American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1874-05-16
COL, LiNlR's EVLSaf.

press, MOTH ana SouLh, nave .
bsed their opinions of Col. L.
L,mar's lannon's eulogy on the
nd character of Charles Sum
nd with a few minor excep-
these opinions are not only
arly flatt-ring but highly hon
to the distinguished euiogist.
some feeble eroakers would be
TO CT y cat against it was to be
rel, aud the only surprise is
moro have not sought the un-
lbie notoriety that must attach
y and all attempts TO assail the
yes of Col. Lamar i'll an act Of
le justice to political opro-
e have carefully weighed every
}. line and sentence Of this noble
manly tribute to the moral and
al excellence Of the dead states
aud confess our inability to
over wherein Col. Lamar has
promised himself or the land he
ors. On the contrary, we regard
the noblest tribute ever paid
b Souihera statesman to a de-
sed adversary-as magnanimOus
{ ia eloquent, and as patriotic as
just.
low inconsistent thing is the
man heart and how prone is ii
be warped and biased by wrong
h error! When Horace Greeley,
life long enemy of the South,
%, more than any living man.
G plated the war that cost us
: liberty and reduced us to con-
ion of the most abject vassalage,
Is announced as compromise
hdidate for the Presidency by The
ncinnati Convention: the leading
$li'iciaus and presses of the South
lied the announcement with JOY,
)d gave to the nomination enthusi-
pic support. Speech after speech.
Plumn after column, proclaimed
Is eminent fitness for the exalted
'Dsi,iOn. and made his talents and
is virtues the subjects OF unstinted
RAISE, and not unsrequen;iy of full
bme adulaiiOn. Our deadliest en-
Iny was suddenly transformed into
merciful benefactOr, and the peO-
lie, with n singular unanimity.
boxed to him as their deliverer
rom the very evils which he had
pccn mainly instrumental in rrodu-
ing. And now, because Col. Lamar:
% obedience to the request of Mas
itself a marked COM
,liment TO the South-laid the rich
of noble soul upon the
.omb of her dead statesman, one.
90, who had been foremost in Sc
.uring to our heroes and Legislators
the inestimab!e boon of amnesty,
lis motives must lie assailed, his
questioned, and his deyo.
ion to the land of his birth made a
natter Of doubt. Nor Is this all.
At least one caluminator has gone
20 far as to place his honcred name
in the same Infamous category will,
that CT Longstreet, the shameless
and despised traitor.
There is not q single attribute
10 the nature of the Godhead that
IAN take sides with Longstreet in
his treason to the South, while
every one will sustain Col. Lamar in
his noble and maUly eu!ogy on
Charles Sumner.
This magnanimous and impressive
tribute to the moral and intellectual
powers of a distinguished American
had a two-fold significance. 1t wac
not merely a merited compliment te
Massachusetts,, By holding up tc
public admiration the eminent abiii
lies of her illustriOus son-enemy
though he was to our peculiar insti
a peace offering iron
The South to the North, and We fee
justified in saying that it will g
farther towards silencing the voice
Of sectional discord than anything
hat has been said or done, in OF
out Of Congress, since the South has
been heard in tue National coun
esss.
Yhe occasion, and its attendan
recall one not alto
eether tlissimilar, which we fine
recorded n Grec:an history, wher'
enmity was banished and peac,
between opposing forces
and should like results Crowd thi
mastery stroke of policy" on liz
part Of Col. Lamar, as some have
been pleased to term it, even thOs'
who are now so swift to condemn
will be lOudest in praise of so gloii
frls All achievement. a deadly en-
nifty existed between Achilles anC
and which threatened
results to the interests O
both. Tue death Of Patyocius al
n L-l r. Io.t1- eAfta..<l ~