The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1888-01-19

cherish no aspirations or schemes Tor
lis restoration. With their opinions
on the rightfulness of slavery unchan-
ged by the events Of the war, yet as an
enlightened people, accepting what is
| inevitable. they would not, If they
could, again identify their destiny as a
people with an institution that stands
antagonized 80 utterly by all the senti-
ment and living forces of modern civ
ilization. In a 'gord, they regard the
nrw aa'a1Gmeuts to tie cor itUt'or
nah =sc,.Hea &c the back race Cit
zen nir an6 sufi q TO be not les -
| gre, and iuFlyis,Di5 Uhan the original
| charter a. Ii came from The hands of
Inc iataers. They owe allegiance 10
the latter, they have ps5dged tleir pa
roia oi nonor TO keep the former, and
II Is ne parole of honor Of a soldier
race"
| ''NO CONFEDERATE NEED APPLY"
.atc- Stewars hen goes on to
| cr.tlcise bIr Lamar's whole Congress
ional career; he quotes from the lat
sneach delivered in Charleston in
| III April last, upon tho unyei:;ng ot
| the Calhoun monument, and then
says;
Bfr. Lamar, who expressed the SEN
timents contained in the foregoing
| quotations, who has since the war SER
we'd in both houses of Congress, who
was unanimously confirmed as Secre-
tary of the Interior, and who by a
vote Of a Republican Senate was,
with his associates in the Cabinet, de-
clared fit in the contingency of vac
ancy in the office of the President to
occupy the presidential cnair, is
representative Southern man. He is
the first confederate soldier who has
received a nomination of President
Of the United States to the office of
justice of the Supreme Court. | know
of no other man who bore arms against
the United States in the late war who
has so unreservedly accepted the ver-
diet of arms, and so unequivocaIly
and continuously maintained the vail
dity of the new amendments to the
| constitution as Mr.. Lamar. If he is
disqualified to fill the office of Justice
of the Supreme Court by reason Of
his participating in the late war, no
person who bore arms against the
| United States can ever become eligi-
| bic to that office.
3? !? ? ? F.? ? ? !? :? ? :?
Senator Stewart concludes by ask
ing some se:y pertinent Questions of
| his colleagues questions which their
innate hatred Of the South and the
Southern people will cause them to
give answers different from what
would be suggested by him.
rs it wise," he asks, ''for the Re-
publican party to assume the attitude
Of repudiating the acts of reconstruct
ion and denying the validity of the
laws of Congress granting amnesty in
the people of the South? Is it right
to secure for the dominant party of
the South a permanent lease of power
based upon an apparent necessity to
resist Republican prescription? :? Has
not the time arrived when political
partie. should be termed on the living
issues of the day? When correct
views Of the currency, the tariff, the
material development o. the country,
and our relations with foreign powers,
should be taken into consideration in
selecting candidates for office? Is it
not time to withdraw every excuse
for white mans party in the South
and allow the people of the southern
states to divide on local issues and
national questions common to both
sections of the Union.
after the destruction of eight bill
lions of property and the sacrifice of
more than half a million lives for the
purpose of maintaining the union of
the states, is it justifiable for either
side to plant the seeds of discord anew
or to reopen the wounds inflicted by
the war, by cultivating hatred and dis
trust between the north and the
south? ?" And a good deal more of
the same sort. Finally he observes:
"Unless very different case can be
presented against Mr.. Lamar from
anything which has come under my
observs tion, [ shall deem it my duty
to vote for his confirmation aud advise
other Republican senators to do the
same"
REPUBLICAN HATRED OF THE SOUTH
Now, it must be evident to the dull
est wit that the sum total of the oppo.
sition to Mr.. Lamar lies in the fact
of his having been Confederate sol
dier. He is personally extremely pop
ular with every Senator, on both sides
of the chamber, and yet out of the
thirty nine Republican members O.
that body only TWO or three are to be
found whose souls are not so warped
by sectional hatred as to permit them
to cast an honest vote on the question
of the confirmation of this eminently
and able and just man-simply be
cause he is an ex-Confederate soldier
| tell you, bygones are not bygone.
with vast majority of the northern
people. They have not buried, mol
are they willing to bury the past; bu
they demand that we get down upoI
our bellies and grovel in the dust be
fore them, declaring that we did no
believe in the business of our cause
that the Stars and Bars was the EN-
blem of wrong, and that we fought fo
a lie! And yet we see southern men
} some of them ex-Confederate soldiers
! enacting the role of the Prodigal Sol
and go sneaking into the back door O
the House of Reconciliation with tn
passport of an apology ON their lips.
If Mr.. Lamar's name is not rejecte,
, it will be DO credit to the Republical