The daily gazette., 1876-04-14
For the Delaware Gazette.
Letter From Ceciftou, Maryland.
LOY1LTY.
CEcILToN, April 18Th, 1871

Mr.. Thos. +. Bayard has been &C.
cused of disloyality by Mr.. Boutwell,
in Congress, and by the Commercial and
Republican of your city. 1t is net sur
prising that.Boutwell should do this in
speech in Washington. 1t was for
Buncombe and home consumption in
Massachusetts. 1t was in cOnsonance
with his own little mind, and to pam
der to the corrupt prejudice and vile
passions of his yankee sectional con-
stituents. But it was astonishing that
any person in Wilmington, laying
claim to any intelligence or purity
there in the house of Ihos. F. Bayard,
should take up the SANDER and reiter-
ateit. The Commercial and. Republican
must be either ignorant or corrupt, or
both; but more of Knaves than fools.
Do these men know what loyalty
means? have been disgusted at the
application of the term. Well did MIR.
Bayard castigate Boutwell, in the Sen
ate, for the insinuation of disloyality
in himself or any of his projenitors,-
In the State of Delaware, his family
have been well-known since the for
nation of this Government, and the
name is tower OF defense and they
need no other.
What is loyalty to Government?
1t is affection to the constitution,
obedience to it, an effort to maintain
it in its entirety in all its constitution
al rights. Loyalty does not consist in
affection to executive wrongs, to con-
gressional unsurpation, or submission
to the sword of tyranny. When South
ern rights were invaded under the con-
stitution, and sectional might became
the standard Of right rather than the
constitution, and there was about to
be an appeal to arms, TO maintain the
constitution; what did the elder Bay
ard do, but like his companions, Clay
and Webster, seek compromise to
ward off conflict and make an amica.
bic adjustment of our difficulties. For
this laudable effort to save his country
from the ruin and devastation which
followed, he was charged with disloy-
atty by the ignsrantand unprincipled,
" hat did Mr.. Bayard more than
Abraam Lincoln? The latter had
frequent correspondence with South
ernors. See the letters of Abram
Lincoln to Mr., Stevens, and Stevens
in return, aad it ought to bring tears
to the eyes of these crocodiles who
are always crying cut disloyalty, when
they do not know what disloyalty
means.
Does loyalty consist in breaking the
constitution? All acknowledge Abram
Lincoln did this during the war.
Did loyalty consist in unsurpations by
the executive in cheating the Govern
ment in the time of Its necessities, by
selves? Witness army contracts, army
supplies, congressional jobs, Mobiiier
schemes, salary grabs, whiskey rings
|-Babcock, Belknap's post.tradership,
custom house fraud, military subjuga-
tion, and all monstrous things; and
these are the person that are par er.
cellenee loyal, and cry disloyalty upon
others, who oppose their nefarious
treachery, and try to maintain the con.
stitution of the Government in the
proper execution of the laws.
What has Thos. f. Bayard done but
opposed these vile proceedings. If
Abram Lincoln was called "Honest
Abe" Thos, F. Bayard is equally dis
tinguished for his pursty-and in every
part of this State, his character will be
confirmed, and we hear from almost
every other State, and from the press,
and from friends and enemies, there
comes the same testimony to the puri-
ty of his character; and not only the
eyes of Delaware. hut of other States,
are turned from Grant, Blaine, Conk-
ling and Morton, to Thos. +. Bayard,
as the candidate for the next Presi-
dency, whose statesmanllke purity
shall deliver us from all fraud and viz
lence, and knavery and injustice, and
restore the Government to its ancient
renown, A peaceful revolution by the
ballot box in November, with Thos.
f. Bayard for President, will be re-
vlval of true craftsmanship, pure
American honesty and Christian pa
patriotism. and produce greater
resolution than the whole ten years of
war. Woe then to these self-styled
patriots who cast such reproaCh
against their neighbors; and an equal
woe is pronounced against those edi+
tors, who, for newspaper pap, take it
up; for both Boutwell, and they are in
the same category, and equally dis
loyal, whose cry is ito the victor the
spoils belong" Let us then hear no
more of this ignorant cry of disloyaly.
Oh! Liberty, what deeds of infamy
are done in thy name! They have
placed nurseling of fire and pain and
deception in the cradle of Liberty in
thy stead: WARWICK.
The South Carolina dalaootas to tho