The daily gazette., 1874-11-12
(From the Baltimore Gazette) -t
The Meet Democratic President

The Meet Democratic President
If after Marathon, or Marengo, or Wa
terloo Ito say nothing Of Fredericksburg
ana Chanceliorsvifle, or any other great
disaster, the discounted hosts had pre-
tended to suggest leader for the vic
tors, it would not have been more pre-.
posterous than for demoralized Repub bli.
canism to pretend to telius who should
or should not be the Democratic candi-
date for the Presidency in 1876. Yet
this is precisely what some OF its leading
journals are now doing. No one is more
active than the late Administration Or
gan in New York, the Times, from whose
eminent good sense, as shown in its re-
cent line Of action, we confess we EXP set
ed something more rational. 1t first
mildly suggested as the coming man"
Mr. 11lden. who, we imagine, held as lit
tie idea OF becoming President as he has
OF being Khan OF Iartary, He Knows
no one better--that after 1868 and 1872
no New York candidate is likely to be ac-
cepted. The next, and more elaborate
suggestion. is Senator Bayard," and
more than column Of most inaccurate
history is printed to prove from the re-
sord of his grandfather, his father, and
his own. that no is utterly and absolute
~ the very worst man of the lot. Now,
we have not the most remote idea OF be-
ing seduced into any premature discus
sion OF such O matter, especially in its
personal relations, or Of doing Mr.. Bay
ard-the promise of whose future is very
bright-tne injustice of making his acts
or antecedents the subject or irregular
debate. or the dead we have q right to
speak, and beg to say, with emphasis, that
the Times does not know what it is talk
ing about when it talks about the elder
Bayard being "a stiff-starched, egotisti-
cal, Federalist." for more genial, earn
est man never lived or adorned the coun-
cils OF 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 queue; put
him in JeHersonian pantaloons and q
black coat and. having infused into him
the slave period ideas and the secession
theory OK State rights. Set the grand
father in the Senate. There you have
the grandson r. -
But that this is in the form of @ letter
from Wilmington, endorsed by the Times,
we should give it q different origin, As
it Is we credit it to some atrabilious To-
cal Republican, fresh from the carouse
that despair had plunged him into. who
looks with envy, and hatred on the young
and genial and gallant statesman, around
whom 30 much popular sympathy is crys-
talizing. the ignorance of the writer is
as monstrous as his malice. 10 talk OF
the James A. Bayard of the past as con-
splrator with Burr, is simply absurd
every student Of history knowing that it
was Mr.. Bayard's resolution, by casting
the blank vote of Delaware, which gave
the Presidency to Mr.. Jefferson. That
the grandfather was Federalist OF an
l advanced typo we shall not deny but
| this We know, that when in 1914 the
Democratic President, Mr.. Madison,
chose commissioners to conduct the ne.
gotiations at Ghent, he named James A.
Bayard- OF Delaware. as tho colleague oil
Gallatin, and Adams, and Clay and Rus
sell. His name is to the Treaty, and he
came home to die without spot upon his
fame--to have his grave desecrated, more
than half O century after, by this Radical
trufie-dog. seeking for putrid tidbits fol
the Republican press. 1.5c-.
we nave no patience with such con
duct, and yet its patent absurdity dis
arms resentment. The present Bayard
l will not be the less cherished by tho
Democracy OF to-day, because of al
Iancestry like this, nor will the grea
tSouthern heart of this country-sooI
{by Democratic remedies to be restored
Ito its normal functions-lean les
kindly toward him because the Time
iproves that he sympathized in he
hour of sorrow. But we forbear, hav
ling already said more than we intcn
ded, begging Mr. Bayard's revilers t,
bear in mind that, in the present tenn
Iper of the country, no surer mode o
promoting any high ambitions he ma,
have, can bo adopted, than to max
him the target of poisoned Parthial
shafts.
One other word, and we are done
| The Democratic party has no NOR
idea of naming now, or even favorir,
any man for the Presidency than it La
CT foretelling the weather two year
hence. The time is not yet. Tho as
lpirations of individuals, if there b
any, as well us of their friends, vii
continue to be the salutary force
within the party which are to keep tn
lparty steady. Tho choice will b
made with reference to sectional hal
mony. That alore will make 1t ms
tional. When that equilibrium is to b
perfected, we may, from this part O
the world, put forward claim TO
fair consideration. No one will refus
l to listen to views of communities rels
ttively so small, but politically 80 faitl
full as Maryland and Delaware, whe
they mind the Democracy, met to max
the final choice, that, in the eight
odd years of our constitutional exis
tence, the South has had six Presi
dents, counting Mr.. Tyler New Eng
land two New York, counting Fill
more, two the Southwest two Obi
one, Pennsylvania one; the Northwes
1.-TWO, and, as we say, none for US. s
far in advance are we prepared t
speak, but further we are not willin
that our political advcrsaries shall pre-
sumo to lead or drive US.