The daily gazette., 1882-02-15
WEDNESDAY, FERRUARx rs, Issa.
A TERR1BLE oFrENsp INpErp.-

Aho morning AeGeS, in It's issue oi
yesterday, makes a terrible charge
against Senator Salisbury. 1t con-
sists in a column of vsrbiage, with as
little sense and logic as could be kept
out OF column that might be called
without doing violence to the truth of
q the sentimentality of crazy fanatic,
who supposed he was addressing
people who had no better sense than
himself It is the custom of writers
from the North to imagine themselves
superior to others and to suppose
that the people Of Delaware are the
mere puppets of those whom they
elevate to positions of distinction, and
q the writer of the NeDs falls into this
line of argument at once, and uses
such language as
"The reasonable spirit of 1860, of
which Edward l.. Martin was a bright
exponent, unfortunately made it pos
slble for man of MIR. Saulsbury's
calibre and prejudices to assume
almost unqualified control of the
party then in the ascendency, and
there is perhaps no better proof Of the
sluggish and despicable character of
that party than that SO small mind
should 30 long and SO tyrannically
rule it.
What . splendid opportunity for
doing good has this man had. His
word has been law to nine-tenths of
the Democratic Legislators for quar-
ter of century. To his personal
labor and the genius of his cunning
are due entirely the Democratic su :
premacy of the last nine years. The
assessment law which came as a new
lease OF life to the Democracy has the
impress of his seal all over it. More
over his associate in the United States
Senate owes him lifelong gratitude for
his present tenure of office.
5., Suppose now that Eli Salisbury had
been liberal man, progressive in spirit,
capable OF growth and endowed with
that sympathy and benevolence which
SO become a statesman, how different the
situation to-day might be. Ii the leader
OF the Delaware Democracy had been a
manly, generous and statesman-like
man, does any one suppose that to-day
over one-sixth of our citizens would be
Ia the lamentable condition in which
our coloIed people find themselves?
Wonld they be compelled 10 exercise
Their simplest political rights as if cold
charity, instead of justice, looked after
Their interests? Would they have been
compelled to beg year after year for the
privilege of educating their children?
Would our Legislature have DELAYED
that simplest act Of justice and wisdom,
the appropriation OF mere pittance
towards their eduation, until the Slate
was forced to do it from very shame:
Would our Legislature have dared tC
vote W., 200 toward the education of %
OOO white children and only $1,000 fol
the benefit OF 6,0U0 colored childreni
Would oar Legislature have had the
enTontery to tax one class, the most cap.
able class, Of our citizens for the educa
tiou OF their children alene, and separ
ately tax another, the poorer and les
capable class, fer their necessary schoo
funds?
Every sensible man in the Stat,
who reads the nauseating extrac
given above from the Ne,es will per.
ceiVe at once the opinion the autho
holds of the people Of Delaware ant
their representatives in the Legisla
ture. Is man who thus under-value
the men who have managed the affair
of State in the almost unexceptiona
BILE manner in which Delaware ha
been managed for the past fifleel
years fit to dictate the course of ou
citizensr 7 We should think not
Does he paint our legislators and ou
voters the wiling servants or mer
tools of Mr.. Salisbury for nothing
No 1t it is done for purpose-don
to mako men out of the State beliey
that the legislature may be readil
welded by the influence of money
and that it is only necessary to rails
enough of that abroad to bring it int
Delaware to carry legislature tina
will elect Radical Senator and pu
the negroes on level with the white
in all our schools.
The article is replete with detrac
tion of the people and. of Senate
Salisbury, whose whole offense seem
to have been that he, as the write
asserts, did not cause the legislator
to vote more than 2,400 to assist i
the education of 6,00O negro children
while it voted 500, 600 to 25, 900 whit
children. This is the offense charge
to Senator Salisbury, who, we doul
not had nothing to do in the matt
whatever.
1t is to the specia advocates
equality for the negro that appeals a
to be made for money for the eler
tions, to assist to return anoth
United States Senator to make th
body more firmly Radical than 1t
and this is the reason this te1ib
offsnse is charged against Senat
Salisbury. But the writer concea
the fact that the negroes had alreac
been possessed of the right to asse
themselves to raise other funds to a
sist in their own education, and
this city had also been relieved of CT
and school tax upon their real esta
to help them.