St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-07-09
MIR R5YARD


The Buffalo, N. Y, Courier has this to say
in regard to Senator Bayard
Mr. Bayard at all times was a Union man
and was never in sympathy with the Confed-
crate cause. But at the beginning of the
great struggle, while he condemned secession
he perceived that a civil war would not only
bring untold calamities upon the country,
but would destroy freedom and popular in
stitutions. With large number of other
patriotic men, including Republicans like
Seward and Chase, he was in favor of letting
''the erring sisters go,'' as Horace Greedy put
it. But he wanted his own state of Delaware
to remain in the Union. This was the view
he adopted as a young man in 1851. The
impression that he ''inclined towards the
Confederate side - is, therefore, altogether
erroneous.
The Courier does not accurately represent
Fthe spirit, tone and position of Mr.. Bayard's
speech in 1861. The speech itself is its own
best interpreter. The full text of the speech
was accurately reproduced in the columns of
the GLOBE Of a recent date. In that speech
he no where ceDsures or criticises the seced-
ed states. But he does bitterly denounce the
sentiment of the North and the editors of the
North, and be sharply criticises the action of
President Lincoln and his cabinet for calling
for volunteers to put down the rebellion. He
expresses a holy horror of civil war, and says
war will he worse for the North than the
South. Rather than have war, he would let
the Union be severed, and would recognize
the Confederate government as an accom-
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naming OF Delaware in the Union.
II he was Union man then, as the Co,t-
yier claims, he had very strange way of show
ing his love for the Union. The Courier aims
to find cover for Mr.. Bayard under the al
legged position of Chase, Seward and Greeley,
enormously claiming that they favored dis
union of the States, in preference to war to
preserve the Union and the Government un-
der it intact. This Is slanderous imputation
of the names of those loyal men. 1t was not
Horace Greeley who said, referring to the Sc
coded states 'let the erring sisters CO." That
famous declaration was made by that half
secesh old dotard, weakened by age, Gen.
Scott, whom 1t was found necessary to dis
place from the head of the army, because of
age. inflrnity and and consequent incapaci-
ty. Gen. Mcclellan succeeded him, with
,what results history win tell.
These remarks are not made because 1t is
apprehended that the convention now in ses-
sion at Chicago will nominate Mr.. Bayard.
If It should, it would perpetrate a conspicu-
ously fatal plumber, and Blaine will have a
comparatively walk-over campaign. The 10y
ality of tho North that saved the Union with
out regard to party affiliations, is not yet far
enough away from the rebellion, and the re-
membranes of its fearful consequences, to
Join in putting into the Presidential chair
the author Of such speech as that delivered
by Thomas f. Bayard, at Dover,in Delaware,
lin the dark and distressing days of 1861,
,xhen dcvout patriots and loyalists almost
began to doubt. the beniguity and over ruling
providence Of God.
The Democratic convention will not make
a nomination TO put James &. Blaine with
alt his magnetism, dash and recklessness
and oudaeity into the White House to perpet-
uate tAe present reign of fraud and corrup-
ton. an 4 the Capitalization of governmental
powers