Delaware gazette and state journal., 1884-06-19
Two uisiorfc npeaches.
AT Dover, on Jone s7th 1851, Senator
Bayard spoke as follows:

lut bONeInOI, LlS lTONlslOuh vi tIt d
constitution, can call special election to fill a.
he vacancies in the Legislature, and, at an 81
,xtra session in the next month the public y
ense can be fairly taken and the will OF the =
majority expressed II It be then found that
he people OF Delaware are in favor OF carry I
ng on this war against the confederate /
states, they will elect such legislature as
will send proper man to the Senate to carry 0
out such policy and sustain the present ad- :
II not they may elect whom
they see ht to lend his powers to restore
peace to our land.
Let us. fellow-men, follow peace as our
bright north star, whose radiance may be
mild but never delusive or uncertain, while in
the calamities of war, and in that worst OF
wars, q civil war, we shall only reach by sheer
exhaustion tho peace We can now command
IN 10 days by treaty.
This was the message o! his honored
father, the Hon. James A Bayard, WHO'S
memory is dear to every tru5 DelAwsrean,
This was the message which Ills SOP, the
worthy successor OF SO able and revered
i sire, delivered to his fellow oitizsns,
convened to consider what position Dals-
ware should take iu the impending con.
hict, the opening mutteriugs Of which
mad begul TO reverberste throughout the
iaud. 10 this message are contained the
sentiments he then and there endorsed,
aud whion he has been mau enough to
stand by ever since 80 the honest expires.
sion OF his honest conviction at the time
aud nrder the circumstances.
A smaller man would have equivo-
cated and pleaded the changed conditions
aud have trimmed his calls to catch the
favoring breezes OF popular favor, as Logan
Of Illinois and hundreds of others have |
done. But Senator BsyRri Ia mt such q |
man. He plants himself fqusrely upon
the record he says: g. made that
speech and would do So again under the
g." like circumstances !" bat, when his
Loyalty TO his country is impunged, he
turns to his cslnmniAloi, Senator Bout
well OF Massachusetts,, and in the
language Of an honest man unjustly
accused says
The senator has suggested that in some
way have been party to some set or deed
uufsithfu to the integrity OF the government
OF tins country, | will simply say that every
drop Of blood III my body comes from men
ana women who since this government WAS
| established, never harbored thought or did
an act unfaithful or unpstriotic. No man
| can assert the contrary. Tho senator dare
| not do SO. he might attempt 1t by an in
| uuendo, by classifying ME with those whom
| he terms enemies OF the country but he
| knows as well as ! that the man who says |
| ever did au act or uttered word unfaithful
to the integrity OF my country's government
has lied in his throat.
Bat little more than three months be-
fore the gathering Of that peace couven-
ton at Dover, on the 4.h OF March 1851,
there was larger gathering at Washing
ton, where the assembled thousands
listened to these words from the lips OF
one y ho likewise stood deservedly high
in the estimstion of his fellow citizens
To those who really love the Union may
not speak, before they enter upon so grave a
mstter ss the destruction Of our national
| fabric with sll its benefits, It's memories and
ts hopes Would it not be wise to ascertain
previously why We do so VIII you hazard
30 desperate q step while there is any possi-
bll!ty that any portion Of the Ills you tly from
have no real existence Will you, while the
certain Ills you fly to are greater than the
unreal ones you fy from will you risk the
| GDulLl6=lGLl VI ~ LGal VI LlISlAhG
Does any one recognize the speaker :
WAa he Logan, or Mosby, or Malone, or
Lougsweet, or Riddleberger, or any Of the
Z host who have since been washed and
" made clean in the blood" Of a Republi-
can baptism
No. The Language we have quoted is
Z taken from the inaugural address Of
. Abraham Lincoln, and who will dare
i impusn the loyalty OF the martyr
President
e, Were President Lincoln and Senator
4. Bsysrd GO far apart in that troublout
b. time SIS 70 Justify the sneer with whiel
10 sn anonymous scribbler treats the as
a sumption Of Henry C, Anderson, tha
" Abraham Lincoln compliment-d Mi
,a " Mr. B-yaId Tor Lis effort to proven
sr 90 Delaware from seeding ''
i'd Possibly another little extract troi
tlis -suSural message Of the drst an
* greatest aud best o, Republican Pres
.- I.a,4 ma Lave some bearing on tn
I- question. it Is as follows
,a And mor thsn this they placed III Il
form Ter my areoptaucC,as !aw to thul
'i -e.yr- and 90 le the clear. emphatic rosol
llv u5u which nov read
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--d nov reiteratt these sentiments and,
4qlu- -9 luuly prc-= Hpru the pnNhc att'
.N tigl DE- most conclusive evidence uf VIII
3. lNe gtsr is .nsgutublc, That thu proper
., FeaeD sad -tcgrty Z DO section are to be
7H Ey wise pa3ugrrrd by the new ncomi
" S administration.
os- Asa.u Ste ask will any on Hare i
--t- Pusu tlr loys'ty Of the man Who spa
rom tarse words laI how Gan any {
SOD pTais ib- same continents wh-u uttei
by Lincoln aud denonnc4 them VII
u;t-rsd bY Bayard