The Aberdeen examiner. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1866-current, 1884-05-22
f. /. SYKES,
Captain Commanding.
S. A. DALTON, First Sergeant.
Tried and Trusted Leaders.
BY order of

From the Birmingham Age,
When Senator Lamar of MISSISSIPPI
ri. now in the United States Senate
from that State, entered the lower
house Of congress, after the war, he
sat for months in his seat with but
little or nothing to say, all the while
studying the situation, and solving
the question as to the wisest policy
to be pursued by southern democrat
ic leaders.
Fortunately for the country,and es
pecially for the South, Mr. Lamar de-
termined to follow policy Of con-
ciliation, moderation and conservatism
and to this purpose he has steadily
adhered, aud the seed sown by him
have produced abundant fruit; and
to-day, he is nearer being a national
man than any other in the govern
ment. He has more influence with
the north by far than any other pub
lie man in the south, while the lead,
ing men Of his own state have parta-
ken the spirit and genius Of their own
great statesman, and to-day the gal
liant sons Of Mississippi stand in the
"fore-front ) of the advocates Of in
dustrial progress and state and
national development, and Of the dis
placent of sectional bitterness by
national feeling and good will among
all sections.
To the Lamar school in Mississippi
belong his colleague, Senator J. L,
George, the popular idol Of the peo-
Pile; Gen. E. G. Walthall, the Lrl-
liant and distinguished lawyer, and
cultured and chivalrous gentleman;
Ex-Governor j. NJ. Stone, the man of
iron integrity who succeeded Adel-
bert Ames, when expelled from the
capitol for "high crimes and misde-
meanors in Office" and many other
brilliant men; who are now laboriug
for the industrial development of the
South.
But Senator Lamar's influence is
not confined to his own State. The
democratic party all over the coun-
try look to him as a true judicious
leader, and his utterances have more
influence with the democrats in both
houses ofcongress than any other man
there.
We mention the course of Senator
Lamar that we may contrast it with
the policy now being pursued by the
would-be democratic leaders in the
house and their organs. Did Senator
Lamar or any other democratic states
man over denounce as Stewards"
"pirates," "renegades" and "traitors"
his party friends who may have diff
fered with him upon questions of pub
lie policy? Did he ever cry "war to
the knlfe!" or tell his followers to
"run up the black hag?" To the con-
trary, he has been patient, conciliato-
ry, and discreet and judicious in all
his utterances.
While Mr.. Lamar has always been
wise and discreet, yet he has never
lost an opportunity to vindicate the
South against the ISLANDERS Of her en-
emies. The brand of infamy by him
burned into the brow of the vaulting
overbearing Conkling, and which he
declared in the senate no "honorable
man would wear" is one of the mon
uments of his fearless devotion to the
honor Of the South. In that he assum-
ed position and responsibility never
yet courted by the "black flag" free
traders.
Mr.. Randall has, in like manner,
been judicious in his utterances, aud
at the same time the fearless friend of
the South; and it is such men as these
and Mr.. Tilden that the Southern
democracy will follow in this critical
hour OF dissension and doubt.