He came North, and remained until the progress of the National arms enabled him to return to his home.

His patriotic devotion was rewarded by the boundless confidence of the loyal people of Tennessee.

At the close of the war he was chosen Governor, and was now promoted to the Senate of the United States--too late for the exertion of his once strong mental qualities, but early enough to testify by his presence the triumph of loyalty and manhood in the bloody strife through which he had passed.
-- Thomas F.Bayard, who entered the Senate at the opening of the Forty-first congress, was little known to the public, except as a member of a family which had been for a considerable period prominent in the political affairs of Delaware.

His service in the Senate has been remarkable for one leading characteristic,--the power, or the accidental fortune, to create a public impression as to his career precisely the reverse of its actual history.

The illustrations are many:-- In financial circles Mr.Bayard has been held as a fair and conservative exponent of sound views, a jealous guardian of the public credit.