The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-01-21
BAYARD's SPEECHES.
Cleveland Replies to the House
Resolution.

matter of the speeches delivered by
Ambassador Bayard, transmitted cop
les of the two speeches in full, and also
copies of letters from Mr. Bayard ex-
planatory of them. No action was ia
ken by the president on the speeches,
except to notify Mr.. Bayard of the
action of the house
This correspondence begins with the
| following letter from Mr.. Bayard to
Secretary Olney, dated London, De-
| cember II last:
''Sir-Observing the proceedings, as
| reported by telegraph in the public
newspapers of this country, Of the Uni
ted States house of representatives in
relation to a speech read by me on
! the evening of the 7th ultimo before
| the Philosophical institution of Edin-
| burgh, l have the honor to enclose
herewith, for your inspection, a print
| ed copy of the address in question.
''In the absence of precise informa-
tIun of the text of the resolution said
to have been adopted by the house,
! and not proposing to anticipate the
action of either or both houses of the
congress, yet observing that, in the
| course of the discussion, reference was
made to the personal instructions of
the department of state to the diplo-
matte officers of the United States,
respectfully revert to article VII and
its sub-sections, in order that your at
| tention may be drawn to the fact that
the address in question was delivered
before an institution purely literary
and scientific in it's character, and
wholly unconnected with political par
| ties-Which had lronored two of my
! official predecessors with similar invi-
| tations, which in both cases had been
accepted, and subjects political in their
nature, Democracy and The Law of
| the Land having been respectively Sc
lected and treated with distinguished
ability.
mo political canvass was pending
or approaching in this country when
my address was made-and no inter-
ference or participation in local or
party political concerns in this country
was therefore possible.
1.-The address consisted Of my per-
sonal opinions upon governmental in
situations in general-the moral forces
and Tenderness which underlie them
and the governm entail politics which
assist in the conversion of the freedom
of the individual as an essential inte-
! ger of human progress, and of the per-
manence of civilization.
"The judgments so delivered were
! formed by me after careful deTherat1on
and, in their presentation, sundry his
! torical facts and arguments tended to
sustain them were advanced.
when the congress shall have con-
| Guided it's action on the subject, it is
possible that I may desire to submit
a further statement-but, meanwhile,
! I consider it proper to place before
you the address itself in full, and the
facts connected with it's delivery.
at have the honor to be- sir
Your obedient servant.
at. F. BAYARD''
.P. 81 find on reading over this
note, that Mr. Lowell's address on
/ Democracy" was delivered by him be-
fore the Midland Institute at Birm-
! ingham, an association similar in it's
/ character and its purpose to the Edin-
burgh philosophical institution.
January Ord Secretary Olney cabIed
/ Mr.. Bayard for details as to the Bos-
/ ton speech and January 4, the ambas-
sador replied. in a letter in which,
after promising to forward the news
paper report of the speech, and dis
cussing the history of the Boston
school, he says:
E'The exercises we're of very simple
and informal nature and without a
note or prepared words of any kind. I
made short predatory speech and
handed over the prizes to the success
J full competitors. In the afternoon we
adjourned to a public hall or hotel
where a. dinner was served, and, as is
customary here, there were toasts and
responses and responded to the
4 health of the president of the United
/ States and subsequently, to toast TO
myself So far as [ was concerned
everything was impromptu, and a
kindly, humorous, postprandial tone
1 prevailed 1t seems a reporter
was present, but I did not
! see him, nor did [ know that any re-
/ port had been made until the local
! newspaper was sent to me a few days
/ after in London. I sent copy to Mr..
/ Cleveland because the report contained
! a kindly reference to the family home
circle of the president. And as I have
/ grandchildren in Boston, Mass, [ sent
! a copy into that household.
This was the whole of the "publca-
| ton" in the United States of which I
! have any knowledge. 1 must except an
/ elaborate editorial in the Philadelphia
! Ledger gravelY censuring the consti-
| tutional views which the editor sup
posed to have been expressed by me.
1.-THE occurrence was early in last
| August and had passed out of my
memory until I was made the basis of
! resolution of impea chment by the Unit
| ed States house of representatives. as
! high crime and misdemeanor under
! the constitution.
L beg leave to thank you for your
prompt information of the house reso-
| luton in regard to which as to evary
other matter. I desire and intend that
! my position, acts and opinions should
be free from Instrumentation and be per-
fectly TRANSPARENT to the president,
yourself and my fellow countrymen"
Two days later Mr.. Bayard sent to
! Mr.. Olney the Boston newspapers con-
| tanning reports of his speech there and
in transmitting them wrote: "Sundry
! discrepancies are obvious in these two
reports-and they are such as are usu-
ally incidental under similar circum-
/ stan es-but as to the remarks attrib-
uted to me- I spoke without premedita-
ton, without notes, unaware of a re-
| porter's presence and have no means
! of recollection now somewhat vague)
to enable me to correct either report.
| Therefore / shall not ESSAY it, although
| it is obvious the reporters failed to catch
my words sometimes in Latin) and
confused them
"But both reports are sufficiently full
and accurate to describe the purpose of
my visit and the general nature and in
tent of my remarks.
IF it is desired to gather the actual
purpose and meaning of any statement
| it would appear to be necessary that
| phrases should not be separated from
! the context but that all parts should
| be considered in their relation to each
other. and as the honorable house of
representatives have in the grave ex-
ercise of their public duty instituted
! inquiry into what has been said and
done nv me on the occasion referred
to, including the circumstances attend
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