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THE SUN, A Daily Democratic Newspaper. Ts PUilLISllEO RV THE SuV ASSOCIATION', IX WILMINGTON, NORTH CAROLINA, EVEKT MORNING EXCEPT MOXOAV, AXI .MAILED, OK ItKLIVEUE!) IX THE CITY V CARRIER, TO MTWRIBKRS AT THE FOLLOWING CM- roKM htes : Fon one month, ) cetts; THREE MONTH", SI. 1.1; MX MONT II. 50; TWELVE MONTHS, 87.00. ADVERTISEMENT! IXpEJ'.TEU IX REGULAR ADVERTISING OLt'MN.4 FOR 1.00 PER SQUARE ONE HAY ; 83. 50 I'ER SQUARE ONE WEEK'. $!) PER !'Al:R fi.NE MONTH ; 820.00 VF.it SO.UAKE THREE month; 835.00 i'eii rr-AKE six month; 850.00 PER SQUARE TWELVE MOXTU3. Contracts made for other space and time at pro port ion a t elt low hates. Special notices are uiiarced 20 ext a lixe fojt first, vxd 15 cent s a line lHl KM H SI MM.'JI 1..M, IA?tJ.In., Interesting- corhkspovdknce- solicited. ADDRESS. lilt BU., Wilmington, N. C. v mu CICEBO W. HARRIS, - - - - - Editor. Saturday Morning, December 14, 1878. Our readers will probably Ijc more deep ly interested in Col. Lamar' pplendid de fence of the iSouth and the J)emocraey than in almost anything that The Hi n could put on this page. 1 One of The Sun'k readers in a neigh boring Htute a gentleman of intelligence and culture writes that he like3 The Sex better than he does the lending, paper in his own State, says "it is more interesting in the general compt-nd of news" than that able journal, and that the editorials in The St x "breathe a pure Southern senti ment which is refreshing m these days of "hobnobbing-,'' Ac Sincere, unsolicited compliments like these are valued very hixhlv. UIVI.K A.M 1IAKHOK AITUO PRIATIOXM. Among the dispatches from "Washington printed in The Si x yesterday morning was one' which stated that the House Commit tee was in doubt as to what course to pur sue with reference, to-appropriations for the improvement of rivers and harbors. It was said that the disposition was to make appropriations for the must important places only. The estimate for the (Jape I'ear, as stated in a special to a Virginia p iper, -was $."!), 00). We hope this will be increased to at . lea.-t .57."). 000. More than that amount is needed here. Kncourag" lrrent of this improvement is really neces sary, as (Jen. I)i!:iHi(le said in aid of tJen. Hansom: o:i one occasion in the Senate, when the latter with his Accustomed earnestness combined with' liigh courtesy was urging a handsome ap propriation lor tin; 'work, which appropria tion he and his colleagues of the North Car-' olina. delegation secured. We trust that an appropriation for our harbrtr will be. made, and that it will not be less at all events than the amount named as having been decided on by the commit tee. i amai: ai isi.ajm:. V . ' V.'..!! , 4 J- S ........... iiic run k-tii i ui ,r Speech. Congrrssiondl Record, 12. The Vice-President The resolutions go to the calendar. The Senate resumes the consideration of its unfinished business. Mr. Lamar Mr. President, when these resolutions are printed and ready for action, I' may have something to say upon the question of their adoption. Before the question passes off uow, 1 wish to make one or two remarks, not upon the resolu tion, but upon one or two remarks sub mitted by the Senator from Maine. Sir, it is' not a surprising thing, nor is it ('an unnatural one, that that distinguished Senator should feel and manifest a deep interest in the affairs of the Southern J i.4 ICO, J 111, IJvUIC Ui lliUb CLtLIVU llik I V but recently undergone a vast change, so cial and political ; and it is reasonable, it is eminently fit and proper, that one who bore so conspicuous a part id the adoption of the measures which brought about the vast transformation, who occupies so con spicuous a position at the present time, and who, perhaps, will occupy a still more distinguished position in the future, should scrutinize with anxious solicitude the pro gress of that people to reconstruction and to their readjustment to the healthy and normal conditions of our national life. Sir, had the Senator come forward with some 'well-devised scheme of public educa tion, by which this newly enfranchised race, who have had such exalted duties im posed upon them without culture, and without even the trained intelligence of practical experience, may be fitted to exer cise their great duties as freemen and citi zens and the participants in the sovereign ty of commonwealths, every one would have recognized the propriety and the pa triotism