The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-10-04


A SOUTHERN FREE TRADER
Ex-Secretary Bayard is making radical
speaks from his heart. for he holds firmly
with the Calhoun, JEFF Davis and the Con-
federate constitution that protection is un-
constitutional. Mr.. Bayard is man after
Cleveland's own heart. He was q political
Laodicsan during the great war Of the
but be did not love it well enough to think
it right to shed drop of blood to preserve
IL. DisunIon was sentimentaliy disagree
able TO the great Delawarean, but not so
odious as the splitting of blood to save the
Union. so Mr.. Bayard, like his fellow
copperheads. employed their time wiring
ing their hands and protesting against
fight in the family. If the South wanted
anything, no matter how outrageous the
demand. the great. cool, calm and cultl-
waited statesman from Delaware always
struck high old Ciceronian attitude and
quite just. but the South will secede unless
she can have everything she wants, and il
the North attempts coercion there will be
war, and, much a. love the Union, pre-
fer peace and secession to coercion and
war;.
That was Bayard during the war; and
that always has been Bayard; he is .
political poltroon who has that womanish
dread Of guns and drums and bayonets
and blood and wounds every snob
statesman" in history has manifested.
Bayard hated the war for the Union be-
enjoyment of his sherry and champagne.
1t rudely broke upon his nuts and raisins:
1t confused him when he wanted to make
a pretty after dinner speech when the ears
of the whole nation were listening to the
war speeches of the Confederate cannon
before Sumter.
The drums and bugles of war are always
odious to those effeminate sons of so-called
culture, who are never weary of chanting
that letters as well as law are silent on
those days, big with the fate of nations.
when the clash of resounding arms counts
for more even than the click Of type.
Bayard was very sorry when the war broke
out; Pendleton was sorry; Phelps was
sorry; vallandingham, Voorhees,. Hem
bricks and Cleveland were sorry, because
they knew that the war meant black eye
to the pro-slavery party. But they would
not fight an open battle for either side be
cause peace, at any price, peace at the ex-
pense Of honor, was better than . fight for
national life. They pretended to be pa
triots and babbled deal about ''fraternal
blood" As logicians they ought to have
reflected that when two sections are ready
to appeal to arms on 50 broad a question
as to whether free institutions should be
national or sectional the less said about
fraternal blood the better. Fraternal
blood il an accident; fraternal sympathies
have to become extinct before war can
possibly be accepted rs . solution of ira
ternal rights and duties.
What would have become of the great
English revolution Of 1888 if William of
Orange had stopped to consider that James
the Second was his maternal uncle; if
William Of Oranges wife had stopped to
consider that James the Second was her
fatherP Revolutions do not stop their
march to listen to sentimental appeals
about ''fraternal blood" Bayard's be-
havior when the war of rebellion was i'm.
pending was identical with the stupid
policy of Constable Dosberry when that
solemn official ass says. "You are to bid
any man stand in the princes name. If
he will not stand, why then take no note
of him, but let him 60, and thank God you
are rid of q knave" That was Bayard's
and Cleveland's policy in 1851. He would
bid the South stand" but if she would
not stand. he would let her go and thank
God he was rid of her and Delaware was at
peace.
Brother Bayard never appeared to know
in 1861 that there are worse things than
war in this world, whether for man or a
nation. Peace is good; all wise men and
nations prefer peace to war, but they do
not confuse an honorable love of peace
and q contempt for the wanton violence of
= bully with the craven conduct of q
whipped spaniel. A mastiff that dies I'm
silence biting hard is better than a whipped
spaniel that sees length of days, if not
honor, in the land by not daring to bark,
much less to bite, when beaten. And it
Is tiresome. old Bourbon Bayard, who
few the white flag of peace at any price
during the war; who would have substi.
tuted q white feather for the stars and
stripes, that is pleading today for Cleve-
land and free trade.
John Randolph called the alliance OF
John Quincy Adams and Henry Clay the
partnership of the Puritan and the black
leg. but the spectacle Of the Solid South.
waving its hat for the copperhead Cleve-
land standing on the tariff plank of the
Confederate constitution is not an unnat-
ural union; it is just what might have
been expected. The South still marches
under the Confederate flag OF free trade"
which means the ultimate destruction of
the protected manufactures and products
of the North. and Mr.. Bayard, who fol-
lowed this free trade" flag in his youth.
Is still following il in his old age. He is
conspicuous copperhead, supporting an
snconspicuous copperhead upon platform
whose free trade tariff plank is taken bod.
lily from the constitution of the Confeder-
ate states. which prohibited the imposi.
ton of all protective duties IN behalf of
American goods and products.
TIT NAE