The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-05-17
MIR. LAMAR AND HIS FUNERAL ORA.
TION.
New York Sun, Nay 81

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i New York Sun, Nay 81
Among all of the votive addresses in Sen
ate and House in honor of Mr.. Sumner, will
their graduated degrees of merit, there is NJ
more deserving of commentator than tina
of the member from Mississippi. 1t was .
panegyric touching and wrought in fitting
terms of eulogy, and in it's scope aud teach
ings, gospel Of peace. 1t was the dove
with the olive branch-a requiem over the
grave of a man more hated and more con
temned in life than any other Northern pub
licist, the very nightmare of maturity and
the terror of the nursery-and with al
their ssdelusions, one Of the most potent
agents Of the struggle. 1t was pleading
for amity, restored harmony and resniOI
of regard rudely ruptured in the angry and
bitter strife of hostility. 1t earns and
should have the plaudit of the beautitude
Blessed are the peacemakers." As the
door of the tomb closes upon the last OF
earth, and with the parting farewell, there
come from contention and ravage the
breathing of regret and the lessons of for
giveness and oblivion for past turbulence
and ruthless war. 1t comes, too, from a
genuine representative of Southern charac-
ter, frank in manner, quick in impulse,
warm in friendship, and hot IN resentment
and yet without an abiding rancOr, which
has no relenting or relief in it's choler.
At no time since the grounding of arms
has there been so much of a feeling to-
ward completed reinstatement and it is
by no means too early. With every cause
of irritation removed, except the present
disturbance in two States, and that local
to their borders, we can clasp hands and
start out new progress with unity OF
effort and a hOmOgeneOusness of institution
instead of which, until this deplorable ar
| bitrament of the sword, there was an ap-
pie of dscord. Even the late and now pend
ing controversy over the currency, while
! it has but little of passion, has drawn to-
| gether in closer tie, two sections, which
| in joint action will some time rule the coun-
| try-the South and West. 1t is something
| that out of the crudeness and financial
| economy developed in the discussion
fraternizing influence has been evoked and
strengthened. 1t will be hailed with a
grateful joy by all who in a generation of
| pampered luxury and purchased influence,
yet hold by the faith of an ultimate redemp-
ton, and cling to a love Of country with
no narrowed limits of meridians and paral-
lels of measurement, crcumscribed only by
the outer boundaries of our dominion. II
the picture is shaded by the chaos of Louisi-
ana under the proconsulship of Casey, and
| the bulleyism of Arkansas with braggart
and BLACKBOARD strife for rulership if those
who have sympathies, having nothing else
| to bestow, give them to1Arostrate and thief
ridden South Carolina-there are still
brighter colors on the canvas and in the
| contemplation. While there is something
| of misgiving there is more of hope.
And now we may ask, with due humility
| OF approach to the grim-visaged sons of
war, how long are armies in military divi-
sions and in corps to be gathered in by
| shoulder strap representatives to imbibe
annual whisky and chew and smoke peren-
NAL tobacco, ingatherings which have no
other influence than to keep fresh in mind
| the memories of the war; If demjohns
must be accumulated, and the butchers
block and the game bag laid under requisi-
ton, can it not be done by some other color
of excuse or by different pretexts We
have no inclination to trench upon the free
commons of the exhilarating juice of the
cereal, or to impair the liberty of the grape
Let rum and rye and wine have full flow,
and mirth be fast and furious, with flatu-
lent oratory and feeble wit; but, if you
please, kind gentlemen, let it not be an
offensive banquet over dead strife and
fratricidal murder. Wipe out the record so
| far as you can, but do not retrace the OBJ
literating characters with newer utterance
or fresher ink.
And when is another organization to eX-
tinguish it's footlights and whistle down it's
drop curtain-the Grand Army of the Re-
public-a secret machinery to boost BOBBY
ism in Invested blue, and upstart incapacity
with bars, leaves and eagles, with the single
and double stars in disuse, into high places
of responsibility and elevation of political
influence! 1t had, we are panied to believe,
no other purpose, and has yielded no other
70 10 1, 70 TO 1nc
place, and nothing. need be extended to it
except the charity of crutch.
There is one ceremonial rite which may
be continued and commended With the
opening petal of the flower, hang garlands
and place wreaths upon the monuments
and graves of the dead. Let the uncon-
scious dust below be returned in the bloom
of the violet and rose. They who gave
manhood and life to a cause, sacred to both
contestants, under Northern sky and Southern
sun, are worthy of the Tyre and the laurel.
Wherever be the waiting place of the last
slumber, under the shadow of the noun
tain pine, or in the savanna of the spreading
magnolia, swept by The frozen blasts of
winter in the inclement higher ATTITUDES, or
famed by airs blowing from the orange
grove, give them honor alike. Side by side
upon the soil of Lexington ana Bunker Hill
and of Camden and Yorktown, the old Revo-
lutionary warriors and the later soldiers of
the rebellion sleep in the common amnesty
of that indistinguishable companionship of
the grave. While we suspend the trophies
of our foreign wars in the arches of our
Capitols, in the name of Christianity and
brotherhood we plead for battle-fags with
out inscription, and living thought, undis-
turbed and unvexed by reminders of bloody
discord, of which we would, if such were
possible, eradicate the mementoes forever
OYSTERS GROWING on TREEs.-A CORE
spondent of Hartford paper, writing OF
Cuba, says:
"For several years I resided on that
island, and travelled there more than the