New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-02-27
/ SPEECH BY SENATOR B4TfRD.

! Delaware, during the summer OF loOl, mas just
been reprinted. The assembage was de-
sCrbed in some Of the newspapers of the day
| as a secession convcntiOn,' and certainly In
! the character of tho speeches and resolutions
and the behavior of the audience, who
! cheercd for the Confederate States and for
jeff Davis, there was abundant reason for de-
nouncing the proceedings as dslOyal and al
most rcbelious. Mr.. Bayard, however, Is only
| TO he held responsible for his own address
the demonstrations of the excited listeners are
! not worth recalling.
! To understand the tendency of the speech
! we must remember the circumstances OF the
time The meeting was held on the 21th OF
June. That was nearly five months after the
organization of the Confederacy. 1t was more
| than two months after the capture oil f0rt
! Sumter. two months after the attack upon
Massachusetts troops in the streets OF Baltl-
more. two months after the seizure Of Harp
ers Ferry and the Norfolk Navy Yard, two
months after the proclamation of the block
AIDE. Eleven States were in armed rebellion
against the Federal Government. There was
no longer any talk OF compromises or conces-
,ions; the only choice Of the loyal North lay
between war and the final destruction OF the
/ famed forth in that day of The "upr~ing OF
"a great people the world has not yet for
gotten Congress had been summoned in
extra session to provide means for carrying
on the struggle; the second call for troops
had been made and volunteers were Hooking
10 Washington faster than the Government
could arm them. Mcclellan was winning
INF, first aurcls I'm Western Virginia, and
Scott aud Mcdowell were assembling the
amy with winch the advance was about to
he made toward Richmond. 1t was ~ this
heroic period that the people Of Dover called
a mass-mecting to dcnOuucc President Linz
coin as a "tuitorn and dcspoL' and
the wal as an unholy crusade and to de-
mand the surrender OF the prctcnslons oi the
National Government and Che recognition OF
the ndcpcudcucc oi thc Coutod"racy.
Mr.. B,yaId, with q cool contempt for facts
which seems astonishing now, but WAS COM
mon enough with the disuuioni,ts OF 1851,
asserted that Abraham Lincoln and hi, Cab
"inct had uau-mat,d the war AMI
driven " four States out Of the Union. ii
Lincoln was allowed 90 go on iu hl- course oi
u.urpauon hc Woud ruin the whole country.
HI. action iu making war "ugalu-t our
.brcthr,n of ,hc South WAS palpabic y.o-
lation Of the Constitution. 20 "coutcmptupuS
"disreylrd g OF thr charter of government.
Hc had ".ummouad % gigantic army aud
q. fiat too for IAN oytcndcl time. exceeding thc
"tcrm limited by tlc Constitution ioi Oh" ape
"propIauou to support armed forces ln
order to levy an unjust and unconstitutional
war against sovereign States. Mr. Biyard
co,m,cll,d resistance to the Washington ty-
ranny and hc cxpoundcd, in the following
a., ,;.,.i,,..,+ ,,,..o,,o tL, doctriu,
'""'l''' ,tr "a
OF state supremacy II'I" WIN" '''' SUM '''
all lts Wl-citS uoWtdi
"Nou nnt ore d.1"as "' u. .a"lIo. I' ''r ''"r
aud Government $500 nw" nI glance. 4Hf'"g' rnf fIIf
wc Owe allegiance '' ihr Federal rium'"'' "' VINO"
ehc 8. ntaru'.r hnt a--t'ic officials can command "-
{. uo duty unknown Co state law neither can ir'
er1 onic.r claim ANY '"."'f' over "' D." "''' ''''
wtl'n Doe constitutional ana ''-'' ''''''' y pi'-
hlt mirari'"i OF ''' "l''''" '''''' 'i -''' '
our ruler lu-Iil' "i-'''"'''' "'o" sac '"'' " "'''
z'u a. much as lawn" '.''I' "'' '''''' ID Joy ' ''
FIAh''
This was quite I'm harmony with the lam
euagc of another speaker VINO declared mat
Delaware would give "'i'Atr money noI men I"r
thc War, bat would INSIST iH'l uI' 7'''"o"
q" states should oe governor "' "'' P'"P''
" m whatever manner t"'l '""S' d" va Eo'-
" eih'd -" s'H'''"'". WIN" "'' '''''''" I
with Loud aypAl-'' VII bH"u was per
iectly frank Ia inc e4pIe'''o" O. Ms views /
He did lot wish TO preserve 'ho Oh'o" at the .
cost of war:
"in' stem I'ci Us sun '..,' ', U.s.. '''
"',' mass. ,r,.,.,,c, or .,nn We p,,,cfYg.
,.,,t ,nenn ard con.ent 10 tasir self-soyerumont.
trusting TO time ahchi, the great healer ot an wrongs
auI passions. to bdns them nsan voluntarily mo a .
common government WIN Us anu
war "',','r, ,,. ,,yo i, NJ ,,ce ,rh
,.'o r,I, with her Canadian possessions upon our