The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-10-07
Mr.. BAYARD IN BROOKLYN.
An Eloquent Address in the Academy
To An OVerHOWing AudienceOf
Men and Women.
Pleas for BrOtherIy Love Among the
States and a KejOinder to sena-
tor COnkIing's TIrade
Against the South.

The Democratic mass. meeting In Brooklyn last
week was one OF the largest ever held In that city
The Academy of Music, where was the principal
speaking, was filed as soon as the doors wer
opened at o'clock and the overflow, which
would have filed 1t thrice, gathered about the
outside stands which were well provided with
speakers.
Mr.. Leonard with brief introduction presented
Senator Bayard, who was again greeted with
burst OF applause which continued for several
minutes. Senator Bayard said:
"Mr. Chairma", Ladies and Gentemen;-That
you are my friends this greeting assures me.
(Applause) That you are citizsns OF Brooklyn
know. That yen are my own fellow cOuatrymen
leeI. (Appau,e.) Four years ago stood where
stand to-nigh' l was on the errand then that
am now and the object that had then htve
now-(a plan, land the object that you had
then you hsv now, and it is one worthy Of you
and of e, b cause 1t is the prosperity, the vel
fare, tn har pness Of this dear land we all love
(Appla se) Gentlemen, can 1t be that men lef
free to act IN regard to the government Of their
own airs Ind the affairs Of those who are to
come fter hem shall esteem politics low busi
ness, 4 Sc fish purpose, Of mere trickery, Of poor
and ow objects2 Shall 1t be that we can con
TEN eie cur political duties and dwarf them to
200 narrow, sectional and personal purposes I
can LOT believe It, Standing here before this SER
ried phalanx Of faces I would like at once to
strike the note In which am to speak and you
are to hear, and know no better way than to
revert to a great fact in history The beauty and
force of its significance always appeal to me, al.
though 1t occurred ia a land far distant from our
own 1t was at the siege OF Badsjos, in the army
led by the Duke Of Wellington to preserve Spain
from the ambition of the first Napoleon In tina
siege there fell young Irish officer. He was
struck by a shot and so wounded that his life was
to be counted by the pulsations Of the arteries
which had been severed. Surgeons were called
and they told him that death must come soon.
Raising his crippledarm as the blood flowed from
It and each pulsation marked the passage OF his
life, he called for goblet and he. held It under
meath the liiecurrent until 1t filed, and then as
death came near closing his eyes he raised 1t and
said, Ii it had only been for Ireland (Appause)
Yes, brave soul he was fighting in the ranks Of
destiny, perhaps for the cause Of good govern.
ment, but he wished that his lifeboOi could
have been poured for that island Of his birth.
(Applause.) So here tonight in what spirit shall
we approach the vast question Cf the control Of
the Government Of this country except in one OF
simple devotion and elevated fallh free from
selfish or sectional domination or inAuence2 ZAP.
plause) The other night in the great city OF New
York u great body of intelligent. of wealthy, Of
hgnly favored citizens, men and wOmen--Or per.
hapS they would like the other title lower in my
tstimHtiOn, ladies aud gentlemen-met TO hear
the issues OF this canvass discussed, and they
brought to address them a man of distinction
and ability, highly favored and endowed by ma.
ture and strengthened by popular feeling, and
vet how hit vision or their vision was shrunken
They saw but half their country. (Applause)
They believed, or sought to be instructed in the
belief that this country can fulfil It's great desti.
n.y. so manifestly Intended for it, with one part in
shadow and the other in sunshine. Such Is no
the Iule of the world Why will not these peo-
pie learn that the fractions Of truth which reach
our minds are often all but fractions, aud that he
is witest who obeys clearly the dictate and the
call of nature and the God of nature, in the
treatment Of his fellowmeni (Applause) There
was distinguished English pit ysiCian nigh In
the ranks Of science high in social distinction,
whose re was blessing to his felow.men, 1t
was Sir Henry Holland, Once he went into the
East and there he met Pasha believe In Egypt.
