Smyrna times., 1872-07-17
Delaware at Baltimore.

Delaware S attitude at the Baltimore Convcn-
ton, i'll sticking out against the overwhelming
torrent that swept it by as feather before the
blast, whilst it was en1eavOrng to maintain its
true Democratic proclivites in the face of the
Greeley surrender, is still theme of Interest,
particularly here at home. The following ex
tracts as to what was said and done and thought
have not lost their freshness. We quote as
follows
When the resolutions were reported and the
previous question was moved, Senator
Bayard said: Il rise to question of order.
Has the previous question another name for
| gag-law-becOme the law of Democratic Con
vention, without notice to the delegates?
! (lOud cries OF No and cheers and Kisses
Amid much confusion, the previous ques-
ton" was sustained by an overwhelming vote.
! This cut off all debate, as was intended, hut |
Senator Bayard was allowed ten minutes talk, |
after persistant entreaty. lie said: Now, |
gentlemen, | ask you III all fairness, shall this |
great organization, digni6cd by years and dig |
ni6ed by sacrifices for the sake of patriotic
feeling, not be allowed to have an Independent
expression OF its own honest sentiment. Zap
plause and cries Of "Hes!') What, then, can
be said in favor of the fact that cut and dried
we shall, without crossing a or dotting an !,
vote down our throats without mastication or
digestion the action Of other men who have not
been called into our cOunsels. | do not wish
!
majority merged in the voice and clad in the
garb of that which is after all a small minority,
compared to our own force. 1t is not just 1t
is not wise to ask it and tell you, gentle
! men Of the Convention, that your constituents
will demand from you why you have not eX-
. pressed your sentiments by your own voice.
= You are asking men now to deny the votes
a that they gave two and three years ago on the
subject of these ameny nentS. | desire to
: enter my protest against this adoption Of the
language of a pla form framed 10y other men
. not Of the same political faith with the Conycn-
! ton.
= = In reply to Mr.. Bayard an eloquent young
i I lrishman from South Carolina said: Let mG
4 say this to the gentleman from Delaware =
. The thirteen amendment is naught, because all
- the States have ratified the abolition slavery.
The fourteenth amendments practical nullity
in consequence of the late Amnesty act, and
will become a complete nullity when Horace
Greeley is elected. (Applause.) And as tC
the fifteenth amendment let me say to the
IL gentleman from Delaware that while our State
has to endure what he so much objects to
negro suffrage would be the last man, and
cd | deprecate the day when any party in this re
sh public will ever enrollupon its banner the prin
es ciplc to wrest from the 10000 Africans tina
es boon which has been given to thcm to-day
r., Let them vote like other freemen. (Grea
nd applause.)
IN w nat the New OTK I3rItt thought OIL MI
p- Bayard's speech. 1t says
ol FUSSY LITTLE DELAWARE.
20 The State of Delaware made for itself
Ne great deal of thatkind Of glory which a Frcmcl
70 man might describe as superb, and yet NJ
cos war; but the aggressive and steadiast domean
oF Of nine-tcnths Of the delegates had even tt
IN effect to intimidate these agricultural gentl
,on men and proprletors Of the Delaware pock,
the borough.
'n9 nF Mr.. Bayard asked permission to make
an plea of ten or fifteen minutes, and had
cor stingily accorded Had he been man Of COZ
md manding presence and effective in speech
;oJ might have made some little diversion, but {
. of Liberal Republicans and other friends
. a Greeley who sat in nervous state oil min
Iis listening to his effort, we're satisfied in two
b;s three minutes that very small portion OF t
nos house could hear him OF all, and that of tho
NJ who Gid no great number wero disposed to +
NJ into his line of prejudice. Moreover,
I;oJ colleagues in the Delaware delegation We
cIo. guilty Of the subsequent bad management
u: nominating his father, one member Of t
vi un0 inevitable Bayard family, for President,
r;aI against Mr.. Greeley. This led to gene
80 rumbling Of talk and exclamations of surpr
0n5 that nothing within the pale Of the DCmOcra
. of party was not to be converted by the said B
o19 ~ ards and SaulsbIrys. Mr.. Cove salisbury
oIso beside Mr.. Bayard with that hard intlcXi
a;%O face which he has carried for several years
:. q 81 the head of the regning family, but not be
Carl ~ much of talker he did not come forward
S0G make any demonstration. Tom Bayard '
= of listened to for about ten minutes, and Il
" " there were loud cries of "rime ~ and an
tbo disposition to give him further oppOrtun
In lie rallied after this long interludc of noise
min outcries and said two or three very plut
snh sentences, which in soE:e measure recovc
oSon good feeling for him.
lued WHAT A DELAWARE CORRESPONDENCE TuOUC
the OF IT.
its The corresnondcnt of the Wilmington q
n OF nlercidL writes as follows The attitude Of
was Delaware delegates created Il marked imp
9lVed sion, and was the theme OF general cOum
rmed 1t was admitted, even hy the blatant Gree
mon. ties, that their course was the honest one,
they, and the few who stood with them,
is preserved their consistency and self-rcsp
Ofee, Senator Bayard's speech was a vigorous ell
ssity. but he did not say the full measure OF wha
eope thought lie was evidently indignant,
rs re- burning to utter all he thought, but he
These strained himself and so produced an eviC
who effect upon the character of his speech. Til
more were continual Interruptions from all part
uffer. the house Kisses, cat-caIls, groans, erie
/, the "Put him out ~ Take him down - and o
upon. '"Take out that calll' Several times, he
scted on the point Of yielding to the adverse ste
who but DOolittle appealed for n hearing to
: the Convention, and no went on, but finally
s able down, overborne by the antagonism of his u
encft ence, and exhausted, physically. In fact,
pass Greeley clacquers choked him of.
stem, Afterward, FIX Governor Salisbury rose,
Q not protested, in the same strain. Ho
e per- evidently excited and angry, but his W
or the were very imperfectly heard. He relieved
water mind, however, and this was probably
hould chief purpose.
drink -@~e~"----
person A rural gent OF eighteen summers lnve
bic of IN banana ON the cars recently lie care
eeded removed the peel, and put it on the seat b.