Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1875-09-16
senator I8ayatd al Home.

senator Bayatd al Home.
MS RscoRp, HIS FAMILY AND HIS FAST sKByIcrs
The following are extracts from recent let
ter Of George Alfred Townsend in tho Cipcin.
natl Commercial
IL seems very natural to people at a distance
that Bsyard, OF Delaware, the inheritor and
adorner OF II poctics name much houored in
our politics, should be prominently named for
the Presidency. To people who are his neigh
bors, and familiar with his everyday life, the
suggestion is \ novel ono. lIe has not inauger-
a,cd any policy of government, nor been the
foremost champion OF any particular set of meas-
ures. He has not been the familiar intimate OF
any of the great men OF the period. When orig
inal measures arc TO be canyassed it has not oc
Cured to Their priginators 10 call SENATOR lay
ard in and submit to his dicturh. He has been
| in public life but a faw wears comparatively, and
at the outbreak OF tho war was quito u bow har-
arguing peace meeting on Dover Green. His
/ notion at that tiuc-Ior heard tho speech
was not that the questions pending were cnpa-
bio of compromise, hut that war on behalf of The
| Northern policy would be II cr0e. lie and u
MIR, Whiteley, oarousng country Congressman
and stump orator, were tho principal speakers
on that occasion. 1t is not often that a public
| meeting can DO brought together in Delaware,
| outside OF Wilmington, of moro than 200 or 800
| persons. i know that felt a sense of CLARITY
that day FOR the small.clnster of rustics and
|
house who listonnd with awe 10 young Bayard's
| apOstrophe to Peace while meantime tho two
| immense sections of the county wore armiug
and forming armies whose numbers exceeded
tho whole population OF Delaware by 500 por
| cent.
TIE BiyApn FAMILY
bave not been in our tnaa othor than consistent
| reaclonaiies, proEclllng the gospel Of unngusi.
| tive content TO Il people already too unanbtiuns
and too vol cnntonted. by thus mean that
| tho common run of mon in Delaware woull rath-
| erhaya fried chicken than enterprise and peaches
and croam than tho divine aitlstus. / heard
Senator Thomas Btyard delvOr an al.
dross at Delaware College, where | had
to read come vorses succeeding him,
about -four years ago. and he spoke
very nearly as follows Tho burden of his
speech was an attack on compulsory education.
and sounded very much to mo like mn argument
in favor OF no education in particular for poor
folks. but good Princeton eIucatiqn for tho
by me,and do moi pretend to quote its language.
'Some people are continually saying" said
the young Senator, THAT Delaware must have
this and hasn't got that. We arc called unon
for all sorts OF Innovations upon our good old
usages and hereditary habits Let IFS stuck to
what We have. We are as vol Off a any people
under tho sun,anl better of than the communi-
TICS which send these cmissa los amongst lis ON
proselytiAing errands"
The above is my recollection of the style Of a
sentence Of which gave mental translation
something like the following
LET us frown down general education and
the torment OF thought and spirit, for that
might bring up smarter race of mon than the
Baysrds, the Saulsburys and Biggsps. Lot Ills
keep our whipping-pUst, and when we have a
criminal among us, iios him and send him over
INTO the next state where we are indifferent
, whether he robs or not. Let us fruwu ltpon n
public school system, aud keep our own college,
whose doors We have just opened, after fOur-
teen years OF silence aud deaertlon, by the aid
of agricultural scrip Of the United States, CON
ferred upon us for the benefit Of our youths hy
a centralized dospOLism. Lot us have no iusti-
, buttons, not even II pouitentary and send our
murderors to the county jails, where they may
wlnttle ont miniatures of the whippin6-pOst and
pilloryi to sell to visitors from philadopa, for
we have at least one institution, tho hereditary
Bayard family, which God long preserve!
THOMAS =. BNYAED WAS horn
, into position by the peculiar adaptation of tho
Constitution OF Delaware to support a Coust rya-
tive family dynasty. That it, the State l,egisla-
ture Is distributed between the counties without
regard to the number of their voters, and two OF
these counties, being sIayo-holding by taxation
and surroundings, were sure to be pr0-slavary
and so with the Diyards. The third and the
upper county confirms the populous city of vii.
mingtOn, which is largely settled by Qnelors,
| Germans and Pennsylyanlaus There tho Bay
ards hive, and when tho Saulsburys, WHO live in
the two lower counties, carry the State, they are
III the habit OF cOnc2dng one Sanatorship to the
upper county.
The Saulsburys are man of strength of pur-
pose ana political ability without having the
qualities of debate aud oTatOry that the Bayalds
possess. They organize the State, however, and
what they give away outside OF the family is clear
magnanimlty. While Willard Salisbury, Of
Georgetown, was at his best. he was tho repre
sentative OF the family on the stump and IN the
Senate A handsome man of fluent aud often
forcDle asseyeraton, but by prejulices or by fear
| OF his constituency uniformly leactiOu0ry |
should consider lin, for example, to be the SUI
pefior IN native FGblic powers OF Senator Ere.
ilnBbuyscn, aud ut least tho equal of Senator
liayard, Sauinhufy did not conduct himself as
hls brothers, WHO arc sober sided MCthodists de.
sired, 80 they ran isainst each other to beat linn.
