The daily gazette., 1880-02-21
For the Gazette. - 81 t =. a.
Letter from Samuel Townsend,

i9 Mr.. JOHNSON published my
communication of Wednesday, but
have refused to publish Monday's.-
You have been very clever In
publishing for me, but / suppose you
have been threatened by the friends of
Mr.. Bayard, as he is candidate of
the Democratic party for President
What short sighted mortalsl All this
last controversy has been kicked up in
Delaware, not by papers calling them
selves Democratic, but by a Republi-
can paper, the Every EUeniag, because
l wrote letter to the Tammany Hall
Committee, trying to pour oil ON the
troubled waters, for split in that
great State last Fall defeated the
Democratic party there, just as the
split in New York in 184S defeated
Clay for President, and just as your
Breckenridgers did in 1850. defeated
Douglas. In your last nights GA
zETTE, / could not but smile in reading
yonr item. where you state the Ga
zETTE was the chief Breckenridger in
the State. Now, If you do not know
It, if there had been no Union Doug
las Democrats in the State to plead
for your Breckenridge errors the Re
publicans would have filled the jails
full of you Breckenridgers, for as a
general thing, the Breckenridgers of
Delaware would not go and expose
their valuable selves under their lead
er, John 9. breckenridge, to fight
against the Union to try to break it
down.. Now, friend Johnson, why
81, nala onIr p
get mad at me for telling the truth,
that every act of that disorganizing
party of 1860 is not forgotten il it is
20..years, or five times that time. And,
you may quote from all the Southern
papers you please their hope of Mr..
Bayard's nomination, or any other
Southern Breckenridger, they cannot
fool the Northern Union Democrats,
they are too sensitive to trust them
selves in the hands of the Brecken-
ridgers for the first and highest Office
Of the nation.
| did not krow before | read
your article last night that you stood
so high in the Breckenridge church. ]
never heard of your going South and
acting on Brickenridge's staff; or Of your
ever advisi, & that Wilmington company,
with their brass cannon to slip of South
before they we're arrested. Nor did
ever see a call for q meeting of the
Delaware Breckenridgers, to deL ounce
their leader, John Breckenridge,fOr fight
ing to try TO break down and destroy
the Union. There Is a Breckenridge in
Delaware who stood much higher than
you, and might be called chief; and
know / went to Washington at the re-
quest of his Breckenridge friends, and
also, being an old friend of his myself
went to Washington and told my errand
to that much abused man, George p
Fisher, and asked him to 60 with me t.
the then Secretary of State, William
Seward. Fishers first reply was no
then began to talk pretty strong tina
my friend was in foreign land, and th'
family wanted him home. Fisher theI
said: "Sam, / will do IL" and turned
right around in the street and wen
with me into Sewar,l's Office and open
ed the case, which led to this leading
Brecke nridger coming lone; and
have for that and other kindness o.
heart Of Mr.. Fisher, always had
kind feeling for him. am a UnioI
Democratic white man, and totally op
posed to negro franchise, and have nj
d, sire to make any trouble in the Demo
cratic family, but, before nomination
have right to warn the Democrats
No living man shall bulldoze rue. Mr.
Thomas F. Bayard has his short com
ings in politics as other mortals. The
Republicans have his record taker
dowI; and l tell all of Mr.. Bayard''
friends they might as well stop theil
abuse of me in the Republican EUer,
Euening. l have lived too long ant
know too much to care tor them hungr,
office expec' ants. have nothing per
sonally against Thomas F. Bayard, an
no man worshiper, and ask no favors.
SAMUEL TOWNSEND.
Townsend. Feb. 20. 1880.