The Tupelo journal., 1906-12-21

demonstrated the fact that he
knew more about their own
state constitutions than they
knew themselves and that the
constitution adopted by the con-
stitutional convention of Miss
issippi was conservative and
liberal in it's provisions in COM
parison with the constitution
of New Hampshire, Vermont and
Massachusetts,.
Before Senator George enter
ed the United States senate the
federal congress had been grad
ually passing laws usurping and
dwarfing the jurisdiction of state
courts. There had been a grad
ual concentration of all jurisdic-
tion in the federal courts and
state circuit courts had almost
reached the level Of justice Of the
peace courts. This great senator
introduced a bill which was OPP
posed by Senator Edmunds, the
great republican lawyer of the
senate, but by the force of his
intellect and his great will and
patriotism he finally succeeded
in passing this bill, which strip
ped the federal courts of two
thirds of their original jurisdic-
ton and at the same time de-
prived litigants of the right to
remove causes from the state
to federal courts, except upon
such coalitions as recognized the
dignity and power of state and
circuit courts. Prior to his ad-
vent in the senate the federal
courts had been appointing re-
ceivers Of inSolvents railroads
running through one or more
states and through the receiver
ship operated them independent
of the jurisdiction of state gov
ernments and state courts. A
receiver at that time operating
a railroad, appointed by a fed
eral court, was an absolute
autocrat and it was a practical
denial of all justice. General
George introduced a bill and by
his personal force and power
passed this bill which provided
that a receiver appointed by a
federal court to operate railroads
running through one or more
states, was compelled to operate
such raiload subject to the laws
and jurisdiction of such state.
Where can you find a record of
another senator comparable to
the one made by this great and
matchlesS statesman.
JUSTICE L. @. C. LAMAR
Take the record made by that
incompatible statesman and pat
riot, L. @. C. Lamar. 1t was
the genius and patriotism of La
mar that first arrested the con-
science of the North and direc.
ted it's attention to the degrega-
ton of the Southern states as
ruled by the carpet-bag govern
ments. He was the trusted ad-
visor of President Cleveland
when serving a term in his cab
met, and by his great learning
and profound knowledge of the
philosophy of governments and
his personal integrity, he so i'm
pressed President Cleveland that
he appointed him to a position
on the supreme bench of the
United States. He was an or
nalnent TO To every position he
occupied in pubic life, and ,i.c
people of Mississippi have
much reason to he proud of the
career matte Dy JusLice Lamai
as the people of any oiner states
nave reason to be proud of an.
patriot who ever lived and ser
we'd the public in these Uniteu
States.
There was the matchless Wal
thall, the incarnation OF Courage
and at the same time Of gentle
less. He was the ideal soldier
In his personality he embodie,.
every element that aroused the
admiration and the confidence
i0f the Confederate soldier.
The people of Mississippi, ac-
.cording to my knowledge of the
motives that inspire and move
people to act, have been, under
all conditions, the bravest and
the truest to be found in our
civilization. To my personal
knowledge | have never known
the state or any community in it
to bend the pregnant knee that
thrift might follow fawning.
They have preferred to live up
to principle rather than reap
profit and gain. No offer to
broaden their commerce and to
increase their fortunes has never
tempted them to depart from
worshipping the ideals that they
had erected in their own souls.
When they have thought their