Year: 1876

WASHINGTON, Aug 2.--The silver bill
wns Il tiibustered over until tomorrow.
The inpeachment managers reported
the resalt OF the trial to the House,
which then went into the Committe Oh
the Whole.
~ Mr.. Lamar, OF Mississippi. proceeded
to make n speech on political subJects.
He commenced by saying that 10 could
not be truthfully asserted that the prac-
tice and peculiar system of measures
adopted by the present Administration
commanded the appreciation of tho ma
jority OF tho people. But on the CON
frary. the sentiment In which the Ameri-
onn people regard the conduct or ma.
tionnl affairs was one OF very decided
dissatisfaction and dependency. accom-
panied with strong and intense desire
Of n change.


There was deep and anxious protest
auainst the methods OF the Admtnistra-
tion. the tone and character OF the
pubtic service aud the principles of
legislation that had marked tho action
OF the Government for many years past,
and vet IL was remarkable that popular
feeling had produced no change In the
Administration. Such development
of public sentiment in England would
have produced IA change In the admins





within twenty-four hours. He attributed
the absence OF reform TO the principle oil
centralized party organization when
garrisons the country with one hundred
Thousand oiIioeholders and one hundred
thousand expectants OF Office.


He quoted from the speech OF MIR.
Sanford i'm the recent Republican State
Convention Of Massachusetts In arraign-
ment OF the Administration, which
speecb, he said, II IL had been made by
a Democrat, would have been regarded
M a gross partisan exaggeration; yet
that convention and its members were
In active concert with tho very Admin
istration thus characterized and held up
10 public reprehensiou, In the support
Of n political party which had ipdorsed
that Administration aud had In turn
been indorsed by IL. IL was utterly Inn
possible that the reforms desired could
be effected by continuing In power that
party whose debasement or the civil
service OF the country aud whose cor.
rlption Of the Administration was the
thing 10 be reformed. The success OF
that party would give impunity TO the
practices that are the subject OF such
universal condemnation. But IL was
lid that the advent Of the Democratic
ID ,rty TO power would cndanger the per-
,nanency of the new institutions estab-
lished by the war, and there was an ap-
prehension that what was called the
Southern combination would be brought
back, and therefore the people were not
prepared, for the mere sake OF correct
Ing the disorder OF the Administration.
10 put these new institutions into the
hands Of those who were originally
opposed to their establishment. He
APPRECIATED the value Of these grave
apprehensions. He would speak, how
ever, In behalf OF u people who had
accepted with sincerity the results OF
the war, who feel that they had on
them the burden of recovering the con.
fidence OF the nation, and who also feel
assured that with a better knowledge OF
their purposes and motives, would re-
= vive that faith and confidence which Is
necessary TO bind together the various
sections OF the republic In the bonds OF
peace-a peace which, In the days
Of party disoord, he feared was almost
past understanding. He did not believe
that the apprehension growing out oil
the united support by the Southern peo-
pie Of the Democratic party was well
founded, or that IL should stand In the
way of the aspirations OF a great people
for progress and reform. The idea that
the South. under any combination o'
parties OF circumstances, would evel
again obtain the control OF this giant
Republic and will its destinies against
the winand instinct Of the mighty peo
ple, was Of all ideas the most visionary
and baseless The people of the South
were prostrate, and they had been de-
feated In war and made to feel that
the sacrifices and humiliations and
helplessness OF defeat had been
allotted to them as their share
while the people OF the North had reap


n. Ill ~ +s.,e.
and had embodied and guaranteed then
In the very life and constitution OF the
nation. The institutions OF the South
had been shattered and destroyed hel
industries bad been disorganized, every
foot OF her fertile soil sterilized by al
all-devouring taxation, her educational
interests waning and languishing. anC
her population was SO feeble In com
parison with that of the great Union
that, with the South united, white ant
black, it would be impotent to secure &
single Southern man or defend a single
Southern interest. 1t was therefore ab
surd for great people to apprehenC
that the people Of the South arrogateC
to themselves the ruling OF the interest.
OF this great nation. There was NJ
aspiration which they had that was not
bounded by the horizon of the Union
il they were united with the Democrat,
party, 1t was not for the purpose OF sec
tional aggrandizement-it was not FOL
the purpose OF reversing the policy o
the Government-but it was because
they had observed an instructive anc
superlative law or self-preservation.


He proceeded To argue against ths
idea that the power of the Democrat,
party would suspend the supervision o
the National Government over the con
duct OF affairs in the South; that sucf
supervision would imperil the rights o
the colored race. He quoted from Z
speech made by Senator (then Gov
ernor) Morton, of Indiana, In 1865
against comforting franchise on the col
ored race, and in favor OF postponini
their political rights for ten, fifteen OF
twenty years, at which time he argued
the States would have been SO com
pietely tilled up by immigration from
the North and from Europe that the
negroes would be in a permanent minor
ity. II that distinguished Statesman


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