Daily Republican., 1880-04-13
Letter frem . Former Cieizen.
From IN Occasional oorrespe endent.


are welcome here In Central New Yorh
and are read with great iptafest % the
IcilGnges which tims Is perpetuslly max
| ing are seen recorded in its columns.
Your correspondent naturally turns tc
the marriages and deaths" and from
time 10 time is pleasantly and sadly
interested in them both. In the
deaths" he sees as II is inevitable
the names Of the aged-how the list
has been heightened Of late--and In
the other the names Of the children
who were perhaps taken on his knee
in the by-gone times, a time which
does not seem long gone. -
Then he notices names prominent in
the courts and in the churches Of the
boys who were but yesterday urchinl
at school. They are elected new to Ell,
derships and they conduct suits at law
All how the time flies
In your issue which ! have just laid
down, among other things was one tina!
deeply interested me. mean the pres.
ent political condition Of the colored
people Of Delaware. When your cor
respondent left the State in 1869, there
was thorough organization Of the col.
ored people, in FIVE councils of the
Unien League. With the history Of this
organization he was very familiar
"Quorum pars Magma fui"-and he
had reason 10 believe that the colored
voters of the State were in b condition
to use their power to the highest ad-
vantage Of the State and so Of the Re-
publican party. Their organization
was, as your correspondent was in
formed Q short time after he had re-
moved his residence, more complete than
that Of the white Republican voters.
Here was power sufficient to have
made the Republican party trium-
phant. How came II about that this
power was dissipated and lost' | think
that your correspondent could tell. But
that II was foolishly lost, he knows full
we'll and has locked upon the fact as at
once disgraceful and sorrowful. At a
distance he watched the suicidal and
childish policy, the selfish and self
seeking work that FILTERED SO gocdly q
thing away.
A power had with disinterestedness
been created and was made ready
TO the hands Of the politicians, but, ii
is hard to say, they had not the wis
dom to use IL, and so lost II.
1t Is pleasant and encouraging to see
some promise that better days and bet
ter counsels are prevailing, that the
jealousies between members Of the
same party in different ends of the
state are thrown into obeyance, at
least, and that there ia disposition TO
have a cordial union Of forces in the
coming campaign. So may it be.
II is evident that the old and familiar
tricks Of the Democratic party are
played with vigorous success in your
little State. 1t is the old method Of
slavery which we know so well. How
entirely consistent the methods are
the persistent keeping Of the colored
people in ignorance and now the dis
graceful effort to keep them from vot-
ing. The refusal to appropriate school
funds for SO long, compelling us to cre-
ate and maintain schools at private ex.
pense through the state and cunning de-
vices to make the funds as small as pos
sible are of piece with the schemes
which are nowadays devised in refer
anca to the ballot,
Has your Senator Bayard no infu-
ence to direct in better ways his party
friends Or is his listless seeming in
difference the same that it was in the
days when his country's life was assail-
ed, when other hearts were wrung
with agony over it, aud he had no
word Of sympathy for her danger or
her sorrow When | think Of the
past, those sad and solemn days Of
war and Of all the grief and loss, and
he such man aspiring to the highest
place in the government whose life he
did nothing to protect aud whose enc.
mics lie sympathized with, my whole
soul revolts. W A.
A New Train.
morrow the P. W. & B. Railroad
Company will put a new passenger
train on the track between this city and