Smyrna times., 1875-09-22


ties, carry the State, they are in the habit
OF conceding one Senatorship to the upper
county.
The Saulsburys are men of strength of
purpose and political ability, without hav.
ing the qualities of debate and oratory that
the Bayards possess. They organize the
State, however, and what they give away
outside OF the family is clear magnanimity.
While Willard Salisbury, of Georgetown.
was at his best, he was the representative
OF the family on the stump and in the
Senate. handsome man of fluent and
often torcible asseveration, but by preiu-
dlces or by fear ofh his constituency uniformly
reactionary, | should consider him, for OK.
ample, to be the superior in native public
powers of Senator Frelinghuysen, and at
least the equal of Senator Bayard. Sauls.
bury did not conduct himselfas his brothers.
who are sober-sided Methodists, desired. 60
they ran against each other to beat him
Governor Salisbury, the ablest and most
selt-wllled of the set, was beaten, and Eli
salisbury, of Dover, was elected.
The Bayard family is derived from one
Nicholas Bayard, French PRESBYTERIAN or
Huguenot, who came to America in l647.
IN company with his brother-in-law, the
celebrated Peter Stuyvesant, the celebrated
Dutch Governor of New York. Hamilton
Fish and Tom Bayard are therefore remote
connections. One hundred and twenty
years after the arrival of Nick Bavard
James Asheton Bayard was born in PbiIa. |
deiphla, and died forty-eight years after
wards. James A. Bayard was educated ot
Frlnceton College, studied law in Philadel. |
phla, and he went to Congress at the age of
twenty-nlne to support John Adams's adj. |
mlnlstratlon as Federalist. He was ono
OF the men who bolted the Federal ticLot
and made Jefferson President and was 20.
warded for it by reelection to the Senate
IN place of his father-in-law, Bassett. II
was James A. Bayard, Sr., who assisted 70
make the Treaty of Ghent, and two of b;s
sons went to United States Senate-Ricbord
Bassett Bayard, who died in 1868 at the aoe
OF seventy-two, and James A. Bavard. Jr.
who succeeded his brother after a lansa IF
twelve years, as United States Senator in
1891, serving eighteen years at Washinpton
part OF the time as Chairman of the Judi.
clary Committee. James A. Bavard. .Jr
resigned in favor of his son Tom. in 1860
50 that the Senatorship has been family
matter amongst the Bayards for the last
seventy years.
DEDUCTION ON BAYARD.
The leading features of the better Della
ware character or hospitality, courtesy
md courage. The farmer element and tho
'lder trades folks of the towns are dori.
lant to make the representative sentiment
u the State. The professional class at
Dover and Milford and two or three otber
points is elevated in sentiment and of
manners. The young Whig
Element OF the State showed vigor in the
var and raised troops as they were needed
OF the Federal army; few hundred vouno
nen went South and entered the ranks
Alfred TOrbert, now Consul General ~ 5
'arls, was the ablest officer. Hesucceeded {
Meredith Read, who took the Greek Mis-. '
ION, and is, believe descendant of Geo /
tead, of Delaware, who signed the Declo. !
alton of independence. /
The State of Delaware has immensely IN. S
reased in development, wealth and com.
Drts since the rise of the Republican party.
lany new towns have arisen on the on. v
'rged railroad system the agriculture of S
he State has expanded with new capital f
owing IN, and the knowledge of improved d
Implements, tilling and productions. Yet t
ow much OF this work has been the in. t
rease of the Bayard policy? For the few d
undred negro slaves who were superAuous Fl
lrniture of this State of simple living s.
here were politicians who would forget the a
relations of Delaware to the "
orth, although the ocean and bav sena. n
ited its interests from the confederacy as n
" as England is separated from France.
he heart OF the Bayards was in the hone n
reunion where the South should still W
the controlling element, and Delaware Il
outhern State. The senior Bayard, still D
wing, though so deaf that he can only hear lt
cross the whist-table, has made the family n
ecord up to 1869, and it can be found in y
ne acts and laws of Congress. He finally Il
rev so deaf that he had to sit by the Sec. d
'tary, during the reading of the impeach. j.
lent articles, to know when to vote No. W
hen he permitted his son to come forward. a
nd in five years, without doing anything 1t
articularly, the son is high up on the Il
icing slate for President in 1876.
Thomas Bayard was on the Custom House =
nvestigation Committee in New York, and Il
is courtesy there drew friends to him. .
lis principal exploit, however, was to take u u
ne platform at the Baltimore Convention =
nd protest against the nomination of
ireeley. This was done principally in = :,
umb show, but with a pluclxiness which u
ttracted the Hunkers, and after the dis 0
ster of the contest it was remembered as 81
olitical sagacity, of the intrepid order. "
IS real object was To sava Dalax,o,.o e. | u