The daily gazette., 1874-10-29
The Political SstuatiO n,
SPEECH OF SENATOR BAYARD IN NEW JER-
sEY-RADIcAL RAscALITY--THE
CIVIL RIGHTS BILL III AHy7yfW

= We take from the New York World
the following report of very eloquent
speech recently delivered by Senator
Bayard, of Delaware, in Jersey City:
cat the invitation of your Chairman I
have come, snatching moment from
the labor5 OF busy canvass in my own
State, to take counsel as to our duty in
the present canvass. 1t is time when
men should take counsel together. This
broad land is very full Of distress to-day.
There are to day in this city, in every
village of this State, in every hamlet Of
this Union, more strong hands idle that
long for work than ever before in the
history OF our people. Not only has
there been much wearing thought in the
past year, but here we are on the thresh-
hold of a cold winter, and the sunlight
OF relief has not yet dawned. In such q
time is it not fit that you of New Jersey
and l of Delaware should take counsel
together? All, gentlemen our friend
ship Is not of modern date; it is of an
old and ancient date. Let me go back
and take your hearts with me to the
days and to the spirit of '76-to that
cold December night when Washington
crossed the river that flows between
your home and mine to victory, and on
that cold Christmas morning there stood
together there the Jersey Blues and the
Blue, Hens Chickens. Together they
stood at Monmouth, Princeton and York
town, till British rule passed into histo-
ry. Applause. Now may we not come
together to see if the spirit of our ances-
tors may not carry us through the perils
that confront us? They distributed the
power and placed checks upon its exer-
else, so that the people should learn the
great principle of local self government.
1t was the spirit of non-interference be-
tween State and State, between the Gen.
eral Government and the States, which
they taught, and it is this spirit which
invoke tonight. 1t were impossible to
speak of all the issues of the hour. /
shall not speak of financial questions, OF
that abominable legacy-rag money
which has doubled the cost of redeeming
our debt. 1 shall not speak of party
which claims to be the guardian Of the
peoples credit. l can but smile at the
rag barons who ask you to credit party
which has never made a pledge but to
break it. | say nothing of tariff duties
which have given us protection until our
trade has been protected out of exist
ence, and the whole business of the coun-
try brought to a deadlock. I speak of
higher interests than these. Ny friends,
we may be poor, we may be in rags, we
| may have bad money and not good, but
leave us still the principles of constitu-
| tional liberty, and our children may glo.
riously retrieve the disasters of their
| sires What is the issue of the day? On
the one side coercive legislation enforc.
ed by the bullet, the bayonet, the drag.
oon and the battery, all peaceful process.
es forgotten, laws enforced by regiments
and propped like Kellogg's Government
by bayonets. Opposed is party strug
Cling against this. Do you doubt this
| forccment of it's tariff? Spies and in.
| formers. | heard man, whose name
| hesitate to utter among decent men
this Mr.. Butler, of Massachusetts,
that through the action of the Laws ol
his party, letters from respectable wo
men had gone into the hands of an in
former, and he could say that in al
American Congress unrebuked. VIVA,
is your so-called Department of Justice
Heaven save the mark-what is youl
Attorney General? The chief of ban
ditti, this year in Alabama, but next il
| New Jersey. Ships of war have beer
moored in your harbor, and United Statel
soldiers landed in the streets of New
York to enforce the laws of this party
already 1t looks now as if the mex
Congress may have Democratic major
ity Do you take that in? 1t mean
that all this shall cease, it means
change to prevent corruption, and inves
tigate the rottenness of departments
and find where this money has beel
squandered. Applause. More; we elec
in 1876 a successor to General Grant
Applause. Mr.. Roscoe Conkling, hi
bosom friend, has told us that we mus
choose between Grant and Democrat
and we will. Applause Forgetting hi
caution, Mr.. Conkling announced Gran
for a third term in that sentence, and Oh
that we have something to say. TIL
victory that we fight for to-day is tina
the votes in 1876 for electors for Presi
dent may be honestly counted before
Democratic Congress. If anything els
would not rouse you, remember tina
your vote in November is the crownin
vote of 1876. The country looks to you
State. For six months in the year tn
capital is at one of your watering places
one of your citizens in the Navy Depart
ment serves Grant there, and your senio
Senator serves him anywhere. Laugh
ter. | am happy to say that you have
j. true man to Offset him, Jno. P. Stockton
Applause. He is, it is true, in the mi
nority, as are the rest of us. We can
but as we have done, march to defeat
but please God, always ready to marc
/
again.
lis not in mortals to command success.
We will do more, horatio; we'll deserve
Let me call your attention to some {
the acts of your senior Senator. "A voic'
How about the Gag Lawr Well, +
tell you. IT is an old American ide
that the laws should be the reflex OF tn
popular will. By this party, on the cor
: trary, the wishes of the people were dil
regarded. The press expressed the dii
content of the people at these laws an
at the rascality of the District Govern
mcnt, calling shepherd, the President
friend, thief, and other impolite br
expressive and accurate terms displea.
ing to the demi-semi-royal ears of h
friend. After giving somewhat in deta
the fraud and chicanery by which til
law was passed, the Senator proceeded
The law begun by Frelinghuysen was q
last put through by Poland. Vernon
. has given her answer to Poland. war
New Jersey to give her answer to FIR,
. linghuysen. Charles Summers mantle
somewhat too large for him, he imagine
was on his shoulders, and he took up th
law enacting social equality. If in an
: way it is passed, roll up the map of yor
Q State, blot out her fair name, and ca
her "Granttown," OF some other name
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