The daily gazette., 1874-11-07

Speech of Senator Baua rd

speech of Senator Bayar rd
AT THE MEETING OF THE MANHArrA
| CLUB OF NEW YORK CITY ON
| THURSDAY NIGHT.
@ @My Friends Of the Manhattan Club =
inns Is not the first time have taste,
cious and kind it is. This is not tba firs
time that my hand has sought yours. an,
that my eye has met yours in hearty anc
sincere congratulation on honest victor,
IN politics. We had preliminary show
er in Connecticut and New Hampshire
but 1t strikes me we have had sometbine
OF an equinox now all over the country
The first was but pattering drops to tha,
which was to follow. This is a deluge
ana most welcome. Never did the thirs.
ty and parched earth 80 long for the gra-
cious showers; and never were they more
needed Or more welcome than has this
change been to the hearts of the Amer;-
can people. 1t has been long coming.
but thank God it came ut last, and come
70 stay. 1t Is not mere passing shower.
the effects OF which are to be forgotten
NO, gentlemen, it is great, rich achieve
ment, and our children, to the latest Gar.
Grafton, shall rejoice in it. Iwish / Could
only say cheering, kindly words l wish i
cou!d shake your hands with the sim aple
JOY feel in contemplating what has oc-
CURED. won't say contemplating, for
l nave not begun to realize and feel what
1t All means. But in the face of the re-
suits That are to follow individual joy.
short-iv pleasure seems exceedinpiy
unworthy. There is something to me in
the contemplation of tho consequences
that are to follow that should excite our
most prayerful gratitude. We can stand
ana cast our eye over this broad land
where it reaches tho unemployed, hon
est, toiling masses who ask for labor to
obtain food, and find it not, or to the
thousands of southern mothers, turning
their eyes to heaven, and see to-day safe
ty and relief for their children and for
their homes in the victories which have
peen gained. These are grand thoughts,
and it seems to NE that to put mere tenn
porary. idle joys beside them is rather 20
belittle tho occasion. Let us form some
conception of the responsibilities to co, ne
with tho powers that are likely to be in
trusted to our hands. And now the DOW
er has been entrusted to us, and we must
DO prepared to sustain this power by
gaining and by keeping the confidence Of
the American people. (Applause) This,
| believe, can be done; this, believe, is
the need of the hour. We have gained
their votes, and now we must gain their
confidence. But there are many things
to come as the result of this election
there Is no time tonight to gather them
up and array them before you, but the
great thing that Is to result is that It
shall revive the trust of the people in
the reality OF our form of government.
1 have been very anxious, watchful OBJ
server OF the affairs of this country ever
since 1 camo to manhood, and for the
last six years 1 have been where could
watch i, more closely than ever before,
and there has b9en growing distrust
and growing disbelief in the reality
and the pernanence of the Government
under. which we live. We have ,een the
growth Of tyranny, and seen it so strong
ly intrenchcd, and the wisest care of our
ancestors brought to open shame, and we
have seen the popular vote apparently
sustaining taGse things year after year,
election after election, until hope itself
almost died within us. Now, thank God,
all that has been changed, and hope has
been revived, and / believe it will be D
lesson to our people that no abuses, no
power, however strongly intrenched, can
stand in the way of the public sentiment
| OF this country when once justly aroused.
| think that one fact will send us all
home tonight prepared to do our duty
as American citizens pledged in the fu
ture to sustain the Constitution under
great epochs of the worlds history have
been distinguished by some culminating
fact-some one of the many WaterlooE
of the world in which the whole political
canvass is changed by the result of one
day; and believe that in the history oil
the United States the election that took
place on the third day of November, 1874
will be as marked an event rs was thu
18th of June-I believe that is the cor.
rect date-on which the battle of Water
loo was fought.
And they can be found in this coun
try and this party. But here, have
gone much further than l intended ]
only wanted to say word of congrat
ulation and 1 could not resist the temp
tation to come over here tonight anC
take part in the general joy of oul
whole country, and / have been led to
give utterancc to the reflections which
came to my mind in coming ovel
here. Because there has been no time
to trammel up all the consequences o
this victory as yet. That it includes
the election of Democratic Presiden
in 1876 cannot reasonably doubt. l
seems to me we voted for Democratic
President on Tuesday last in 1876
[Applause.l For you all know, my
friends, that such is the desperation o
the party now in power that if thu
House of Representatives and the Sen
ate of the United States had remained
in the hands of these men they migE
now put in operation their dark ant
shameless threat, and though the elec
torial votes had come in, electing oul
man, they might, as they have dom
before, have refused to count them
and we might have had the Vice-Pres
ident of the United States sitting a
the head of the council of the two
houses, and declaring that he would
not allow the vote of a sovereign State
to be counted. This was the shameful
action of Mr.. Wade, OF Ohio, on on'
occasion, and the only time in the his
tory of our country when it ever oc
Icurred. Thank God the elections o.
last Tuesday will prevent this being
done in 1877 when the votes of the
Electoral College come in. This il
no time to attempt to gather up the
consequences of this election but the
next House of Representatives will
have the power to investigate abuses
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