The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1885-06-19
CABINET OFFICER ABROAD.
Secretary Bayard Attends Commencement
Exercises at the Columbia (Mo.) Uaiver-

Secretary Bayard Attends Commencement
Exercises at tho Columbia (Afo.) UHiver-
sity.
special from Columbia, Mo-, says that
Secretary Bayard, accompanied by carload
of lesser democratic lights from st. Louis, ar
rived there TO participate in the commence
ment exercises of the state university. A
crowd of citizens met the gentlemen at the
station, and the procession, headed by Cover
ror Marmaduke and others on horseback,
~tarted Immediately for the university amidst
the waving of flags and firing of cannon. The
commencement exercises occupied until noon,
when the original marble tablet on which is
inscribed the memorable epitaph of Thomas
jefferson, and which was presented to the
university by the heirs Of jefferson, was I'M
yelled aud Senator Vest delivered long aud
elaborate Grafton on Jefferson. Calls were
then made Cor Bayard. The secretary came
forward and, after prolonged applause, said:
II desire with much humility and some hesita-
ton to point out out, IL | may, the true rela
tions of jefferson and Alexander Hamilton.
have perhaps some hereditary right 10 speak
of this There is correspondence to-day In my
possession to show that to the influence OF no
man in the United States was the election OF
Jefferson to the pres .dency more due than TO
The personal counsels and influence OF Hamll-
ton The election in 1900 left the vote at the
electoral college tie. 1t finally became the
.luty of the house of representatives TO elect
the president of the United States
The two highest candidates were Thomas
jefferson AMI Aaron Burr, the one
now synonym of PATRIOTISM the
other of treachery, but not so at that day; and
ali that time the fate of the country hung al
most upon a thread. few and broken states
lay along the Atlantic. The great west as a
thing almost unknown. Means OF com uni
cation scarcely existed. opportunities OF in
tercourse there were none. There was no
feeling of consolidation. but everything fled
from the center to the circumference and
nothing but dissolution seemed at hand.
| Then came the letters that have held in my
| hand and read, from Thomas Jefferson to the
then representative from Delaware, whom
| have the honor to call my grandfather. APP
plause He held the vote of that state, aud
| il counted as much in the ballot as that OF
| New York or Of Virginia This one man-anu
he was a member of the federal party, and
opponent politically of Thomas JeifeT SON
that vote in mis- hand. He look counsel
| with Alexander Hamilton. What counsel diu
| he receive, and what did he obeys 1t was the
counsel that the country is greater than the
party 1t was the counsel that the union was
worth preserving. The federalist from Della
ware instructed by Alexander Hamilton, cast
| his vote for Thomas jefferson, the arch-oppo-
| nent of the federal party. Therefore, when
we look to the past for true history, let us not
| fail to respect the dignity Of the men OF that
| day They did differ in counsel, they did dit
fer in theory, but they did not differ in the
| one great endeavor for which all governments
were intended-the happiness, the advance
| ment and the welfare of the human species.
| Therefore, while we may and ought to draw
| fearlessly the truth from every lesson in the
| past and look at its teachings uu-
| finchingly, let US also remember
with thankfulness and pride, that in this
American nation there fingers something
stronger than party that overrides personal
ambition that where dread crisis approaches,
teaches the American man to put beneath him
quite unworthy and small thoughts and to rise
to the dignity of his country's demands
Applause The spirit that existed in lo0O
showed itself in 1876. There was time when
more than one-half Of this people felt that they
had been wronged in the results OF an election,
but between them and the objects OF their
wrath rose the form of the country; and If
hand was raised to strike they forbade 1t, and
they sacrificed party demands to the existence
of this union and to the progress OF the United
States. TApplause.l Whatever may be the
difference between mems opinions; whatever
NAV be the difference between mems personal
ambitions, the American people have to recog-
nize and they do recognize that there is point
beyond to which they cannot go, and that
point is national safety. Applause That Is
the work which 1 trust all education in the
country will teach us to observe. Our educa-
ton in all its form is simply to end In making
us higher better and more self subordinate;
to teach US that we are the humble instru-
ments, not of mere selfshness but OF some
thing far beyond 1.-THE glory and welfare OF
entire country. Bayard closed amid the most
hearty applause"