd, but knew nothin,
. whatever Of The rot. 50 il has beeu, agaii
sud again, Il4f the woik d,uo by TIL
: paper il this aJter has eunsisi.Lg IL run
: mig down to their sousc= the wlldes
rumor-, wbieh really nobody ought to hav
Z believed had tnsy gone uGealtradict5d, an
which msa yet 1!d believe and base uno
4 them the m1sl pas-iuuHl- settlements, tn
y besl thing that saue people can DO I
w pree-at us ,,d affair fsou going turtle,
d is to Pct s..5e he heated o,lJulity wlic
80 makes tup circulation If sue
ID stor'es 2s.iy!e, The Mayor has cIere
a reward for TIT rrest oe the person
persons wao started tue riot aud sll goc
= citizsus should either ala il The search
- al least not throw obstacles in the way
3 discovering the truth BY circulaul
y foolish rumor5 and t.l.e statement
- or statements of the truth OF which ih,
Il have ne evidence and which looked
- calmly are Inconsistent with the know
= facts.