Delaware gazette. (Wilmington, Del.) 1837-1883, 1874-11-13

tt4om fne bdN9fe Qa.ette.) e
The Meet De,noch ffc President
If after Marathon, II Mareneo. OF Wa
terloo ITO say nothin{of RrAdoricksburg
and ChaneellorsviKisl or ANY other great I
disaster, the disconMted hosts had pre- /
tended to suggesl6 aleader for the VIC
tors, it would not hive been more pre-
posterous than for dmoralized Republic
canlsin 70 pretend to tell us who should | (
or should not be The Democratic candi-
date for the Presidency In 1876. Yet
this Is preclsaF W VAT some Of its leading
Journals aes7Bsz dong. No.one is.rhore
active than the lata Administration orr
gan in New York, the Times, from whose
eminent good sense, as shown in its re-
cent line ct actionswe confess we expsct-
ed something mos rational. 1t first
mildly Suggested the coming man"
Mr.. 1ilden, who, We imagine, held as lit
tie idealf becoming President as he has
OF being Khan Of TArtary. He Knows
no one 3etter-that after 1868 and 1872 |
! no New York candidate is likely to be ac- |
| ceptedl The next, and more elaborate
suggestion, Is Senator Bnyard," and
more tan column Of most inaccurate
historl Is printed to prove from the re-
i cord O his grandfather, his father, and
I his own, that he is utterly and absolute
ly thevery worst man OF the lot. Now,
we haze not the most remote idea OF be-
ing seluced into any premature discus
sion o such q matter, especially in its
personal relations, or Of doing Mr.. Bay
ard-the promise Of whose future is very
brigh-the injustice of making his acts
or artecedents the subject or irregular
debaae. OF the!dead we have right to
speal, and beg tosay, with emphasis, that
the Times does not know what it is talk
ing aoout when it talks about the elder
Baygd being "a stiif-starched, egotisti-
cal, lederalist," for more genial, earn
. est nan never lived OF adorned the coun-
! ellis d the Nation. And here we quote:
Now take the old gentleman and re-
} vive him for present use. Strip of his
: knee.breeches and cut his queues put
D him IN Jeffersonian pantaloons and a
, blaclecoat; and, having infused into him
9 the slave period ideas and the secession
: theorS OF State. rights. Set the grand.
! father in TN Senate, There you have
!; the grandsofE
i But that this is in, the form of u letter
: from Wilmington, endorsed by the Times
y we should give it different origin. Al
IS it is we credit it to some atrabihous 10
T. cal Republican, fresh from the carous'
g that despair had plunged him into, witt
d looks with envy and hatred on the younl
" and genial and gallant statesman, aroun'
= whom so much popular sympathy Is cry.
" talizing. The ignorance Of the writer
D., as monstrous as his malice. To talk 9
g the James A, Bayard Of the past as a cor
70 spirator with Burr, is simply absurd
le every student Of history knowing that
lie was Mr.. Bayard's resolution, by castin
m | the blank vote Of Delaware, which CAV
$. the Presidency to MIR. Jefferson. Tht
m the grandfather was a Federalist OF q
rs advanced type we shall not deny; bt
Id this we know, that when in 1914 u
h. Democratic President, Mr., Madiso
" chose commissioners to conduct the n
OF gotiations at Client, he named James J
ge Bayard. Of Delaware, as the colleague
en- Gallatin, and Adams, and Clay and Rrl
ie sell. His name is to the Treaty, and
y came home 70 die without q spot upon /
ma fame-to have his grave desecrated, mo
sm than half century after, by this Radio
M. trufierdog. seeking for putrid tidbits
az, the Republican press.
ne We haveno patience with such CO
,ne duct, and yet its patent absurdity d
eas arms resentment. The present Baya
.he | will.not be the less cherished by
,ed Democracy of to-day, because of
Of ancestry like this, nor will the gr'
the Southern heart of this country-so
lst, by Democratic remedies to be restol
me to its normal functions-lean ]
ohn kindly toward him because the Tin
IN proves that he sympathiZed in
~; NJ hour of sorrow. But we forbear, h
tba ing already said more than we int
ded ded, begging Mr.. Bayard's reyileri
Iiss bear in mind that, in the present Il
en- per of the country, no surer mode
list. promoting any high ambitions he n
dis have, can be adopted, than to m
tive him the target of poisoned Parth
aye, shafts.
q, ! One other word, and we are dc
III The Democratic party has no m
nits idea Of naming now, or even favor
eral any man for the Presidency than it
e. of foretelling the weather two "
hence. The time is not yet. The
pirations of individuals, if there
fs any, as well as Of their friends,
continue to be the salutary TO
within the party which are to keep
.ime | party steady. The choice will
lied. made with reference to sectional
ate. mony. That alone will make IL
free tional. When that equilibrium is +
ina | perfected, we may, from this pal
The the world, sput forward O claim
nor lsfair eosssid Station. Moo will re
Iuar- to listen to views of communities
and | lively so small, but politically SO Fl
the full as Maryland and Delaware, v
emo theymind the Democracy, met to n
Iites. the final choice, that, in the eli
/ the odd years OF our constitutional
g in tence, the South has had six p
d no dents, counting Mr.. Tyler New
a the land two New York, counting
], she more, two the Southwest two
,gled one, Pennsylvania onei the North
gton. two, and, as we say, none for US.
Ictim far in advance are we prepare
she speak, but further we are not wi
> for that our political advcrsaries shall
Eve sumo to lead or drive us.