The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-08-11

Columbus Despatch
As Gen Robert Lowry is the nominee
for Governor, it might be appropriate to
reproduce a speech of Senator w. w.
Humphries, delegate from LOwndes to the
State Convention four years ago, nomina-
ting the General for that office, which has
been furnished us on request.
MANY DEMOCRATS.
Nh Chairman and Gentlemen of the Conven-
ton
A delegate from the county of Lowndes,
rise to place in nomination for the office
of Governor, the name of that distinguished
patriot, soldier, and statesman, Gen. Robert
Lowry, of Rankin county.
/ have naught to say, sir, in disparage-
ment of any of the distinguished gentlemen
whose names have been mentioned in con-
nection with the chief magstracy of this
State. On the contrary ] have reioiced in
listening to every word WHICH has been
spoken in their praise, or uttered in their
commentator, for they were not only
soldiers, but patriots, they are Democrats
and AIississippians, and no man feels more
pride in the glorious fame they achieved
upon the red field of battle than | do.
Were it in my power to encircle the brow
of each with laurel wreath of honor and
enolumen1, l would gladly pay Mississp-
pts debt to 4fississippi's sons. The delega-
ton, sir, of which / haFe the Ipffor TO be
member, has come into this Convention
untrammeled with any instructions, and
-he only interest which the county of
Lowndes tlas e subserve, is to place the
Democratic banner in the ha,..,s Ct stan
dard- bearer, who in triumph will wave 1t
over the battlements of the enemy.
After full and Impartial survey OF the
whole field, it is our judgment thai General
7 in the front rank
As a military man, it is not claimed that
he was above or below his distinguished
competitors, but the peer of them all. Like
the white-plumed Henry of Navarro, amid
the smoke and the roar and the uIi lia".l "i
battle, his lofty crest was ever glittering in
the van for the rally of his host.
In the civil walks of life, Lowry has stood
forth in advance of them all to encourage,
to console and arouse his countrymen.
From the time he appeared at Fortress
Monroe and the National capital in behalf
OF Jefferson Davis that grand old man, our
loved yet fallen but immortal ehieftain, to
whom God has given length of days and per-
mitted him to fill with deeds ofglory-from
that time and on, when the fierce passions OF
sectional luminosity broke over the state as
the storms ride over the ocean, it was Low
ry who spoke out to cheer and rouse Missis-
sippians.
" hell the dark Etackctoud OF RadlcaIlSm
hung like funeral pail over this sunny
laud of oaIs, and rained down ali the ills
and evils of an outrageous civil government,
his heart never failed. When the old Dem
ocratic ship had been cut loose from its
mooring and tempest tossed upon a sea of
passion, his hand guided the helm, whilst
passion blew the gale.
Amid all the gloom and darkness of the
past, when. our political sky had neither
sun, moon, nor stars, from his brave heart
and brain emanated an electric flash which
Illuminated the heavens with a patriotic
| glow.
Upon every field and in every contest
with the enemies of his country, his words
of cheering have swept over the State from
/ its eastern borders across to the great Father
/ of Waters, aud come ringing back from the
/ Northern boundary to gulEgIrt Southern
| line, and all who would strike one blow for
Mississippi found in him friend and adyo-
cate.
| His character, too. like that of Epsmi-
nondas, is adorned with every virtue and
stained with no vice. Aississippiaas in
honoring him will honor Mississippi.