Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-11-01

AMBASSADOR THOMAS F. BAYARD.
We then opposed that aggregation Of
privileged classes which claimed the
right to tax the American people for
their private purposes, and who, backed
by all the power of the Federal govern
ment, determined to enforce their pur-
poses Thank God individual liberty
was not dead in America. You remem.
Der how your friends and neighbors
Were arrested under fictitious charges
and held under bail. Thank God, all
that has been swept away! Now, we
have another battle before us and a
more serious one. 1t is our duty to pro.
tect our little State from those who
would debauch it.
Mr.. salisbury closed with glowing
tribute to Mr.. Bayard's patriotism and
then introduced the speaker Of the
evening
Another ovation greeted the Anbas-
sador as he arose.
MIR. BAYARD's ADDRESS.
My Fetlop-citizens.. As nv friend,
Mr.. Salisbury, has reminded you, two
years ago | stood where now | stand
giving you my counse! as to your
political duties in the contest then
pending. And you may remember my
friends, that | did not speak at that
time with the assurance of confidence.
| spoke that which l believed, but my
mind was filled with anxiety; for
knew that we were face to face with u
strong, vigorous, well-organized and
INSCRIPTIONS party, and l felt that even
were we to succeed-as we did succeed
that even were our efforts to be
crowned with success yet there was a
condition of things still to be encouut-
cred that would try our best capacities
for self government.
My friends, the country was suffering
at that time from the effects of unwise
policies OF taxation and of currency and
of cvilso Of governmentino in other branches.
They had been long continued. The
Democratic party never had had the
power of the legislative and the execu-
tive branches completely within their
control; they had never had the power
since 1860 either TO pass law or to re-
peal one that was objected to by the ma
jority as dangerous.
had been passed. | only can say that a
POllSy III llo tbSGuCH,
unwise in its features, had gradually
proclaimed its evil effects
My friends, the consequences of leg
islatlon are not instantly apparent. The
sun rises upon the same community the
day after law is passed us it did the
day before. No man instantly feels the
good effects of a good law or the evil
effects of dangerous law. They must
declare themselves. 1t is like the
health of a man. 1t requires course
of systematic temperance, self-control,
good exercise, obedience to the laws OF
health, to gradually bring him into a
condition of health. And he may vio-
late the laws of health; he may do it in
a thousand ways, and apparently with
immunity, for long time; but the time
will come when in his haggard looks,
his flushed cheeks, his trembling steps,
You will perceive that he has violated
the laws of health and that the penalty
is about to be eXacted
So it is with IL nation. A community
may live for II loug time apparently i'll
security and in comfort under laws that
contain within themselves the elements
of injustice, the elements of unfairness,
the elements of corruption, the merce.
nary elements; but, when those features
of the law come to mark themselves
upon the body polite, then comes the
time of trouble; then comes the time
described one hundred and odd years
ago i'll this country, "that tried mems
souls"
And saw, as | stood here before you
begging You to take the power from the
DO, fI,nN l,,lI 10 ~
to trur sfer il to safer hands, for the sake
of the country, that though the transfer
might be made, the cure of the evil that
had preceded could not naturally take
place at once. saw that the effect of
those evil measures hal yet to write it.
self in the homes and upon the faces
and upon the fortunes of the people of
the United States. 1t was not in reason
to suppose that because Benjamin uar-
rison was succeeded by Grover Cieve-
land Lapplausel, that the fact that
the two-Thirds Republican majority that
Mr.. Reed welded in the passage of
brutal and INSCRIPTIONS laws, was no
longer in the House of Representatives;
it was not the fact thar the Republican
Senate was to be succeeded by one
barely Democratic, but still sufficient to
control if they were faithful to each
other, the action OF that body--that was
not sufficient. Repeats had to come;
cures had to be applied-surgery in
some cases, disagreeable medicine in
others; but whether disagreeable or not,
the cure had to come through suffering.
The cloud overhanging the country
could not suddenly be dissipated and its
lightnings attracted to pass OFF harm
lessly into thin air.
No, gentlemen, left this country in
1893, in the month OF March, and cast
many u longing lingering look behind ut
the people whose fortunes, whose pros
perity were SO dear to me. And felt
almost as though | were leaving my
home and my countrymen in time OF
trouble, and seeking rest elsewhere. But
while / was ahroad, and the ocean
separated us and our hands, it did not
keep our hearts apart. 1t did not keep
my mind from anSio1sly looking, look
ing every day at the progress OF those