Year: 1872

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w re iIi4ormed that with some per-
Dns t'e idea fsrevails that if Col Lamar
Is not aamitted co We seat ia Congress,
to which he will be chosen, that it viii be
assigned to some minority nlansHho may
be base enough to accept the place after
having been rejected by the people of
the 1st District, This idea exists in
consequence of a clause inserted in the
Buzzard EggIeston Constitution now in
force in our State, Cart Is, Sec. 49,
prescribing that if any candidate receiv-
ing the highest number of votes cast
cannot take the oath required in the said
Constitution, the candidate receiving the
next highest number of votes shall be
installed. There is no federal law of this
purport nor have the dominant party
in Congress acted upon any rule in accord
with it but the reverse. In the North
Carolina case Vance who had been elec
ted to the q. S. Senate under disabilities
was not admitted; but the pretensions
of his competitor, Abbott, who claimed
the place on the ground of eligibility
and of having received a larger number
of votes than any other candidate who
could qualify rejected by very
large majority of his own (RadicaD party.
The consequence was that the case was
remitted to the people who elected Ran
som, an original secessionist by the way.
and Confederate General, who wa.
admitted without delay. Vance was al
original Unionist and had done very
little in the army. The result was al
illustration of the absurdity of the legis
lation which Radicalism has provided
for the punishment and humiliation O


the Southern people on account of the
Rebellion $50 called Jan original Uniol


man and moderate fighter during tn,
war was rejected and an original seces
sionist and Confederate fighter from tn,
beginning to the end of the war, was ad
mitted


So, there is no federal law nor Radica
rule of action TO Justify apprehension tha
a minority candidate in the 1st Distric


weuld be assigned the seat in Congress
even If Col Lamar's disabilities shoulC
not be removed-and even if the Distric
could furnish creature mean-spiriteC
enough to take the place by outside
Radical decree after his reputation by
the voters. Within our recollection there
is but one man who has taken advantage
of the opportunity afforded by the clause
in the Buzzard Constitution, and thai
was Lindsay the usurping member of the
Legislature from Harrison county, anG
he is an object for the finger of scorn
occupying the bad eminence of luck
less crow dangling at the top of high
pole from which, after having been shot
in the act of stealing corn, and hung
out as a warning to the rest Of its tribe.
Col. Lamar is the regular nominee o1
the opposers of Grantism and of the
supporters of Greeley and Brown and
the Reform policy which they represent
He will champion their cause ably in the
National Councils. He will rank with
the first intellects in the country. He
comes up to the very highest standard Of
excellence. Without doubt, or hesita
ton, a large number of voters will cal
him to their service. If he is not per.
mitted to render it-an apprehension
which we do not at all entertain = they
will have acquitted themselves of their
duty and the disgrace and infamy Of his
rejection will belong to the party of
prescription, prorided they are in the as
.cendant in the next Congress.