of such a movement; for he would have proposed to give to that people what they most need, and what would protect them from every evil and wrong which he now alleges that they labor under. There are other evils in that country which might call forth the lofty and en larged measures of a patriot and an Amer ican statesman ; but I must confess to some regret that a Senator so distinguished, in looking upon this recently dislocated mem ber of this great American empire, instead of regarding it with reference to those great interests that affect the whole coun try through the long track of coming years, should have concentrated his whole atten tion upon its relation t0 parties and party contests , that nothing should have struck the Senator's notice or engaged his thoughts except the connection of that people with the ascendency and defeat of parties and their influence in Federal elec tions. Party organizations are no part of the Constitution, and they are agencies which work outside of the "laws. But, sir, the geutleman's remarks were directedfex clusively to the mere party and partisan aspects of this great subject, and with no intent whatever to utter a bitter retort I cannot but feel the regret that oue of such resolute -energies, of such tenacious pur poses, such daring ambition, and such great abilities, should have so narrowed his mind as "to give to party what was meant for mankind." But, sir, what is the point at last of the mi gentleman's argument this rnorhinsr t - It was remarkable for its significant omrndons. It was directed exclusively to the sunnre. f sion of the votes of particular ths of word", the representatives of the Deroo-guffrag-ans.in the South, Mr. President; j cratic party of thcSoath ear to an inquiry if I understood the debates at the time of Into a violation of;ibe; Constitution, "If the adoption oX the amendment to which I voa dare to make sncb an inquiry, jou run he refers, clothing .the negroes of the J the risk of overturning the representation Houth with the right of suffrage, it was of the 'States and ntducing ourselves to a to give them protection fur their freedom ' state of servitude." That is the proposition'. . and for the civil rights which the . four- Mr. Imar I hope the Senator will teenth amendment accorded Jo them, i allow nse to explain Through the protracted remarks of the ' Mr. Edmunds Certainly. Senator he could not utter ohc word L I Mr. Imar Or rather to protest against could not, liecause it would not hare Wen Y the-intcrp.retation- which he has put upon , the truth if he had to uow that there iuv-rfcarka-1 iad ooch urgetion. j was a single rizht of freedom or of citizen ship belonging to the black nice of the South that was not as fccuVv and si well enjoyed a3 that of the proudest and freest ; white man in the land. . ' It is also a remarkable fact that in his indictment of the Suth there is no pre- ' tense that there is a single menace in her present attitude to any of the great inter- j e?ts of this country not an imputation of i that character for "solid" (according to j the usual phrase) as the South may be, she 1 stands in line with a majority of the Amer- j ican people upon nearly every question j which is now discussed in this nation or nr- j gued here n her council chambers. IJut, sir, to come to thjp direct pint. the Senator asserts that in consequence of the u suppression of the negro vote at the South 1; by means which, he alleges, are iilegiti- i maie ana lrregukir, . ine routn na a ms proportionate party power nn tli i Covern ment. Sir. before this discussion i? over I 'will show that the negro vote has not been suppressed in the South ; I will deinon strate that th'is political phenomenon which is tlie subject of so much discussion and misrepresentation is a phenomenon that would occur in utiy free society. aTid that it has been brought about by the influ ences which intelligence and virtne and sa gacity and the other elements of civiliza tion always bring to bear upon the classes that. arc ignorant and debases. f IJut, sir, assuming all thai th,' geiitie- nian says to l$e true that there are in tii j House ot Jtepresen'atives one i.uiulreo zm six Representatives tdected of one party" complexion and -elected by means that ur not what he considers legitimate, let us s e where we stand in this position. Now, sir. what interest of the North, what interest of this country-is endangered by it; .Sir. with a united vote of the