Daily Los Angeles herald., 1880-09-24
EASTERH H,

Bsyasd on souaMern War Gi.iUas.
NEW YORK, Sept. 2Sd.-At the
Democratic meeting tonight Sena-
tor Bayard was received with great
cheering and made long speech
discussing the money questions
which enter into the Presidential
contest. He said that time has
changed the population of the
South ss well as of the North. A
new generation of men and women
who could have had but little to
say or do In relation TO the events
of 1861 now occupies and controls
the country. OF the charge that,
In the event of Democratic success,
the war debts of the South, the
loss of the slaves and claims for
other losses growing out Of the
war, pensions for their wounded,
etc., would be paid out of the
United States Treasury, Bayard
said the best reply to all these wild
and foolish assertions is that such
payments would be impossible.
The good sense or honesty of that
man is seriously to be impugned
who reads in the plain mandate of
the 14th amendment the absolute
Illegality and nullity of all
such claims, and who still
harps upon this topic. Having
been for number of years In
Washington, l have learned who
were really the beneficlaries of the
claims paid by Congress in the
past ten years of the class styled
"Southern claims;" and, in almost
every instance, the greater part of
the money flowed into the pockets
of Northern and very ''loya" as
signees, who had bought up these
claims for song from their impe-
cunious Southern owners. AT the
great gathering of Republican la
dies and gentlemen last week there
were lawyers, bankers and states
men who had mere money in their
pockets from Southern claims, al.
lowed by Republican Commission
ers and Republican Courts, than
the poor South ever received
since the war, or ever will receive,
from now until the day of judg-
ment. The cry the "Solid South"
next received attention, and Bay
ard said the South is not solid for
anything the North need appre.
hend, and its solidity has no fea-
ture and no aim at any result un-
friendly to the prosperity of the
entire Union. In relation to the
condition of business and society
in the Southern States, Bayard
quoted freely from paper by Ed
ward Atkinson, of Massachusetts,
and published In the F6rtnightiy
Review, in which appears these
passages: "The total production of
gold and silver by the mines,
mountains and rivers of the whole
world, for twenty-seven years, has
been 81, 400, 9s7 900; and the Amer
ican cotton crop for the last ten
years has amounted to from 81, 50O.-
100000 to $3,OOO,OOO,O0O in gold
values. Since 1865 an industrial
revolution has secured in the States
made free by the war such a har-
vest in gold as never before occur.
red on the surface of the cart b.
There has appeared to be misgov-
ernment, fraud, political disturb
ance, want of stability, sometimes
violence; but, underlying this sur
face, apparently 30 deeply agitated,
great industrial forces have been
quietly and surely working to the
end indicated by the great crops of
cotton, the last ten years. crops ex.
ceeding the ten anti-war crops by
nearly 6.500,O0 bales, while the
crop now being marketed will be
by far the largest ever grown. Vic.
lence and anarchy cannot have
been the rule in section that has
produced greater crops for sale, and
has at the same time been more
self.sustaining, than ever before in
its history. Speaking Of the pros
perity of the nation and Of the pro-
duction of tobacco, sugar and rice,
Bayard said: "And yet our domes-
tic production Of the last two arti.
cles is only in the Southern States,
and tobacco is chiefly produced
there. OF the tobacco crop
about two ffths are retalled and
manufactured IN the United States.
Over thirty-eight million dollars
revenue have been received during
the last fiscal year from this source.
With the executive power of this
government in the hands of an ad.
ministration just and friendly to
every section, how triaing will
even the great present be to the
greater future of prosperity that
await u.s." Bayard referred to his