Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1881-05-24

is a scholar, land ripe and good one; :" he
is an imprisoned and silver-tongued orator;
he is Senator of the United States from
Mississippi! But his voice has been silent
through all the sad months that the =" Missls-
sippi plan" has been in operation. He has
protited by the murder of Chisholm, by the
sacrifcial blood of poor Cornelia, by the
shameful and dastardly murder of her little
brother, by the hot tears of the widowed
wife and mother, her agony and heart
break. kemper county's best citizens
| are Mr.. Lamar's staunch supporters. He
| is their Senator. And SO, the voice that was
heard only short time ago chanting a re-
| QUEEN of praise over the dead body OF
Charles Sumner, in the Congress of the
United States, is now as dumb rs Hindoo
idol over the nameless horrors of the Mis-
1 sissippi plan" While the civilized world Is
aghast at the shameful details of this most
atrocious plan by which Mr. Lamar was
made Senator he is utterly obIvlouS to the
fact that his seat in the Senate is to-day wet
with the blood of martyred Republicans.
He seems never to have heard of lazoo or
Kemper county. 1t may be, that, orator,
scholar, Senator as he is, his knowledge
of geography is deficient, especially
of the State of Mississippi. Because,
if he had a horror of sLot-guns IN politics.
if he really disapproved of lazoo's dolngs
and Kemper's playful outbreaks, II he was
truly ashamed of these things because they
really exist, and not because they
have been found out, and cannot be denied,
surely then the tongue which euloglzed
J Charles Sumner might be expected to tell
Yazoo and Kemper counties and the State OF
5 Mississippi a few plain truths
And. in like manner Senator Butter, OF
! South Carolina. might moraiZe over Ham
t burg,
| The CHRONICLE. as Republican paper,
2 tres to voice the thoughts and feelings of
S the Southern Republicans. Its pages have
r been iuu of warnings against the policy OF
: that party which has created and maintained
e a SOLID South" 1t says to the purblindeG
: devotees of the lost cause: Gentlemen
l your cause Is lost-cease to weep over IT
grave, You still live, and your childre1
will live after you. You are American cit
zeDs. lust asmuch as we are. You need peac,
and prosperity as much as We who Tough
yCu in our great civil war. 1t does no goo
r. to hate the Nation or the great and mag
q unanimous North. You cannot call bacl
:. the irrevocable past You can not proven
the stern verdict of history which the in
evitable future will render Your creation
of a solid South makes solid North as Ger
tain as destiny The swift coming years
the absolute results of the census about tt
>, be taken. the whole current of Gods eter
nal providence, each and all will be agains
. you.
q The people of the North are men jus
- like yourselves. They, too, have passions
% and they have loves as well as hates Re
collect, that to them a Solid South, brougL
about as it has been, is a perpetual men
ace. For us, we want no Solid North
we want no Solid South, or East, or West
# but one solid, commanding, noble Christia
st Nation. This is our morning and our even
If ing dream. And we pray from the depth
10 of our heart, that Tennessee and all tn
d South, by methods Just, pure and peacablt
may become the most prosperous, invitin
and glorious part of the great Republ
which Washington and our common father
E. founded, and Lincoln and his compatrio
g preserved. But it can never be under ii
Mississippi PLAN" under which Mr.. Lama
holds his seat in the Senate. That plan Gu
inmates in the word "YAZOO;" and IL
word "YAZOO" IS DEATH.