Year: 1876

commands the respect and confidence
of such neutrality-suspicious. as continue
to demand a change of administration
in the interest of honesty. economy and
respect for constitutional rights and
obligations. True, he was the only
Democrat who, at Baltimore q few
years ago, had the courage to protest
against the action then taken, bat he
stood by his party when it acted, and
those he differed with, doubtless re-
spect him more for his manly course
than they would if he had pretended
to believe what he did rot.


The truth is, that the objection urg>
ed so persistently that no man shall be
nominated for any high national posi-.
tion who has shown sympathy or kind
feeling for the Southern people, or who
lives ia any former slave State, does
not come:from Republicans who would,
in any state of the case, vote with us for
anybody; it comes. and for some years
past has been encouraged and kept
alive, by the lower order of Democrat
ic demagogues In the North, who, con.
scious of their own want of merit,
in a fair contest on principle, seek to
limit the area from which The candi.
dates must be selected, and the mum.
Der even within that limit by exclu-
ding absolutely fifteen States, and all
the truest, best and most manly among
themselves as the only chance they
have directly or indirectly to obtain
place or power. The sooner the De-
mocracy frown down and denounce all
such objections and mean suggestion,
the better it will be for the party and
the country.


Again, it is urged that Delaware is
too small State, and that her political
influence is too insignificant; that we
must look to the great controlling
States for candidate. We haze look
ed to New York each time for the
last twelve years for presidential can.
didate, backing her with. distinguished
citizens from the great States of Ohio
and Missouri for the second place. The
results haze not been gratifying.


Did the insignifcance (if you please)
of his State prevent the Senator from
Delaware from taking position in that
body as the leading champion and ad,
vocate of constitutional liberty and
law, of honesty, economy and equal
rights to States and people? What
Senator or Representative from any of
the great Northern States has been
his peer? Who among them is better
and more favorably known to the
people of the United States9 We think
at this time the smallness of his State
is recommendation. 1t disarms iea-
lousy and destroys those local anita
gonisms so often fatal in great States.
New York is to-day so divided into
rings and factions that it is almost safe
to assert that Senator Bayard. or any
highly respectable Democrat residing
outside of the State. would receive a
more cordial and united support from
the Democracy of New York than Mr..
Tilden or any Democrat residing in it.
We all know how Ohio was divided
and distracted last fall; the wounds are
yet fresh, and no one of her own pu-
I,lic men could cordially unite all the
elements of opposition to Radicalsim
there, while many honest men would,
unwisely if you please. ike to punish
New York for what they believed was
improper interference in their State
race, the bitterness developed at the
convention in New York in July, 1868,
by the Unfortunate antagonism be-
tween distinguished citizens OF Indiana
and Ohio for the nomination there,
would in all probability break out
afresh in certain contingencies at St.
Louis. From all such complications
the Senator from Delaware is free. The
people of the whole country have conf
dence that he would carry out fully
what the New York Democratic con-
vention the other day declared as their
settled conviction. "That a return to
the constitutional principles of frugal
expenditure and the administrative
purity of the founders of the Republic,
is the first and most imperious neces-
sity of the times, the commanding
issue now before the people of the
Union"


| Retirement OF Speaker Kerr.