The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-09-25
THE RIGHT SENTIMENT.

4 Senator Bayard, of Delaware, in his speech
at Baltimore, on the evening OF Friday, Sep
TENDER II, gave utterance to the following
sentiments, which convey sufficient reason,
were there no others, to insure the defeat Of
the Radical party in the approaching cam
paign:
When the gentleman who had just preceded
me said that the broad issue was the question
of the existence of States, and their power to
maintain themselves against the aggressions
and unlawful invasions of the Federal Exc
cutive, this was my full justification for my
coming here tonight, in response to the invi-
tation of your committee, to mingle my voice
in your State canvass. The fate of each State
may be the fate of all, and when last winter
| saw the State of Louisiana trampled under
foot and the right of self government
utterly overthrow, and the State bound
and helpless at the feet of an insolent SOL
diery-and even worse than that, l saw such
action approved deliberately by the almost
unanimous vote Of the dominent majority in
the United States Senate, after deliberate de-
bate and full knowledge of the facts-I felt
then there was no issue comparable in i'm
portance before the American people, SO ne
cessary to be decided and settled in accord
ance with the form and genius of the institu-
tons under which we desired to continue to
be free people. I say this as witness of
facts all Of which I saw and pant of which l
was
I tell you that the fate and very form of the
government we love trembled in the balance
for the last few weeks of the last session of
Congress. If this government be dear to the
people Of the country, and if they propose to
make the Centennial celebration an occasion
of earnest congratulation, and not a mere
mockery, the issue raised by the Federal Ad-
ministration in the case of Louisiana must be
accepted ana decided in favor of constitutional
liberty by the people of every other State.
He must be rebuked or our Federal torn of
government must go down.
One other cause of present stagnation and
financial depression is the hostility and injus-
tice of Gen. Grant toward the Southern
States He las by his treatment of those
people rendered all business enterprise and
all property in that section insecure. The
planter can not prepare his crops with
any certainty that he will not be interfered
with by insubordinate negroes or military
force. In his Arkansas message in February
last, he proposed to Congress the invasion and
overthrow of the government of that State, then |
in the hands of men whom he had expressly |
by proclamation issued within one
year as the lawful government of the State.
His overthrow of Louisiana is we'll known to |
the country
His personal application to Congress for the
passage of the " Force bill exhibited unmis-
takably his intention to seize and con rol all |
the State governments South; and now I say
to you that until the time comes when any
President proposing or executing such meas
ure against States of the Union shall be liable
to impeachment and removal from office, this
government is not safe. That which was tie
fate of Louisiana last year may be the fate of
Maryland or Delaware next year.
Therefore say to you we have no right to
allow ourselves to be separated by minor diff
ferences SO long as our civil and religious lib
critics are SO assailed. Let no men believe
that civil liberty can be preserved when re-
igous liberty is stricken down. They are
'wo flowers engrafted upon the same stem.
Both have their roots in public ju>tce, and
ire nurtured by the dews of heaven itself.
Let US as Americans guard and protect both.
Let US abhor parties and men who would as
ail either; and SO wishing you God speed in
7our canvass, and thanking you for the earn
'st and respectful attention you have given
ne, bid you good night.