The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-06-14
JUSTICE LAMAR ON MISSISSIPPI.

Frank George Carpenter, the veteran
gossiper of the national capital, credits a
remarkable utterance to Justice L. Q. c.
Lamar, the longtime senator from Mis-
sisS;ppi.
Il saw him this afternoon riding from
the supreme court to his home on Massa-
chusetts avenue in a red herdic," says
| Carpenter. His shoulders are stopped,
and he has lost thirty pounds during the
winter. His health is not bettered by
| the gloomy views he takes Of the south
and its future. He told me the other
day that he thought Mississippi would
eventually be a negro state, and that the
whites would be forced to emigrate. He
is so confident of this that he is anxious
to sell his plantation in Mississippi, con
sisting of about 500 acres of the finest
land in the state, and having on it forty
seven registered COWS and a number of
fine horses. Justice Lamar has a mag
nificent homestead there, and his lands
are under the best of cultivation. He Of
fers the whole for much less than it is
worth, and he says he has no desire to
have any of his friends remain in AIissis-
sippi Said he to me:
The influence of the present admins
tration is bound to be altogether in favor
of the blacks at the expense of the
whites, and the whites will not permit
the blacks to rule them. Had Blaine
been elected president the result would
have been different, and the outlook for
the south would have been better, but as
it is it seems to me as dark as can be,
and what will be the future God only
knows"
Justice Lamar is evidently becoming
pessimistic in his old age. How he ar
rives at the conclusion that the admins
tratiOn is responsible for the transferring
of large numbers of colored people from
one southern state to another is past the
writer's comprehension. That there has
been such transfers, and in large num-
bers, within the past year or two, is an
admitted fact, and that it has not been
accomplished wholly on the emigrants
own motion viii not he denied. But it
has been done at the instance and
through the agency, very largely. of the
owners of large tracts Of land in the
delta country that are unoccupied and
have been for years, some of them al
ways, by corporations and contractors
that require more labor than could be Sc
cured in that country.
1t were perhaps uncharitable to attri-
butte sinister motives to the reverend JUS
tice, but it is at least possible that, hav-
ing determined to cut loose the social
and material ties that have hitherto
bound him to his Mississippi home and
friends, in view of his permanent abode
now fixed in Washington, he has fallen
upon this plan of excusing himself for
thus tearing away and deserving them.
But whatever the cause for his gloomy
declarations, the situation he seems to so
much deplore, is certainly not what he
alleges it to be, the only intimation given
out from the White House that would
bear such a suspicion being the presi-
dents declared purpose to uphold the
authority Of the government, made in
connection with the celebrated Florida
outrage cases a short time ago, and the
colored race, in that connection, was
more an incident than a cause of action.
Bah! Justice Lamar.