New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-07-13
THE LIBERAL MOVEMENT.
SENATOR BAYARD IN FAVOR OF GREELEY
AND BROWN

The following letter has been addressed by
Senator Baysrd to a friend in Delaware;
MY DEAR SIR: The peremptory orders OF my physi-
clans compel me to obtain absolute rest ana quiet and,
for this purpose 10 leave the country My passage has
been engaged and shall sail for Europe on Saturday.
the 18th instant. Although untitled by my condition OF
health felt 1t to be my duty to TO Baltimore as del
egae the Convention and II is In relation 10 the action
OF that body that wish few words with you, and'
through you to my other party friends In Delaware, De
fore need not say to you or to them with What
astonishment and disappointment heard OF the Domi
nation ofGreeey and Brown at Cincinnati, nor now
steadily and openly have at all times expressed myself
in opposition to the adoption Of that ticket by the Demo
cratic party Baltimore But the result has been ac-
complshed however much against our will and enorts
and 1t is duty calmly and steadily to confront the
fact now presented to our eyes.
II the issues Of the campaign those only OF Rev
enue REFORM OF Civil Service reformque5tions In which
pecunIary loss or gain to the public nvolyedI
msht be willing to take part in the Presidential con
test but allow the demOrazng course pursued by Grant
and hs Administration to be continued four years
longer trusting that the very extent and hagitous
nature of the notorious abuses would IN themselves 80
instruct the people they would recoi from placing
further trust in such hands
The natural capacities Of the soil and climates Oh Onr
county together with the industry aud energies o. our
people, render tho production OF wealth mere Wedb'
almost Doundless and almost afford to bear tho
results OF financial blunders and so long as they arc
confined TO official circles OF public roboerles anu pecu
laions provided in the end buy our experience
through the usual methods Of loss and suffering Bur
evere and painful though these abuses and their conse
ouences may be- they weigh, to me, lightly. compared
70 tbe destruction OF all the limitations upon power
which our written Constitution OF Government was DO
sioned 20 create and which Gen. Grant and those who
assist him in administering the Government including
the Radical maorites in both Houses Of Congress- seem
either to totally disregard, or, as have sometimes
thought to take scornful pleasure in trampng under
foot. 80 . 49,.
1t is utterly impossible for me, with the scenes when
have witnessed In OF the United states rising
before my eyes, not to feel the gravest apprehenso
and alarm at any prospect suggestion OF allowing inc
policy OF Grant and his administration toward tho
Southern States and their white inhabitants longer 70
continue If any honorable act mine tend % avert
so great calamity
Can any justly deny that the condition OF TIE pee
pie in the Rhensh Provinces torn from France by the
armed hand Of Germany, preferable to-day in all that
protects person and property to that OF the white people
in many Of the Southern States under the governments
which Congress has set them under the socach
system of reconstruction and which Grant has upheld
either BIZ threats the bayonet its actual presence IN
those communities he and his party have stood Dy of
the three years and have seen the South robbed 10
suited and almost beggared by motley crew. al OF me-
own political party of unpncpied political Adventures
from the North and ignorant and vicious negroes OF the
native population and have uttered no word OF disap
proya but on the contrary have from time to time lent
the military power OF the Government las IN the cases
the troops sent upon application OF Gov Holden or North
Carolina Of Scott OF South Carolina or his own brother
in-law Casey, in New-Oreans) to maintain IN power
these rapacious and dishonest rulers whom the suner
ngs and discomfort OF people we're threatening "a
eject from office and power.
Now whether approve Mr.. Greeley personally or no,
whether he had or been the steady and violent
nent Of the political principles and measures which you
and have been uphOding all our lives, yet II he has
become with against action or Wishes the most
likely or practical means OF restoring better conditions
of feeling in the North toward South, and restoring
security and justice to that oppressed region should
feel myself as American without regard to the name
Of party but without the sacrifice Of any conviction In
relation my political principles compelled to assist In
placing him in power.
say nothing now OF his qualifications personal 1T
ness for the place; have spoken OF them heretofore
and against my wishes and judgment the representatives,
the party have placed him in the candidacy there
was any practicable OF eecng man better htied
for the place, aud whose political career las been
in harmony with your views and NINE Ineea not say
to you that should strive TO such one chosen but
the of popular opinion IN this vast country takes
strange and oftentmes untoward directions, and Tor
good or i'll sweeps US with il.
Sixty days ago the condition OF affairs we now witness
would have been deemed incredible, and any man would
have laughed at, as absurd ana iinpOsspe Wilt we now
ace i'm fact and substance they confront
us were shaped III opposition to efforts, and as they
are We responsible for them but we are reson
sible for our mode of dealing with them now and
hope our Convention viii promptly and decidedly
electoral ticket in opposition 10 Grant and
Wilson and favor of the only candidates who. as mat
tiers stand, can be hopefully expected TO defeat
them-I mean Greeley and Brown, Tor whom expect 10
vote on the 9th day of November next
hope to return home by the middle OF September.
with health restored and enabled TO take part III tho
political canvass.
The subject which this letter relates has given
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shared by thousands of true OF the political
party in this State but believe that my decision Is the
right one, and know that II is founded upon honest
motives This only alternative to a whole or halfway
aid Grants reelection may be hard for us TO adopt
but think 1t duty, and trust will you ana tho
entire Democracy of Delaware Your friend sincerely,
Wilmington, July IL, 1872. i. +, BArARo