Wilmington daily commercial., 1875-09-15
FIRST ElsFTT0N
senator Eiayard at fso,ne.

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| that Bayard, OF Delaware The inheitor and
adornor of Il poetioa name much honored III
our politics, should be prominently named for
the Presidency. 10 people who are his neigh
Oors. and familiar with his everyday life, the
suggestion Is Il novel one. He has not inauger-
ated any policy of government nor been the
| 10 emost champion OF any particular set OF meas
urea. lie has not been ti.B familiar intimate OF
any of the great mon of e.. period. When orig
inal measures are to be canyassed it has not &C
Cured to their oriSinators to call Senator Bay
ard in and submit TO his dictum. He has been
IN public life but few wears comparatively, and
al the outbreak OF the war was quite boy, Lar-
anBulng peace meeting on Dover Greeu Hit
notion at that .ime-for / heard tho speech
was not that the questions pending were cana
bic of compromise, but that on behalf of the
Northern policy would be IL crime. He and q
Ir Whteley, d carousinS country Congressman
and stump orator, were the principal speakers
on that occasion. Ii is NOT often that public
meeting can be brought together in Delaware,
outside of Wilmington, of more than 200 or 800
persons. | know that felt sense of charity
that day for the small cluster of rustics and
burghers assembled under the old brick store
house who listened with awe to young Bayards
apostrophe to Peace, while meantime the two
immense sections of the country were arIping
and forming armies whose numbers exceeded
the whole population of Delaware by 800 per
cent
THE BAYARD FAMILY
have not been in our time other than consistent
reaotionaries, preaching the gospel of uninquisi-
two content to people already too unambtloua
aud too we'll couteuted. Bg this | mean that
the common run of mon iii Della ware would rath-
erhaye fried chicken than enterpriee and peaches
and cream than the divine aillatus | heard
Senator Thomas Bayard deliver an ad-
dress at Delaware College, where | had
to road some verses succeeding him,
about four years ago. and no spoke
very nearly as follows. The burden of his
speech was an attack on compulsory education,
and sounded very much to mo like an argument
in favor of no eilcttlon in particular for poor
folks, bat good Princeton education for tho
Bayald family. have no copy OF this speech
py me, and do not pretend TO quote its language.
Some people are continually saying said
the young senator, THAT Delaware must have
this, aud hasn't got that. We are called upon
for all sorts OF Innovations upon our good old
usages aud hereditary habits. LIST us stick to
whatwe have. We a . as well OFF as any people
uuder the sun, and better Off chan the c1mmuni-
lies which send these emiseares amongst us on
proselytlzng elrands.
The above is my recollection OF tho style OF a
sentence of which gave mental translation
something like tho following
Lot us frown down general education and
the Torment of thought and spirit for that
might bring up d smarter race OF men than the
Baysras, the sauleburys and Bggsos. Let us
keep our whippng-post, aud when we have II
criminal among us, Hog him and send him over
INTO the next state. where We arc indifferent
whether he robs or not. Let US frown upon
public school system, and keep our own college,
whose doors we have just opened after four
teen years of sllonce al desertlon, by the aid
of agricultural scrip ei the United States, con-
ferred upon ua for the benefit of our youths by
d centralized despotism. Let us have no insti-
tutious, not even Il penitentary, and send our
murderers to the county jails, where they may
whittle out miniatures of the whipping post and
piilory; to soil to visitors from Phisdelphia, for
we have at least one institution, the hereditary
Bayard family, which God long preserve =
THOMAS +. BaYARp WAS BORN
into position by the peculiar adaptation OF the
Constitution OF Delaware to support II Conaerva-
tive family dynasty. That ii, the State Legiea-
ture is distributed between the counties without
regard to the number OF Their voters, and two OF
these counties, being slaye-holliug by taxation
and surroundings, were sure to be pro-sIavery
and 80 wi III, Bavards. The third aud the
upper county itains the populous city of Will
mlngton, which is largely settled by Quakers,
Germans and Penusylvaulsns. There tho Bay
ards iiye, aud when the Saulsburys, who live in
the two lower counties, carry tue State, they are
in the habit OF conceding one S9patornhp to tho
upper county.
The Sausburys are men of strength Of pur
pose and political ability, without having tho
qualities of debate and oratory that the Bayards
'poasess. They organize the State, however, and
what they give away outside Of the family is clear
Georgetown was at his best, he was the repre-
sentative of the family on the stump and III the
Senate. A handsome man of fluent and often
forcbe aeseveration but by prejudices OF by fear
of his constituency uniformly reactionary,
should consider bin, for example, to be the el-
perior III native public powers of Senator Fro
lnghnysen, and ut least the equal of Senator
Bayard, salisbury did not conduct himself as
his brothers, who are sober sided Methodists, de-
sired, 30 they ran against each other to beat bim
ablpgt self
willed OF the set, was beaten, and Eli salisbury,
of Dover, was elected.
The Bavard family is derived from one Mich
olas Bayard, French Presbyterian or Husueno-,
who came to America i'll 1Gi7, in company with
his brother-in.aw, the celebrated Peter Stuyve-
SAINT, the celebrated Dutch Governor of New
York. Hamilton Fish and Tom Bayard are
therefore remote connections. Ono hundred
and twenty years after the arrival of Nick Bay
ard, james Ashetnn Bayarl was boln in Phila-
deiphia, and died forty.ei2lit years afterwards
James 4. Bayard was educated at Princeton
College, studied law in phladelphia. and lle
went to Congress at the ago of twenty-ujna to
support john Adams'a administration as Fed
eralist. He was one of the men who boltod the
Federal ticket and made Jefferson President and
was rewarded for it by re election TO the Senate
in place OF his father-in-law, BassctG. 1t WAS
Juines A. Bayard Sr., who assisted to make the
Treaty OF Gheut, and two of his SONS went to
United States Senate-Richard Bassett Bayard,
who died in 1868 at tho age of seventy-two, and
james a Blyard Jr., who succeeded his brother
after lapse of twelve years, as United States
Senator in 1851, serving eighteen years ut Was-
ington, part of tho time as Chairman of the Ju-
dietary Committee. James A. Blvar1, Jr., re-
signed ID fay or of hsEson Tom, in 1859, so that
the Senatorshp has been family matter
amongst the Bayarls for tho last seventy years
pEnUoTIoN ON BAyARp.
The leading features of the better Delaware
character are hospitality, courtesy and courage.
The farmer element and tho older trades folks
OF the tUwnH are dominant to make the represetn-
ativo sentiment of the State. The professional
class ut Dover and Milford and two or three 9TH
er points is elevated in sentiment aud OF charm
ing manners. The young Wing element of tho
State showed vigor III tho war and raised troops
N they wore needed for the Federal army a
few hundred young men went South and Ell
tered the ranks. Alfred Torbert, now Consul
General at Paris. was the ablest officer. He
succeeded Meredith Read, who took the Greek
Mission, aud is, / believe, descendant of Geo.
Read, of Delaware, who signed the Declaration
Of Independence.
Tho State of Delaware has immensely in-
creased in development, wealth and comforts
since the rise of the Republican party. Many
new towns have arisen on the enlarged railroad
system the agriculture of the State has eX-
banded with new capital flowing i'll, and the
knowledge of improved implements, tlllinB aud
productions. Yet how much Of this work has
been the increase OF the Bayard policy2 For
the few hundred negro slaves who were super
1iuous furniture in this state of simple living,
there were politicians who would forget tue
typographical relations OF Delaware to the
North, although the ocean end bay separated
intaraata frnrn nA far aA