National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1882-04-19
SPEER ON LAMAR.
THE MEMBER FROM THE NINTH
Rises to Say that lie wishes 10 Reply TO the Macon
"Telegraph and Messenger" which lie
Proceeds to DO In y Very Direct
and Polnted Letter.
COMMITTEE ON WAYS AND MEANS,
Uovsr OF REPRESENTATIVE


COMMITTEE ON WAYS AND MEANS,
HOUSE or RErRtsENTATIvEs
wAsHNGToS d. G., April TO- 1882.
Editors Atlanta Constitution;
| ask through the columns OF your paper to
rep.y to the brutal attack on me IN the Macon
Telegraph aud Messenger of the 9Th instant. know
that the policy of the Consultation is hostile 10 me
and to my representation of u Georgia congress
sonal district, but presume II will give me the
| opportunity to defend myself / do not often
claim the attention of the public to matters per-
sonal to me, and the most unjustinable aud un-
manly provocation is my excuse this time. In his
comments on the homicide of young Mr., Round
tree,
ALBERT r. LAMAR,
the editor ofthe Telegraph and Messenger, declares
" We recognize in this the legitimate conclusion
Of the partially successful attempt Of Mr. Emory
| Specr to Africanize that portion Of the state 70
crafty his personal ambition and varsity This
Proposition contains two IalPablc nnlruLhs bds Is
| portion of the State. No net or utterance or am.
bition of mine can be truthfuly held TO show such
TO Congress had and can have no such effect
| Again, the doplorable denth of Mr.. Roundtree had
no connection Win poltica! Ssnse estiv Isy
the blame of the entire, transaction to his SMr.
sreers) door," writes Mr.. Albert Lamar. This
genial aud Chrisiun wish serves TO show the cor.
| dial feeling of Mr.. Lamar toward Mr., Speer; but
| the truth is
MR. sPEER u NO MORE CONNECTED
with the death of Mr.. Roundtree than was amy
| other member of Congress with any other breach
of the peace In Georgia during his term ofseryice,
| No more, for instance, than was the representa-.
| tive Of the Savannah district with the regretted
| but stl-remembered occasion when, in that city.
| MIR. Wayne Russell, with the palm of his hand,
buticed Mr. Albert Lamar on the face. | am no
more responsible for the bloody tragedy in my
city than was the savannah representative for the
| bloOdIess ex parte encounter in his; MT Lamar
| continues: But IL is true. and 1t Is about time
/ aa.,1. lFA hon anH n
| country TO awaken to a knowledge of the fact
| that they who have upheld and sustained TINS
young man lMr speerl In his ANYTHING bpt ut ad'
mirafle career may have to bear part of the re-,
sponsibility for the results which have followed
NOW, THE ASIMosITY
of Mr. Albert Lamar toward me Is well understood,
aud is generally ascr bed 10 the fact thNt he was
dismissed for incompetency by the Democratic
Clerk of the FOrty-sixth Congress, ana TO the
further tact that my cousin Mr.. Eugene speer,
was appointed to the vacant position, and held II
while the Democrats held the House. have been
informed also that Mr. Lamar announced his pur-
pose, with Mr. Hanson's paper, 10 drive me IRON I'm
public life" To accomplish this ambition he
charges me and the men who have voted for me
with bloodguiltlnoss Mr. Lamar should reflect
that in this statement he Is doing cruel injustice
to community who are not in public he, and
at whom he strikes with view TO
WOUND AND CRIPPLE ME.
lie states that Mr. Roundiree was killed by couple
of negro politicians. He was perhaps justtiablS
in this, as an Athens paper, the Banner Wdtc1mdn
mAde the same statement, or rather stated they
were great "independent politici9ns.' This !
nineteen years of age, and had never voted. Hi
coadiutor came into the county and the distric
since he last siSSa9h & cr HGw IN snGse
in the Ninth District With the same .propret.
the rather frequent homicides In Macon for seyera
of that district, and II Mr.. Lamar can find in hi
spleen to me and my family the justification Of hi
ISLANDERS, what excuse has he TO assail the high
! minded and orderly people whom represent
, NY HCARNRR"
in the opinion of Mr.. Lamar, lis anything but ad
mirnble." confess that often think, in lookin
| backward, that might have done better, and
2 it is infinitely better and higher than that OF MI
| Albert Il. Lamar. have never been discharge
: Tctency, nor have used the powers intrusied I
me to glut detestable malice toward q man VIII
had never injured me. The brilliant correspond
Mr.. Lamar said in q recent interview that III
with deliberate purpose mixed the liquors whic
son when in the convention he was pleading f
tho Union ngainst secession, and thus the powerfl
advocate OF peace and Union was stricken dow
at the crisis of our country's ihte by the ma
who
NOW TRADUCEs ME
| and the people among whom live. Thank Coz
| my career does not seem admirable to Mr.. Albe
1t r. Lamar. Let him not charge me with blood
il outlines when am innocent while the furtiy
hand with which he held the stupefying cup
the lips of Herschel V. Johnson is stained with ii
= torrents of blood in that terrible war which u
n | latter was seeking to avert. "Give REIN" says NJ
Lamar, "to the unbrided ambition and passion
of Mr.. Speer and his followers and the class
=, walls of the university within which now lies I'll
-s bloody corpse of the first Of It's children mlrdere
by negro politicians, will be spatersd with Ii
blood of others in an effort TO so.ye them from h
,t hands of mob of AfpIJans raised to mnrderers
l. the eloquenee ejI Mr. Speer in the recital of /
and tbGir wrongs"
-. THIS Is INDEED "FINE WRITING"
w It is magnificent. am inclined to think that b
10 fore pennng this final and supreme paragraph
In his defamatory article Mr.. Lamar must have be
rowed inspiration from some source--frOm VIII
, source those who know him can judge. quote
l. to show the vindictive recklessnoss of the mG
/. No one can be imposed upon by IT, | am a grad
in ate of the University of Georgia, and love L
alma mater. am one of the trustees. My iatht
beloved nnd respected by all who knew him,
no honOrGd minister of Christ is one of its proies'o
H. The dead young man was my club-mate, oul
Ia to me by sacred ties But Il few days before |
" lamentable death the students of the university
am informed by the papers, had selected me
D. preside at their champion debate at commenC
10 ment Can II be true that any man in n lucid 1
:" terval with the facts before him, can believe !
IL capable of the atrocious crimes imputed to me
this malignant enemy? leve my State and
home, and am true TO my lineage, my kindrt
my friends, and he who asserts otherwise shall,
II 1t be the last act of my life, have the talseho
i hatened in his teeth. EMORY SPEER
an The Georgetown Amateur Orchestra.
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last evening, took place before select and We
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