The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1881-06-02
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Lamar's Star in the Ascendant


Lamar's Star in the Ascendant.
The cloud which has hung over
Senator Lamar so long is vanishing,
and as Its broken rents roll away,
the vivid flash is seen lighting up
i its dark surface and making all
hearts glad to gaze on the bewitch-
ing scene. Indeed Mr.. Lamar is a
man of sunshine and shadow. His
very eloquent nature fill of poetry
| is product of mcdleys. Now the
skies are azure bright-now the
murky clements frown despair. To-
day all is silent, tomorrow all the
flood gates are raised and the tor
rent of his witbering rebuke buries
everything out of sight. just as
many unseemly things have been
said until they are threadbare, do
we hear the bugle tones rising like
martial strain over the hearts of
fifty millions of people. All! there
is no uncertain sound there.
Treachery is entirely absent and
love of country and its vindication
are the theme of the eloquent Seha-
tor. He rises gradually as no one
else can, and thwarts the enemy,
throttles him and returns without
even as puch as provoking him to
say Fearful things"
The speech of Mr.. Lamar, which
we have been prevented by sickness
from noticing until now, charging
the responsibility of the deadlock
upon the Republicans, is a grand
column supporting his political edi
fee. 1t Is courteous and yet full of
deathdealing satire. The very
charges are sweet when falling from
his lips. Mr.. Lamar has known the
inconsistencies of the Republican
party. He tells them that they
have embraced a Repudiator. He
tells them they forever preach hon
esty and yet they have strange bed
fellows. He enlarges upon the hon
esty of Johnston, of Virginia, and
paints the contrast between this
pure man and the traitor, Malone,
who was elected as a Dem0cot by
Democrats, get he sits day in and
day out and uOtes pith the RepubE-
cans. He battles the Massachusetts,
"down- easter" Dawes, and dissects
him piece by piece. His handling
of Dawes reminds one of what ey-
Senator Baily, of Tennessee, said of
Hills attack ON Malone. A gentle
man remarked to Mr.. Baily that
"Hill had smoked Malone out of the
hollow" 1t reminded him of his
boy hood days when he used to go
hunting. His dogs would bay the
hare in some hollow or secluded
place. Then a smoke was made
which would soon bring his hare
ship to light. Mr.. Baily answered
that he would carry the comparison
q little farther. "You know" said
he, ''there was found occasionally a
stubborn sort of fellow upon which
seemed to have no effect. When
my patience had about done would
take forked stick and poking it up.
the hollow till / had reached the an
imal, would begin to twist him out.
Still to stubborn to yield, his hare
ship would hold out against me.
Finally with one desperate effort l
would twist away, bringing, hide,
hair and all" So with Mr.. Dawes
MIR. Lamar has brought hide, hair
and all. Our Senator recalls the
cross questioning of Johnston bv
Dawes. Mr.. Johnston avows his
honesty and is commended by the
down-easter, who with all his heart
has embraced a repudiator, a villain
and traitor.
Mr.. Lamar takes rank among,
the greatest orators of the nation
and as a statesman he stands y the
front rank of liberal men. He is
rising man, ana we believe anything
that his chances for any place on
the Presidential ticket in 1884, are
greater than those of any other
Southern man. The South is in
the Union now as well as Maine,
and we believe she will demand
representation in the next National
Democratic Convention. While
there is now some complaint rife in
this State because Mr.. Lamar voted
for several propositions, yet these
things will pass away, and the peo-
pie all over this Union will com
mend the action of our noble Sena
tor. Mr.. Lamar wants to bury the
sad past. He is for one broad I'm
ion, indivisible. He wants to know
no North and no South. He desires
to see the people reunitedin all that
constitu es brotherly love, and we
believe he is equal to the task of
leading the South to her convicted
place as factor of this Nation.
Jos. Brown, of Georgia, has been
named as the man. but he is not the
statesman Lamar is. Our Senator
possesses the eloquence to command
and the craftsmanship to lead us to
a desirable eminence, whence we can
look back upon the follies of the
past. With q chain of strong ad-
yantages extending from the time
of his eloquent Eulogy on Sumner
to the present hour, he is the
strongest man south of the Ohio
river-llving as prodigy of liberal
ism in the hearts of all the people,
and foreshadowing that greatness
which the golden future must GER
tainly unfold to the world.
Wonaan,a Rauen0a