The New York herald., 1876-08-03
YHE HON. LUCIUS .. c. LAMAR.
Political Affairs Reviewed by the Dis
tinguiShed Mississippian.
Republican Responsibility for
Southern Discomfort.
an ADRAlGNMENT OF THE ADMINISTRATION.

Civmer renusylvauia, In tne cuair tue OUJeCt
being to take up and the bill to provide that
pensions shall date from the death or disability Of the
soldier but the Chairman decided land his decision
was sustained) that each bin preceding it the CAL
endar must FIRST be disposed of or asde The first
bill the calendar that TO transfer the Indian
Bureau from the Interior Department to the War De-
partment
Mr.. Wilson, (rep) OF Iowa, moved its postponcmcnt,
but tho House refused to postpone it, and Mr.. Cook,
(dem.) Of Ga, who had charge of the b yielded the
floor TO Mr. Lamar, dem of MISS, who proceeded to
mako a speech political subjects.
He commenced by saying that 1t could not be truth
fully asserted that the practice and the peculiar system
of measures adopted by tho present administration
commanded the appreciation Of majority of the
people; but that, the contrary the senti-
ment on which the American people
garded the conduct OF national affairs
pne of very decided dissatisfaction aud despon.
aency accompanied with strong and intense desire Of
. change. There deep and ANXIOUS protest
against the methods Of administration, the tone and
character of public and the principles of egsla
tion that had marked the action Of the government
for many years past, and yet it r,markabe that
This popular feeling had produced change in the
administration.
WHAT ENGLAND WOULD HAVE DONE.
Such development of public sentiment in England
would have produced change in the administrative
agencies OF the government within twenty -four hours
He attributed tho absence Of reform to the principle OF
centralized party organ zation, which garrisoned the
country with lO0 office holders and 100 O0 expect
ants OF Office.
He quoted from a speech Of Dir. Sanford, in tho
Republican Stale Convention Of Massachusetts, in
arraignment OF tho administration. which speech, he
eaId If II had been made by democrat, would have
been regarded as gross partisan exaggeration; and
yet that Convention and ts members were In active
IN tlo oIp utnnf fhpc ch,r-
acterIzed and held up TO public apprehension in
support OF political party winch had endorsed
that administration and had IN return been endorsed
by IT, II was utterly impossible that the reforms de-
sired could be effected by continuing IN power that
party whose dcbasement OF me cvil service OF inc
country and whose corruption OF the administration
the things 10 be reformed. Tho success OF that
party would give impuni'y TO the corrupt practices
that arc the subject OF such universal condemnation
But said that the advent OF the democratic party
to power would endanger the permanency OF
tho new institutions established by the war,
and ,hore was an apprehension that what
called tho Southern sectional combination would be
brought back and therefore people were not prepared
lor the sake OF correcting the disorders OF the
administration, to put these institutions into the
hands Of those who were originally opposed to their
establishment He appreciated the vauo OF these
grave apprehensions
rIrE RESULTS OF THE WAR AccErrEn
Hc would spoak, however, in behalf OF people who
had accepted with sincerity the results OF the
who felt that they had them the burden of recover
Ing the conhdents OF the naon ana VINO aiso iet as
aud motives they would receive that faith and CONT
dencc which Is necessary TO bind together the various
sections OF tho Republic in the bonds OF peace-a
peace which these days of party dscord he feared
was almost past understanding. He did not believe
That the apprehension growing out OF the united sup
port by the Soutnern people OF the democratic party
we'll founded, that II should stand IN the way Of
the aspirations of a great people for progress and
torm The idea that the South, under any combina
ton OF parties or circumstances, would ever again OBJ
tam control Of this great Republic and WELD its des-
lin against the will and instinct OF this mighty peo-
pie OF all ideas the most visionary and baseless
The people OF the South were prostratc. Thcy had
been defeated in and made to fcel that the sacri
fee and humiliation and heiplcssncss OF defeat had
been allotted them their share, while the people
OF the north had reaped the rich results OF victorious
war. and had embodied ana guaranteed them In the
very lie and constitution OF the nation
CONDITION SOUTH
The institution OF the South had been scattered and
destroyed Her industries had Oeen disorganized;
every foot OF her soil serzed py an aldcvourns tax
alton; her educational interests anguishIng and wan
Ing and her population too feeble in comparison
with that OF the great Union; that with the south
united. blacks and whites, 1t would be mpolent to
secure single southern man or TO defend single
Bouthern interest. II was, therefore, absurd Tor
great people apprehend that the people OF the South
abrogated TO themselves the ruling OF the interests OF
the nation There no aspiration which they had
that bounded by the horizon OF the Union. II
they united with the democratic party not
for the purpose Of sectional aggrandzement 1t was
not Tor the purpose OF reversing the policy OF the
government, but IL was because they had observed an
Instructive and imperative law Of selfpreservation
DEMOCRATS AND THE SOUTH.
