Daily Republican., 1880-02-12
why This Opposition.


result in failure to resuscitate the Re
publican party, but strange as 1t ma.
seem they are opposed to the assess
ment of the negro. 1t might be expect
cd that II the effort will not raise tn
Republican party to power, that ther,
should be no opposition to have the ne
groes assessed. The fast that they d.
not personally all pay their taxes ou
of their own seanty earnings, should
not initiate against placing them in
position in which they can enjoy all th'
benefits guaranteed to them by tht
amended constitution. There are q
large number of the white people o
Delaware who vote every year, and yet
never pay a cent Of tax themselves, and
We are sorry to say that another large
portion Of them vote without being as,
sessed. The objection against colorsd
people because they do not al pay their
taxes personally, it seems to US should
hold good, if there Is any goodness in
it, against the whites. There is a cav.
ling disposition even amongst peosl-
who are professedly fair, to find fault
with every effort no matter by whom
made to elevate the negroes, and es-
pecially with every effort to secure them
tho beneht Of the ballot box, the most
efficient weapon which they could wisld
in their own sslf-defsnce. With those
who oppose the present movement all
over the State, to secure the benefit of
the ballot to the colored people, their
opposition to them extends farther than
the plane Of politics. They only expose
their own hypocrisy when they object
to ignorance at the polls, while they
have steadily refused to give the color
ed people any fair opportunity to edu
cate themselves. What have the Dem
ocrats of the State done for the educa-
ton Of the colored race in Delaware :
Tie Democracy ofother Southern States,
however, much as they may oppose
the black participating in politics, have
provided for his education. Maryland's
annual appropriation for the education
of her colored people is a creditable
standing monument to the philanthropy
of the State. So of Virginia, North
and South Carolina, Georgia and the
Gulf States, and even Kentucky, the
dark and bloody ground of the Union,
stiff with prejudice, has a handsome
educational fund for the education of
her colOrsd people. Would that We
could say the same Of Delaware. Where
are her monuments OF philanthropy ?
Where are her ColOred educational in
stitutions supported by State aid ?
From Aaaman's Creek to Gumborough
Swamp not one can be seen. The Tono-
tony and gloom Of dark era of igno-
rance remains unbrOken by even
single school house spire pointing up
wards, to indicate a more humane
policy in the future. Does Democracy
point to the schools for colored pa9p!e
over the State as institu ions fOstersd
and supported by State aid +? 1t nesd
not do SO. The schools are there and
the children of colored paople are re-
ceiving primary education so far as
their scanty means afford, bu. not one
cent for the support Of these schools
comes fron the State. Search the re-
cords Of the State through, and all that
can be found upon the statutes that
has any reference whatever to the edu-
cation OF cOlor9d people is a law levy.
ing tax upon coIo-ed people exclu
5ively to BE- used for the support of COL
ored schools, bu! the collection OF tha t
tax is in the hands Of Democratic col
Iect1r3, who make no effort to collect
it, for if they did 70 the payment of
such tax, with other taxes, would give
a o)lored man 8 vote. The monthly
report Of William Herbert, County
Treasurer Of New Castle County, some
months ego, shoTei, that the collectors
f on some Of the Hundreds where there
was large negro population, had fail
I'd to..pay into the County. y..TreasIry one
cent Of school tax collected from coIored
people, though it vas we'll known that
such taxes had BEEN paid to the cOllec-
tors. If there was any way by which
the records and accounts Of tax cOllec
tors could be got At in the State, it need
not surprise any one to find out that
in some Hundreds, more of the school
taxes collected from co!ored men found
their way in the collectors pockets than
was paid into the Treasury. Strange
that these Democratic organs and Bay
ard organs that find 30 much fanlt with
an effort to secure tO'the col0red men
ths benefits of the ballot, have nothing
to say Of the manner in which the De-
mo;racy keep them in ignorance.
Strange that they havs not saved the
vials of their wrath to pour out upon
the heads of delinquent Democratic tax
collectors, who not only steadily refuse