The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1882-06-24
Horr.s Patriotic Sna..,

scheme OF Knocking allj sectional
ism out of the Mississippi river an.
preparation. His speech in favor
of the improvement of the river
and the protection of the alluvial
districts along it from overflow is
unanimously applauded in Wash
ington as one of the best, most con-
else, comprehensive and unanswer-
able one ever made on the subject
His argument carries conviction
with it,and shows that he has CLOSELY
and carefully studied and mastered
this subject. Mr. Horr showed a
disposition before he had investiga-
ted this matter thoroughly to suo-
port the outlet theory, but when he
had read the literature on the i'm
Drovement of the Mississippi,
when he had practically and
thoroughly Investigated the matter
he forsook the loose views he had
formed on the subject of outlets and
became, as he is to day, the earnest
and eloquent advocate of levees
and the principle of concentration.
His speech, Thursday is said to have
have been the clearest and most con
vincing demonstration of the value
and necessities of levees ever made
in Congress. 1t is not, however, to
that portion of his speech that we
desire to refer so much as to the
grand patriotism it breathes
throughout, patriotism that mast
meet with a warm applause in all
our hearts. ITO confine the waters
of the Mississippi" he said, within
its banks and to make it a great
commercial artery is a work that
we are bound to do. We owe it
to our children. do not care what
the attitude of the South has been
in the past, nor do l care what her
politics are to day. | will never be
found wanting when there is any
thing to be done toward advancing
the material prosperity of the
South, or improving and develop
ing it. There is nothing that more
securely and surely cements togeth-
er great people than the commu-
nifty of commercial interests; Roth
ing that more completely browns
the groans and mutterings of the
past than the clang of busy hammers
and the hum of running machines.
If I could, l would build up the
waste places of the South, open up
her vast mineral wealth, put smell
| ting furnaces on her hillsides and
set her rivers to turning spindles
and running buzz-saws, and estab-
| lish a free school on every one OF
her scattered plantations. Let US do
this: let it be the browning glory
of the forty Congress that
it finally succeeded in tanning the
overflow waters of the great Mis-
sissippi and chained it within its
banks; that it compelled the rush
! ing flood to obey the behests OF
commerce, and do the bidding of
mankind, that in doing this, it re-
claimed from disease, destruction
and death territory enough to make
an empire and people enough to
make State; and that it made 1t
possible for these people to live out
their days surrounded by all the
scenes of their childhood, on the
spot where they born"
These are sentiments that we all
can approve; that we all must ap-
plaud. They come from a Stall
wart Republican, leader on the
Republican side in the House,
Representative from State that
will be wholly unaffected by the
Improvement of the Mississippi.
Mr.. Horr was selected to make
this speech in the interest of the
river appropriation, because oppo-
sition to it from the Republicans
was feared, and he was known
from his eloquence and ability to
command as much respect and IN
huence as any man in the house.
IfMr. Horr's speech expresses the
views of the Republican party on
the subject of the South then they
differ but little from those of our
own people. Coming as his speech
does, Immediately after Arthur S
equally patriotic message on tins
subject of the river, it opens to us
the brilliant possibility that the Re-
publican party, forsaking its sec
tionalism and war on the South,
NAV adopt the patriotic policy OF
rebuild ng and restoring, as Mr.,
Horr proposes, the waste places OF
| 49, Southern land