“White Freeman, arouse, your liberties are in danger!”

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Broadside, 6-3/4” x 9,” titled “TO THE DEMOCRATIC VOTERS OF NEW CASTLE COUNTY”, by Samuel Townsend, in three columns, near fine. Tirade against the perceived disenfranchisement of the "poor white Democratic voter" in Delaware. Townsend rails against a proposed system to elect candidates for the Legislature and Levy Court by delegates, as opposed to an open election by individual ballot. He writes: "It is a damning insult to poor white Democratic voters to be opposed in this underhand manner by men who seek to lead the Democratic party for their selfish interests....The white Republicans allow the Negroes in their party to help nominate by an equal vote by ballot, and we, the white Democrats, who claim to be the descendants of Jefferson and Jackson, debar and refuse even-handed political rights and justice to the white Democratic masses."

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