Los Angeles daily herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1884-1890, 1888-01-13

Lamar W. LOngstreet.
A portion Of the Republican press
Of the country object vehemently
whenever q Democratic administra-
tion selects fer office Southern man
vho- vas prominently identified with
,fhe lste rebellion, and this exhibition
a Gtultifed meanness was never
more conspicuous than in the rabid
obiection to L. @. G. Lamar. Mr..
Lamar can hardly be considered
ooldier Of the late war. He did hold
for : time a military position, but
whatever prominence he secured,
and il was not much at best, was IN
other than military fields. 1t VIII De
remembered that General James
IonRstreet long ago was taken INTO
the Republican fold and given Fed
eral office. The fact is not mentioned
id the purpose Of assailihg the Re-
pnblicsn party for giving General
fonpstreet an Office, in so far as it was
the result Of q desire to restore harmony
between the two sections OF the
Union. If that was the purpose, or
any part of it, the act was in the high
eft degree commendable, but 1t IS
proper for the general reader to know
something about the antecedents OF
General Longstreet, now Republican
Of renown. He is a native OF South
Carolina, Calhoun's State. He was
4 educated at West Point. AS soldier
he had won distinction, and in 1888
n had been promoted to Paymaster in
the regular army, with the rank OF
Major, He was under the most solemn
obligations to remain loyal to the
Union. The government had edu-
Gated him and promoted him, and he
was under oath to stand by the flag.
Such obligations did not rest upon
Mr.. Lamar. and yet the Republican
marty takes Longstreet to its bosom
while it mathematics Mr.. Lamar.
In June, 1861, Major Longstreet re-
signed his office in the Union army
and entered the Confederate service.
He renounced his allegiance to the
stars and stripes, the flag of his coun-
4 try, and accepted jeff Davis as his
eommander-in-chief, and no man in
the Confederate service fought more
heroically to defeat the Union armies.
He became at once Brigadier-general.
He fought at Bull Run in 1861. He
fought the battle of Williamsburg
was in the battles of Seven Pines,
Cold Harbor, Frazier's Farm. He
was at the second Bull Run battle.
He fought at South Mountain and
Antietam' Fredericksburg and Chan.
- nd
Chickamauga. He was IN the
battle of the Wilderness and at Peters
burg. He was member OF the last
council Of war held by Lee, and held
s TO the Confederacy to the last. This
man the Republican party promptly
4 embraced and gave him lucrative
Office. But when a Democratic ad
( mipistration seeks to establish by its
acts 9 recognition of restored Unior
by naming L. @. G. Lamar for high
Office, for which he is eminently quail
fled, the Republican press, or at least
= portion of it, sets up the howl about
sred-handed rebels holding Office
etc. Level-headed, honest Republi.
cans will readily see through such
partisan clap-trap.
It so happened that General Long.
street is a Republican. We have
4 given his Confederate military record.
Do the Republicans refer to him as a
traitor? Not at all. An officer in the
army of the United States, educated
~ the Government, commissioned by
the Government, bound oy the solemn
/ obligations of an oath to be loyal to
the flag of the Union-he tore himself
away from his Government and flag,
denounced his allegiance; trampled
upon his oath, and fought to the death
the Union armies for four years-and
yet he was at once taken into the Re-
publican fold and made comfortable
By fat Federal office.
With such a record on the part of
the Republican party, thousands of
honest, manly Republicans will not
tolerate the vulgar attacks made upon
III. Lamar, or any other Southern
MAN who may be named for Fed
1eal office.
It is not required that we should
name other 'red-handed rebels" the
Republican party has taken to its en-
brace. Longstreet answers for all.
By his side we place Hon. L. Q. G.
Lamar, and challenge the Republican
pFess to make any comparisons the
Encts Of history may warrant. Wash
lngton I'd. c. Sentinel.