Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1875-12-01
iEENPHIS APPEAL
WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER /, 1875
Tar MISSISSIPPI sENATORsHIP.

TuF NTSSTSSIPPI SENATORSHIP.
The question Of who shall be Miseis-
sippi's next United States senator Is be-
ginning to attract much attention, both
within and without the State. Our
widespread circulation in the State our
deep interest in her welfare, and our sc.-
i've efforts in her late heroic and glori-
Gus struggle, must serve 81 our excuse,
IL sny be needed, for our expression Of
opinion in the senatorial contest. We
took occasion some time since to express
the hope thst the senatorial mantle
would fall upon the shoulders Of our per-
sonsl friend, Colonel VIII. M'Cardle, the
late distinguished editor OF the Vicks-
burg Herald, whose noble services in
behalf Of Democracy would have justi-
fed this fitting recognition. We see by
our Mississippi exchanges that he will
be q candidate before the Legislature,
not for the position Of senator, but for
that Of public printer. This leaves us,
free from all personal predictions, inn
partially to survey the field. While
Mississippi abounds to al uncOm-
mon degree with eloquent orators,
able lawyers and gallant soldiers,
8 number Of whom are our personal
friends, we deem it no disparagement to
any of them to say that considerations
which should be Of controlling potency
point TO Hon. L. Q. G. Lamar as the
man Of all others for the position Of
senator. The senator to be elected will
not take his seat until the fourth Of
March, 1877, at which time Colonel
Lsmar's term as a member Of the pres
ent congress will have expired, so that
no vacancy will be created by his pro-
motion. In the meantime, clothed with
the double authority Of present repre-
sentative and senator-elect, he will
exert on behalf of his State and of the
whole south an influence ct Washing
ton second to that OF no man in the ma
ton, and infinitely greater than any
new man can hope TO obtain. During
the period which must elapse before the
new senator from Mississippi can take
his seat, all the great questions Of gov
ernmentsl policy upon which we must
win or lose the Presidential contest, and
upon which, if successful, Jour party will
administer the government, must take
their shape. The great weight which
Lamar's splendid abilities have al-
ready given him in party councils
at Washington, if supplemented by his
election to the senate, will give to his
State a controlling voice in shaping
those councils far beyond that which
her population would entitle her to,
while if defeated in his present aspira-
lions he must return to congress shorn
of much Of the authority already &C.
corded him. 1t is not too much to say
that to Colonel Lamar more than to any
other one southern man is due the dawn
and development of that kindly north
ern feeling for thelpeople Of the south
which President Grant was afraid to
defy when Ames called upon him for
troops with which to control the cleo
ton. Next to the unc0nquersble hero
ism Of her people, it is to this feeling
that Mississippi owes her freedom. La
mar struck the keynote of the canvass.
Mississippi went into the contest upon
the principles which his congressional
career had 60 brilliantly illustrated, and
with 3 resolution of cordial Endorsement
of that career appended to her platform.
His defeat now in the hour Of victory
would be construed by our enemies and
deplored by our friends at the north
as 2 partial lowering, at least, OF that
high tone Of restored nationality upon
which the canvass was made. Bis cleo
ton would be hsiled throughout the ma
ton a. a fitting contamination OF the
remarkable victory which 1T would so
appropriately crown. Apart from these
considerations, Colonel Lamsr's lofty
character, glowing eloquence, and deep
ly philosophical and cultured mind will
make him 8 senator Of whom the State
and the whole south will justly feel
proud. We are glad to see that the
views here presented are concuTred in
by large number Of our Mississippi ex-
changes from various portions of the
State, and representing various and diff
ferent shades Of opinion, among which
we note the YszOo Herald, the Senate
bis Tidal Wave, the Pamela Star, the
Oxford Falcon, the Tupelo Journal, the
DuraDt Advertiser, and the Grenada
Sentinel.