The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1880-04-08

consideration OF his article than 1t would
otherwise secure. Personally, we have
nothing but kind feelings for Mr.. Coch-
ran, and believe that the same is true of
the people Of Anderson County, but po-
litically, we and our people are as bitter
ly opposed to him and his party as ever.
MIR. BAYAnD's STRENGTH.
In review of the prominent Presi.
Dental candidates the Augusta Chronicle
and ConstitutionaHst says:
We would rather vote for Mr.. Bayard
than for any other man mentioned in this
high connection, but the very enthusiasm
felt for him in the South would damage
him elsewhere 1t is monstrous shame
that this is so, but we are not now look.
ing at things as we would have them, but
as they are. The Presidency would be
honored by Mr.. Bayard. 1twould confer
no additional honor upon him. But a
grave doubt exists as to his ability to
carry any State East or West, under the
storm of calumny and lies that would be
hurled against him from press, pulpit
and money marts. 1t is true that he rep.
resents all that is most sublime in the
American character, and that no man is
stauncher adherent of the money
power, so far as the good faith of the
country is concerned; but his intense
sympathy for the South and her glowing
affection for him would work, we appre-
bend. against his chances in States that
are debatable and most important.
We regret to see such paragraphs as
this, for unless properly weighed they
are likely to result in the overthrow of
Mr.. Bayard as a Presidential nominee
more eAectually than direct attacks upon
him could do. These utterances are very
common just now all over the Union,
and if all of them are as reliable and
sincere as the extract from our Augusta
contemporary, they prove Senator Bay
ard to be the decided choice of the whole
Democratic party, and that his nomina-
tion would sweep the country with aper-
feet storm of popular enthusiasm. Most
of the independent papers have declared
for the Delaware Senator, and quite
number of Republican papers prefer him
to Grant, who is likely to be the Repub-
lican nominee. Of course, the doubts
expressed by Democratic papers will not
be expressed after the nomination, and
the effort of the malignant partisan press
of the Republican party will be unable
to make much headway against the uni
versally conceded pure and exalted
character of Mr.. Bayard. His most ma
lignaut foes are totally unable to assail
him in any way, except by parading his
peace sentiments in 1861 before the coun-
try for the purpose of opening up the
stalwart cry again. This issue has
always been opposed to the Democrats,
and in those elections in which it has
been the leading issue the Democrats
have won. They can win on it again,
for all sensible people in the Union know
that secession is now finally settled, that
the South has accepted the situation in
perfect good faith, and that the Union is
fully and perpetually restored. The
whole country has had enough of the
war and now wants peace. This is all
that Mr.. Bayard wanted in 1861. He
was not secessionist, and did not seek
to carry his State out of the Union. He
was union man, and sought to preserve
the Union by peaceful means and not by
an appeal to arms. He was then, and
always has been, true and loyal to the
Union. His long and consisten: and
courageous course in the United States
Senate has won for him the admiration
and respect Of every man who loves vir-
tue, who respects ability, who admires
patriotism or who appreciates moral
courage. Entering the Senate when
there were but six Democrats in it, he
has pursued the even tenor of his way,
the same grand patriot aud pure man,
whether you take him under the discour-
agements and temptations of a hopeless
minority, or in the flush, pride and power
of majority. Conscience and duty
have been his directors from the begin
ming to the end of his public career, and
against such record the slanders of par
tisan politicians or the libels of malig-
nant journals would have very little
weight. The country has had so much
of little, mean, contemplate selfshness,
so much of corruption and vice and
shame, ard so much of inconsistency and
unhallowed ambition in its public men
for the past twenty years, that the candi-
dacy of pure and sincere man for the
Presidency would command the follow
ing of large mass of Republicans who
admire the principles of Bayard, and
will be unable to find them in any can
didate who will be put forward at
Chicago. We are, therefore, in favor of
the nomination of Senator Bayard. 1t
will present to the country other and
higher issues than the partisan sqnabbles
which have disguised and harrassed the
people of the American Union for the
last two decades. 1t will ask the voter
to declare between purity of character
and venality, between honesty and cor
ruption, between patriotism and ambi-
ton, between the perpetuation of all that
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