Daily Republican., 1880-03-24

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Levy Cour. yesterday will have q ten
dency either to accelerate or to almost
stop the assessing Of voters for thefour
last days of the present SAonth upon
which only assessments can be made.
Although it was known for days before
that certain business had been deferred
for action until yesterday, nobody sup
posed that so much time would be ia,
Ken up with it especially when there
were seventy persons standing in wait
ing TO get assessed who had come some
twenty miles at great Inconvenience
aud expense to themselves and who
had as good right to be heard before
the court and have their grievances re-
dressed as had those who Lad CONS a
shorter distance and who were only in
tsrested in the laying out of a pub ic
road Of doubtful advantage to the peo'
pls. That these humble supplicants
before the Levy Court praying for the
power and privilege that would enable
them to exercise all the right of Ameri-
can citizenship, are black, humble,
poor AMI probably of one political party
should not concern the Levy Court. 1t
is none Of the Courts business what
kind of political views man holds. 1t
is the business Of the members Of that
ceurt under the oath they have taken
to act fairly, honestly and impartially
between m an and man and to promptly
place the names Of all entitled upon the
asse ssment. Have they done it? There
are members OF the court who have too
much Of q sense of honesty, 10 answer
in the affirmative. They know they
aave not done all they could to assess
The hundreds Of applicants who have
had TO give up the attempt to get their
names upon the assessment and they
have chosen rather TO submit in suler
ness to disfranehisement awhile longer.
On 10 day since the court opened in the
present month, has the number Of as
ses5ments exceeded sixty, one, but sell
dom did they exceed fifty and often the
mum der came down as low as twenty
AID thirty. There have not been more
than two or three busy days during
the March session on which over hun.
dred rames could have been put
upon the lists without any straining or
over exertion. This iE a fact that
none know better than the members Of
the Levy Court themselves, no matter
how much they may attempt to justify
their action and blush with shame
while doing Sc. That it takes ten men
who are supposed to be possessed with
more than ordinary Intellectual endow-
ments four hours to place the names Of
fifty men on the assessment, is simply
ridiculous in the extreme. If those
members Of the Court had persons in
their employ who would tritle away
time in that manner they would per-
emptorily discharge them before twenty
four hours rolled around. It is true
that care should be taken that persons
should not be placed upon the assess
ment whose names are already there,
or who have no right to have them
placed there, but according to the re-
peated action of the Court, If such
names get upon the assessment they
could very easily be removed again. 1t
ia only the names placed upon the as
sessment by assessors that the law spe.
CITES that the Court cannot remove. Had
the Court wanted to be expedient in
the matter Of making assessments, and
been disposed to accommodate the hun
dreds of people who daily presented
themselves before the Court they could
have received the applications and
vouchers for the same, and then referred
them to . committee of the Court 10
examine aud if found correct to have
the names placed upon the lists. By
this means all would have been assess
ed who desired and was entitled, and
the other weiGhty business of the Court
would not have been retarded. 1t is
no use however for US to speculate upon
what might have been done or what
might be done yet. The naked truth
is before US that only four days of the
Court remain, and there are yet over
nine hundred unassessed persons in
New Castle County, thirds of whom
would have been assessed before this
time if the Levy Court had shown az
much real, honest, sincere disposition
to accommodate people who como to get
assessed, as it did to accommodate those
who came for other purposes, not half
80 important.
KELLOGG. HILL-An exciting time may
be expected in the United States Senate