St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-07-09
MR.. B4Y4RD.


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
sttutions. 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 1861. The
impression that he ''inclined towards the
Confederate side - is, therefore, altogether
erroneous.
The Courier does not accurately represent
the 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 censures or criticises the seced-
ed states. But he does bitterly denounce the
North, and he sharply criticises the action of
President Lincoln and his cabinet for calling
for volunteers to put down the rebellion. He
expresses holy horror Of civil war, and says
war will be worse for the North than the
South. Rather than have war, he would let
the Confederate government as an accom-
plished fact He no where urges the re-
naming of Delaware in the Union.
II he was Union man then, as the Cou-
gier 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 a dis
union of the States, in preference to war to
preserve the Union and the Government I'M
der 1t intact. This is slanderous imputation
OF the names Of those loyal men. 1t was not
Horace Greeley who said, referring to the Sc
eeded states s'let the erring sisters 60" 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, infrmity and and consequent incapaci-
ty. Gen Mcclellan succeeded him, with
,what results history will tell.
These remarks are not made because 1t is
unprecedented that the convention now in ses-
sion at Chicago will nominate Mr.. Bayard.
II 1t should, it would perpetrate a conspicu-
ously fatal plumber, and Blaine will have a
comparatively walk-over campaign. The 10y
atty of the North that saved the Union, with
out Segsrd TO party affiliations, is not yet far
enough away from the rebellion, and the re-
membrNncc of its fearful consequences, to
Join In putting into the Presidential chair
the author OF such speech as that delivered
by Thomas T. Bayard, at Dover,in Delaware,
in the dark aud distressing days of 1861,
when devout patriots and loyalists almost
began to doubt tire benignity and over ruling
providence of God.
The Democratic convention win not make
a nomination to put James G. Blaine with
all his magnetism, dash and recklessness
and andacity into the White House to perpet-
tiatc the present reign of fraud and corrup-
ton. and the Capitalization of governmental
DOWers