Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-05-10
TEE CoNFEDERACY LIVES.

The country had still against 1t the
Southern Confederacy. 1t was confronted
with 1853 votes of the Solid South, as it
had been at every election since the cleo
ton of Mr.. Hayes. The Solid South was
the Confederaoy and the success of the
Confederacy, which was to-day as much
an organized, active, aggressive force in
politics as in 1861, and in the previous
times. Slavery was oea0, and secession
was dead, but all the ideas, all the i'm pull
ses, all the purposes and Intentions of Sc
ces sion remain. He honored and admired,
but regretted and deplore6, the cOnstan-
cy of the South to that idee; its loyalty
and fidelity to the leaders under whom 1t
fought, and It's determination to reuLJte
and reconstruct the his DRY of its country
so that it would be able to say to the gen
erations which are to come that, while it
was overthrow by overwhelming num-
bers in the field, yet within twenty five
years after the war closed, its leaders hal
been restored to political power. In this
connection, he asked, who was Lucius
Quintus CurCius Lamar? He was never
suspected of being lawyer. Laughter
His bitterest enemy never accused him OF
that. He never had been admitted 10 the
Bar of the Supreme Court, on whose
Bench he was appointed. He never had
tried areported case in auy tribunal, State
or National, for thirty years. It was an
open secret that the President at one
time peremptorily refused to appoint
him.
lie asked what necessity there had been
for the President to effront the 10y al
sentiment OF the country by placing on
the Bench of the Supreme Court a mau
who was not a lawyer and never had been,
and who was called Abraham Lincoln,
buffoon. Why did the South select him
and force him on reluctant President
and reluctant pie? It was because
Mr.. Lamar was the nearest and dearest
friend and representative of Jefferson
Davis. There was no other explanation
of it. If thai was not true. then his nom
lnation was farce and bur esq g, with
out excuse and without ex planatIon. Mr..
ingalls, then referred to a speech made
in the House of Representatives in 1879
by Mr.. Blackburn declaring it to be the
purpose and intention of the Democratic
Party to keep on until it wiped out from
the statute book the last vestige of war
legislation. He said that within the next
few years the Supreme Court would be
entirely reconstructed. Two of the AS
sociate Justices were already past the
retiring age; and if that tribunal was to
pass hereafter on the war legislation, ali
knew what the result would be. There
could be no question about it.
He passed on to the speech of Henry
E. Jackson of Macon, Georgia, in the
presence of Jefferson Davis, a speech
which had the effect, he said, of defeating
the Democratic Party in Ohio by an i'm
mense majority. Its influence was so
palpable that Judge Thurman denounced
Jackson as an old tramp and an old fool,
and General Gordon, of Georgia, im-
mediately set out for Cincinnati in his
special Car to try to counterfeit it, and 10
order to chow that there was no bloody
chasm between the North and the South
and that thoroughly fraternal feeling
prevailed; when he met General Morgan,
of Ohio, on the public platform he kissed
him in the mouth, as reported in the
papers, at that time, and entering his
special car went back to Georgia.
Laughter.