Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-04-14

York; Judge Stephen Field, of the United
States supreme court; Hon. w. R. Morri-
son, of Illinois; Gov. Curtin, of Pennsyl
vania; Abram S. Hewitt, of New York;
Gen. Winfield S. Hancock, Gen. George B.
Mcclellan and Hon Samuel j. Randall.
At the conclusion of the menu, Mr.. Err
skine NJ. Phelps, president of the club, in
troduced to the assembled company the
Delaware senator.
SENATOR sAYARD.
Senator Bayard, of Deleware,in response
to the toast "Our Country" after paying
compliment to the city of Chicago and the
company assembled, and summarizing the
greatness of the nation and its records,
said:
standing thus upon the highlands of
vision, and realizing the material forces
placed in our care, how important, how
dignified become the duties of each Ameri-
can citizen, how vast the interests commit
ted to his charge; for We cannot disguise
the presence nor lesson the weight upon
the members of the Democratic republic,
of Individual as well as collective re-
sponsibilities to administer well and wise
ly the affairs of so great an empire, so vast
g body of human interests; and the soul of
our country is the spirit of justice and
liberty, finding expression under equal
laws, for the preservation of which the
written constitution of our Union was Or
daipea and the free institutions of our gov
ernment founded. Left free and unfettersd
to proclaim and exert themselves, the in
telhgence and the faculties OF mankind
nave been vindIcated by their results in
this country; the wisdom of non-interfer-
ence by the government, either to assist or
obstruct the exercise of the individual eff
fort of the faculty, and under the regula-
ton of equal laws in just such mode and
direction as the possession of conscious
power and inclination by the Individual
should instruct.
Hence We have seen in America, children
of adversely and poverty growing strong
IN their contests with circumstances, which
elsewhere, would have proved an insupera-
BILE bar, but under the equity of our
American system, becomes guides and in
struetors to success. Tests for growing
abilities and encouragenents to high and
honorable aspirations, the enduring great
ness of our country, are founded upon
what is really the elevated and great in
the minds and hearts of our people. Let
Us never forget that we have embarked
our hopes upon trust, and not
upon distrust in human nature; upon
what it contains of strength and worth,
and not upon its weakness and depravity;
upon The belief that the instinct of self
preservation left free to recoil from
natural and necessary errors and mistakes
will not repeat them, and that with free
and recurrent opportunities for popular
elections, misconduct in rulers, and mis-
takes in public policies, can, and will be
corrected and remedied under the peace
full, orderly and effective forms of law.
Can we be mistaken in the present in
dications so manifest, and abundant that
we will soon witness in the election of 1884,
a splendid and potential proof of popular
wisdom, and power to redress grievances,
reform unwise policies, rebuke corruption,
and purify and strengthen popular insti-
tutions, by driving out of the temple of
our liberties mercenaries and machine pol
ticians, who have betrayed popular trustand
disgraced and degraded the administra-
ton of our government.
1t is to promote the healthy sentiment
and habit of self-reliant manhood that the
Democratic party throughout the United
States insist upon fuller degrees of indi-
vidual liberty of conscience and action
consistent with the public safety and rights
of others, and for that reason we deprecate
all unnecessary interference with the
rights of local self-government and all
class legislation by the general govern
ment, which assumes guardianship
and protection over the busi-
ness of the private citizen, and functions
Of control over matters of domestic and
local interests. We must carefully and
jealousy insist that the true germ and
real basis of the greatness of our country
should not be obscured and overlooked,
and that public control be not allowed over
matters properly belonging to private
jurisdiction. We need this check upon
centralizing influences, the consolidation
of wealth and power, and the tyranny of
party organization, all of which tend to
wither individual manhood and conscience,
and absolve men from the sense of person
al duty and obligations.
UNPUBLISHED LETTKR OF JEFFERSON.
Following Senator Bayard's speech VIM.
Il. Hurlbert, with few predatory remarks,
presented the club the subjoined autograph
letter of Thomas Jefferson, never before
published:
PHILADELPHIA, March "a, 17S3.-DEAR
SIR: The delegates are sending an express
to Virginia with the intelligence received
this morning, but as do not know wheth-
er they will have leisure to drop line to
you, will undertake to communicate to
you the general tenor. A vessel arrived
here this morning express from Cadiz,
with dispatches from Count d'Estaing and
the Marquis Fayette, announcing that the
preliminaries of peace were settled be-
tween all the belligerent powers in Janu-
ary. Not having their extracts from the
articles before me, can't give you a mi
mute detail of them.
Their general effect, ,however,a ,as to terrific
rial changes produced by the war is that the
thirteen states are severed from Great
Britain; the Floridas and the Minorca
ceded to Spain; Tobago and Menguelon to
France, and the French part of the New
foundland coast to Great Britain. There
may be some changes in the East Indias,
which my recollection does not suggest,
but they are trifing if any. This vessel
was sent on the rare possibility that she
might arrive sooner than the one from Brest
which we may hourly expect with the
authenticated instrument. Peace being
made. there is no further occas ion for
peacemakers. shall, therefore, leave this