Daily Republican., 1879-04-23
A NOTE.
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A u lDTE.
Bayard's failure.

remained silent in the debate upon the
army bill. 1t is true that we did not
expect Mr.. Bayard to take any other
stand upon that bill than that blocked
out by the caucus Of his party, although
he often gave Indications Of liberality
in sentiments that led the people to
believe that he was an exception to the
vicious proscriptive Southern Democrat,
but when it Genes to the pinch all the
fancied liberality with which he is sur
rounded is swept away. After opposing
in the February caucus the proposition
to enact the political legislation now
urged by the Democrats, aud opposing
it on the ground that it would be term
cd revolutionary, and after reiterating
many times since the. his determiua-
tion to resist all legislation not germane
to the Appropriation bills, the Senator
who should be without fear loses cour-
age and deliberately accepts the re-
proach of surrender. Mr.. Bsyard's s
symptoms of Independence are delusive
a. We suspected, merely put forth as a
mere sham tC trim for the Presidential
n omination, but every time after max
ing q .creditable effort to be indeprn.
dent he relapses hack into his former
condition as an incurable Democrat.
Mr.. Bayard was terribly troubled by
Mr.. Blame, who asked him as he was
hunting precedents why he did not
select one found in 1857, when Pr.si.
dent Buchanan called out the Marines
to attend Washington municipal cleo,
tiOn, and when seven men were sLo,
down by them, the scene being within
q mile of the Senate Chamber' Mr..
Bayard did not wish to discuss that
question at that time, but said tha,
any party or Set of men in this country
who seek to remove the infringe,nen,
on the liberties of the American peopl.
should have his support at all times
We fear Mr.. Bayard was about as un.
fortunate in making that remark as in
asserting his independence aud telling
What ba not i, 70 unr nf o,l h..
voting in favor of what he had denoun
ed. His past record and history will
hardly bear him out in what he il
charged with saying. There are many
of his old townsmen and friends who
distinctly recollect how strong his sym
pathi-s were for the rebels who had til,
government by the throat, that they
mightc-ivet the chains of slavery still
more tightly on the limbs of four mil.
lions Of human eings. Nobody ever
suspected Mr.. Bayard of having any
sympathy with the down trodden
slave, writhing amid his chains, strug.
Cling aud signing for liberty, but not
knowing where liberty was to come
from. There may be those who wouid
remind us that slaves were chattsls,
and net any part Of the American peo
pie. II that was true in the days ol
slavery it is not true now, when moi
the foot Of slave treads An ericar
sol.
Thers can 10 no doubt no. ,f theil
being American citizens, and they are
As much tramplsd under fo)t and de
MED ths liberties guaranteed by the
national constitution as when they
were slaves, and yet We fail to discover
: particsl Of Mr.. Bayard's sympathy,
to say nothing of his support. His in.
fu-nce all goes the other way. His
smypathies are all centred on the side
OF the streag in this contest and against
the weak. No Senator is more iully
informed than he is of the political
murders Of the South, and yet his voice
and vote is OH the side of violence, OF
fraud and dishonest elections. We
hardly think Mr.. Bayard would lie SC
il he could unwrap himself from party
coils and place himself upol an indie.
pendent platform. We believe that in
his heart he des !, ises the Southern bull
dozer, and the men who come red
handel into TO h Houses Of Congress
from the bloody di: t. lets OF the South,
but Mr.. Bayard is a party man, and
these men are his party fri-nds, and
with his eye fixed upon tke Presiden.
tial chair, he oauno,, H. dare not throw
them off, consequently he is led against
his will, and ma IL TO act con raIy tt
oft repe ated declarations. Thus Ii, de-
rlared Lis intention to resist al legisla
ton not germ snr to the appropriation
bills, and yet when the time came fol
him to put his Intentions into practice
he went back on all his previous de-
Olarations, and spoke for the side he
knew was wrong, and instral ot seek
ing to enove the Infringement on the
Liberties Of the American people, he de
liberately takes the side Of the stront
against the weak. The genial, the
talented, the educated, t.- eloquent
D D,lawars SenatJr ha, refused the op
portunity to throw off the sEackels o
partisarship and come out boldly or