Year: 1879

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Bayard ON Repubiiesns Spite.


Though Senator Bayard was mild
and guarded in his speech in the oper'
House, he Let the true feelings Of hi
nature crop out in an interview with
representative of the Philadelphia
"Times' who called upon him couple
Of days previous to his reception in th'
Opera House. II was in that interview
that he said that "the Republican par
ty should be disqualified On account o
its sectionalism." And of the South ht
says that before the people can fee
that they are a respected and essentia
portion Of this Union, they must have
q realizing sense that their position II
the first place is one Of honor, and this
honorable recognition he says they
have not yet had at the hands Of the
Republican party. There is where the
Senator shows his weakness and IL
guilty of making misrepresentation
He knows that the Republican party
bears no ill will or malice towards the
South, and it will be noticed also that
he can always find something to COM
plain about by the Republicans Of the
North but he never sees anything vul-
nsrable on the part Of the people Of the
South. In all the fine spun theories
the Senator has advocated and the elo-
quent speeches he has made he has
never yet referred in condemnation to
the mob spirit that prevails in the
South. Whole families liks the CHS
olm family may bs murdered, men like
Dixon may be assassinated in the
streets for simply opposing the Demo-
cratic party. and violence and outrage
may exist generally to such an extent
that not the half Of the people
in some of the States dare cast a
vote without being in fear Of being
murdered, and Mr.. Bayard's voice has
never been raised against it. All he
can see is the terrible oppression under
which the South is lasoring and for
which the Republicans of the North are
to blame. Mr.. Bayard in referring to
the Presidency in his talk with the
Philadelphia "Timss'' representative,
remarked that "a man who hates one
part of the country is not fit to be Pres
ident over all of it," and then he adds
that, "this qualification is an essential
one fer the Republican candidate" This
shows how a man Of Senator Bayard':
gauge of mind may be led into dema
gogueism, when the Presidency in rela
ton to the South is referred to. Mr.
Bayard must know that President Lin
coin did not hate the South, and if ht
would" take the trouble to turn back
over a few leaves of his history, he will
find that he himself hated Lincoln with
an almost intolerable hatred, and for nc
other reason than that he was engaged
in crushing the Southern rebellion.
Mr.. Bayard knows that hatred in the
tarms In which he alludes TO was not
characteristic of any Of the Republican
Presidents since Lincoln's time. The
fact is this, the Republicans scrush
ed the rebellion, and since that
time the South has hated the party,
and it is to be feared that Mr.. Bayard
has not yet divssted himself of that
hatred to the party which he bore to i,
during the lorg dreary years when that
party aided by the war Democrats was
fighting to preserve the government
which the Senator processes 30 much to
love. The victory achieved by the Re-
publican party in preserving the gov
ernment divested Of the old barnacle OF
slavery, is the great sin in the eyes Of
the Senator which he will never forgive,
and it will be to him party that hates
the South so long as they do not turn
back the wheels of time twenty years
and hand over the government to the
Democratic party as it existed at that
time, slavery and all included. States
manship like this will not win in this
enlightened day, and Mr. Bayard in all
probability will have to submit to the
election of another of those vindictive
Republican Pr esidents Of whom he
complains.


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