The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1872-07-25

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, Senator .Rayards in favor of
49,, Greeley and Brown.
The Following letter has been ad
dressed by Senator Bayardto a frieni
in Delaware: -1i o .laaFu-Ii aif slD
, My DEAR SIE3:5 The peremptor.
orders of my physicians compe
|. me to Obtain absolute rest and quiet
Z, and, for this purpose to leave ths
country. My passage has been enga
ged, and / shall sail for Europe on
Saturday, the 18th inst. Although
Z untitled by my condition of health,
felt it to be my duty TO go to Balti.
more as q delegate to the convention
and it is in relation to the action oi
that body that / wish few words
with you, and, through YOU, to my
4 other party friends in Delaware, be-
] fore leave. i need not say to you
orto them with what astonishment
and disappointment / heard OF the
nomination of Greeley and Brown at
4 Cincinnati, nor how steadily and OPEN
| ly have at all times expressed my
self in opposition to the adoption OF
that ticket by the Democratic party al
Baltimore. But the result has been
accomplished, however much against
our will and efforts, and it is our duty
calmly and steadily, to confront the
fact now presented to our eyes.
! If the issues of the campaign were
] those only ofFevenue reform, of civil
service refOrm-questions in which
pecuniary loss or gain to the public
were involved-I might be willing to
1 take no part in the Presidential con-
tent, but allow the demoralizing
course pursued by Grant and his Adj
ministration to be continued four
years longer, trusting that the very
extent and fiagitous nature of notori-
Gus abuses would in themselves so in
strnct the people that they would re-
coil from placing fuI ther trust in such
hands. - -'
The natural capacity of the soil and
climates of our country, together with
the industry and energies of our peo-
pie, render the production of wealth
(mere wealthy almost boundless, and
we can almost afford to bear the re-
suits of financial blunders, andso long
as they are confined to official circles,
of public robberies and peculations,
provided we can in the end buy our
experience, through the usual meth
DDS of loss ond suffering. But severe
and painful though these abuses and
their consequences may be,they weigh,
to me, lightly compared to the der
struction of all the Iimitations upon
power which our written Constitution
of Government was designed to cre-
ate, and which Gen. Grant and those
who assist him in administering the
Government, including the Radical
majorities in both Houses of Con-
gress, seem either to totally disregard,
or, as ] have sometimes thought, TO
take IL scornful pleasure in trampliug
under FOOT Gs "a .yssfsUd .9if0 Il
1t is utterly impossible for me, with
the scenes which / have witnessed in
the Senate of the United States rising |
before my eyes, not to feel the gFav- |
est apprehensions and alarm at any |
prospect or suggestion of allowing the 4
policy of Grant aud his administers /
tion toward the Southern States and
their white inhabitants longer to |
continue, if any honorable act of |
mine can tend TO avert so great a ca
lamity. 6 i
Can any man justly deny. that the
of the people in the Rhen-
ish provinces, torn from France by
the armed hand of Germany, is pref
cradle to-day in all that protects per-
son and property, to that of the
white people in many OF the South
ern States under the goYernmentsI
which Congress has set up over
them under the so-called system
has upheld either by threat of the
to |
hose communities ? He and his par
" have stood by for the last three
years, and have seen the South rob-
oed,. insuIted, and almost beggared by |
! motley crew. all of his own political
urers from the North, and Ignorant
llation, and have uttered no word of 4
but, on the contrary, It
rom time to time lent the military
ases of the troops sent upon appli-
alton ofGov. Holden, of North Car ]
lima, of Scott of South Carolina, or {
lis own brother-in-law, Casey, in ]
New Orleans) to maintain in power c
hese rapacious and dishonest rulers
whom the sufferings and discomfort
# their people were threatening to
ject from office and power. aie.1
Now, whether I approve of Mr.. +
freeley personally or no, whether he
ad or had not been the steady and !,
iolent opponent of the political prin- q
iples and measures which you and l q
ave been upholding all our lives, yet Il
he has become, with or against our
ction or wishes, the most likely or q
ractical means of restoring better
ondition of feeling in the North to-
7ard the South, and restoring secur- n
" and justice to that oppressed re-
ion, / should feel myself as an Amer n
IAN, without regard to the name of
arty, but without the sacrifice of any n
in relation to my political
rinciples, compelled to assist in pla- le
ing him in power. /
l say nothing of his qualifications or
ersonal fitness for the place; have n
Doken of them heretofore, and against
ly wishes and judgment the repre-
entatives of the party have placed /,
i'm in the candidacy. If there was
nv practicable means of selecting a a,
ian better fitted for the place, and If
ne whose political career has been in
armony with your views and mine,
need not say to you that l should n
rive to see such one chosen; but
le current of popular opinion in this a,
asst countrysst lkes strange and If .en. cs
mes untOward directions, and for
ood or ill sweeps us with it. n,
Sixty days ago the condition of af-
y