Wilmington Daily Gazette

Radical Negroes to Fill White Men's Places.

One of the great aims of the Radical party is that negroes shall take the place of white men in political positions, especially in the lower counties.--Gazette.

"This is utterly false. To support such a reckless assertion, the Gazette cannot produce a scintilla of evidence."--Commercial.

The above shows how reckless the Commercial has become as to what it asserts. But a day or two since it was demanding that negroes should be placed in the jury box from all the counties, and complimented Marshal Dunn for having summoned negroes as jurors in the U. S. Court, and now it has the effrontery to deny that "one of the great aims of the Radical party is that negroes shall take the place of white men in political positions, especially in the lower counties."

Are we to infer from this denial then, that it is only in New Castle county that negroes are to be put in official positions now held by white men?

White men have been crowded out of office by Radical negroes in New Castle county already.

But we did not suppose that negro office-holders were to be confined to this county alone. Yet this must be the logical conclusion of the Commercial's denial. Of course we could not suppose that the negroes of the lower counties were to be excluded. It would now appear that they are to do the voting for the Radicals and receive none of the offices.

We don't believe a word of this. The negroes have already been promised many of the small offices--here they have received police appointments, letter carrier appointments, and appointment as messenger, and since about one half of the Radical party vote in 1870 was composed of negroes, they cannot be excluded without destroying the party.

In 1870 the vote cast for the Democratic candidate for Congress in this State was 12,434; and that for the Radical candidate, 10,001. Before the election the Commercial and other Radical papers claimed that their party had received an accession of from 4,000 to 5,000 negro votes. As the Democrats got none of these votes the inference after the election was drawn that nearly half of the votes of the Radical party were cast by the colored population. It is clear then that this large part of that party will demand its share of the offices in each of the lower counties on the first opportunity.

Hence we concluded and asserted in a former number that this class of Republican voters are to occupy the offices of white men if the Radicals should ever carry the election in Delaware.

If this is not so why are the negroes placed in the jury boxes and made constables and letter carriers and messengers? The conclusion is irresistible that the lower counties are to be put under the control of negroes. As it has been in the Southern States so it would be in Delaware. The negroes in Delaware expect it--and will hardly submit to the foul play the Commercial intimates is to be practiced toward them.

"Well, Jerry, how did you vote on the verdict of the last jury?"

"By golly, massa, I allers vote as I fought--der lawyer who is in favor of us jist said to bring in a verdict against the defendant, and I'se not the boy to disobey orders."