DELAWARE. 



DENMARK. 



vertu and the possessor of some of the most 

 rare specimens of "Wedgwood ware, being one 

 of the first to stimulate the collection of this 

 beautiful ware by his early appreciation of its 

 intrinsic and artistic merits. Few, indeed, have 

 done more for the promotion of the arts con- 

 nected with his pursuits than Mr. De La Rue. 

 He was one of the deputy chairmen in the 

 London Exhibition of 1851, and, in the Univer- 

 sal Exhibition of Paris, in 1855, was a juror, 

 receiving as an acknowledgment of his services 

 the grand gold medal of honor and the distinc- 

 tion of Knight of the Legion of Honor. 



DELAWARE. The election in this State 

 during the year was for the choice of State 

 officers, members of the Legislature, and a 

 member of Congress. It took place on the 

 second Tuesday in November. The total vote 

 cast was 18,408. For Governor, Saulsbury, the 

 Democratic candidate, received 9,810, and 

 James Riddle, the Republican candidate, 8,598. 

 For Congress, J. A. Nicholson, Democrat, re- 

 ceived 9,933, and J. L. McKim, Republican, 

 8,553. The Legislature chosen was divided as 

 follows : Senate Democrats, 6 ; Republicans, 

 3. House Democrats, 15 ; Republicans, 6. 



The session of the Legislature commences on 

 the first Tuesday of January in each year. The 

 session commencing in January was occupied 

 chiefly with local affairs. After the passage by 

 the Lower House of Congress of the bill grant- 

 ing suffrage to the negroes in the District of 

 Columbia, on January 22d the following reso- 

 lutions were offered in the*lower House of the 

 Legislature, and at once adopted by a strict 

 party vote, as also subsequently in the Senate : 



Resolved, By the Senate and House of Kepresent- 

 atives of the State of Delaware in General As- 

 sembly met: That we, the General Assembly of 

 the State of Delaware, do hereby express our un- 

 qualified disapprobation of the bill lately passed by 

 the lower House of Congress, now pending before 

 the Senate, conferring upon the negroes of the Dis- 

 trict of Columbia the right of suffrage, and consider 

 the passage of such a law would be a lasting 

 stigma and disgrace to the free white men of this 

 country, and a sad commentary upon their intelli- 

 gence. 



Resolved, Further, That the immutable laws of God 

 have affixed upon the brow of the white races the in- 

 effaceable stamp of superiority, and that all attempt 

 to elevate the negro to a social or political equality 

 of the white man is futile and subversive of the ends 

 and aims for which the American Government was 

 established, and contrary to the doctrines and teach- 

 ings of the Father of the Eepublic. 



Resolved, Further, That, in pur opinion, the passage 

 of such a law by Congress is but the key-note of 

 other wrongs and outrages to be hereafter inflicted 

 upon the white people of the States. 



Resolved, Further, That we tender to the white 

 people of the District of Columbia our deep and sin- 

 cere sympathy for them in their distress, and de- 

 nounce the act as a violation of their popular rights 

 recently manifested by an election. 



The Republican members voted against the 

 resolutions, regarding it to be "improper for 

 them to pass judgment on Congress for its 

 action." Had the question then related to ne- 

 gro suffrage in the State, the sentiment of the 



Legislature, it was believed, would have been 

 unanimous against it. 



The State was out of debt at the commence- 

 ment of the war, but at its close bonds exceed- 

 ing $1,000,000 had been issued to meet the calls 

 of the .Federal Government for soldiers. The 

 receipts from railroads and other sources had 

 been heretofore sufficient to meet expenditures, 

 with a small surplus. The Governor, in his 

 message, on January 3, 1867, urged upon the 

 Legislature to incur no further debt until the 

 present one was paid, and approved the railroad 

 improvements within the State as works of in- 

 calculable benefit. By the interference of the 

 Federal Government the laws of the State 

 proved to be insufficient to punish crime com- 

 mitted by free negroes, and the Governor re- 

 commended the sale of this class into slavery 

 as a punishment effecting the most salutary 

 restraint against crime. He also urged the pas- 

 sage of restrictive laws against the immigration 

 of negroes from other portions of the country, 

 who were, with few exceptions, fugitives from 

 justice in other States. His views of the con- 

 stitutional amendment proposed by the Federa. 

 Congress are thus expressed : " Whatever may 

 have been the expectation or object of Congress, 

 the rejection of this amendment is demanded 

 alike by every consideration of justice, patriot- 

 ism, and humanity." 



In the latter part of the year, the judge of 

 the U. S. District Court (Hall) rendered a deci- 

 sion releasing from imprisonment in Fort Dela- 

 ware four persons who had been arrested, tried, 

 and convicted by the military authorities of the 

 United States in South Carolina, in December, 

 1865. The prisoners had been found guilty 

 before a court-martial, of which General Devens 

 was president, of having voluntarily aided in 

 the assault made on the United States troops 

 stationed at Brown's Ferry, S. 0., in October, 

 1865. Judge Hall ordered the discharge of the 

 prisoners on a writ of habeas corpus, on the 

 ground that the military commission was with- 

 out jurisdiction in the case ; declaring it as his 

 opinion, that the rebellion had ceased in April, 

 1865 ; and inasmuch as the President's procla- 

 mation, issued in June, appointing a Provisional 

 Governor for South Carolina, ordered " the dis- 

 trict judge for the district in which that State 

 is included, to proceed to hold courts," the 

 State was in the exercise of all its civil func- 

 tions before the issuing of the order for the 

 organization of the commission by which the 

 prisoners had been tried and condemned. 



DENMARK, a kingdom of Europe. King 

 Christian IX., born on April 8, 1818, succeeded 

 King Frederick VII. on November 15, 1863. 

 Heir-apparent, Prince Frederick, born June 

 3, 1843. Area of Denmark Proper, 14,698 Eng- 

 lish square miles ; of the dependencies, Faroe, 

 Iceland, Danish settlements in Greenland, the 

 islands of St. Croix, St. Thomas, St. John, in 

 the West Indies, 40,214 English square miles. 

 Population in Denmark Proper, according to 

 the census of 1860, 1,608,095, and in the do- 



