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Delaware Tribune
Wilmington, New Castle County, Delaware
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In Wilmington, Delaware, on March 18, 1869, business leaders and politicians from both parties strongly oppose a proposed tax bill that would burden New Castle County with the state's debt. Threats of revolution and demands for a republican government are voiced, with protests from figures like Governor Saulsbury's brother Eli, Samuel Townsend, and others.
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Two Gentlemen at Dover are said to favor the tax bills. These are Governor Saulsbury and brother Eli.
THE PROPOSED TAX-BILL to make Wilmington and vicinity pay the principal and interest of the State debt meets with nothing but execration from business men of both parties. In fact all ideas of party seem to sink beneath the considerations of the odious injustice of the proposed law, and democrats join republicans in openly threatening revolution, if such a measure is passed. Even in the Legislature this feeling finds a reflex, and a democratic member from this county publicly threatened to join the republicans in demanding a republican form of government if New Castle County be thus compelled to pay all the taxes of the State without representation according to population.
We publish elsewhere an indignant protest from a prominent manufacturer, who is a republican, against the measure, and while in another column that war horse of the Democracy, Samuel Townsend, Esq., of Appoquinimink, gives a clarion blast against the suicidal law. Even the Bourbon Gazette is compelled to notice this proposed wholesale robbery of our city, for it says 'It is quite apparent that those who formed the bill intended that the great burden of the tax should be paid by New Castle County.'
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Wilmington, Del
Event Date
Thursday, March 18, 1869
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threats of revolution and demands for a republican form of government if the tax bill passes; widespread opposition from business men and politicians of both parties
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Proposed tax bill would require Wilmington and New Castle County to pay principal and interest of State debt, leading to unified opposition across parties, legislative threats, and published protests against the measure described as odious injustice and wholesale robbery