The daily gazette., 1880-09-06

reader examine this resolution, gotten
up by ex-Judge Fisher and Dick Har-
rington, and passed under cover of a
song set to tune TO suit the negro and
his political frolics preceding the cleo
tion. We cut it from the Dover Sentinel: |:
"That the odious and dangerous doc
trine of estates Rights" was buried at
Appomattox, and its attempted resurrec-
tion by the Democratic party is fIaught
with grave perils to the Republic; that
it Is the duty of the National Govern
ment to protect every citizen in his right
of suffrage, by such legal safeguards as
may be necessary to ensure free ballot,
fair count and an honest retarn."
Does the reader know what that
means? We confess we can attach no
intelligent meaning to it that does not
involve the complete surrender of the U
s. Constitution to be trodden under foot
by the President and the Army just as
under Grant, in defiance of all the
reserved rights of the States. 1t means
that Hayes may send an army into
Delaware and overawe your elections !;
close your court houses and try your
people by drumhead court martial.
That is just what it does mean if it
means anything-in other words, that
all constitutional rights that do not
serve to promote the interests of the
Republican Office holders were buried at
Appomattox.
Now read 1t and then compare it with
the resolution of the National Republi-
can Convention that nominated Lincoln.
as follows:
"Fourth--That the maintenance in
violate of the rights Of the States, and
especially the right Of each State to Or
der and control its own domestic institu-
tions according to its own judgment ex-
clusively, is essential to that balance of
power on which the perfection and en-
durance Of our political fabric depends
and we denounce the lawless invasion
by armed force of the soil of any State
or Territory, no matter under what pre-
text, as among the gravest Of crimes"
How can these resolutions be recon-
ciled one with the other; or how can
a Republican who agreed with Lin
coin support the Imperialism of Grant
that crops out in the Delaware revo-
lutionary platform No oman who has
any regard for his own opinions can
support the revolutionary nonsense of
Levi c. Bird, Dick Harrington and ex-
Judge Fisher.
These men are not ignorant of our
State Constitution and laws; they
are all lawyers. But strange to say
they have taken an odd way to ad.
vance reforms in Delaware. A curl
GUS part of it will be the placing of a
"pupip' of John M. Clayton on
platform that proposes to tear up root
and branch all the State work of that
late able statesman. Judge Houston
knows that Clayton made our Con
stitution, and that among his last
labors was great effort to defeat the
confirmation of an amended Constitu.
tion giving to the people the right to
elect all the county officers. But this
silly platform makes no provision for
changing the Constitution of Della
ware while it declares in favor Of
making certain changes that cannot
be effected in any other way. The
Dover choristers succeeded in making
themselves ridiculous ond patched up
sham peace between the factionists
that is sure to be broken at any time
when either faction may require the
votes of the negroes to give it ma
jority.