He proceeded TO argue against the idea that the ac
ccssion 10 power OF the democratic party would
suspend tho supervision OF the national government
over the conduct of affairs in the SOUTH and that such
would mper the rights of the colored race.
He quoted IRON speech made by Senator (then Gov
eraor) Morton, OF Indiana IN 1865 against conferring
franchise on the coorcd and In favor of postpon-
Ing their political rights for ten fifteen twenty years.
II which tine, he argued, the southern states
would have been SO completely hIied up
by immigration from the North aud from Eu
rope that the negroes would be in a permanent minor
hy. II that distinguished statesman away up IN lnd
had such view OF the effect OF negro citizenship
what have been the appalled, feeling of Southern
society which that avalanche be let loosc9 ?
Was II to be wondered at that the people OF the South
ut that time endeavored to themselves from that
shock. He claimed, however, that after that system
became fastened upon them, and they had.
siriven earnestly and honestly TO give It a
fair and iull development, and that they might
have succeeded in some degree but for the
measures wni, had been adopted in consequence OF
Inc conflict between Congress and President Johnson
Ihc Of which measures was the establishment OF
The Freedmcn's Bureau which had cut the two races
right asundcr Tn nevtab effect OF that recOnstruc
on policy had been 10 draw one race TO It's support and
drive the other race to It's opposition lie quoted Glib.
bon the historian saying That the most absurd aud
oppressive system OF government which could be con
ceivcd OF was that winch subjected the native OF
country domination OF his slave; and also quoted
from Jonn stuart Mil, to the effect that when gov
srnmcni is administered by rulers not responsible 10
Ihc people governed, but TO some o'ner com.
seivable govcrnmens and, he said that the hidcous
ystem established IN tie South was composite OF
hcse vicious systems; the people were subjected
10 the domination OF their former slaves ana were
ruled by people whose constituents we're not the
people Tor whom they should act, but the ieder al
government
LOUISIANA INVESTIGATION.
He quoted from the report OF the Louisiana lnvcsti-
gaton Committee OF last Congress, made by Mr. Foster,
OF Ohio. and expressed his astonishment at hearing
that gentleman claim credit the other day for having
made n report which bore heavily on his party.
Was 1t condition OF republican success,
he asked, that the country should be told
that there murder and intimidation the
part OF the white people Of Louisiana against the
blacks when the facts were not soy Did IL bear hard
the republican party TO state there was no such
state OF lawcssncss and intimidation among people
who wrilhing under all OF the oppression which
corruption could invcntg lie also quoted from tho
subsequent report, made the same subject by tho
other subcommittee which went 10 New Orleans,
Messrs Hoar. Frye, and Wheeler and from tho Prcsl-
denis annual message, In which he acknowledged
that the people of the south had had vile
ana oppressive government TO i've under, and he
asked low II could expected TO hnd quiet orderly,
hw-abidiug communities whose governors were law
ess ielops, whose ministers were thieves anu whose
magistrates were scoundrcls