Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1897-04-01
Mr.. BAYARD As AMBASSADOR.
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been gathered within those historic
and hoHpitable walls, the Lord Mayor,
in the name of the citizens OF London
land London for all purposes of
this kind gives uiterance to the
voice Of the English reople--bade
adieu to Mr.. Bayard on his retire
ment from the post of United
States Ambassador to the Court of
st. James The moment wes happily
chosen; for Tomorrow Mr.. Mckinley
will, according 10 usage, be indicted
into the Presidential office. and the
toast OF the President OF the United
States, which was drunk with SO much
cordially last nights therefore in the
nature of farewell from the British
nation to Mr.. McKinley's predecessor.
There was much more. howeyor, than
the mere grace of International courtesy
about the complainant paid to the
American ADMINISTRATOR. 1t was. as
could be perceived in every word of
the Lord Mayors impressive speech,
and 10 the hearty applause which it
evoked, message OF fraternal good
will and affection from one OF the two
great English speaking peoples to the
other; and that Mr.. Bayard SO felt and
acknowledged it was equally evident
in every word of his eloquent and
dignitied reply. In his account of the
spirit in which ne entered upon the
mission which he has so admirably dis.
charged, of the motives which inspired
him. and of the high ideal which be
proposed to himself, be was giving but
the simple recital of a story which
every act of his official life has i'm
perishably inscribed on the diplomatic
records of the two countries. No
minister who had not thus justly and
nobis conceived OF the relations which
ought to suhsist between England and
America, and of the part which Provi
dence designed them to play in the
great drama of humanity, could have
So acquitted himself as Mr. Bayard has
done during his term OF office. He did
not tnuch. and he did well 10 not
touching, on those specific causes of
difference which for time embarrassed
the relations between the English and
American peoples. To do so would
have been TO commit the Roman offence
OF marring an auspicinus occasion By
the utterance of ill.omened words.
But We all remember. and We are all
grateful to him for the ''yeoman ser.
vice" which he rendered to the cause Of
peace and goodwill in that hour Of
crisis; and ON this side of the Atlantic,
at any rate, we heartily assent to his
implied repuke of the passions to which
| that crisis was due. We are thor
| oughly at one with him 10 his weighty
declaraton-the declaration of a trained
| diplomatist who mad surveyed the
| whole field of international politics be-
| fore making it-that no question ever
| paF oil, opio bat ERn
and America which is worthy of
serious controversy. Nor, if the high
tradition OF diplomatic pulley which
Mr.. Bayard has left behind him ie per
| petuated by his successors, will any
question ever be allowed to provoke it.
More, however, will be needed by the
diplomatists Of the future who would
follow in Mr.. Bayard's footsteps than
was necessary to equip the diplomatist
of the past. No truer or more pregnant
word was let fall by Lord Salisbury
last night in the brief but admirable
speech in which be replied to the toast
of 1.-THE English speaking Peoples
than his warning against the new perils
| which the modern conditions OF public
life have introduced into the inter,
course of nations. - 1t is not, !" said
the Prime Minister, lin the traditions
of governments or the tendency Of Off
cial persons that danger, ii any there
be. TO good relations exists. If you
will keep the unofficial persons in order
can promise that tho official people
will ncver make a war And be wen
on to give additional point and force tc
these admonitory words by frank aa.
mission OF the practical supremacy
which this unofficial power has now
attained. In oil times there have bear
two forces that have contested with
each other for the governing of socie
ties of men-the official organized gov
eminent and the public opinion by
which more or less that organized gov
ernment has always been controlled ami
infuenGed. In our time, however, thu
organized government 10 distinct,
losing force, and the public opinion il
distinctly gaining in power; and a
that process goes on more and more i'm
portant does il become that publi
opinion should be rightly guided. Th
wissst ministers of free countries-o
Glands where, grit by friends or foes
man may speak the thing he will"-
have long since recognized this shiftinI
OF the centre of power, and have re
sponded to it by a frapker and NOR
frequent appeal to the intelligence AM
conscience of the peoples whom tine,
govern. But tho time has come whe
: diplomatists, to do their duty eithe
by the nation they represent. or b
that to which they are accredited, muH
? follow the example of ministers: an
! it is the highest of MIR. Bayard's dis
tinctions to have been the first to rea
. lze and 10 act upon this importau
j truth. II is not, as Lord SHlishur
truly said, for 1.-The work he has don
0 in his office, admirable as that ha
: been, that ne has deserved 80 well {
j the two great English speaking race.
but because he has thrown himse
2 with such zeal and power and indie
fatigable effort into the duty of pre-
senting English and American opinio
to each other, and of moulding thei
!, into common and better forf.:. - ii
. has been an Ambassador, not frol
/, State to State, but from people |
1 people; and if he has contributed
0 powerfully as ha has to establishin
y diplomatic accord between two govern
g ments, it is because he had first sut
= ceeded in establishing relations
. thorough sympathy and goodwill wit
n our country without forfeiting he col
Q tideuce of his own. lie has had pr,
/ decessors who have succeeded exec
I: lently we'll in one or the other of the.
c undertakings, but few, if any, wi
n have 80 perfectly combined the two.
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