Governor Saulshury, the abest aud most relf-
wHied OF tue rot, was beaten, and Ell SauiaDuy,
OF Dover, was elected.
Tho Bayard family in derived from one Mich
olhs Bayari,u French Presbyterian on uugubiOt,
who came to America M 1917, in company With
! MS brothofll'law, tho celebrated Peter St!vye-
SAINT the celebrated Dutch Governor of Nav
lOfk. Hamilton Fish AMI Tom Bayarl arc
thciotO!o remote connections. One hundred
ana twenty years aftor tho arrival of Nick Dav-
ara James Asheton Bayard was BON IN Phila-
urlpna, ami died forty eight years afterwards
James A. Byari WAS educated at Princeton
college, studied law in llIiln lelplia, and he
wont to Congress ut the ago Of tTonty,nino TO
support J0hh Adlms's naturalization rs Fed.
elAllsl' lie was one OF tho men who boltel The
Federal ticket aud made jefferson prc-Lcut and
was rewarded Tor it by reelection to the Senate
~ place OF his fathCr-iu.law. BlssCtt IL wa.
James a. Bayuid, ST., who assisted to make the
Treat Of Client, and two Of his sons went TO
LuIled states Senatc-iiichArd Blsselt Bayard,
who died in 1865 At the age Of seventy two, md
Jam's \, Edyard, Jr., who succeeded lis brother
hlsef iHpeh Of twelve years, as United Statns
a'iaior ~ .50l, serving eighteen years az Wash
liE'ol' lAiE 81 tho time as Chairman Of tho Jill
ditihy Committee. James 4. Eayarl, Ir. re-.
siEur't IN favor of hs.sOn Tom in 1859 40 tLnt
tho SeWatorIhip has been u family matter
"'i'''G" Tie Bhyai0a FOR the last sc yoE,y Years.
DETECTION oS rAYARp
The leading features Of tho hottor Delaware
cliaiucte arc hospitality Cillgtary and courage
| Iith iafihrr element and tho Uli4r tradcs folks
Of tho towns arc dominant to make tho renrosnlr.
| htHa sentiment OF the Ststc. the I,r0fCs-nuaI
Glars OF Dover aud Milford and two ar three oil,
or points ID elevated in continent and Of charm
uiS ininhCIa. The Young Wing element of tLr
State showed YiSOr in the war and raised tronns
nv they wcro needed for tho TuauTll army
Few hundred Young mon went South and an
tered the ranks. Alfred lUrhGrt, now Consul
General ut Paris. was the ablnst officer. Vn
succeeded Meredith Read, WHO took the t;rrcE
Mission, aud Is, believe, Il Geocanlaut of Geo,
NeGd, OF Delaware, who signed Tic Declaration
of independence.
The State OF Delaware Ia. immensely in
| creased in Development wealth and comforts
succ tho rise of the Republican party, MANY
new towns have aiiseu Oh the enlarged railroad
syHtein tue agriculture Of tho State has ey-
banded with now capital flowing in, and the
| knowledge Of improved implements. tiliug and
| productions. Yet how much OF l,,,s work hos
| boen the Increase of tho BayaYd polcvY rOr
| the few hundred negro slaves vino were suncr-
! IIUus furniture in this state Of sInpe living
thero were politicians WHO would fOrg,s Tia
! Typographical relations VI DolaHare to lie
| North, although the ocean and bay separated
| lts interests from the CuIFedoTaGy as far pH
| England is separated from France. The heart
Of the BdyaIds was in the hope Of reunion
| where the South ehould stiIl bo the controlling
| element, aud Delaware II Southern State. Tho
senior Elyard, still living, though 20 deaf that he
! can only hear across the whist-taLle, has made
the family record up to 1863, aud il can be found
in the acts and laws Of Congress. He finally
grew 30 deaf that hU hal b. sit by the Secretary.
| during the reading of the impeachment articles,
! TO know when to vote NJ. tLun he permitted
his son to come forward, and in five years with
| out doing anything particularly. the son is high
| up on the racing slate for President in 1876
Thomas Bayard was on the Custom House In
! vestigaton Committee in New York, and bs
courtesy there drew friends p him. His princi-
pal exploit, however, was TO take the platform
at the Baltimore Convention and protest against
the nomination Of Greeley. This WIS done MIN
cipally in dumb show, but wth u rllckineas
which attracted the Ifunkerr, and after the die
aster of the contest il was remembered a. p1liti
cal sagacity Of the intrepid order. IcB real oh
ject was to save Delaware from going Rcnubli |
Legislature soon after to rc-eiCCt or defeat Bay-
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