The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-01-05
TIE LAMAR CoNFYRMAT1ON.

THE LAMAR COAh1HAA1lOA.
In quite lengthy editorial regard
ing the Lamar confirmation, the New
York Herald has the following:
Those who look at the political stu
alton with patriotic feelings regret the
sentiment which in many sections is
developing in regard to the conhrma-
ton of Mr.. Lamar to the supreme
bench. 1t is not in itself an essential
question, as the supreme court viii
continue TO be representative tribunal
whether Mr.. Lamar is member or
not. And the Herald Is decidedly in
favor of the rejection of Mr.. Lamar,
no matter what social. personal or POI
| litical claims may sustain him, I'M
less the appointment is fit to be made.
| We should view his rejection for due
| cause as a wholesome act of senatorial
| independence, something to be well
coined at a time when it seems to be
| the etiquette of all powers in the gov
| eminent to defer to the executive.
1t is because no reason has been as
signed for this rejection except the fact
that Mr.. Lamar was an official in the
late southern cOnfederacy, that we
| view with some concern the partisan
sentiment invoked by the republican
Journals against his confirmation. To
pass an act of Acknowledgement upon
statesman as eminent as Mr.. Lamar
now a member of the cabinet-be-
cause, like Orr, LOngstreet, Mosby
| Akerman and other republican officials
appointed by a republican president
he had been a confederate. is to revive
| an issue which we had hoped had lont
since been dead and buried.
Here in New York the movement
against Mr.. Lamar is under the specia
direction of republican leaders who II
. 1872 left their own party and askeC
Mr.. Lamar to help them to elect Mr.
Greeley as president over Genera
Grant, solely because Mr.. Greedy wa
La representative of northern
amnesty ane generosity" 70
these leaders to ask the defeat of Nj
Lamar in 1887 for believing what the,
T, told him in 1872, and uniting wit
2 them to make that belief party polio
2 is an act of grave political immortality
: Mr.. Sherman's public adherence t
these views is much to be regretted
Mr.: Sherman assuredly Is not ready Z
disfranchise any fellow citizen Decau6
he was a confederate. The rejectio
2 of MIR. Lamar for such reason wouI
be decree of Acknowledgement.
From the south we are warned tina
''if the senate shall refuse to confirL
D Mr.. Lamar, the south will be soil
v while the sky has star or the ocean
| tide.
. All of which is foolish! Unhappily
it must be taken as a sign, a tendenc.
e The movement against Mr.. Lamar Is
deliberate attempt to arouse the wa
sentiment in the north, for no othC
Y reason than that out of this may com
: republican success. There is an arr
giant war song in that fierce literatul
of Germany, to the effect that I'VE haV
I all had more than enough of love-an
e now for song of hatred"
, The Herald, however, in its articl'
a fails to state that Mr.. Lamar is to- d;
a as traitorous rebel as he ever vi
while serving in the secession arm
and that in the halls of congress, as
d sworn servant of the federal govern
ment, he rises in his seat and declar
u that the arbitrator of all JEFF. Davi
e is patriot, and that no one shall 8;
different in his hearing without hi
entering protest. And this, nc
&c withstanding the fact that this sar
/ jeff Davis is to-day man without
10 country, and openly declares his host
ity to the existing government WIFI
a this man is anxious to hold life stu
% tion under.
"a When jeff Davis becomes fit to AO
If a judgship on the supreme bench, tn
,e will be time enough for United Stat
!, senators to confirm Mr.. Lamar.