Year: 1876

| was but the signal gun, the reverberatlon
Of which will shake the proud old Dia
, mond State from it's centre to its circum
. ference. In every community the cause


the Democracy will be proclaimed, and tn
i people aroused to the necessity Of support


ing it's grand and broad principles to saw
the country from the corruption into whicl


it has sunk under the rule Of the Repub
lican party. We have the labor imposet


upon us Of fighting not only for the main


tainment of Democratic principles in tn


National Government, but we have an i'm
portant work in the State canvass; worl


that should set the torches of enthusiasm


blazing brightly, arouse the spirit Of free


dom, and cause the shout Of victory fo1


liberty, triumph for Democracy, and the


power Of Justice over Republican injustice


to echo from Delaware to every part Of


this broad nation, and tell the story Of


what we have done in cause that emo


bles political thought, puri6es government


and gives strength and courage to an op-
oppressed people and smothered business
activity,by the most glorious precedents Of


party, which never before or since con-


trolled in American politics.


We talk now with the people Of Della


ware. We are confering with the honest


farmers of Sussux, the honest toilers Of


Kent, and the hard working people Of old


New Castle. 1t is to the whole State that


we direct our remarks, and we are conf
dent of reaching them, for there is no part
of the State that the HERvLD does not
reach.


Let them take the great questions of the


day into careful consideration. Let them


think why it is they realize such small
profits from their crops. Let them 60
down to the very rock bottom causes of the


reason that the hand bill and notice of the
sheriff and constable are seen 80 often dis
played upon the doors Of those who are a
reputable, hard working people, and it will
be found that it is because the country is
laboring under burthen of taxation, that
stuns all business motives. The current of
business has been stayed by this great in
cubus, the regular flow into its channels
clog instead of aiding its growth, and
this is the reason that the farmer finds
slow sale for his crop, that the manufactu.
rer finds his inventions drug in the mar
ket, that the merchant has slow sale for his
goods, that the credit system has to be in
dulged, and the Sheriff and constable fill
their pockets with the starvations of 9th
ers,


If we had prudent, economical admin
istration of the National government; one
that had not been pillaged by human
leeches, sucking life from the public Treas
ury under the guise of Office holders, such
would not be. But high life and extrava-
gance govern and rule society at " ashing-
ton, while distress and starvation pros
trates the whole country. The public
service of the present party in power, has
proved the most corrupt and useless that
has ever disgraced our government and i,
is for the support of this that burden
some taxation is placed upon the country
and which Delaware contributes to at the
rate of one million dollars year. Could
it be otherwise than that business is pros.
trated, that the merchant, the mechanic
and the farmers are idle, and that the
Sherif7s hammer sounds dismal Amen to
it ali


To vote the Republican ticket is to vote
for the maintenance of this system of
piratical government. Can five million
people now out of employment in this
country vote for the maintenance of
power in party that has brought idleness
to them? Can thousands of broken mer-
chants sustain this party? Can the
hungry and the poverty stricken cast their
suffrage into the nets of this party? As
we'll ask man to lick the hand that has
smote him. Old Delaware will not do it.
Her people will remain true, we are
morally confident, to the party that has
given them always the brightest examples
of purity in National government under
party administration. Then let the slogan
of democratic victory and liberty" be
sounded from the old Diamond State in
November. See to it, every one, and it