The daily gazette., 1882-03-23

How FALLEN.--A few years ago
and the men who now run the Repub.
hcan party were in the habit Of daily
Boosting that their party contained all
the intelligence and all the respectable
~ Of the land. How that party has
fallen ! 1t now depends entirely for
success in each of the counties in
Delaware upon the votes Of negroes
of men whom their party funds de-
fray their expenses from the various
districts to this city to petition
the Levy Court to register their names
upon the assessment lists that they
may be voted like SO many machines
for the party-men who care SO little
for the ballot that they will not 20 to
the assessors and pay their tax and be
assessed although they have had three
or four months IN which to do it-nor
will they pay their laxes at all, and
hence the party has to raise the money
to pay it for them. This is the value
these. freemen place upon suffrage,
In the whole Hundred of st. Georges,
said to be the wealthiest agricultural
Hundred in the State, il is stated that
only two or three colored men have
registered their names and paid their
taxes, and thus availed themselves of
the privilege of voting. This is a re-
markable thing. The law is not new
to these men. They know all about
the necessity of complying vita it,
from the fact that each year for several
years previous to the election they had
been conveyed to New Castle to have
their names registered, for the single
reason that they would not go to the
Assessors house or place where he
had given public notice he would be
to assess voters who called and paid
their taxes. Not one of the whole
crowd Of twenty four who petitioned
the Levy Court to put their names on
the assessment lists could write their
names. And these are the people the
HoTntng Neaos points to as prominent
citizens" OF st. Georges Hundred.
The people of the flourishing town of
Middletown are citizens of st. Georges
Hundred, and have cause to be indig-
nant at such miserable departure
from the truth. st. Georges Hundred
contains many citizens of standing
who are Republicans men of charac.
ter and excellence whom We feel proud
OF as Delawareans. But they are dis.
gusted at the effort that is made to
make people believe that they are a
part of those who have not paid their
taxes. Yet journal stoops so low
as to slander a whole district by class.
ing Its prominent citizens with ne
groes who have not dollars worth of
real property and are used as the mere
tools Of party that has been crying
and whining and begging for office for
years, and which the white people of
Delaware have over and over again
declared by their votes was uaworthy
of their confidence. Even when aided
by "ave Thousand negro votes" the
white people-yes, the respectable
people of Old St. Georges Hundred
that had long been Wings, voted
against handing it's affairs and the
affairs of the State over to the tender
mercies Of tie men who. would place
them on a level with negroes. and
barter away their real estate for
Office.
The Morning NeUs may rest assured
that Delaware voters are not yet pre-.
pared to have themselves put down on
an equality with such people as it
terms prominent citizens of ST.
Georges" 1t will be good while vet
before our excellent public schools
will be destroyed In every district by
the attempt to drag the children of
the whites down to the level of the
blacks. The latter are as good peo
le of their race as there are: but both