Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1880-09-16

Senator HayHru IN cOuth ChFOllnA-
Senator Bsys,ds speech at Columbia,
South Carolina, wac, as he said himself,
lust such spesch as he would make in
New York or Boston. L. was TIE address
of an American statesman to his fellow
Americans, free from all appeals to Sec
tiousl spirit. No sane man can believe
that the incorporation Of suob ideas as
Mr.. Bsysrd expressed to this Southern
audience in legislation would work any
injury to our country as whole, or 10 any
part Of u NJ tra-ousole person,
vhsthtf he Gg'e" with ~ differ
from Nr B.yarj, eau imagine that
the pla lag OF the administration
of The EsderNi government In the hands
Of such : man would work any injury to
business interests. Yet Mr. Bsysrd was
the real choice of quite as many delegates
in the Cincinnati Convention az General
Hancock and in the very irst address he
makes to portion of those who gave him
biz mos, earnest and enthusiastic support,
ne rsiterstes the principles which many
men ssy ut him above his
party, and tEs.s very Southsrners,
from whom It IL ysatsnded that an assault
on the public essdil " to come, cheer him
to the echo &c. III as:aEauces. Men cannot
and do not bsliase what they pretend to
believe about thia matter. It's port of
the monstrous pre.,noe, vi ich is the worst
thing about tue present mauagsrs OF the
Republican party, TO profess to believe
that HaLcock's election will impair the
public credit aud destroy the fruits of the
war for the Union.
There is determined effort On the part
of professedly moral people to believe
falsehoods they know to be falsehoods,
and to plead this pretended belief as an
excuse for condoLing fraud and shutting
their eyes to manifest stains on the char
acter Of their candidate. Men are trying
to work themselves into blind fairy, not
that they prefer to be furious but because
they want to be blind aud such speeches
as that of Mr.. Bayard show clearly
the monstrous effort. Here is where
the greatest injury possible through
the recent campaign is manifested
1t is bad that people should be
deceived but it is worse that they
should voluntarily and wilfully deceive
themselves with q view to sitting the
voice of their own consciences. The
American people know that neither politi-
cal party has, as a whole, been wise in the
matter Ct fupnee and currency, yet large
por ion OF ,Arn are trying to pretend to
believe tl4t one party mas ever been tine
enemy of sound hnanae and honest money
and the other the wise and faithful friend
of both. They know that there is no
portion OF our common country,
now, Nhose people are not interested
in the common welfare, and yet
they try to believe that fully
half the American people are enemies to
the Government they live under, aAd that
nearly the entire intelligent population of
whole states desire the destruction Of the
Government, whose destruction would
prove their oxn ruin. Il is terrific
thing for the country that such az effort
should be made, but it is worse even for
those making it. 1: eats away the
very foundation Of good citiz-n-
ship, closes ears az .iust r'ason
and bugies patriotism beneat- sectional
hatred, artfuly simulated By sum- pnd
lugorartiy accepted as real by wuers,
Such -pe,cA as Mr. BAyard's. r-ce!v-d
a. 1t 8es by sJu'h Carolina an! nee.
is a good eG.re4uv to his Tendency but
b. trolule is that 'hs men Who un-; ns, d
1t bav- alrrad, slat tL-Ir -.r7 .gtr,t il
and ali o,uer rvli-u'-- q tue ttgra,