He was anxious TO see this man, OF whom he had
heard as possessing mysterious and superstitiOus
power over human life. 1t seemed this Oriental
Governor had designs against the life of one Of
his enemies, and he called the interpreter and
asked Sir Henry Holland whether he could fur
nish him with poison that would take human
life but not Immediately; that could be admins
tered to the victim who should receive 1t un'
knowingly live In health awhile and yet drOOp,
decay and die in little while when suspicion OF
the act that caused II should have passed away,
When this message was conveyed to this apostle
of benevOlenCe aud cure his answer was, The
study of my lie has been to save and prOong the
lives OF my fe!lOw-Creatures. POisons have neV.
er sought and have no knowledge to convey
upon lha subject (Appause) The thought Of
sir Henry Holland Is that which feel and that
1t seems to me- all Americans should feel in treat
ing of the Government OF this country, Within
It's boundaries confess to you have no foe eX'
cept him who will administer poison TO the Gov
ernment (Applause,) do not propose to picture
to you those Of our fellow. Countrymen who are
less well Off than yourselves. II | mention them
at all 1t is my friends, that your bounty may hoW
towards them as God Almighty6 Bounty has
flowed towards you (Applsuse) Heaven forbid
that should speak of any portion of this great
country Of ours except in terms Of brotherhood
kindness, reconciliation and the spirit Of harmo-
ny. (Appanse) WHAT, ask yOH is to be the eneot
OF this long parade Of false figures unwisely used
with which the Senator from your State sought TO-
tickle the passions and delight the vanity OF
those who heard him week ago In New York
(Hisses) What does 1t proven Can II be that you
are happier for knowing that while you sleep in
comfort others rest In wretchednessY that while
you are independent and strong, others OF your
fellow countrymen are denied the opportunities
that you have received and which you have im'
prOvedf Why, surely that Is the spirit OF destruo-
ton and not cOnCiliatiOn. So, therefore, there
will arise naturally, logically from all these hg'
III es quoted by the Senator from New York who
spoke in the Academy Of Music but one result,
do sought to show that American tonnage ship
ping and transportation over Gods highway OF
the sea had greatly declined since 1860 SO II has
hut what ls the frightful and inexOrable logic OF
his figures, which Is to fall upon him and crush
him, their utereT and the persons who furnished
them to his unskilful handf (Applause) From
1870 to 1860 the skill Of the American mechanics,
the force OF the American forests the adventure
Of the American seamen, had made us very large
" the carrying nation Of the world. Eighty per
cent OF what may term civilized commerce was
carried then In American bottoms. The American
Clipper was the name Of the fastest ship that car
risd the hrst bale Of cotton from America to Eu
rope-(applauBe)- J. that carried the first chest OF
tea from China to England. (ApplauseJ Ihen
came the war and the facts connected insoluply
with the war But what party, what policy, what
class Of rulers controlled the welfare OF the peO-
pie Of this country when American supremacy
upon the sea rose o Its great heightf From lo4V
10 1860 what party kept the American nag IN trl'
umph and whitened every sea with the com,
meice Of the American people as the carriers OF
the worlds Industry (Applause) neeu not
name the party. II WAS that IN whose cause
stand here tonight, (Applause) II was that party
into whose hands the American people shortly
again are to deliver their destintes aud their wei.
fare-(applause)- e)-wlih full confidence that II viii
he horne again In triumph and In happiness to
the place for which nature and Providence de.
signed 1t The honorable Senator said that from
1860 TO 1880 there had been visible aud terrible
and sad decline In the Transporting power OF
American commerce and that the American dag
had wei nigh ceased to float upon the ocean
wave. Well, It is true. grieve to say It is true,
that to-day we have less than 20 per cent Of that
transportation when before we had 80 per cent
WhathaS brought II 70 passR There have been
new laws enacted, There has been new spirit