Wilmington daily gazette., 1874-05-09
From the New York Times, (Rep)
A DEMOCRATIC JUBILEE
Last Nights Reception at the Manhat-
tan Club.
Rejoicirss oyer Recent Democratic
Victories.

SPEECH OF sINAroR RAYAEp. OF pELAwAhr.
| Senator Bayard, Of Delaware, was next Intro
ducri. lie spoke Is follows:
| Nix. CHAIRMAN, and you my brother Democrats
| from almost every State IN the Union, and from
| New Jersey Laughter esteem 1t "A piece of
| great good toIiune 10 meet you, my brethren IN
polticaLiaith, tonight, when We have g" sincere
| a cause OF mutual congratulitiou that W. can look
| each other III The face with hope and ghdness
| aud look forward not only 10 a triumph. bat what
| Is hcttcr-au honest triumph fnr uuI whole COM
| try. and not fora single party. Applause. II ~
| a NtINj pleasing thn" Ia iiud 50 sharp c"ntla-t
between sitting IN Senate Chamber aS have
| done Tor many months past faced 10y batter and
| IA partisan minority. and heIo 10 mud myself not
| simply one oi the majority, hut one in IA place
| winch l. simply unanimous iur the principles
| love and the party adhere 10. do moi PROPOSE,
however, 10 hr carried away by the rAcc>s ol
prosperity tor the intuic brings With IT heavy ir-
spnnSIlhliirs. ii We are Ia have power aud
trust Tor the sikr Of the country shall soon have
power-we shah have heavy wolI, 10 do 10 extr-
cI>r that power justly. We have had ttiumph-
ot no ordinary significance in the elections in
New Hampshire aud Connecticut. They welr
States counted confidently against MS. They have
been by mli ties So emphatic rs 10 leave
no ground ior the suppOsitiun that mere personal
| Tcas affected them; but ii must have h 'en
| something stronger, something more profound,
that 50 moved the pulse ot those people that they
should decl 'rc ihrmselvcs in the maJorities they
have.
Genilemen, ask yourselves what we9 it
that moved those people. What was IT
moved those people" Eirs, il was nothing
less than tha instructive sense Of national
self presef walton. Tho people, tho masses
81 this radical misgoy ernment that opens
before the feet OF the American peOple.T That
is it. DO not let us misunderstood the
gravity of the occasion. 1t il not simply
party names, 1t is not the question OF party
| success or failure, but l believe i'll my
heart il hPs been, as | said before, the Cod
planted instinct of seli-preSeryation i'll the
American people that impels them no lon-
ger to follow the leadership that ha' lod us
! TO the unhappy condition where we now
find ourselves. Applause. Am stating
| my fellow countfymen, the case too strong
~ when l say that for the last thirteen
years the people of tho United States have
lived under alule of deSpotisn. Voled by
tho form of Republican Government? No
no. Am right in the statement that for
thirteen years past there have been none OF
| those limitations upon the Government of
| this country which we know tC day ,as we'll
| az our ancestors knew in 1877, are :he es-
| sentia safeguards for the freedom OF a peo-
pie? Every Limitation OF the Government
| that you can conceive of has been cast
down and prostrated. The people to-day
| feel the effect OF this; and the issue which
will come up III tho conpaign OF 1870 is
simply whether wo can restore n limited
|
| arc distributed first IN tho Statos and next
| in tho General Government, and again ro-
| distributed by the department. of the q en-
| eral GOvernnient-whelher we can restore
| ii so that liberty and freedom shall be
| rights III America, and not maIo permlsslvo
| enjovments as they have been tor the last
| thirteen years. Applause Tho evil that
| afllcls us to-day has IT'S origin Just IN that
| fact ut tho awlessneos at those who are
| placed III power undor strict eos enanl that
| they should limit tho exercise OF their
powers. What brought, then, this vast is-
sue that touches every household every
purse, every man living III this country
| this question Off spurious and vniueless
currency throughout our midst? 1t was
| the departure Ct This Radical Party from
| the limitations of the Constitution that for
bid lhnm distinctly and plainly 10 make
aught but gold aud silver legal tender for
tho payment ol honest debts. Applause. /
That was their fault IN tho beginning, Ad
init II You please, that II was "A fault COM
mlttad in the heat Ct war; the ashes OF
| which contest do not desire to disturb.
ct them rest IN peacs Bat il was :ho act
oi war repealed IN peara that Nc hni 50 IN
famous and 80 wrong.
Why was it when Tie supreme COuIt OF the
Iuited Statos, led by the honest and magnan-
imOus Chief Justice Bha5e, who was willing to
say in $40 that h0 was wiser man than he
had been IN 1863, who admitted that the heat
tent that it permitted him 10 warrant the issue
, of this Valuelcss currency for the payment
of dehts-why was ii ,hat that decision was
sustained by the heart of the American people
and which every lawyer in the country, knew
! To be Just and Irue9 Every man in the coun-
try acknowledged the logical effect OF that de
ci>ion, and lput it to YOU gentlemen of the
great Metropolis OF this country; you whose
influence in the commercial portions OF the
country is so strOng,whether the business men
Of the country were not willing To accept that
decision, and thank edG od that it had arrived.
What was the result? The President of the
'nited States who has been 50 much lauded
of large Tor setting this restriction upon thI
, further issue of paper money-and thank
him cordially for it-joined with his party ii
+, hostility TO that decision and his ATTORNEY
; General who stands to day as one OF the cham
, plons Oihonest currency-G save the mark
= in the lower House of Massachusetts, was In,
r man who went before the supreme Court I,
urge, and am sorry TO say to urge etiectiyel,
the reversal of that decision Therefore
. say that they have persisted in their wrong
and they persstn it yet. But that is but on,
matter.
\ collision at Sea.