The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1880-03-18
The CONSPIRACY DOES NOT
WORK AS EXPECTkD.


The plan laid TO pjure n. B yard
as Presidential candidate was a deep
laid one between few Democrats and
Republican, among whom. it is boldly
asserted, NJ. TildeR took a leading
part. At the time Mr.. Bsyard made
the speech about which SO much is be-
ing said, he was young man, barely
entering political life, but even then,
twenty years ago, be who was looked
to IN his own state as man of sound
Judgment, and whose counsels were
then called into re9uisition to
calm disturbed elements. Even 1t
that day he was recognized as q
statesman, and whist he said at
Dover, in 1861, found a hearty
response st that time in the hearts of
millions of people in the Northern
states There was yearning desire
to avert bloody war. P triots at the
North were opposed, and very many
at the Sauth prayed tor the aversion of
so dire calsmity. Bat the issue be-
came fixed, and these men OF the North
aud of the S1uth became involved,
through sympathy or sectional love or
patriotism, in the prosecution of the
war. Mr.. Bayard would have averted
the terrible strife. that made an entire
country clothe itself in mourning. His
own state was on the confines of the
two contendiug sections. and he hoped
to protect his immediste people from
the fate that generally befals all such
territory. Iu this effort TO ward off
the terrors OF war, and to save in
Vulnerable lives and vast treasure, Mr..
Bsysrd occupied ground not at all diff
ferent from Mr.. Lincoln. who, it is said,
wept when dire necessity drove him,
as President of the U1ited States, to
send armed men against the South.
Mr.. Lincoln, it is said, would have
stopped the war any day had it been
in his power, and so he did attempt
to do by open treaty at one time, and
peace would have been declared, and
the South would have been saved from
devastation and it's people from humil-
Iatlon and degradation, had not Mr..
Davis, in the weak and crippled con-
dition of the South, assumed, without
the legions to back him, the manner OF
a Cesar. Who at the North can blame
Mr.. Bayard for sentiments that
would lead him TO prefer be-
tween the people of the North and
those of the South, brotherly love in
stead of passion and hatred; and who
at the South is there at this day who
can not do otherwise than love Mr.
Bayard. because he would have secured
to US peaceful homes and fortunes, and
averted desolation and woe aud dis
honor.
But we merely proposed to refer to q
disgraceful effort to injure pure and
noble patriot, Democrat, whom the
enemy fears more than any other man.
The evidences, however, are that what
had been planned as an injury is apt
to make Mr.. Bayard more beloved and
honored than ever. The st. Louis
Times, paper that has opposed him,
says:
For more than year the Philadel
phls Times has been assiduous in its
advocacy of the claims of-Mr. Bayard
for the Democratic nomination fol
President. A few weeks ago a speech
maze by Mr.. Baysrd in 1861, in which
he deprecated war between the sections
and thought peaceful separation and
two governments preferable, was
brought to its notice through the col.
umns of the New York San, and straight
way the Times recanted all it had said
in its favor as q prospective candidate,
and assumed to withdraw him from the
COule GF' Ty Hldu at ali acquainted
with current politics had heard of thii
speech, if he had not seen it. 1t is
not to be supposed, then. that as we!
informed paper as the Times was ig.
norant of it, or that its publication in
the Sun took it by surprise. The more
probable supposition is that the Times
advocacy of Mr.. B4yard has been g
sham and false pretense all along
that it has never wanted him to get the
nomination. and that it has been act.
ing treacherous part in order to
strike him more powerful blow wher
the time came. We don't know whal
effect the speech and the Times osten.
tstious withdrawal from his support
will have on his canvass. But we are
free to say that our sympa.hies are en-
tirely with Mr.. B4ysrd and against the
cowardly and trescherous assault thai
has been made upon him. We think
better than we did of the man, and
worse than we did of the paper.