The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1874-06-25
The New York Tribune on the Future OF the
South.

On Monday, two members of Congress from
Mississippi made rather remarkable speeches
on the condition of political affairs IN the
South. Both men are persons OF some note,
as the representatives of the two great classes
into which Southern society has always been
divided; and in both speeches we lind matter
not only for immediate interest but tor care
full thought Mr.. L. @. G. Lamar in old times
was typical planter and fireater. lie lett
Congress to take seat in the Convention
which voted Mississippi out of the Union. He
was colonel in the Confederate army: He
was diplomatic envoy from the Confederacy
to Russia. He is man of culture and pro-
fessor in the University of Mississippi. No
one could be better qualified to speak for the
class which ruled the South before the war,
and which still embraces nearly all the educa-
tion and social refinement of that unfortunate
region. 1t is only few weeks since Mr.. La
mar won the respect of the whole country by
his noble tribute to the memory OF Charles
Sumner; he deserves no less honor for his adj
dress on Monday, in which he reiterated those
sentiments of union and brotherhood which, IN
spite of the bloody past and the cruel oppress-
sions of the present, do unquestonably AMI
mate the Southern white population. Mr. La
mar confessed not only that the Lost Cause was
lost beyond all hope of recovery, but that the
war had utterly overthrown the principles upon
which it was founded. Secession, hereafter,
was not merely impracticable and unwise, but
it was false in theory, and repugnant to the
we'll settled principles of the American Gov
ernment. Slavery was not merely destroyed,
but it was acknowledged on all hands to be a
gigantic wrong which the South would not re-
storo if it had the power. And with the down
fall of slavery the South recognized the full
personal and political rights of the freedmen,
and the sacred force of the constitutional
amendments enacted to secure their privileges.
But Mr.. Lamar spoke with honest indignation
of the outrageous abuse of the Federal power
in the reconstructed States 1.-THE contested elec-
tion case of Sheridan against Pinchback being
the subject of debate and warned his Repub-
lcan hearers that "no party could endure the
infamy and disgrace that had been brought
upon the American name by those grotesque
caricatures of the government" All which
was strictly true and most proper to be said.
On the same day Mr.. Lynch, of Mississippi,
made a speech in the Republican caucus,
where the faithful were discussing the pros
poets of the party for the next campaign, and
considering what principles it should profess
during the canvass, or whether it was prudent
to profess any at all. Mr.. Lynch is young
negro born in slavery. He was entirely with
out education until the Union armies at
Natchez made him a contraband. Then he
picked up a little schooling, and after the war
was made justice of the peace under the
carpet bag government of Gen. Ames. From
one office to another he worked his way along
until he got to Congress. He seems to be a
type of the shrewd, glib, active, ambitious col
ored men in whom Northern adventures find
their aptest allies and instruments in the ma
nipulation of the Southern satrapies. We
know nothing discreditable to him personally,
but there can be no question of the class to
which he belongs Mr.. Lynch spoke of the
civil rights bill, and he was of course not
we'll pleased at the manner in which the House
had treated it but he assured the caucus OF
the strict party fidelity of the colored people,
There was to be no reconciliation between
them and their old masters. They would not
believe that slavery was beyond revival They
would not trust Southern white man with
their liberties. They cared comparatively lit
tie for honesty in ofice-this at least was the
general drift of his address they could par
don fraud, corruption, licentiousness, anything
mean or disgraceful to an orthodox Republi-
can politician and they would sooner vote for
thief like Moses than an upright gentleman
like Lamar. These are the conclusions logi-
caly to be drawn from the remarks of MIR.
Lynch, as we collate them from the reports of
the various papers; and it will be seen that
they are equivalent to a notice to the party
that it may nominate any rascal they please,
and the Southern negroes will swallow him.