The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1876-08-09
SOUTHERN SENT

LAMAR's LOGICAL EXPRESSION OF
If.
HOW THE BRILLIANT SENATOR FROM mis-
sIssIPPI Conducted THE CASE OF HI,
CoUNTRYMEN IN yNGRESS.
A Washington special to the Chicago
Times of yesterday says; Lamar has woI
for himself during his stay in Congress
such an er visble reputation, and has dem
ODsIrated on every occasion where he has
been tried that be can properly rise to the
sitOatiOn and never psDder TO the lower
elements of politics, that he has won for
hin self the respect OF the bitterest of his
O"ponsn s, so thst whenever he begins a
speech he is certain of attention that no
other man in Congress can command. he
spoke to-day from the Democratic side OF
the House, standing nearly in the center
OF the part occupied by the Southern men,
0eTs. Gen. Banks. q. f. Hosr, Foster OF
OHIO, Gen. Garfield, and other ID prominent
Republicans OF the House letG their seats
and came over and occupied chairs just in
front of Mr.. Lamar.
HIS MANNER
to-day was more of that used by him upon
the occasion when he delivered his cele-
DRAFTED eulogy upon Charles Sumner. He
was perfectly calm, and his style thor
nughly srgum NATIVE. He first addressed
1lmself to 1e question whether the Dsm-
Ocrstic p trty could be trusted with the
government and with the proper execu-
ton uT the laws that they in times past
rad earnestly opposed. He said that tie
K pn6iicaDs bad claimed that whenever
the Democrats should gain power they
would seek to subvert all OF the work
done by the Republican party. lie showed
2 he absurdity OF this assun DtiOn by cits-
tons IRON parliamentary history. He
said that in the history OF all legislation
there inevi ably came a time when
THE EXECUTION OF CERTAIN LAWS
passed into the hands OF those who had
OF posed them and that they were really
"a or in their hands than in the hands of
those who had secured their enactment for
the reason that that p rtiOD was invsris-
bly, cOnsel alive, and that this same con
servstive element that had opposed those
marked changes would. in turn, oppose
any fsrther changes, for the same reason
.ha' lee them to their first opposition. He
hen reviewed the position of the South
and said that ne spoke for the whole South
when be said that 1t entertained no absurd
notions OF ever attempting to combat the
FEDERAL government again. They were
rushed and
Elk SOLE MEANS Of
was an earnest cooperation with the pow
srs that be. de said that they were now
and ALWAYS would BE-, however, in q hope
less minority, and that their best men had
only one thoughG upon this subject and
nat was hearty union with the stronger
elements of the country. In his review of
the situation in the South be pictured the
sudden Injection into its political system
n A of cd
asked nat II the six New England states,
With New York and New Jersey, repre-
sentiDg nearly the p pulstlon of the SJuth,
should have suddenly placed in their
midst
AsIRoNG ELEMENT OF IGNORANCE
with the duties OF citizen, and
that II it should be strong enough in some
cases to get possession of the local govern
mems would there not have been TIE
same disOrgsniz alton of society there as
the re- has been in the South? He quoted
Giboon In saying that there coulo be no
more absurd government in the world
than a government of the people who
nave been slaves and suddenly promoted
to rule over their masters; and John
) usrt MIL that no government can be
whose rulers are not directly TO
Sponsible to the people. He claimed tina.
BOTH OF THESE PRINCIPLES
were violated in the government of the
3 )utb. 1t was a union of ex-slsves with
thHse who were not responsible to the peo-
Pile of the South, but rather to the federal
authorizes at Washington. He then
naie very telling hit by read
ing from a speech made by Sena-
or Morton at the time the ques-
lion of negro suffrage was brosched
Ia Congress. Senator Morton then, in
that speech, foreshsduwed all of the
wills that subsequently fell upon the
: ruth as an argument against negro SUI
irske, aud closed by saying That he might
M in favor OF granting this suffrage 10 or
Is or 20 years from that time, when emil
q ration from the North and Oreign coun-
iries should have left the negroes in.