The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1875-11-16
Senator Bayard on the Situation.


An interviewer" on behalf OF the New
York Tribune newspaper, had q CONVERSE
ton with Senator BAYARD, at Wilmington
DEL, and sent report OF it to-the ITsoane
on the 10th instant. The Senator has re-
Gently made visit to the southern part Of
the Union, and gave very cheering and
hopeful view of the state Of things at the
South. He found discomfort subsiding, the
country growing in real prosperity, and mu'
tual good feeling between the races rapidly
asserting itself, and producing peace and
good order. "The colored people every.
"where in the South recognized their social
"ipteriority to the whites. and seldom en-
"deayored to avail themselves of the oppor.
"luuities offered by the civil-rights
"bill for claiming higher social pri-
7leges. He had been told by steam
"boat captain on the Savannah river
"ihat once or twice colored people had en-.
"desvored to get passage with the whites,
"and he obeyed the law in each instance;
"bul II was provedin every one Of these in
"stauces that the colored men had been made
"the cats-paw of some carpet-bag politician
" or Of SOME business rival"
The Senator viewed things in the South
under the color Of the rose said all were
satisfied, and expressed delight at the aboli.
ton of slavery. and admitted "the superior
economy of free labor" with more of the
same tenor all which is TO be taken with
qualification. Certainly nobody in the South
desires ever TO see slavery here again. As to
the excellence offree labor, that depends upon
Caucasian is the best in the world; but it IS
not every race that is free to work or pay
that makes the best laborers. And we Woula
say to the Senator, If we had his ear within
hearing, that society in the South, fof
the want of homogeneity, is not entirely fe-
licitous whether we regard its social or in
dus!rlal economy. He is indeed the friend
of the South, aud we take his description OF
things as rather on indication Of what he
would they were than of deliberate con-
Yicsion on his part that they are so.
Senator BAYARD very gently hints at his
darling measure of resumption as likely to
be especially beneficial to the South.
Senator BAYARD Is convinced that General
GRANT Is bent on serving a "third term" If
he can be elected, switch, we think, he
can't"; but every intelligent observer must
concur with Senator BAYARD in what be
thinks about the matter. What he says is
brief and pointed:
.General Grant is certainly seeking to be renom-
mated for the third term, and those who depend
mon him at all In politics are afraid to declare
aeainst him, Notwithstanding any appropriately he
NAV have with his party 1t plain fact that no
man who desires or expects General Grants favor
has yentured to make q public declaration against
hts nomination for third term. 1t Is my belief
fiat General Grant Is as much determined upon the
third term as he was upon the first, and even more
so. We all know the logged determination Of the
man, and he viii insist upon q third term even
at the cost OF the dangerous and unworthy resort TO
sectaranAnd religious strife issue in the caa
vass rs suggested In his Des Moines speech. His
course In Louisiana and his proposio to the Gov
ernnant OF Arkansas all show how daring and ut
terfy unscrupu.ous are his methods Of accomplish
Ing his political ends. Hissumnary decapitation OF
Pease, and hs other appOintee5 in Mississippi, be-
cause OF their refusal to sustain Governor Ames ia
his war upon The liberties OF that people, Is fine
Illustration Of his regard for civilservce reform,
and shows what we may expect In the future In the
event Of his reelection" -r-'--r--Tr --z- "-