The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1879-02-06
Luclus Q. C. Lamar.

A. born leader Of men is he whose
name heads this article. A statesman in
the strictest sense Of lhst much abused
word, he has by his broad aud liberal
views of national policy been O tower Of
strength to his peoI,o during the dang
erous and eventful years which have
marked the greatest political and social
upheavai through which any nation has
ever passed, and the biography Of Sen.
ator Lamar will in the years to come be
the history of the character and intelli-
gence of the South in its struggle with
bold and unscrupulous political party,
which has had for its watchword "a rictis.
In 1867 Senator Lamar made his first ap-
pearance in the national halls of legisla-
tion as Il representative 10 the Thirty
fifth Congress, and was reelected TO tho
Thirty-sizth Congress-taking from the
start prominent position in the delib-
eratIons OF that body. In full sympa-
thy with his people, and educated in the
strictest school Of States rights, he with
drew in 1860 to take seat in the seces-
sion convention of his State, and through.
out the struggle which ensued be bore q
conspicuous part In the field of action
and forum of debate. Trained to the
law, he was in 1867 made Professor of
Law in the University OF Mississippi,
having previously filed tho chair Of Po-
litical Economy in that institution. But
his responsible and hazardous duties
were yet to come. In 1872 the people
whom he had served 30 well again called
him to seat in the councils of the ma
ton, az member Of tho Forty-third
Congress, and reelected him in 1874 to
the Fourty-fourth Congress. 1t was
delicate and responsible task to which he
was assigned in stepping again into the
political arena to still the troubled ele-
ments, and to restore TO the people Of
the whole country that spirit of anti;
and concord SO essential to their future
happiness and prosperity. Suffering no
taunt or jcer to furcc from his lips an in
cautious or hasty word to feed the dying
enibcrs Of sectional hate, he maintained
at all times q calm and digniiicd dcmean-
or, meeting the attacks Of the opposition
in o broad lofty spirit of true statesman
ship, which commanded their respect,
and gave assurance to his friends that he
was the man for the OCCASION. The peo-
pie of Mississippi, never slow to rccog-
nize and reward ability in public men,
elected him in 1876 to the Senate of the
United States, Of which body he has been
one Of the most conspicuous and admit
tedly able members; and now that the
minority Of which he has ofttimes beon
the "forlorn hope" in many Il hotly con-
tested fight, Is about to spring into the
majority, he will doubtless be found
among the foremost Of that majority in
advocacy of such measures as will best
tend to promote the true interests of the
people of the entire country. Firm in
his convictions of right and Of duty, he
will yield to no pressure that may be cx-
ercised to drive him from position
which he has once taken. This was very
forcibly demonstrated in his action on
the silver bill at the last session of Con.
gress. The Legislature OF Mississippi
instructed him 10 give his support to that
measure; and with the people of the en-
tire State ii was very popular, but Sen
ator Lamar believed il to be his duty to
oppose the bill, after n long struggle be-
tween respect and affection for his peo.
pie and settled sense Of duty, ho made
powerful argument in opposition to re-
monetization, and voted accordingly
This is true courage, md the man who,
in the face of snch opposition ;llssTas ddv
what he honestly believes to be right,
mny safely be trusted as national legis.
later.