Smyrna times., 1880-01-07

OBITUARY NOTICES Will DC choieSU wv
line.
p.v,pn AND DELAwARE.-The following
c.o,,, tho Dsadwood (Dakota) Daily Pioneer
f,rnishes another instance OF that reckless
.,,norcil;ous writing characteristic OF the
mrrsot west" where our farms east are
Looked upon as garden patches and even |
orr men. however learned and prominSn''
are minnited;
uOf al the idiotic booms and would De-
,o.s ottempts to make much out OF
. no TO write nobodies into lmmsnsl'
4;os tbers is none more absurd than the
15e9' abortion, All the profuse plaster
10: -, him and over him of such imposing
.nFt. SQUASH adiectivss as grand and states,
s.anI;[e, broad. brainsd,' majestic ana
nnnnnrsbepsiye.' 'high-soulsd, able, and
stoirless integrity cannot make OF bayaro
onv moro than a good provincial lawyer OF
a second.rate bankers CLERK
=" What If he is senator from Delaware
Tbe whole pitiful little whipping-post state
~ consists of three peach-orchards'
lawn "a counties. The Roses own one,
tho Saulsburys another and the Baayards
The third. And these three insignlncant
trnck.natches, in which Dakota man
S,onid he in perpetual terror of walking on
+ba edce in his sleep and breaking his
neck. have to elect governor, congress
xson and two United States senators. mat
"a enc and a.third dignitaries from each
canntv so that to hold the highest place
~ the oft Of tho so-called state IS no more
nvidence of A mans ability than to be
rnsmber Of the legislature or county
court in auv civilized wealth.
o Bavard is little man from little
State. State which never produced a
oreot man. and could not hold him II 1t
did: a State Of psach-psddlers and huck-
steers. in the heart Of the world and nifty
Southern papers may slobber fulsome
landations on him as they will, but Bayard
never did great act, never uttered great
thought, never originated an idea or a
measure. He is q seminonentlty, we'll
advertised, eminently respectable insls-
ni6cancy. and he will not boom worth a
cent. Set that down in the family record
as a still born fact"
When we take into consideration that
the writer of the above is the inhabitant oil
a territory, the region of the Sioux Indians
and perhaps himself half-brsed, we need
not be surprised at the fsrocity of his
attack on Delaware and one Of its mos
prominent citizens Delaware is indeed
insignificant in territory in comparison t.
the boundless expaRse of the West, bu
because a man lives in big State, tina
l,;y, n hiurar man nor n
small State a smaller man. The individual
who arrogates to himself superiority becaus
he comes from large city land the mos
do it), or because the accidents OF III
have cast his lot in the confines of larg
State; is influenced by weakness or vanit
in claiming for his fractional self the fore
of the intsger. Rhode Island or Delawal
are as capable of producing great man {
the whole combined West, just as the littl
Island of Corsica furnished one man thI
made the whole continent Of Eurol
tremble. One of the facts we learned
cur first school books of history and tn
too published in Boston was, that Del
ware was distinguished for its able men
Commencing with Mexican (who was
some time president of the Continent
Coneress) and with his compatriots, Re
and Rodney, put Delaware in the lead
signing the constitution of the Unit
States, on down our State has never be
without able representatives, in the col
ellis Of the nation, such as its Nolan
Claytons, Bayards, &C., who have fill
every responsible Office in the gift of
nation but the chief Executive, and mil
perhaps have this, but fer the fact that
State was electorally so small. And wha
more, we have men who are the peer
our most distinguished citizens in intell'
by reason of the accident of being smc
cred in a minority party, may never h
the chance to shine in the galaxy
lights up the nation. We have men in
State that are unknown in the West I
lad they lived there might have hi
fame reaching throughout the Continen
In regard to Mr.. Bayard such writer
the above can heap ne 'deaduood'
nH. His straight forward character
fidelity to the nation in its monetary C
has been so in contrast to the vascilla
and shutting policy Of the Western St
men, that the latter have paled before
in tt1e esteem and confidence of the ma
is voice yields no uncertain sound,
could the lash of party nor combined p
cal power of the West silence him. II
significant fact that even such poll
opponents as the Baltimore american
the New York Times have spoken of
az the man who in character, ability
popular respect was calculated more
any one else to be the standard bear
his party. y Is said that a polit
cannot eve Office of Chief e.
tive rise above his party surroundi
whether this is SO or not, Mr.. BayarC
shown in the Senate the past year thi
has Roman strength in maintaining
convictions, and would hardly in any Z
be likely to prove himself reed to
before the passions of his associates.
significant fact Of the day is that the n
OF the people of all parties are turni
men Of strength of character for
leaders, rather than the sharp unscrup
politicians, and it should not weigh az
such man that they come from a
State.
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GOVERNOR GARCELoN has determin
take no heed to the unanimous decisi
lie Snnranna nn,,rh nduarno "a h;a