The daily gazette., 1882-05-01
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hintling aud equally obligatory, and either
party having the enfoFcemept OF them is
equally liable 10 the penaltles imposed Tor
| nnfair Of Illegal conduct Of them. But thc
Republieansh have charged that they. have
been Illegally administered by the DenIt tcrats,
and their voters, (chisiyof the colored
class,) disffanchised by being deprived Of
the opportunity Of assessment and payment
Of taxes. This Is q .hNpocfitleal assertion.
II Is known to be such BY the Re-
publican press and leaders and has been
proved to be insincere beyond refntatlon.
What is the proof slils rf sts-a..
Here are the facts I, When the laws were
passed. no serious objection was made to
them, and not & word Of opposition was
uttered BY the ~Commercial, /" then the organ
of the party In Delaware, The payment of
taxes from year to year was heavy tax
upon the party purse and the politicians at
length became negligent, and finally failed
to pay the taxee and when the negroes wRfe
get them ID aeaip. IN Wilmington wAs
was inteafi6,Isl| Nc Higgins-Jenlllns
faction Nm1A tic taxes and the bird
CaiiAghel wing rot the nAgrDes, votes, beat
ing them In party contests every time. This
led the Higgins men 70 neglect the taxes
and to beat liallaQher and his crowd this
was Intentionally done. The campaign was
allowed to 20 by default in 1873, no effort or
desire being shown TO get the men assessed
and so 1t went on
Ofeourse The assasaors showed no great
desire to get thenegtoes on, and the collectors
no eaperness ID aee that their taxes were paid
before they were dfapped off the list. But
suddenly In the early part Of 1850 big stir
was made by the Republicans, and they
raised claInor about getting their men
assessed. This clainor was set up just as
| the assessors were completing their work
and were about 10 make their returns TO the
| Levy Court. II had been neglected up to
| that time The Higgins men were still smart
| ing and had taken but little interest. The
sudden activity Is attributed 70 words sup
posed TO have been sent by the National
Committee to make . fight on senator's
These men went before the Levy Court,
accompanied by business men who had been
! duped, made inability to get on thu assess-
ment list mere pretext and impudently
asked that body 70 lay aside its regular
duties and assess negroes who we're OFF the
lists by their own default and wiIful neglect
of duty Because the Levy Court would not
I do that and oblige men who who would not
Obligc themselves great hue and cry was
raised. They succeeded, but their SUCCESS
put them in position Ofshameless insinccrity.
| The truth Of this whole matter is, and the
history of all this establishes ii, that the as
SCISSORS and collectors have done their whole
| duty, as the g Republican has editorially ad-
mitted, and that so also did the Levy Court
commissioners as the Republican committee
on assessments publicly avowed when It
thanked that body ut the close of the session
OF 1880 for what It had done. Again, how
out of all this MISREPRESENTATION little fair
ness will crop forth now and then, is shown
in an editorial in the Republican" of April
3 last The concluding sentence Of THIS arti-
Gle is candOr, itself, To this effect; There Is
! not man who is now DISTINGUISHED, who
could not at some time since last June have
| paid his county taxes, If he had tried TO dc
so, and we can only say to these diseOnsOlatC
voters who are disfranchised that we hope
they will learn n lesson and not GLOW such 3
thing 10 occur again. y s-4----- .-.4