The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1885-06-05
PATRIOTIC SPEECH.
Secretary Bayard's Tribute to
Jefferson
AND ALEXANDER HAMILTON,
at was the Counsel that the Country
was Greater Than the
Party"
Bayard in Missouri.

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Bayard and Senator Vest arrived this
morning, accompanied by carload of
lesser Democratic lights. from st.
Louis, to participate in the commence
ment exercises of the State University.
A crowd of citizens met the gentlemen
at the station, and a procession. headed
by Governor Marmaduke and others
on horseback. started Immediately for
the university amid Il waving of flags
and the firing of cannon. The COM
mencement exercises occupied until
noon. when the original marble tablet
on which was inscribed the memorable
epitaph of Thomas Jefferson. and
which was presented to the univer ;ity
by the heirs of Jefferson, was unveiled
and Senator Vest delivered a
long and elaborate Grafton on
Jefferson. Calls were then made
for Bayard. The Secretary came for
ward. and, after prolonged applause,
said II desire, with much humility
and some hesitation, to point out. if l
may, the true relations of Jefferson and
Alexander Hamilton. have, perhaps,
some hereditary right to speak OF
this. There is correspondence to-day
in my possession to show that to the in
! fuence of no man in the United States
was the election of Jefferson to the Pre-
sidency more due than the personal
counsels and influence of Hamilton.
! The election i'll 1900 left the vote of the
! electoral college at tie, it finally
became the duty of the House of Rep
resentatives to elect the President OF
| the United States. The two highest
candidates were Thomas Jefferson and
Aaron Burr. The one now the synonym
of patriotism; the other of treachery; but
not SO at that day. All that time the
fate of the country hung at most upon
thread. The new, poor and broken
States lay along the Atlantic. The
great west was thing almost unknown,
Means of communication scarcely ex.
listed. Opportunities of intercourse
there were none. There was no feeling
OF consolidation, but everything fed
from the center to circumference and
nothing but dissolution seemed al
hand. Then came the letters that
have held in my hand and read, from
Thomas Jefferson to the then renre
sentative from Delaware, whom have
the honor to call my grandfather. zap
plause) He held the vote of that State
and it counted as much in the ballot a:
7 new L OIh VI VI fuSluld luis OllS
man, and he a member of the Federal
party and an opponent politically Of
Thomas Jefferson, held that vote in his
hand. He took counsel with Alexan-
der Hamilton. What counsel did he
receive and what did he obey? 1t was
the counsel that the country is greater
than the party. 1t was the eounse
that the Union was worth pre-
serving. The FeGeralist from Delaware
instructed by Alexander Hamilton
cast his vote for Thomas Jefferson, the
arch opponent of the Federal party
Therefore, when we look to the past fol
lessons and true history, let US not fai
to respect the dignity of the men of tina
day. They did differ IN counsel
they did differ in theory; but
they did not differ in the one
great end for which all governments
were intended. the happiness, the ad
vancement and the welfare of the human
species. Therefore, while we may anC
ought to draw fearlessly the truth from
every lesson In the past and look at it:
teachings unfiinchingly, let US also re
member, with thankfulnes and pride
that in this American nation there
fingers something stronger thar
party that overrides personal am
bit;ons. that where a dread crisis ap
proaches, teaches the American man to
put beneath his foot unworthy anC
small thoughts and to rise to the
dignity of his country's demands. Gap
plause.) The spirit that existed in 1906
Showed itself in 1876. There was time
when more than half of this
people felt that they had
been wronged in the results of the
election, but between them and the OBJ
! iects of their wrath arose the form Of
their country, and if hand was raised
to strike the form of their country, they
forbade 1t and they sacrificed party
demands to the existence of this Unior
and to the progress of the people of the
United States. (Applause.) What
ever may be the difference between men:
opinions; whatever may be the differ
ences between mems personal ambl
tons, the American people have recog
nized and they do recognize that there
is point beyond which they cannot
go, and that point is national safety
! (Applause.) That is the guard that is
the boundary; that is the work which
trust all the education in this country
will teach US to observe Our education
in all its forms is simply tC
end in making US higher and
better and more self-subordinate, and
to teach us that we are humble instru-
ments in the advancement, not of mere
selfishness, but of something far beyond
1.-THE glory and welfare of our entire
country" Bayard closed amid the
most hearty applause.
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