Daily Republican., 1885-06-15
Secretary Bsysrd and his Grand
father.

WASHINGTON. June 14.-In the
address which Secretary Bayard recent
ly delivered before the students Of the
Missouri University, he 10 reported as
having said that when In consequence
Of o tie between Jefferson and Burr in
the Electoral College, the election de.
volved upon the House of Represen-
tatives, his grandfather, q Federalist.
instructed by Hamilton, the great chief
of the Federalists, cast his vote for
Thomas Jefferson. This statement in
the report of what Secretary Bayard
said having been denied and sharply
criticized, q Post reporter called 1t the
residence Of Secretary Bayard and asked
him II he had seen these attacks.
Oh, yes" replied the Secretary,
have read them. They were in
tended as An attack upon me personal
| ly. They are ungenerous and unjust,
but do not care for that. But that
the effect Of 1t should be to call atten
ton to the history of that period
greatly gratifies me. II 1t shall but
be the means of leading my country
men to learn the lesson of that epoch,
shall count myself fortunate in hav,
ing. by any means, been the cause Of
that result"
| "Now, the facts are that, having
listened on this occasion toa beautiful.
and glowing eulogy on Thomas Jeffer
son by Senator Vest, in which the anti
thesis between him and Alexander
Hamilton was sharply drawn somewhat
10 the disadvantage Of the latter, I rose
to speak without the least premedita'
ton and const quently without note
l was glad to hear Jefferson praised
but thought 1t ought never to be for
gotten and ought never to 60 unac
know lodged that Hamilton, when the
Occasion arose, was superior to party.
He knew the character of the nominee
of his party-of the man who, seven
years after, was tried for treason-and
as the country did not know 1t, he did
not hesitate to proclaim 1t.
"This Is the point l was making
that there was time when it became
fee party for country-and / wa.
pie of Hamilton. Naturally I referred
to James A Bay ard, for he stood neare
the counsels of Hamilton than any 9th
er Federalist.
My crime is that he was m,
Il
said that he cast his vote for j fferson
but whatever l may have said in tn
un studied address l delivered, ga.
Inow that my grandfather contributed
I more than any man, except Hamilton
to the defeat of Burr and the election
of Jefferson, and that he voted in such
way as TO secure that result. | coul,
| not have said thai his vote was posi-
lively cast for Jefferson, for that woul,
have been an historical error. In III
, sixth volume of Jetferson's correspon
, dence are letters i'll which he urges MI
q Bayard to break with the Federalist
and vote for Jefferson, and there ar
4 lextant letters of my grandfather
bearing date previous 10 those letters O
Jefferson's. in which he declares his in
: tention of doing that very thing.
That my grandfather was actuated b.
the rurest motives is shown by the thre
!, points asked of Mr.. Jefferson by tn
Federaiists, whose action secured hi
: election First, the support of the pub
lie credit. Second. the maintenance c
3 the naval system. Third, that subord
Is nate officers employed in the executio
" of details established by law should NJ
II be removed from office on the grounds
u political character, nor without con
Vt Iplaint against their conduct. This la
is pretty much the present civil serviC
Irules.
"In reply, Mr.. Jefferson said tn,
b these points correspondent with his ow
It views and intentions, and during b
Q administration he made but six teen r,
y movals"