Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1880-08-05

aud economy and Gods bountifu harvests
that the country is comparatively
prosperous, and not because OF
anything done by these Federal
oihce-holders. The country il comparatively
prosperous, not because of them, but in spite
of them. This contest is, in fact, between
the people endeavoring TO regain the political
power which rightfully belongs to them. and
to restore the pure simple, economical con-
stitutional Government of our fathers on the
one side, and a hundred Thousand Federal
otiice-holders and their hackers, pampered
with place and power, and determined to re-
tain them at all hazzards on the other.
Hence the constant assumption of new and
dangerous powers by the General Govern
ment under the rule of the Republican party.
The effort to bnild mp what they call strong
government, the interference with home rule
and with the administration Of jnstice In the
courts OF the several states, the interference
with the election through the medium
OF paid partisan Federal oflice-holdefs,
interested in keeping their party in power and
caring more for that than fairness in the
elections-in fact, the constant encroach-
ments which have been made by that party
upon the clearly reserved rights of the people
and the states, will, If not checked, subvert
the liberties OF the people and the govern
ment OF limited powers created by the
fathers, and end in great consolidated cen
trail government, strong, indeed, for evil and
the overthrow of republican Institutions
The wise who formed our Constitution knew
the evils OF strong government and the
long continuance of political power in the
same hands. They knew there was ten
dency i'll this direction in all governments
and consequent danger to Republican insti
tutions from that cause, and took pains to
guard against it. The machinery of a strong
centralized general government can be
used to pcrpetuate the same set of men
in power from term to term until it ceases to
be republic or ia such only in name, and the
tendency of the party now i'll power i'll that
dlreetlon-as shown in various ways. besides
the willingness recently manifested by large
number of that party to elect President an
unlimited number ofterms-is quite apparent,
and must satisfy thinking people that the time
has come when it will be safest and best for
that party to be retired. But in resisting the
encroaehments of the General Government
upon the reserved rights of the people and
the states, wish to be distinctly understood
as favoring the proper exercise by the General
Government of the powers rghtfully belong
ing to it, and under the Constitution. En-
croachmeut upon the constitutional rights of
the General Government, or interference with
the proper exercise of its powers must be care
fully avoided. The union of the states under
the Constitution must be maintained, and
it is well known that this has always been the
position of both the candidates on the Demo-
cratic Residential ticket 1t is acquiesced in
everywhere now, and finally and forever
settled as one of the results OF the war; 1t is
certain, beyond all question, that the legitimate
results of the war for the Union will not be
overthrown or impaired should the Demo
cratic ticket be elected. In that event proper
protection will be given in every legitimate
way to every citizen, native or adopted, in
every section of the Republic, in the enjoy
ment of all the rights guaranteed by the
Constitution and its amendments. A
sound currency of honest money of
value and purchasing power corresponding
substantially with the standard recognized by
the commercial world, and consisting of gold
and silver and paper convertible into coin, will
be maintained. The labor and manufacture
ing, commercial and business interests of the
| country will be favored and encouraged i'll
every legitimate way. The toiling millions of
our own people will be protected from the
destructive competition of the Chinese, and,
to that end, their immigration to our shores
will be properly restricted. The public credit
will be scrupulously maintained and strength
ened by rigid economy in public expenditures,
and the liberties of the people and the pro-
perty of the people will beprotected by gov
ernment of law and order, administered
strictly in the interests of all the people
and not of corporations and privileged
classes. / do not doubt the discriminating
Justice of the people and their capacity for
intelligent self-goyernment, and, therefore, do
not doubt the success of the Democratic
| ticket. Its success would bury, beyond resrr-
| rection, the sectional jealousies and hatreds
| which have 80 long been the chief stock in
| trade Of pestiterous demagogues, and in no
| other way can this be 30 eifectually accom-
| plished. 1t would restore harmony and good
| feeling between all the sections and make us
| in fact, as well as in name, one people,
The only rivalry then would be in the race
| for the development of material prosperity,
the elevation of labor, the enlargement of
morality, RELIGION. liberty order and ali tbat
| would tend to make us the foremost nation of
the earth in the grand march of human
progress.
| am, with great respect, very truly yours,
WM. II. ENNTIsn.