The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1872-07-30
Senator Bayard's Aetter--Vyhy lie
Supports GPeelpy and Rrneyn.

return to take part in the campaign in
support Of the candidates nominated at
Cincinnati and Baltimore. He mnouG,
ces this intention, and his reasons for
it, in q letter whi"h we herewith pub
liSh:
SENATOR BAEAR3 md HIS REAStNS EoR
SUPPORTING GREELEY AND BROWN
Ny DEAR SIR: The peremptory or
ders of my physicians compel me to oh
tain absolute rest and quiet, and, for the
purpose, to leave the country. Although
untitled by my condition of health, |
felt it to be my duty to go to Baltimore
as q delegate to the Convention, and it
is in relation to the action of that body
that wish few words with you, and
through yon to my other party friends
in Delaware, before | leave. teed not
say to you or to them with what aston
ishment and disappointment | heard of
the nomination of Greeley and Brown
at Cincnnati,nor how steadily and open
ly have at all times expressed myself
in opposition to the adoption Of that
ticket by the Democratic party at Bal
timore. Bat the result las been accom-
plishcd, however, much against our will
and efforts, and it is our duty, calmly
and steadily, TO confront the fact now
presented to our eyes, ...
REVENUE AND CIVIL SERVICE REFORM, ETC.
If the issues of the campaign were
those Only of the revenue reform or
civil service neutrality-suspicious. in which
/, the pecuniary loss or gain to the public
were involved-I might Ire willing to
itake no part in the Presidential contest,
but allow the demoralizing course pur-
sued by Grant and his administration
to be continued four years longer, trust
| ing that the very extent and flagitious
nature of the notorious abuses would in
themselves 50 instruct the people that
they would record from placing further
trust in stch hands
The natural capacities of the soil an6
climates of our country, together with
! the industries and energies of our peo-
pie, render the production of wealth
(more wealthy almost boundless, and
we can almost afford to bear The results
= of financial hlunders, and so long as
they are confined to official circles, oi
public robberies and peculatiors, pro.
vided we can in the end buy our exper
fence through the usual methods of loss
and suffering. But, severe aid painful
though these abuses and their conse
quences may be, they weigh to M
tliehtly, compared TO the destruction o.
all the limitations upon power which
our written Constitution Of government
was designed to create, and which Gen
Grant and those who assist him in nd
rninistering the government, including
| the Radical msjorities in both houses o
I Congress, seem either to totally disre
gard. or as have sometimes thought
to take scornfal pleasure in tramplins
under foot $50 .r4 .a..a
st is utterly impossible for me, will
the scenes which | have witnessed in thu
Senate of the United States rising be
| fore my eyes, not to feel the graves
appreheusions and alarm at any pros
pect or suggestion Of allowing the pol
ilcy Of Grant and his administration to
ward the Southern States and thei
twhite inhabitants longer to continue, i
any honorable act of mine can tend tc
avert SO great acalamity. F'ol.
1sg Can any man justly deny that the con
dtionl of the people in the Rhenisf
provinces, torn from France By thC
armed hand of Germany, is preferable
to day. in all that protects person aIiC
property, to that of the white people il
many of the Southern States under thu
governments which Congress has set NJ
over them under the so-called system o
Reconstruction, and which Grant has up
held either by threats Of the bayonet oi
its actual presence in those comniuni
ties ? He and bis party have stood BY
for the last three years, and have seer
the South robbed, insulted and almos
beggared by q molly crew, all of hi
own political party, of unprincipled pc
! litical adventurers from the North an(
ignorant and vicious negroes of the ma
tive population, and have uttered nt
word Of disapproval, but, on tile con
trary, have from time to time lent thu
military power of the government Ca
in the cases of the troops sent upon ap
1plication of Governor Holden, of Nortl
Carolina, Scott, of South Carolina, ol
his own brother in law, Casey, in New
4 Orleans) to maintain in power these
J rapaeious and dishonest rulers whom
the sufferings and discomfort of theii
people were threatening to eject from
Office and power. a, 55 A-s 5Vua
Now; whether approve Mr.. Greeley
personally or no; whether he had or ha(
not been the steady and violent oppo
tnenta Of the political principles anC
measures which you and have beer
upholding all our lives, yet if he has
become, with or against our action el
wishes, the most likely or practica
means of restoring a better condition
of feeling in the North toward tht
South, and restoring security and jus
1 tice to that oppressed region, | should
! feel 1nyselfgas an American, without re
gard to the name of party; bht without
the sacrifice of any conviction in rela
tion to my political principles, COMPEL
ed to assist in placing hhnin power.
81 say nothing no* Of his qualifca
tons or personal fitness for the place;
have spoken of them heretofore, an6
against my wishes and Judgment The
representatives of the party have placed
him in the candidacy. If there was
any practicable means of electing mar
better fitted for the place, and one
whose political career has been in har
nony with your views and mine, ] neet
not say to you that should strive tc
see such one chosen; but the current
of popular opinion in this vast country
takes strange and oftentimes ntowart
directions, and for good or ill sweeps
us with it. :ao
Sixty days ago the condition of af
| fairs we now witness would have beer
deemed incredible, and any man woult