Soufh she stands a powerless section in this (iovernnient. she is au impotent minority section in ::nv event, unable to protect a single southern right or to defend a single southern inter est. ; , Jiut, says the gentleman, under the ope rations of these amendments, the South have a representation not in proportion to the constituency which elect them, and the States of South Corolina and Mississippi and Alabama have much more power than the numbers in some of the Northwestern States which he mentioned. Mr. Presi dent, every. member of the population in those States entitled to vote oiirht to ie' be' i counted. You have no riht to draw the line between the white and the black, and assume that the black man, because Ire did not vote the Ilepubl'iean ticket, as there fore a suppressed voter. Is it to be as sumed that, in every Southern Stat the properly and population of the State are in such necessary. ' antagonism that no amount of local misrule can teach 'them the advantage of their natural alliance? What right has he to assume that whites and blacks are never to vote arm! act to gether as citizens of a common co ;ntrv ? Now, sir, let me call attention to one pojnt in the Senator's argument." If we are to enter upon a system of legislation and po litical movements, in order to adjust, repre sentation and political power in this gov ernment according to the number of actually-voting constituencies, the -principle may operate further than the gentleman thinks. What is the population of the State of Maine? I believe, 'G25,UU0. It has been diminishing within the last twenty years. I cannot now recollect, but perhaps it is 023,000. Vermont, which is also solid, has not more than :?50.000. And yet the State of Maine has as much power in this government, with her 000,000 eopJe. as the State of New York, with her 0,000,000. , A Senator You mean in this chamber. Mr. Lamar No, sir; I .mean in this government. Gentlemen correct wie by saying, "in this chamber;'" but I adhere to the phrase. I say, and repeat, that 'they have the affirmative power of legislation this day; 625,000 in Maine are equal to 5,000,000 in the Shite of . New York. A positive equality of States, whatever be their population, ia-eithof Chamber where concurrent legislation is needed, is positive affirmative power in the passage of any law. "Why, sir. the whole of New England has not three and a half millions of population ; and yet un der the operation ofthe Constitution and laws of the land, ot which I make no com- ' plaint and which is a legitimate thing, those three and a half .millions of popula ! tiou have six times as much power ns sov- ! ereign commonwealths that have five mil lions. They have got as much power as ; twenty millions in the large Northwestern : States that the gentleman called atten- j tion to. j Sir. why is one iiian in these Eastern States equal tor twenty in the Northwest, ; except by virtue of the Constitution the ' Constitution which; we are' . intending to abide by and to maintain ? - But as the gentleman has voucli.-aiftrd'1! advice to so'uthern men on this floor 'and"! outside, in all spirit of fairness and equity ' I will speak to the' people of the New England States and tell them that in my ! opinion the direst foe they have got on ; earth is the Kepresentative or Senator, whether from their own section or '.any other, that will kindle this fire whose rid) terranean flames will liquefy the very foundations on which these proud and 'free commonwealths now rear their a"spiring heads. Sir, the Senator is fishing in trou bled waters upon this subject; and w'rfen you come to agitate questions of this kind you will find that changes of a more radi cal and fundamental nature will be noVes sary in erder to adjust representation to numbers in this government. " " I will not now .proceed, sir, any further in my remarks. At another time .avheu these resolutions Tcome up, if,they are to be discussed, ! may participate in the dis cussion. Mr. Edmunds Mr. President, the poiut of the Senator from Mississippi appeajs to be, that if a Senator from New England proposes to inquire 'whether the Constitution has been violated in depriv ing any part of the people of the States of their right to vote for members of Con gress, &c, he thereby incurs the danger of oversetting the Constitution itself which savs that the States in this body shall be equal, and ; therefore I understand him to put it out as a warning mat