The daily gazette. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1874-1883, 1883-10-20

wmMINoTON. SATURDAY. OOT.
An Insult to Delaware People.

The Heading newspaper of Delaware"
which has such slight regard for truth and
honesty that it daily deceives its readers in
regard to the location of its office, reached
the acme of its conceit and impudence, yes
terday, when 1t falsely declared that the peo-
pie of Delaware lack culture, and
held them up to the public view as
u community insensible to the ad-
vantAges of higher education and
devoted almost exclusively to the acquire
ment of worldly wealth. We reprint the
offensive paragraph elsewhere in to-day's.
paper, and have taken especial pains to re-
produce it exactly, typographical errors, in
correct punctuation and roughly constructed
sentences included.
We can conceive of no greater or more de-
llberate insult to the culture and inteli
gence of the people of Delaware than this
untruthful and uncalled- for assertion by
paper that claims to be the special cham
pion of the best interests OF our State. We
believe that for culture and intelligence
Delaware will compare favora ly with ahy
State 10 the Union. She has produced great
soldiers, great statesmen, great orators and
men OF commanding literary ability.
Her political history is inde!libly
interwav'n with the history oil
the Auerl natl n, while many OF heI
sons ave b , ONE famous in the ranks o.
liter IL Z, N The practice OF the pro
TESS ops. Il norant indeed must be tn,
writer who declares that he cannot "recal
a single literary man Of even moderat
fame, born and bred in Delaware" whei
the poetic genius of the "MiliorC
Bard" is yet fondly remembered, ant
the varied productions Of DR.. Rober
Montgomery Bird are still an honor and
a credit to his State. Both were "born and
bred" in Delaware, and the latter was {
man of not only brilliant, but versatile
genius. He stood high in the ranks OF til
medical profession, and was famous anon
the great Wing editors of his day, I'll
novels were reprinted in London, and th
greatest Of them, "Nick Of the Woods"
even yet read with pleasure by hundred
to whom his name is but memory of Il
past. AS a dramatist he was also dist
guished and his Gladiator" made t
fame and forum of Edwin Forrest, and
to-day fay,rit tragedy on the Ameriea
stage.
We hope these two instances will be suf
Gent to open the eyes of the ignoramus WI
cannot recall a single literary m:
OF even moderate fame, born al
bred In Delaware" and induce him
re,ract the base SANDER he has so wanton
pronounced against our people. To t
balance of his false and senseless di4trIb
our public schools, our fertile farms, al
the good sense, refinement, culture and he
pitality of the average Delaware cit.z
form complete reputation. The whole pa
graph is an insulting lie, unwsrrant
by our past history or the prest
condition of our society. 1t bears the e.
marks OF a eonceited Jack a-napes" who c,
siders a college parchment the sole eyidei
of culture and ability, aud the only passp
into the best society of the land. Such 5,
timents are a disgrace TO Delaware pap
and plainly indicate that while Every EVc
ing may he as good newspaper as ever, t
brains of the establishment departed VIII
Crolsdale went to Baltimore, aud left
vacancy in the editorial department that
not yet been filled.