The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1888-01-12
SENATOR STEW ARTS LETTER

MIR. Lamars fol nal resignation as
Secretary of the Interior and the Presi-
dents acceptance OF it will naturally be
interpreted to mean that they are conf
dent of the formers confirmation for
the Supreme Court. This impression
will not be weaken ID by the simultan
cons publication OF an elaborate argu
ment by Senator Stewart in favor of
confirmation, which is doubtless put out
in the hope of influencing other Repub
lican Senators. 1t remains to be seen
whether the event sill justify this con-
fidence.
Assuming, as perhaps we arc bound
to do, that Senai)r Stewart had no
reasons for favor NJ confirmation be
You'd those recited / hi letter, 1t is suf-
ficient to show tat that presents no
answer to the mot serious objections
urged against Mr.. Lamar. He ignores.
and wisely, the que ton of Mr.. Lamar 3
legal fitness. The substance of the let
ter is that the eu.Dgy of Mr.. Sumner,
Mr.. Lamar's depre cation of the torma-
ton of parties on Il color line. his vote
in favor of Mr., No gars Senate resolu
ton declaring the War Amendments
binding but express y uniting to state
that they were lega ly ratified, and the
Calhoun eulogy, show MIN to 0e thor
oughly RECONSTRUCTED man, and there
fore eligible to 2 ace on the Supreme
bench, This is a MATER OF opinion. If
men we're to be jur yed by their words,
and not by their deeds, this would be a
world of saints. NJ ,st men, we believe,
will prefer to judge Mr.. Lamar by his
course in public life, and not by his
perorations. He his made number OF
pretty speeches, Tut we never heard
that he lifted a finger against the colos-
sal frauds that male HIM and kept him
Senator-frauds fir more outrageous
than the Tweed ring ever dared to at
tempt. There are Ilen IN this commun-
ity today, men of more ability than Mr..
Lamar, whose repu tatiOns are so utterly
blasted by assocIa ion with the crimes
of the Tweed TiHH that they could not
be appointed to any Office whatever.
But because Mr.. Lamar is able to appeal
to the sentiment OF universal reconcile.
alton as an ex-rebei, all this is overlook.
ed, and Mr. Stewart has not word to
say on the subject,
So, too, Mr.. Lamar has never uttered
a word against the murders, midnight
whippings and her bloody deeds OF
the bulldULing pei od-sIl OF which he
saw and part of which he was. There
is something 30 InconEruOus in the idea
Of man being nominated to one Of the
highest judicial PAGES in the land who
owes all his prom hence to crimes, OPP
pressions and frauC, which would have
attracted the attention Of the civilized
world If they had been committed in
Ireland or Russia, that the temptation
to rub ones eyes o. reading such argu-
ments as Mr., Stewards is strong indeed
For he not only igl ore these things, but
even goes so far as to insist, practically
that the new ju lge of the Supreme
Court must be an x-rrbel. ASUutherr
man who stood b. the Union will moi
do. Justice Harls l is not 'represen.
tatlve Southern man because he never
participated in the views OF the Consti-
tuition entertained 1y the great majority
OF the Southern neople. II President
Cleveland should n Jmnate Soulhernel
now a Democrat who had not been 9
rebel, we should Expect to see Senator
Stewart vote to reject him on the ground
that no man should be put upon the Su
preme bench who had not been guilty
of treason at least once in his life, anC
that the reign of GOOD will could never
begin 80 long as men were appointed
to office in whom there was nothing Il
be forgiven. Sem tor Stewart is FORTH.
nate in not having to explain his vote
TO such a Republican constituency al
that Of New York, Ohio, Illinois Of
Iowa,-ITribupE