The record-union., 1896-01-21

'fThe address consisted of my per-
sonal opinions upon governmental in
stitutions in general-the moral forces
and tendencies which underlie them
and the governmental policies which as
sist in the conservation of the freedom
Of the individual as an essential integer
CT human progress and of the perma-
nence of civilization. The judgments
so delivered were formed by me after
careful deliberation, and, in their pre-
sentation sundry historical facts and
arguments tending to sustain them
We're advanced.
when the Congress shall have con-
c1uded its action on the subject it is
possible that I may desire to submit
further statement but meanwhile
consider it proper to place before you
the address itself in full and all con-
rected with it's delivery"
Mr. Bayard adds in a postscript: "I
find. upon reading over this note, that
Mr.. Lowell's address on Democracy
was delivered by him before the Mid
/ land Institution at Birmingham, an
association similar in its character and
purposes to the Edinburgh Philosoph-
ical Institution"
/
ceipt of this, cabIed on January Sd the
! ambassador that the House resolution
asked not only whether the Edinburgh
! speech was made, but also whether in
! the Boston speech he used the words:
/ THE President stood in the midst of a
strong, self-reliant and oftentimes vio-
/ lent people, men who sought to have
/ their own way 1t took a real man to
!
| Mr. Olney's dispatch also asked Mr..
| Bayard TO send any additional state
inent regarding the Edinburgh speech
he desired to make, and said the reso-
Tuition asked what, if any, action the
President had taken on the speeches.
Mr.. Bayard cabled the following day
that he would comply, and under the
same date wrote confirming the cable
gram. In this letter, dated January
| 4th he says he was selected to deliver
the prizes TO the graduating students
of the Boston Gran mar Schoof, which
he did in a spirit of good will.
I'm the afternoon" he continued, eve
adjourned to a public hall or hotel,
where a dinner was served. There were
toasts and response and responded to
the health of the President, and subse-
/
was concerned, everything was inn
promptu and a kindly, humorous, post
prandial tone prevailed 1t seems a
reporter was present, but I did not see
him, nor did 1 know that an report had
been made until the local newspaper
was sent to me few days after in Lon
don. / sent a copy to Mr.. Cleveland,
because the report contained a kindly
reference to the family home circle of
the President, and as / have grand
children in Boston, Mass, sent a copy
to the household. This was the ex
| tent of publication in the United States
/ of which ] have any knowledge. I must
| except and elaborate editorial in the
Philadelphia Ledger gravely censur-
ing the constitutional views which the
editor supposed to have been expressed
| by me.
"The occurrence was early in last
August, and had passed out of my
memory, until it was made the basis.
or one Of the bases, of a resolution of
! Impeachment by the United States
House of Representatives as high
crime and misdemeanor under the Con-
stitution."
Two days later, January 9th, Mr..
Bayard inclosed to Mr. Olney copies of
the Boston England Independent,
Boston Guardian" Lincolnshire ''Ad-
vertiser," Lincolnshire Independent"
of August 10th, each containing what
purported to be full report of the pro-
ceedings. "Sundry discrepancies, Mr..
Bayard writes, 'tare obvious in these
two reports, and they are such as are
usually incidental under similar cir
! cumstances, but as to the remarks at
| tributed to me, l spoke without pre-
meditation, without notes, not aware ofa
reporters presence, and have no means
except recollection (now somewhat
vague) to enable me to correct either
report"
| The Presidents message was referred
! to the Committee on Foreign Affairs.
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