The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1874-06-25
Hon. s.. q. q Kamnr's Speech On
IKi%ruIe in the South.
WHAT THE PRESS SAYS OF IT.


! From the Wilmington N CO Journal
Conservative
Among those who have been instru-
mental in breaking down the barrier be
tween Northern and Southern represen-
| tatives no one occupies a more prominent
position than Colonel Lamar, of Missis-
sippi a secessionist who had already
acquired a national reputation in Con
/ gress before the war a soldier during
! the war DISTINGUISHED and prosecuted
! since the war forbidden even to practice
/ his profession in the courts whereby he
might earn his bread the special friend
and confident, personal and otherwise,
/ OF Jefferson Davis, and elected to his
present seat while still under the ban i'm
/ posed upon him by the Howard Amend
| ment, there seemed little right and less
, reason to expect anything from him save
venegful passion and bitter denuciation.
! But, fortunately. Lamar was something
more than this. He was a man of extra
ordinary breadth and scope Of intellect
as well. BY the force of his intellect and
| the power Of his eloquence, gifts that his
| position, as a member Of the Committee
on Elections gave him ample oppor-
tunity to display in the many con
| tested cases before the House OF Repre-
sentatives, he at once placed himself in
! the front rank in that body and then, rs
before, he sought to gain the ear Of such
members Of the Radical party, if such
| there were, as had any fairness or homes
ty or Justice in their natures.
| just then did the man whose life had
done more, perhaps than that Of any other
man to drive asunder the American peO-
pie, and it was meet that his death, if
possible, should be made the occasion Of
bringing them together again. Colonel
I1arl1or thought he cav IA tho doath Of
Sumner possible opportunity to do great
good to the South by gaining for them a
great, though hitherto unattained, van
tage ground from which to speak to the
people Of the North. 1t was for this rea-
son that he delivered his famous eulogy
on Charles Sumner, the life long enemy
Of the South
1t was peace Offering, that, coming
from man Southern by birth, by in
stinct and by education, one who
never had. heartbeat that was not
true to the people Of his blood, could not
but command the attention of our bitter
est foe in all the land Yet it was
him who bore it, Scarcely could Lee
himself have spoken kindly words Of
Sumner, even though standing by his
dead body, without the risk Of suspicion
and the certainty of disapproval.
The kindly words that had ever been
withheld from the living were given to
the dead. That they we're grandly given
no one who knows Lamar needs to be
told And with what result? If the
testimony of men from all sections Of the
country and Of every shade Of political
opinion, IS to be relied on those kindly
1oords then spoken hare borne and ,CiU con-
tinue to bear fruit, far 1chicb q grateful
South 1CiU IN due time make fitting return
to her gallant and gifted SON.
[From the Boston Advertiser Republican,
Mr.. Lamar, Of Mississippi made in the
House Monday another Of those stirring
and eloquent speeches which are sure to
strike sympathetic chord in the hearts |
Of all generous people. No name is more /
closely identified with the cause of the /
rebellion and the conflicts Of the war than I
that of his family, which was conspicu- |
ously represented in them from the first |
to the last. The generous temper, the /
nobility of sentiment and the moving elo- |
qnence of the present representative from
Mississippi are doing more than anything
else could to djspel the unpleasant feeling
ochjch has been often ercited By the name he
bears, and to promote good offices bet,ceen
sections Of the Union no longer dicided.
The response which men of all parties
make to such appeals to their generosity
is good sign.
[ From the n Y World, (Democr1tic.)
Mr.. Lamar, of Mississippi, again distin-
guished himself to-day as an able and elo-
quent representative of the South and
real statesman by delivering a prepared
speech on the present political condition
of the South. It a0as the first full and fair
statement Of the attitude of the achite people
Of the South toocards the General G0uer1a-
ment aud also the State governments Of the
South that has been made upon the floor Of
Congress.