The New York herald., 1872-07-05
THE UNYERRIPIED COMPROMISE.
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THE Ex-GovERNoR OF DELAWARE
'swhat kind Of man is Cove Salisbury ~
.s'G0ve Is the most determined Bourbon In the
ane ne Ins ss an S e S es
habits, industry and business responsibility, and
he has come to he good deal of bully in politics,
barroom manners or his more brilliant brother,
Willard. Cove Is member OF the Methodist
yags S at s y the caRa
1p politics, keeps In correspondence with his satel
ntes In all parts OF tile state and makes Tying visits
little to do as the State has no institutions, not
even penitentiary, and as things are going they
Ud T eSin eSice have on no pover Ss Green & squas
and rickety, with ,p whipping p post right
nnder the caves Of It. Goss sauisD1y Ss MSm
back more than all the personal influences In 1t.
He win appear at Baltimore as the representative
OF what he has made the State and not OF the State
as it might be. lou can imagine what small
AFFAIR the State Of Delaware Is, politically, when
Wilmington is Of more account than to- be the Chief
magistrate, except that the latter control the
United States Senatorship; for, according to our
control the third, there being but three in the
State; therefore the two lower counties, which
owe the thirty and County,
Newcastle, which Outnumbers both OF them by
large majority, and is, 4 not for Grant, then for
Greeley. We have college In Delaware, whose
preparatory school was founded twenty years before
the Revolutionary war hut between 1855 and 1871 the
indifference OF sucn men as the Bayards and Sauls-
burys to education. although at that time we
were actually paving the small State expenses
we had by taxing passengers who had to
go through the corner Of our prlncipality. That
per capita tax generally paid our State expenses
time ago we got from the federal government q
large gift OF land on the public domain to establish
the ces 70 at e s
commencement, after the long recess OF thirteen
years, Governor salisbury, who was President Of
while Senator Thomas Bayard delivered an address
there which, lift meant anything meant that he fa-
kind Of re education. That speech, delivered BY
comparatively young man. who holds the senator
9ennu%1caton an nc alton Of Compulsory education and cold
appeal for public education generally"
DELAWARE AND ITS HEROES.
'What sort OF man Is the present Senator In Con-
gress. Eli Saulsbury?"
sHe is q TALL slab bsided slow poke, who practices
law In Dover, and Is in Obstinacy reduced type of
Cove and in ability very reduced type OF Willard"
"Are the Saulsbury's good-looking men9"
"Gove % has grown stout tout, Of late years and is
whom some people pronounce good looking. Re-
dictionary, as he is he is the most honest Of all the
puted personal dishonesty to any Of them, yet their
manner Of conducting State campaigns is without
franIness and In fact It consists OF keeping events
ing the ignorant. James Ponder, who Is a member
of the National Democratic Committee and dele
Willard Salisbury used to have fine head of
black hair, laughing, blush h-gray eye fine open
now turned gray, has fery red face and shows the
ravages Of the barley BREW"
"How does Tom Bayard compare with the sauls-
burysS"
'sfom is socially higher type Of man, a good
consulting lawyer and fellow OF Judgment, but he
ern progress and is quite as selfish under the sur
face as any Of the Saulsburys for a continuance of
mis- own power, which he knows that he holds more
Inv frQn mi tcctn md han nv nrfn ino1
parts or personal confidence. Tom .Bayard
is afraid that unless things remain as they are
will make war upon him and drive him out OF poll
tics, for on the stump he Is a sophomore. To look
npon, he is tall, hesitatng in speech, and bears the
stamp OF man who had gone through q great deal
ofwOrk and discipline to be able to carry the mantle
OF his father and grandfather"
ooh, !" said my informant, laughing sBenny Biggs
IS sort Of agricultural blowhard iiiteTate Sbserv
years and years. and esteemed it the highest privi
lege to follow John M. Clayton around like coach
came the pity Of the Sauisburys, and they finally
allowed him to go to Congress, where. like every
new convert, he seeks to out-Bourbonize the Bour
Do you ever expect in Delaware torevolutiOnize
"Certainly we do; the Greeley movement will do
1t. That Is what they are afraid OF. Even In VIII
lard Saulsbury's town the local democratic paper
there has been making sharp and effective fight
on the Salisbury influence for some time and the
papers of Wilmington, Del, are going through
to With
have the most worthless free negro population in
the United States-a mere set Of squatters sur
hands servants and useless because there are no
avenues for them to follow out their destiny. The
several years past is not adapted to interest voters
and induce them to minge together in the general
arena. Indeed, our salisbury friends have dis
couraged political meetings for fear that somebody
would rise up and ventilate the gospel of the new.
Tho Baltimore Convention when it nominates
Greeley, will do our State more good than anything
that has happened to 1t for years.
AS the. correspondent Of NE HERALD passed by
mel Yerger Of Mississippi fame, was pointed out to
him, sitting on the balcony. Being Introduced, he
man, with small feet and large head sort OF side
wise mouth, whose obliquty was concealed by his
mustache and goatee, and his head was covered
gray eye, and he converses with considerable flu
ency and atIabiity. 1t was not difficult to be ap-
pretended that Colonel Yerger belonged to that
class of Southern fire-eaters now nearly extinct,
who were quick to put by small points Of logic
In dsputation and who make the minor premise Of
free discussion duel or an ARRAY, and the conclu-
sion, perhaps, tragedy. He was plainly and
neatly attired and although editing small even
as well appreciated here as II had hoped. Time,
which makes all things even, has given him, how
ever quiet M passage IN this city and the measure Of
may achieve in it,
Unwilling to say anything to this gentleman upon
the subject Of the death Of Colonel Crane we were
relieved by hearing him introduce the topic himself
.'hs great trouble in Mississippi" He said that
he had been Union man in that State to the last
and was the last Union candidate for Governor,
supporting Bell and Everett. He published the
Atssissfppidn, at Jackson, the State capital in op-
At that time, Colonel Yergf said, he had issued
some sort Of a letter OF explanation which en-
bodied his views upon secession as q miserable
piece of policy and certain to bring ruin upon the
South and all political classes In it-those who op-
posed rebellion and those who advocated it,
1t happened, continued Colonel Yerger that after
the war was over he got into an ARRAY which, he
said, had made him more unpopular than many of
the men who were original secessonists. "How-
ever, /" he added, 1.-THE laws OF the country took
out OF the hands Of the military commission, and,
no nsceS N aga,n beoye r
that affair ruined me, and came to Baltimore to
educate my children and break up the old associa-
fiOus- The which cd IN nv