Feliciana sentinel. [volume] (St. Francisville, La.) 1877-1892, 1878-04-06

ST. Francisville, April q, -.
Communicated
BAY VIEW, April III, 1873.
Editor FELlclANA SENTINEL:
DEAR SIR:-I believe that you in COM
mon with the majority Of the South and
West, are in favor of the Silver Bill,
which fs now. a law viewing it as a
panecea for the financial troubles, from
which we are all more or less suffering.
All, from the millionaire commission
merchants, who are suspending with
their vaults full of the deposits OF their
;confiding correspondents, whom they
have just informed that Calls serene
and everything O. X - to the poor peo-
pie, who like myself, are somewhat cm-
barrassed TO- pay the postage required by
our ~ paternal government. BY the
way, among other reforms, copied from
the English, hereditary foes at the North,
advocate Penny postage. The cl,ival-
~ arc Low using the coppers, which they
once scoIned. Let US havc the full ben
eft Of them. "Mais, revenons nous q
nos moutons." You are aware that l
reject that false axiom. "vox popnli,
vox Deo"; AN almost medieval in some
Of my ideas. You will not then be sur
prised to learn, that agree with Senator
Lamar of Mississippi, in his opposition
to the Silver Bill. Eulogy of Lamar
wonld be "gilding refined gold,"-the
representative of a sovereign State hold
Inn tho v,ncitS0p 1~,r Ia
son Davis,-his State has bestowed upon
him her highest honor. If, at tho expi-
ration Of his time. she deems another
citizen worthier, he will no doubt, he
we'll content to repose with tho laurels
that envy cannot wither. only write to
ask you to republish the extract given
below, from the Pilot, Boston, Fob. !3d.
Yonng rs the SENTINEL. is. in twenty
five years it will have passed its majori-
ty. The readers of that day can then de-
eide which was tho wiser statesman, Sen
ator Bruce or Lamar.
SExAaENAR1AN.
"Rarely docs it come to the lot Of q
pnblic man to take such a step as that
taken Ivy Senator Lamar, of Mississippi,
on the 18th inst. On that day Senator
Lamar performed his duty in presenting
to the United States Senate the
resolutions of his State Legislature, in
strneting the Mississippi Senators to vote
for the Silver Bill. Mr.. Lamar had pre-
viously opposed the passage Of the Bill,
making perhaps the ablest speech of the
opposition. His action on the resolution
of his State was looked for eagerly, his
cnomics openly predicting that he
would have to take the back track But
such men as Lamar, when convinced
they arc light, are not likly to swerve
under outside influence. In presenting
the resolution he said:
MIR. PREslDEST.-Between these reso.
-:1tions and nv convictions there is a
great gnlf cannot pass it. OF my
love to the State OF Mississippi will NOT
speak. My life alone can tell it. My
gratitude for all tho honor her people
have done me no words can express.
am best proving it by doing what think
their true interests and character require
me to do. During my life in that State
it has been my privilege to assist the ed.
Hcation of more than one generation al
her youth, to have given the impulse to
wave after wave of young manhood that
have passed into tho troubled sea of her
social life. Upon them have always ell
tleavored to impress the belief that truth
than policy, courage better than COW.
ardice. To-day my lessons confront me-.
To-day must tie true or false, honest OF
GINNING, faithful or unfaithfnl to hel
people. Even in this hour oftheir lcgis.
lative displeasure and disapprobation.
T cannot vote as these resolutions direct
I cannot and will not shirk the RESPONSE
bility which my position imposes.
My duty, as I see it, will do, and will
vote against this bill. When that is
done my responsibility is ended. My
reasons for my vote shall be given to my
people. Then it will be for them to de-
terminc ifadherence to my honest con-
victjons has disqualified me from repre-
senting them, whether difference
of opinion upon n dificnlt and compiled
ted subject, to which have given pa
tient, loDg-continued, coscientious study,
to which have brough: entire honesty
aud singleness of purpose, and upon
which have spent whatever ability
God has given me, is now to separate us,
whether this difference is to override that
complete union of thought, sympathy
and hope which on all other, and as
bind us together. Before them / must
stand or fall. But, lie their present de-
cision what it may, know tho time is
NOT far distant when tn ~ will recognize
my action to-day as wise and just, and,
armed with honest convictions of my du-
ty, shall calmly await the results, be
lieving in the the utterance of n great
American, who never trusted his country
men in vain, y Id that truth is onnipo-
tent and public justice certain.
These are brave and noble words, full OF
the large principle that should be the
fruit of republicanism. In the coming
days, the country will more and moro re:
alize the need of honorable men; and
these words of Senator Lamar will return