The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-02-02
SENATOR LAMAR.
Exposure of His HypOcritical Professions of
Tolerance and Moderation.

Washington Letter in Cleveland Leader.
Senator Lamar, who lately had quarrel with
Edmunds IN executive session of the Senate,
poses toward the North as one of those who
would like to bridge over the bloody chasm.
This, / am told by Southern Republicans. is not
the position he holds in Mississippi in his
own State" said we'll posted man to me last
night, Lamar is considered n thorough Bourbon
in everything that the bulldozing, negro-killing
sense of the word implies. When he was elected
to the Senate it was urged in his favor that he
was the author of the Mississippi plan. Ethel
Barksdale was his opponent. and the friends of
the two candidates each claimed that their man
had originated this system of negro terroriZing.
Lamar got the election.
''And then, as another case look at the CHS
DIN massacre. Before it occurred during the
campaign of 1876, Lamar made a speech III CHS
olm's district. ChisOlm then the candi-
date for Congress. and was the wealthiest man
of the county in which he lived. At this speech
in Chisolms county, Lamar referred by name
to the leading Republicans in the county, and
ended his list with Chisolm, saying that because
Chisolm more wealthy, more generous and
better educated than other of the Republicans,
he was on that account the more dangerous.
What shall do with himH said of his
hearers. In answer, Lamar pointed TO the efigy
of a carpet-b Dagger which was hanging IN tree
beside the speakers stand, and said i would do
this with him. and thereupon he drew
his long bony finger slowly across his throat,
from ear to as though he was cutting that Of
Chisolm. The crowd checred. In less than
two wears ChiSolm and his two children were
massacred in the Jail of chat county. The report
of their massacre came to Washington. IL. V,
Redfeld Of the Cincinnati Commercial. went to
Lamar and asked him who this man ChisOlm
was Lamar replied; 4 never heard of him.
He lied because he knew the affair would
create less sympathy in the North if it was the
case of an unknown man than if it was one of
standing, wealth and honor
How did Lamar get his reputation among
the Northerners for moderation and Patriotism
said l.
1T was for his speech on Sumner was the re
ply Gle shed crocodile tears over Sumner, and
all bean eating New England straghtway be-
lieyed he had reformed. That speech was
the speech Of hypocrite Why! the
very Legislature which elected Lamar to
the Senate changed the name of sumner county.
Mississippi, to Webster county. They would
have changed it to the name of some southern
general, but that would have attracted too much
notice, So they remembered Websters 18th of
March speech and named il after him. In OK
planning his speech afterward Lamar is reported
to have said: We can afford to eulogizc the
bones of a dead Yankee for the good of the
cause He has always been noted being
fine scholar, and between him and ingalls, it Is a
question which standsat the head of the Senate.
Lamar is a beautiful writer aud he is fond OF
classical alusion. He rarely makes long speech
on the floor but often commences, speaks twenty
or thirty minutes and then, growing nervous.
asks leave to print the rest of his speech.
He is finely organized and il does not take
much to excite him. in which respect he is
very different from Edmunds, who is as cold as
a Siberian iceberg. His family is one of the
Oldest and most noted of the South. Mirabeau
b. Lamar was the first president of Texas when
it became a republic Henry 6. Lamar was the
candidate for governor Of Georgia in 1857 when
j. h. Brown was elected, and there were several
i4amars in the late war The editor of tho Ma
con Telegraph and Messenger is Il Lamar, and