American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1879-02-01

The Louisiana LcgI>l ,ture has
come to a dead lock as to the selec
ton of u. S. Senator, none of tue
several gentiehien aho have been
proposed having vet received the
necessary number ST votes: The
New Orleans Times suggests to the
Legislature to harmonize upon an
entirely new man; and names as
IFS choice either Hon. II. l.. Gibson,
OF Col. John NJ. Sandidge. OF the
latter gentleman-one having many
warm friends ii. this commnnity-
the Times says:
The other gentlemen, Col.
John NJ. Sandige, OF BOssier, though
out of personal politics since tte
war, probably knows more about
Louisiana, it's people, and their
wants, than any other man III the
State. He comes to us from the
Morgan Stock" of revolutionary
memory, and, with lutte ambition
for distinction politically, has
never failed ''tO make his mark
Born of aud reared with the people,
his sympathies have been constant
ly with them, and through many
years an,puating the war he wes
their representative in Legislatures
both brauches-Speaker OF the
House, member of the constitution
al convention of 1852. and of Con-
gress Tor four years, when he decli-
ned further candidacy for auy Of
flee whatever. Ardent in his
nature, quick in reaching cOnclu-
sions and bold in their avOwal, he
has always hecn with the srst to
lead of OH all great or new issues,
and was never defeated on vote
by the people, except III 1861,
when he opposed secession as a
candidate for the convention. Ills
published address to the people OF
BOssier at that time is one of the
best things we remember to have
seen in print, and shows in that, as
in every other public act OF ais lite,
the wonderful sagacity which pre-
serves him from any charge of fault
or IN appreciation of what most
concerned the country in the past,
and gives consideration to him and
10 his opinions, which ere very
marked, as u fitting exponent for
the future. Secession declared IN
Louisiana, Col. Sandidge itimedi-
ateIy took his sons, fifteen and
secetiteen years of age, from school
in Maryland, and seeing no Otl,ef
way Of getting out of the troubles
precipItated upon the country ex
cept by the, depletion of blood,
waited in Virgihia for the war to
open. The waiting was not long.
lt came, and we remember an ac-
count of the taking of the first flag
of the war from tile Federals, by
Col. SandIdge, private soldier
then under Major, afterwards Gen.
Hood, then in command of the out
posts below Yorktown, of MaSru-
de,'s arffiy.
Whilst the father and sons were
ON the front lines, the wife and
mother was nursing the sick and
wounded soldiers in the hospitals
at Richmond and when, later on,
the fortunes of the South seemed
balancing i'm the scales, Col. San.
dldge gave for its service all the
wagons, mules and able boiled
negro men he owned. Steadfast as
the rocks Ill his principles and his
friendships, tried in the fires OF
adversely, emphatically working
man and the mental peer of the best
in the land, SaBdidge Is chargable
with but one fault of character, if
that be a fault-toO great trust and
confidence in the people, Il trust
which has taken from him the
remnants of large fortune made
by his own efforts. The people of
the State, we believe, if they now
had an opportunity. would reinspire
him by the trust which they would
give by sending him to tue United
s ates Senate. Rarely has the
highest discretion and wisdom been
moro needed than now.