The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1872-07-19

Hon. Thomas T. Bayard, U. s. Senator
from Delaware, has written letter, announc'
ing his determination to support Greeley upon
his return from Europe, whittier he has gone
for the benefit of his health
In the National Democratic Convention
Senator Bayard opposed most earnestly the
nomination of Greeley and Brown, and the
endorsement of the Cincinnati Platform pure
and simple. His letter is a manly one, and
exhibits IL spirit of selfsacrificc and true pa
triotsm rarely witnessed in these degenerate
days The distinguished Senator in his let
ter says:
1t is utterly impossible for me, with the
scenes which have witnessed in the Senate
of the United State rising before my eyes
not to feel the gravest apprchensons and
alarm ut any prospect or suggestion of allow
ing the policy of Grant and his administra-
ton toward the Southern States and their
white Inhabitants longer to continue, if any
honorable act Of mine can tend to avert SO
great n calamity. Can any man justly deny
that the condition of the people in the Rhcn.
ish provinces, torn from France by the arm.
ed hand of Germany, is preferable to day in
all that protects person and property, to that
of the white people in many of the Southern
States under the governments which Con-
gress has set up oyer them under the So
called system of reconstruction and which
Grant has upheld either by threats of the
bayonet or it's actual presence in those com
munties
He and his party have stood by for the last
three years, and have seen the South robbed
insulled and almost beggared by motley
all e I,;.,
cipled political adventures from the North,
and ignorant and vicious negroes of the ma
tive population, and have uttered no word of
disapproval but, on the contrary, have from
time to time lent the military power of the
Government (as in the cases of the troops
sent upon application of Governor Holden,
of North Carolina of Scott, of South Caro-
lima or his own brotherin-law, Casey, in
New Orleans) to maintain in power these ia
pacious and dishonest rulers whom the suf.
ferings and discomfort of their people were
threatening TO eject from office and power
Now, whether | approve Mr.. Greeley per-
sonally or no; whether he had or not been
the steady and violent opponent of the polit-
ical principles and measures which you and
| have been upholding all our lives yet if
he has become, with or against our action or
wishes, the most likely or practical means of
restoring n better condition of feeling in the
North towards the South, and restoring Sc
curity and justice to that oppressed region,
| should feel myself rs an American, without
regard to the name of party, but without the
sacrifice any conviction in relation to my
political principles, compelled to assist in
placing him in power.
/ say nothing now of his qualifications or
personal fitness for the place have spoken
of them heretofore, and against my wishes
and judgment the representatives of the party
have placed him in the candidacy. If there
was any practicable means of electing man
better fllcd for the place, and one whose po-
lhical career has been in harmony with your
views and mine, need not say TO you that
should strive to see such one chosen; but
The current of popular opinion in this vast
country takes strange and oftentimes unto
ward directions, and for good or i'll sweeps
us with it,.
Sixty days ago the condition of affairs we