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DELAWARE. 



tion in Dover, August 27th, and nominated 

 John P. Cochran for Governor, and James 

 Williams for Congress. The resolutions adopt- 

 ed were as follows : 



Tho Democratic party of the State of Delaware, in 

 convention, met, renew their ancient and unbroken 

 allegiance to the constitutions of their State and Gen- 

 eral Governments, and point with pride and satis- 

 faction to the just, honest, economical, and reputable 

 administration of the affairs of the State of Delaware 

 under Democratic rule, whereby safety to person and 

 property has been maintained, and the financial and 

 political credit of the State sustained upon an equal- 

 ity with the best governed and most favored ot her 

 sister States. 



Resolved, That the welfare of all classes of our 

 population, the rich and the poor, the white and the 

 black, in the future as in the past, can and will be 

 best conserved by a continuance of that strict obedi- 

 ence to constitutional limitations upon official power ; 

 that respect for established laws;' that absence of 

 class-influence and legislation ; that due regard for 

 the rights of the community as a whole, which have 

 characterized the administration of government by 

 the Democratic party, and which formed the chief 

 guarantees of a free and stable government. 



Resolved, That the continued example of utter and 

 flagrant disregard of the most sacred and essential 

 rights of local self-government by President Grant 

 and his associates, as established in the wanton in- 

 vasion and overthrow of the lawful government of 

 the State of Louisiana, the retention in office and 

 personal favor of the guilty officials through whose 

 action, aided by the army of the United StateSj this 

 gross outrage was perpetrated, fills us with indigna- 

 tion and alarm, and that against it all we utter our 

 solemn protest. 



Resolved, That the course of the radical adminis- 

 tration has brought great loss and sorrow to our peo- 

 ple, and shame and discredit to the name of repub- 

 lican government, by the encouragement shown to 

 the delegation of public robbers from the State of 

 South Carolina, and the rudeness exhibited to her 

 most meritorious and suffering citizens by the selec- 

 tion and retention in office, all over the country, of 

 men notoriously dishonest, corruptj and unworthy ; 

 by allowing the lowest and most virulent partisan- 

 ship to control appointments to the highest offices ; 

 by a refusal to punish dishonesty in office where ex- 

 posed ; by issuing and maintaining an unconstitu- 

 tional currency without intrinsic value, whose fluc- 

 tuations are the constant profit of speculators at the 

 cost of the laboring-classes, and which demoralizes 

 and unsettles commerce in all its branches. 



Resolved, That the lamentable condition of the 

 States of South Carolina, Mississippi, and Louisiana, 

 continues to excite our kindest and strongest sympa- 

 thies for the men of our own race who, by the law- 

 less exercise of armed Federal power, are placed and 

 kept under the galling rule of ignorance and crime, 

 and we fervently hope that an awakening sense of 

 the whole people of the Union may soon relieve these 

 evils of radicalism and negro government. 



Resolved, That we denounce the wild, cruel, and 

 reckless measure called the Civil Eights Bill, as 

 grossly violative of the letter and spirit of the Fed- 

 eral and State constitutions, and only calculated to 

 sow new seeds of discord between the States and 

 people ; that it is an undisguised attempt to enforce 

 a social equality between negroes and white people, 

 and to encourage, if not compel, an intermingling 

 of those races whose essential differences have been 

 marked and established by Almighty God. 



'Resolved, That the course of Hon. Jas. R. Lofland, as 

 a Representative in Congress from this State, in rela- 

 tion-to this Civil Rights Bill, has been in defiance of 

 the intelligence and decency of the entire community, 

 and deserves and will receive the scorn and oppo- 

 sition of any right-thinking inhabitant of Delaware. 



Resolved, That the act passed at the last session 

 of Congress, enlarging the jurisdiction of the Federal 

 Courts of the District of Columbia, is a base attempt 

 to muzzle the public press, and to shield the corrupt 

 and unscrupulous officers of the Government from 

 just criticism. 



Resolved, That we contemplate with just pride the 

 national reputation and commanding rank and influ- 

 ence won for our State in the Senate of the United 

 States, and that we hereby extend our grateful thanks 

 to our faithful Senators, Hons. T. F. Bayard and Eli 

 Saulsbury, for their constant opposition to the infa- 

 mous Civil Rights Bill, and every other pernicious 

 and tyrannical radical measure, and for their manly 

 defense of constitutional government, the freedom 

 of the press, the cause of the oppressed, and the 

 rights and honor of their race and native State. 



Resolved, That we cordially invite all honest citi- 

 zens to unite with us in the election of the worthv 

 candidates whom we this day present for their suf- 

 frages, believing that good private and public char- 

 acter are inseparable, and that just, economical, and 

 honest rule can only be expected from those whose 

 private lives have given such assurance. 



The election, held on the 3d of November, 

 resulted in the choice of Cochran for Gov- 

 ernor by a majority of 1,239, and Williams as 

 Representative in Congress by a majority of 

 1,646. The total vote in the several counties 

 was as follows : 



FOR GOVERNOR. 



FOR CONGRESS. 



In 1872 James R. Lofland was elected to 

 Congress by a majority of 362 in a total vote 

 of 22,392, he having received 11,377 votes. 



John P. Cochran, who is now Governor of 

 Delaware, is a citizen of Middletown, about 

 sixty-five years of age. He is an extensive 

 farmer and land-owner in New Castle County, 

 and has one of the largest peach-orchards on the 

 peninsula. He is of Dutch descent, and has al- 

 ways been a Democrat. Hon. James Williams, 

 who was elected as 'Representative, is a farmer 

 of Kent County, has been a Representative in 

 the State Legislature for several terms, and 

 also Speaker of that body. 



The entire public debt, January 1, 1875, was 

 $1,250,000. A large portion of this was cre- 

 ated for the payment of volunteers, and the 

 relief of persons drafted into the military ser- 

 vice during the war; but more than $500,000 

 was incurred in aid of the construction of the 

 Junction & Breakwater and the Breakwater 

 & Frankford Railroads. In reference to the 

 future policy of the State in extending aid to 

 these or other railroad companies, Governor 

 Ponder says : 



