The weekly clarion., 1874-07-30
tine south ougEls 10 do Ira Select
ing Representatives 90 Congress.


When the people of the 1st District
read what Gen. (Senatorl Gordon has
said abou: the effect of Col. L. @. G.
Lamar's great speech ON Misrule in the
Southern States, they will congratulate
themselves on the wisdom of their choice
in selecting him to represent them in
Congress despite the fears of the timid
who imagined that terrible consequences
would follow the election of man of
his antecedents to the National Legisla-
ture. Col. Lamar's success has shown
how idle these apprehensions were, and
that the intelligent people of the North
above all others, are anxious to meet IN
the common Councils of the country,
genuine Representatives from the South.
Gen. Gordon says:
''By all odds the most powerful and
effective speech made in the House since
the war, and probably as remarkable an
effort as was ever made upon the floor,
was Mr.. Lamar's speech on louisiana
| never saw such a scene as the House
presented during its delivery. There
was not a member in his seat-every
member was on his feet, straining to catch
every word that fell from Lamar's lips.
He captured the House and galleries, and
carried them with him. 1t was as abso-
lutte triumph as ever saw. Lamar
was overwhelmed with congratulations.
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letter, in which he told him that he had
read his speech carefully twice, and that
it was to him as a revelation from the
South; that it gave him an entirely new
view of things.
Apropos of the subject of how the
South ought to act in the election of Re
presentatives to Congress, the following
from the n. Y World is copied as worthy
of consideration
How gladly the best public opinion of
the North will welcome the re-appearance
at Washington of Southern men in the
place Of Southern machines may be safe
lv inferred from the cordial response which
went up from all sections Of the North
bur the other day to the eloquent words
of the only Southern member in whom,
since the war, the serious Northern pub
lie has recognized a real representative
of the serious public of the South The
speeches OF Mr.. Lamar, Of Mississippi,
would have fallen utterly dead upon the
public ear could they have been deliv-
cred Gas it is impossible to imagine
them deIivered) by any of the man
ikins and dummies so long toisted upon
Congress by the policy of the domi- |
nant party. What the South owes
to us as well as herself is to give US at the /
next Congressional elections not one OF
two, but whole delegations of representa-
tives in whom, as in Mr.. Lamar, We can |
her people, their convictions, |
their necessities, their highest character,
their best capacity. What, for example, !
may not the great State Of Virginia do
to help forward the supreme work Of ma
tional regeneration by replacing her pre-
sent perfectly insignificant voting mem
bers at Washington with a body Of train
ed, high-spirited sensible public men =
There is no lack of them within her bor-
lers. The names of dozen such leap
At once to our pen. Norfolk has them in
men like Mr.. Mlllson, for twelve years
IN active member Of Congress, or Mr..
John Goode. Richmond could send us
Mr.. Holladay, with his ten years of prac-
ical experience or the accomplished Mr.
J. l.. NJ. Curry, remembered still at
as one of the most brilliant
debutants in our history.
charlottesville has Mr.. \. II. H. Stuart
md Mr.. w. j. Robertson; Lynch burg
las Mr.. Randolph Tucker and Mr.. B0-
.Ock; Fredericksburg has Mr.. r. NJ. L.
Hunter, Speaker of the Twenty-sixth ,
congress and foremost in the Senate of
he United States before the war in the
PRACTICAL settlement of those great ques-
ions of Tariff Reform, which have once
more become the most vital and pressing
questions of our public policy; Culpep- +
'er has the Barbours, and Wytheville ,
tlr- Wallis Steples. We name these :
Gentlemen simply because their names at !
nee occur to any one familiar with the {
'olitical history Of Virginia who asks J
imself seriously the question why that
reat historic American Commonwealth
hOuld any longer be found, as for ten
ears past she has been found. of less [
7eight and influence in the business of
atlonal legislation than seeded frac- /
ion of New York like Vermont or t
often borough like Nevada, conceived in l.
raud and brought forth in corruption. 2
Ieaven helps those who help themselves
the Southern States will but resolve to {
lake themselves heard at Washington by e
ending to Washington statesmen in Q
cad of sycophants, and legislators in c
-ead Of lobbyists, their wrongs, which
re also our wrongs, will find redress; "
leir rights, which are also our rights, Il
i'll find support in quarters which they t
ream not of, and from generous public Il
sntiment which slumbers only because it
as not yet been frankly, resolutely, and V
isely appealed to. "