2009-04
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 3/31/2009
Broadside, "To The Democratic Voters Of New Castle," three columns, 7" x 9," 1876, fine. Under the printed signature of Samuel Townsend, is a provocative challenge to the Democratic Party regarding the party's position on Negroes. "Will you democratic friends allow our party to beat by the niggers? For god's sake do not do such a suicidal act. ..." "Contrast the two political parties in this country. The white Republicans allow the Negroes in their party the full free right to help nominate by an equal vote by ballot, and we the white Democrats ... refuse evan-handed political rights and justice to the white Democratic masses ..." Of course Delaware was a slave-holding state throughout the Civil War, finally abolishing slavery in December 1865. Still the race issue was not resolved as this broadside illustrates. During Reconstruction, Samuel Townsend helped found Delaware's White Man's Party, which fought to have the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments repealed. During Reconstruction, Samuel Townsend helped found Delaware’s White Man’s Party, which fought to have the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments repealed.
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