The daily gazette., 1876-04-03
WILMINGTON, DEL. APRIL 3. 1875.
The Attack on orator Bayard and
His HI ther.

His Ia ther.
Following up the fanatical and venge-
full Senator Boutwell,, in his angry, un-
statesmanlike and ungentlemanly attack
upon Hon. L. F. Bayard and his honora-
BILE and venerable father, both the Radi-
cal organs of this city re-echo the old
charge Of want of loyalty, and hurl it at
these gentlemen, Notwithstanding six
teen years have elapsed since this asper-
sion was raised, and about twelve years
have passed since the war closed. Du-
ring all this time the II dical party has
been seeking for evidence to establish
their charges and found none. In hate
and spite they have sent their agents ev-
erywhere, and sought high and low for
some fact on which to Lase their false
hoods. Not satisfied with the victims,
whose blood they have already shed, they
seek for Others to crafty their malice
and their savage veng eance.
We should not waste time and space
in replying to these trumped-up charges
Of disloyalty. 1t has ever en- the cry
OF the centralist, the NOR rchist and the
enemy of human liberty, and to it En-
NETT fell victim. Ii was raised against
Patrick Henry more than century ago,
and dhad to be met by George Washington,
John Hancock, Henry Lee, Caesar Rod
ney and the eldet James A. Bayard. 1t
Is now the vengeful cry of the despairing
enemy of the liberty of the white man.
unless he succumb to the party that is
using the government under the name of
a Republic, as the European dynasties
are used, to enrich those in power out of
the labor Of the toiling millions.
We say we shall not pause to refute
such vengeful charges. The gentlemen
at whom they are leveled have been hon
ored by the companionship of statesmen
and gentlemen of the highest character
all over the cuntry, from Maine to
Georgia. They have been the guests OF
the ablest men of both parties, and Sena-
tor Bayard's speeches and bis political ca
reer have been theme of praise in every
State. Even the Radi al leading papers
have extollrd his opinions, and pointed
to him as the most honest, competent
and lifted member of the Democratic
party for the Presidential chair. 1t
Is, therefore, nonsense to charge such a
gentleman with disloyolty. 1t ia the last
and only resort Of one, who, finding him
self unequal to cope in argument seek.
to throw his more honorable opponen
off his guard by hurling SO vile false
hood, intending to anger. and to aggitate
Instead Of wasting time and space in re
plying to such low billingsgate, we pub
lish in another column extracts from th,
arguments of two able and eloquent Sen
ators, which prove conclusively the
truthfulness Of the main feature of Sen
ator Bayard's speech, i. e. that the send
ing of a committee of Senators to Missis
sippi was uncalled for and not in con
formlty with the custom Of the country
that 1t was done almost in defiance O
law and purely for partizan purposes. |
our readers will peruse the extracts fror
ne speech of Senator Key, of Tenn, an
the extract Of that of Senator Thurman
OF Ohio, both of which were made on tn
following day, they will asree with IL
that MIR. Bayard was right in opposin
and denouncing the policy of Mortor
and that Boutwell, committed an ungeu
tlemanly rudeness deserving the word
applied to him. Senator Salisbury fol
lowed Mr. Thurman in :. brief bu
pointed effort, in which he took occasio
to point out in very plain terms the oil
Ject of Morton and his party, who fin
themselves without argument to sustai
themselves in the Senate, and must i
some way divert the public mind frol
the.terrible exposures being made again
TIE Administration, or give up all hop,
of counteracting the current of publ
opinion that is setting in against the r
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