The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1879-11-13
]. BAYARD, OF DELAWARE.
A Biographical Sketch of the Man Who
May be Our Next President.

Very soon Senator Bayard will reach
these shores, after few months tour OF
Europe. Upon his arrival he will be re-
ceiyed with great eclat and enthusiasm.
Since his departure for the old world,
great changes have taken place in politi-
cal affairs, and they have been nightly
improving of Mr. Bayard's fortunes.
The defeat of Ewing in Ohio has made
the Delaware Senator the most conspicu-
Gus name for the Democratic Presidential
nomination, after that of Mr.. Tilden. In
case of Mr.. Tilden's chances being dam
aged by the result in New York, Senator
Bayard will loom up amazingly for the
championship of the party in 1880.
Whether many of the party like itor not,
the views held by Mr.. Bayard on cur
rency questions are such as the people Of
this country now overwhelmingly en-
dorse; and so, leaving America with
much unpopularity, the Delaware states
man returns with sort of triumph that
must be most grateful to his feelings.
The Nashville american, in view OF the
peculiar prominence now assumed by Mr.
Bayard, thinks it opportnne to give some
particulars of this illustrious mans ca
reer, and to say that Senator Bayard en-
tered the Senate in time to bear with
Thurman the heat and burden of the day
in the great and noble struggle with Re-
publican aggression, impression and OPP
preston. That conflict of brave band
counted but little in votes, but it was that
presenting of truth, that letting in of
light, which preserved the Federal Union
from consolidation, gave Democratic
principles new birth and saved this
country from dangers as destructive as
secession. The question is whether that
work is to go for naught.
We are specifically informed also that
Senator Bayard was trained for mercan-
tile life and subsequently studied law,
coming to the bar in 1851. In 1858 he
was appointed United States District At
torney for Delaware, but resigned in
1854. He was elected to the Senate to
succeed his father, James A. Bsyard, and
took his seat March 4, 1869, and was re-
elected in 1875. Nicholas Bayard was a
French Huguenot, who came to this
country in 1647, with his brother-in-law,
Peter StuyYesant, the last Dutch Gov
ernor Of New York. james Asheton
Bayard, the grandfather of the present
Senator, was born in Philadelphia. He
was q leader in Congress Of the policy
which led to Jefferson's election in 1901,
and in 1904 was chosen Senator, as sue
cessor of his father-in-law, Gen. Barrett.
He was also one of the commissioners for
nee otiating the treaty of Ghent. James
Asheton Bayard, father of the present
Senator, was elected to the Senate in
1851, 1857, 1868, and resigned in 1868,
on account of i'll health. ........,
It ia not often such honors have de-
scended from father to son for three gen.
erations; but how noble must have been
the stock that produced such eminence,
and how worthy TO bear the synonym of
valor and uprightness. The present rep
resentatiye of the name in the Senate is
the grandest gentleman of his race. In
moral grandeur no man that the Repub-
licans can put up can compare with him,
and he is the equal of any intellectually.
AS is well known, the Chronicle, at
present, believes Mr.. Tilden to be the
most available man for the Democratic
nomination in 1880. If this should
prove, by coming events, to be unfound-
ed, it would afford US exquisite pleasure
to support the claims of Senator Bayard
or any other first-class man for leader
ship in the mighty struggle for the Pres
idency and perhaps for the Republic it.
self.