The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1888-06-02
GIBSON ADDRESSES TIL
lEGTSLATURE.
Some Practical Suggestions rs TO the Re
lationship orthe People to the Laws.
THE CONSTITUTION AS AMEND
EDHN TIE WAR;
Good Feeling Of the North Towards tho
South.

Upon receiving from Lieutenant
Governor Jeii'ries, the presiding officer
of the joint session, official notification
Of his election as United States Senator
from Louisiana, General Gibson, adj
dressing .he assembly, said:
Fellow Citizens, Members of the
General AssembIy-I return to you
from the bottom of my heart my
thanks for the high honor you have
conferred upon me, and especially 70;
the manner in which you have seen
fit to bsstow 1t. l thank the Demo
cratic masses Of our State, who in the
parishes of the state at ths primaries
declared their preference for me to be
my own successor in the United States
senate.
The only reward that a public servant
may seek for the discharge of his du-
ties in the public employment is the
approval of his fel(ow-citizens-of the
good and true men who on their farms,
in their workshops, in the peaceful
avocatons of life, make up an intelli-
gent public Judgment and constitute
the basis upon which, in the last resort,
free institutions rest and find their
vindicatiou, / have felt that l repres-
en!ed people who by their self sacri-
fees and public virtues
WOULD HAVE RENDERED ILIUsTRIoUs
the annals of Sparta in her palmiest
days ana lent dignity to the name of
Roman while Rome survived. TAp-
piause.
congratulate you, fcllow-c citizens of
the general assembly, and most of you
who are entering public life, that you
begin under most ausPicious circuin-
stances,
"Thc tempest is past tho clouds
that lowered DER out house are in the
deep bosom of tho ocean buried - the
life of the people Of our state is as
calm as ihc surface of the beautiful
lake that lies back of our great metro
politan city, and which undisturbed
reflects in It's placid bosom the peace
of God himself from the skies above.
/ congratulate you that the people of
our state have selected TO be their chief
81 son Of Louisiana who, in
a peculiar manner, enjoys without
limit the confidence Of the people of
the state, and whose name wherever ii
is known is Il tower of strength To the
people of the Unitcd States for every
thing that works for good in public
life. EAprlause.
Fellow. citizens, the proceedings in
which you have participated to-day
eXCmplify
THE CHARACTER or THE INSTITU-
Ti0NS
under which we live. You have Just
elected senator Of the United States
from the state. This fact indicates
that you have two govcruncnts-your
state government, whose orbit is point
od 0nt and directed by the constitution
of the state. BIt you have another
government which though far distant
from you, is still your government,
whose powers are defined and limited
by the constitution Of tho United
States, which il also your constitution.
The federal government is not Il foreign
government, or an alien government.
It IS Our governmental government
OF the several states Of the union. Who
should have larger rights in the federal
government, or be more devoted to il
than the people OF this common
wealth, than The people of the SOUTH
ern states , Did they not participate
in the war of the revolution, which
made the colonies free and independent
sovereign states? Was not the army
OF The revolution led by a southern
man? ? / venture TO say there is hardly