Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1885-04-16
Doings of the Leg isIaiure.

ThI KSDA . AfnhL hSs AcCcs
DOings of the Legislature.
To morrow the Legislature will al
journ sine die, and 1t may well Do SAID
of 1t hat 1t has left some things undone
1t shou Id have done, and has done
many things itshould have left undone.
Had It not met at all, the State would
have been some twenty five or thirty
thousand dollars better off in money |
point of view, and would not have SUI
fered for the want of any thing that has
been done to aid it. This, however, Is |
the case with all legislatures; 1t takes |
long time TO DO very little good, and
preat deal OF harm can be done in o
very short space of time. By way OIL
com parisop, the present Legislature
has not been more derelict in duty than
other legi slatures, indeed we do not
know but it is little improvement in
character and ability upon other legis-
latures, but VIII en- we say all this 1t
must still be admitted that 1t has not
measured up to the standard OF duty
that IL should have attained IN legislat'
ing for the real wants Of the people of
the State.
One Of the principal things it shout
have done, but has left undone, is its
failure to make any progress whatever
towards amending the Constitution OF
the State in order to afford an equality
OF rights and equality Of representation
in the law.making body of the State.
For this failure the people, If they are
fully jealous OF their rights, will hold
the present Legislature and the party
that elected it to strict account
Whether they are 30 welded to party
and partisan slavery that they will
still hug the chains that bind them, re-
mains 10 be seen. So far as amending
the Constitution is concerned to secure
to the people those Inherent rights
which spring naturally from the human
breast, that of preservation and
self. protection by the naturally ac-
knowledged law of equ ality, the people
are farther removed from the attain
ment of it than they were before tn
Legislature met.
Not only has the CONSTITUTIONS
Amendment pending before the peopl
for two years and which did propose I
60 a step towards giving the peopl
equal rights been defeated, but the bi
to provide for Constitutional Convel
ton offered, we believe in good faith b
DR.. Martin in the Senate, has been 4
feated, and the people have been lie
as they were before even any moveme
whatever was made towards securi i
even partial rights as citizens of Il
State.
When the time comes for the electiC
of another Legislature eighteen mont
hence, the 50, 900 citizens of New Cast
County will proceed to elect two Sen
tors and seven Representatives, to re
resent them in the Legislature, VIII
the 81, 900 people of Kent and Sus;
Counties will proceed to elect four Sci
tors and fourteen Representatives to
Legislature. This is exactly how
case will stand, and no changing of
ures will make it different. How IL
will the people of New Castle Cou
submit to such rank injustice ? tt
have been patient under the outra
and have waited, as is now proven,
the vain hope that the present Legi
ture would have in measure, az lie
removed the crushing inequality of {
zenship, under which they have /
SO long staggering.
They have hoped in vain, they
waited in vain. Their servants b
proven unfaithful 70 the trust repS
in them, what now will they do az
it? Will they still support that p
which has been in power for n 1re ;
thirty years in the STATE, and has
mitted 10 let this caucsr OF il equa
grow until it has eaten out the ibel
of the people: is Democracy % $
that the people eau afford 70 ia
their liberties and the rights Of III
ship FOX i. How mueh ioog-r z
the votes OF three men n NV G.
County be ue1tI aliz d by lie -
one man in Ken. or Sl>--1 81
Let the people think auI .i-a-l
their own mind, ese q aestiot-
Another thing i'll which me l. :
ture has been derel CT is 10 - A
TO purchase the new insane departn
near Hsre's Con nor, for State ms
ton, where the insane of the State C
be KEEP in a decent and respec
mauues, ..ld many OF them 90 res,
to their right minds.
o. The amount of harm that has
done by positive enactments, ltd
yet known, or will be known unit
debris OF the last days of the session
been cleared away.
SECRET AIRY Bayard will be full,
derstood before long, and when the
pie get to know him as he shout
known, he will hardly pose b-!or,
country as the great non-paTtisai
former he represents himself to be
which he il accorded to be nv