The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-07-16
senator BaExrd In Favor OF Greeley
and Brown.

Lug iolOwlnG letter hnS been ad-
dressed by Senator Bayard to u friend in
Delaware:
My DEAR SIR: The perem ptory orders
OF my physicians compel me to obtain
absolute rest and qniet, and, for this pur-
pose, to leave the country. My passage
has been epgaged, and shall sail for
Europe on Saturday, the 18th instant.
Although u'itittcd by my condition OF
neaith, felt it to be my duty to go to
baltimore as delegate to the Conven.
ton; aud it is in relation to the action Of
that body that wish few words with
you, and, through you, to nv othcr party
friends in Delaware, before I leave. I
need not say to you OF to them with
what astonishment and disappointment
heard of the nomination CT Greeley and
Brown at Cincinnati, nor how steadily
aud openly have at all times expressed
myself in opposition to the adoption Of
that ticket by the Democratic purity at
Baltimore. But the result hus been ac-
complished. however much against our
Will and efforts, and it is our duty, calmly
and steadily, to confront the fact now
presented to our eyes.
II the issues of the campaign were
those only of revenue reform, of civil
service reform-ouestions in which pecu-
nlary loss or gain to the public were iu-
volved-l might be willing to take no
part In the Presidential contest, but al.
low the demoralizing course pursued by
Grant and his Administration to be con-
tinuod four years longer, trusting that
tho very extent and hagitious nature of
the notorious abuses would in themselves
so instruct the people thnt they would
recoll from placing further trust in such
hands.
The natural capacities of the soil and
eliminates OF our country, together with
the Industry and energies of our people,
render the production Of wealth (mere
wealthy almost boundles,, and we can
almost afford to bear the results of
financial blunders, and, so long rs they
are confined to official circles, of public
robberles and peculations. provided we
can III the end buy our experience
through the usual methods Of loss and
suffering. But. severe and painful
though these abuses aud their conse
quences may be, they weigh, to me.
lightly, compared to the destruction OF
all the limitations upon power which our
written Constitution OF Government was
designed to create, aud which General
Grant and those who assist him in ad-
ministering the Government, including
the Radical majorities in both houses of
Congress, seem either to totally disre-
gard, or, as 1 have sometimes thought
to take scornful pleasure in tramplipp
under foot
1t is utterly impossible for me, with
the scenes which have witnessed in the
Senate OF the United States rising be.
fore my eyes, not to feel the gravest ap-
prehensions and alarm ct any prospect
or suggestion of allowing the policy of
Grant and his administration toward the
Southern States and their white inhabit-
ants longer to continue. if any honornble
act of mine Gun tend to avert so great q
calamity.
Can any man Justly deny that the
condition Of the people in the Rhenish
provinces. torn from France by the
armed hand Of Germany, is preferable
today in all that protects person and
property, to thnt of the white people in
many of the Southern States under the
governments which Congress has set up
over them under the so-called system of
reconstruction, and which Grant has up
held either by threats of the bayonet or
its actual presence in those communi-
ties? He and his party have stood by
Tor the last three years, and have seen
the South robbed, iusuited, and almost
beggared by motley crew, all of his
own political party Of unprincipled po-
litical adventurers from the North, and
ignorant and vicious negroes of the
native population, and have uttered no
word of disapproval; but, on. the con-
trary, have from time to time lent the
military power Of the Government las in
the cases of the troops sent upon nppli-
cation of Governor Holden. of North
Carolina, of SCOTT, of South Carolina. or
his own brother-in-law, Casey, in New
Orleans,) to mnintain in power these
rapacious and dishonest rulers whom the
sufferings and discomfort of their people
were threatening to eject from ofiice and
power.
Now. whether I approve Mr.. Greeley
personally or no, whether he had or not
been the steady and violent opponent of
the political principles and measures
which you and L have been upholding oil
our lives, yet if he has become, with or
against our action or wishes, the most
likely or practical means of restoring q
better condition of feeling in the North
toward the South, and restoring security
and justice to that oppressed region, I
should feel myself as an American, with