Delaware gazette and state journal., 1896-02-20
POLITICS IN THE YEAR 1904.


Eintans.
Following is copy Of an old politi
cal address, the original OF which WAS
recently discovered by IL gentleman of
this city in looking over come papers
Of the past
To the People of New Castle County
Fellow Citizens: Being named as
general committee for the county OF
New Castle, at a meeting Of Federal
Republicans, held on the 9th ot juno
last, for the purpose Of collecting and
diffasing information on the subject OF
the ensuing general election, we con.
eeiye 1t our duty to submit to your con
sideration our candid and dlsPgsalan-
ate sentiments on this important orca
sion, we'll aware, however, the little
needing the ill-natured criticisms, and
unfriendiy remarks they may produee
from such as may unfortunately differ
from us in political opinion
When we see in that division Of the
globe whence our adventurous ances-
tors came the degarded and ahject con
ditiop of the great mass of tho people,
oppressed and harassed with perpetual
wars but to crafty the wantonness and
ambition Of usurpers and Of kings, how
peculiarly thankful should we be to
heaven for the distinguished blessings
we enjoy! For these blessings we are
Immediately indebted chiefly to our
wise and excellent Constitution. How
sacred, then, must he the duty and in
tereat of every individual to support
with vigilance, form of government
the happiest in the world; emauating
from the people, and made only for
their good--and under which all men
are politically equal, since none feel or
acknowledge subsection, but of laws
which they have assented to by them
selves or their representatives To you
it must be unnecessary to mention that
the only sure supports of republican
government are the virtue of its citi.
Zens; and the most inestimable privi
lege of free people, the right of suf-
rage. This right, the exercise Of which
is the safeguard of political liberty,
you will, low-citiZens, be shortly
called upon again to use, and the i'm
portance Of tho occasion must be our
apology for claiming your attention.
First, let MS be permitted to eongrat-
ulate you, that in Delaware, tho gov.
ernment of which has been in Federal
hands since tho establishment of our
Constitution, and the Constitution it
self formed by Federalists, the equal
rights of the people have been far bet
ter understood than in other States,
governed by men of very different poll
| tical sentiments, and much more clam
orous about liberty and equality. In
| Delaware, the rights of men, are
happily not estimated by the acres they
| hold-the poorest tenant 10 the com
munity has at the election an equal
voice with the richest landlord. But
| in Virginia, now debating to the
Union, only the lords of the soil enjoy
| the right of suffrage; and to the mass
of the people is denied the privilege OF
voting in the election of those who are
to pass laws upon which must depend
their property, their characters, and
| their lives. Yet Delaware is called an
aristocratic, and Virginia democratic
State Thus, to suit the purposes Of
| party, are terms perverted. n
One thing is certainly true, that Vir-
| ginia has had the address to revolu
tionize three -fourths of the other States
almost to the point of Jacobinism, in
order to render them suhservient to
her views, and still to preserve her own
most aristocratic institutions. During
the long struggle of the Virginia party
TO get possession of the government,
you must remember their many disin-
| terested professions Of patriotism, and
specious promises. We were told that
their only object was the public good,
= Y that they would extinguish
the public debt, reduce the taxes and
lower the salaries But what has proved
to be the fact? That the only object Of
their leaders, was the loaves and fishes
These we're too few to satisfy the appe-
tites of all; and the whole community
has been disturbed, and even Democracy
outraged by the claims and caucuses,
cqbals and intrigucs about public
offices, which have agitated society since
March, 1901. The independent and
honorable men of tho party who had
acted from principle, have felt the
scandal OF these proceedings, and we
have reason to believe that many will
renounce a connection which they
have discovered is to be made use Of
only to accomplish the ambitious and
selfish views of few patriots of &
superior and mysterious order.
Samuel 2. Moore,
Joseph Israel,
Evan Thomas,
Committee for N. G. County.
New Castle County, Aug. 25th, 1904.
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