The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1903-02-21

powerful debaters in the Senate, and in
his arraignment of the people of India
nola for what he contended was an un-
lawful act, he beloved and roared like
mad bull in china shop. He had no
facts to sustain his position and was forc-
ed to fierce and vile denunciation of
the white people of Mississippi and
an eulogy of the negro race, all of which
was for effect in the middle and western
States having large negro voting popu-
lation. Tragically the Wisconsin man
endeayored to place the white people Of
Indianola in bad light before the coun-
try, but when Mississippi's favorite son.
Anslem Joseph McLaurin, had finished
with him, the Wisconsin man IS argument
was as full OF holes as was the Spanish
cruiser Viscaya when she was sent to the
bottom OF the sea by Admiral Schiev's
guns at the battle of Santiago. Point
by point and fact by fact the great Mis-
sissippian demolished the administra-
tion's theory, and so completed Che job
that Democrats in and out of Congress
say it could not improved upon. The
case of the people of Indianola could
we'll rest where it stands, so ably and
forcibly has their side of the question
been presented to the country. The ex-
preston "well done thou good and faith
full servant" is heard on every side. The
Raleigh N. G. Observer heads a,
leading article on the subject: enc
Laurin's Reply Effective. He was too
strong for Spooner." The independent
newspapers of the north all join in prais-
ing Senator McLaurin for the manly and
logical manner in which he conducted
himself in the debate.
Senator McLaurin's peroration was 80
beautiful and eloqent and appeals so
strongly to the sentiments Of the people
that it is reproduced in full.
"Mississippi, / will say in conclusion,
sympathizes, the entire State sympa-
thizes with the people Of Indianola. The
State of Mississippi has undergone many
changes and vicissitudes in its short but
checkered life. / am not an old man
myself, but / can remember the time
when the pioneers of Mississippi laid the
axe to the root of the tree and felled the
forests and converted them into produc-
tive fields, the products Of which fed her
citizens and clothed quarter of the civ
ilized population of the globe. can
remember the time when our people
had developed into prosperous, proud,
rich State, rich in its material wealth,
rich in finances, rich in its manhood and
womanhood, and as sembled on our natal
day, the glad shouts from the lusty lungs
of her sons were heard, and her beauti-
full women nodded approving smiles
when her orators beneath the folds OF
the Stars and Stripes told of the strug-
gle Of the revolution and discoursed of
the glories of independence and liberty
and the blessings OF the American
Union. have seen the time when the
people of the State in the harvest season
enjoyed themselves with the hunters
horn, following the chase to the music
OF the hounds. / have seen another time
come when they were impelled, right
or wrong Il am not here to argue because
the question has been submitted to the
arbitramento of the sward,) to sever the
connection with the American Union.
have seen her sons with singular una
nimity, go out to fight for what we con-
ceived holy and sacred cause, in the
protection Of their homes and women
and little ones against invasion.
"I have seen the soil of Mississippi
drenched with the blood of her sons that
laid the dust like rain. have seen the
care-worn womenand hungry children of
our State cry for bread while the.contents
of their cribs and smokehouses went up in
flames kindled by the hands of invadees
in resistless numbers. have seen the
elements black with the smoke of our
cities and towns and villages and coun-
try homes, and our school houses and
churches and eleemosynary institutions