The daily gazette., 1880-05-20
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THURsDAY. May 10. 1850.
SHALL CRIME 60 UNFINISHED ?
--Af effort has been made to take


sSHALL CRIME GO UNPUNIsHED
-1-Ah effort has been made to take
from the State of Delaware the right
to try criminals of the worst type,
viz: negroes for rape, murder, &c.
No effort of this kind is to be made
in behalf of the white man. They
are still to be left subject to a trial
by their peers. But the beastly,
lnstfnl negro who ruins the hopes
and blasts the future of a white
woman is so tenderly taken care OF
that he must be tried by his own
color, or the States Jurisdiction be
wrested from her. And how is this
negro ravisher of white woman to
be punished by this class of poll
ticians who set themselves up as be-
ing more humane and considerate
than their fellows? We are candid
in saying we do not know. We have
not had the time to examine the
UnitedStates Statutes; but have been
informed that there is no law in
these Statutes for Furnishing a class
OF crimes and among these is that of
rape, attempted rape, and murder.
and burglary. So that when the State
shall be forced TO release her hold
on these criminals there will in
effect be no adequate security for
their punishment.
'fhe question as to whether the
State will surrender her prisoners t,
the United States Courts to be tried
because she has made no provision
for cOlored men ON juries, is to b,
argued before the State Court of this
county to-day. We understood thai
States Attorney-General Gray had
determined to urge upon the judi.
ciary the resistance of the surrender
of the negro VIM. Neal, with ever,
argument he could adduce. We feel
confident that Mr.. Gray, in this mat
ter, will meet the wishes of our peo-
pie and discharge a duty he owes the
State.
1t is the merest folly for men to
charge those who do not favor the
exclusion of white men from the
jury box to accommodate negroes
with such positions with being pre-
JUDGED against the negro. This is
not true. The average negro OF
Delaware has been as kindly tr, ated
as the negroes in any Northern
State. The authorities here do moi
make pets of them, as they do in
some of the Northern States where
the blacks are few and a decent one
is somewhat Of curiosity. But
here their rights are we'll cared for
there is very little prejudice against
the negro; not half so much as the
Know-Nothing party or the Native
American party held against the
foreign-born citizen some years ago
There is no effort to force the States
to put Germans, Irishmen, English
or Frenchmen upon juries when one
of their race is to be tried, nor is a
criminal Of either nationality ex-
cept the African negro to be thus
honored.
We hold in DelawaIe that all men
black or white, are subject to our
criminal laws--to be tried by iuries
now, as they have ever been since
the organization of the government.
1t cannot be said that the negro is
oppressed or wronged because he is
not put on juries. Young men of
education, until they reach the age
of twenty-one, are excluded from
the jury box and SO are women; and
this class Of white people are far
more important to the government
than negroes. Why does some poll
tician not clamor for them to be put
on juries? Is it because they have
no votes?