Wilmington daily gazette., 1874-06-06
m the Baltimore Gazette. of yesterday
Mr. bayard's Last Speech.

1t ID not often that, from "the dark, unfatbom-
gu eaVss' or, 10 speak less POLITICALLY but with
more precision, through the muddy waters of
Congressional rhetoric, there comes 10 the sut
,aSe an ytnihg IKE "a gem of purest ray serene
"heh h does, every man and woman oil genuine
sentiment ought to try TO grasp it. Dropping
suuuehiy fom the hgurative region to actual
,s ,se, NC cannot refrain from calling attention to
inc euectiVe and singularly simple and eloquent
speech OF Senator bayard last week Oh the at
tempt 10 lolst that moustrosity, women suifrlpe
on Territorial bill We say Il was etieetiye ior
"neh he mad hnishcd, one Of the noisiest allvo-
Gates OF the measure--the Senator from Nevad,
hung MS head, aud admitted that be was almost
convinced. 1t was effective, too, In this. that
when immediately after Mr. Bayard's uuprened
iateu and earnest speech a vote was taken on the
amendment, 1t was rejected by most decisive
Vote Ii any one wishes 10 see ON which side
was tile moral US well the intellectual force of
tue senatc. without reference Ia party dlstinc-
tions, let him study The yeas and nays rhe only
really respectable Senator'S we mean morally and
| socially who voted Tor degrading women by turn
inS Them INTO voters. were Messrs Anthony
Masnouih Summers successor, that abstract
friend OF women), and Window. But il is of
Mr bayards remarkable speech we designed 10
speak III was, AS We have said, unpremelitattl 4
it was lmpulstve. II was brief, though every
Soru old. AS an expression OF pure sent-
| ment 1t was very brave speech
young positively and relatively he IL. spok @
| as only young man, a Young husband. a
young iather can speak and We do not woII-
der that The veteran reprohates oil the Ssn-
ate, lor such we Tear some OF them are, wsr q
awed by his earnestness. lie spoke words
Oh reiiR'ous reverence rarely heard in that
region, except from tho noIcenary np, Of
political chaplains, anu told them what we
viii not spoil abridging,
lhis Is an attempt TO disregard laWklnro-
| nluigated by the Almighty himself IL \.
irreverent legislation in the simptast and
strongest sense or the word. Nay, sir, not
ouly so. but 1t Ia IA step in detiance of Ina
l laws of revealed religion a. given TO man.
| III there be one Institution which il seems 10
| mo has affected the character OF this enun-
try, which has affected the whole chersrter
| oi modorn civilization. tho results OF ~ blrh
We can but imperfoctly trace and bur part
y recoSnlZa, 1t il tho elect ot Christian
| tharrinse, the mysterious tic uniting the
one man and tho one woman until they
| shall bscome one aAd not two parsons IL
| Is an institution which Is my ysteriuua \, h,eh
| IN beyond the reach and the under standing
| OF man, but he certainly can be.t exhibit
l bis sense OF duty and proper obliyaiinn
l when ne feYerentiy shall submit TO and
| recognize its wisdom. All such laws as pro.
posed by TINS amendment are stumbling
blocks. ana are meant TO bo stumblpp-
blocks in tha cay OF that perfect union of
| both sexes which WAS Intended ny the law
1 of Christian marriage"
l Passing to lower and more practical
Wow OF the subject, Mr.. BsyaId said, aud
We are proud 10 quote his words:
Under the operation of this amendment
what will become OF the family heal tn stone
l around which cluster the very best intiu-
| eDces OF human education? You will have
| a family with two hesds--a "house divided
| against itself" You will no longer have
I that beautiful ana pece ssary suboI dination
OF the wife to husband, and that uuity of
| relationship which is required hv a trus
and real Christian marriage. You will
have substituted a system OF contention and
difference, warning against the laws OF ua-
tnrs herself, and attempting by these new
tangled, petty, puny and most Contempt
bic contrivance, organized in defiance OF
the best lessons ofhumsn experience to con-
fuse, impede and disarrsnge the pal pable will
of the Creator OF the world. l can sec IN
| all these attempts to invade the relations
between man aud wife, to establish differ
ence, to declare those to he two whom God
| hath declared TO be one, elements of chaotic
disorder, elements Of destruction to all those
| things which are, after all, our best reliance
| for good and pure and AN honest gov
1 ernmsnt.
Is there a respectable man or a modest
woman In the land that will not assent to
l every word OF thise Mr. Bayard denouncss
ss we'll he may, the. experimental character
OF the change proposed. No on dared 10
talk OF it with reference TO organized COM
munittes, but 10 Was to 10 tried in the far
West-in Pembina. Nobody who took
part in the discussion seemed to be aware
that this was one OF the Intellectual crochets
OF the late Chief Justice Chase, as revealed
In the strange biography which has recently
appeared, and TO which we hope In a day or
two to do full justice. IL is now, thanks 10
the Senator from Deiaware,ss as dead as Judge
Chase.