tne people oi New EnsUuid through their Senators and Representatives have no right to stand upr for the Constitution as it is in favor of ah J equal representation by the people of the ' States in the other House, unless they run the risk of being exposed to the daoger of having their senatorial representation overturned. That then is the question we are invited to consider and the peril that we expose ourselves to if we undertake to inquire whether the Constitution of the' Unite 1 states has been violated. In ether It was simply v.i reply to the theory tue Senator from Maine "had broached, that this, investigation was justified in order ; that the eri! which he had disclosed of j one hundred thousand white men in the ! South having a political power and Tote J in this ffoVerJiment equal to three hundred thousaiid'&omewh'rre else,that I said that the temknry of sDch a theory would un- j dcimine the principle and the system of j government upon which our American fabric rests. Mi. Edmunds I am very glad to know, ; Mr. President, that the Senator did uot ! mean what his remarks appeared to indi cate ; and he lias misunderstood Mr. Iimar I did uot mean what the gentleman has attempted to force ray re marks iuto, but which he will never suc ceed in doing. Mr. "iMmuuds The Senator is mistaken in that. . 1 have not attempted to force the Senator's remarks into anything. The U: ' will show exactly what he has s.iid, and 1 think it will appear that I "have not misstated the substance of what he has said; but the Senator has greatly mistaken.- with, his present ex plana- t iOli. t lit? point of the Senator from Maine. Tiie Senator from Maine did uot complain of the inequality of personages in one part of the Union or anothe. What he com plained of was, supposing what he believes to be true turns out to be so when you have an investigation, that a small num- l.er o!' er of j crsoiis in the South by a gross or oetivir . ous violation ot tue Constitution havt of Io t-ike'n to themselves by that species rpation the powor of a large number the Constitution exercised in a riht- nnocr fid w.iy in tlie Northwest.. Is the Senator dipfsRti'.died if that turns out to he true, or would lie like to rectify it?. The Senator, of course.-would like t.) rectify it. I must ii-siime that he would. What, then is the use ot saying that yqu are going1 to over turn the "government if we undeitake to find out whether the Constitution has been grossly" and flagrantly violated by a denial of equal rights ii respet of the elections to the 'popular branch of the Congress of the United Stsitcs ? And where is the necessity in such a case of holding out the terror and kindling the conflagration that tfce Senator referred to in respect of sena torial representation upon an inquiry of that kind? 'The people of New England, as far as I mav speak for them, believe in j.i.stice and in equal rights under the Con stitution and according to it, just as the fathers and their successors have made it; and that is in the States (and I am sur prised to hear a Southern Senator assail the 'very foundation of State rights) there is and there must be political equality; th.it in respect of the people represented in tli other branch of Congre.-s there shall be the fair equality of fair numbers fairly and freely exercising their rights and not 'the ?ibjects of tyranny and corruption .and fraud anywhere. That makes your gov ernment;" nothing more, nothing less. I fail to se'e then, .Mr. President, the 'great danger that New England runs in undertaking to make an inquiry of this kind if the Senate agree to it. But I do not rise to enter into thisliscussion at all, but only now, that we have had a fair expres sion on both sides, to ask for the regular order. 31 r. Lamar Still, Mr. President, I can . not accept the position to which the Sena 1 tor from Vermont assigns me. lie says that he if. surprised to find a Southern Senator assailing the principle of State ; right J. lie wiir'Tiever find me in that ; position; sir. I ' have ever been the de- tender of that doctrine..- But surprises are ' constantly sprung upon us and the country : rail he pot.u little, astonished to find the s doctrine of .State rights advocated by the distinguished Senator from Vermont. : Mi-: e dmunds I think not. I have I always done it. ' Mr. Blaine Mr. President, I wish to ! give notice. that at the very earliest op- port unity that the business of the Senate J will permit I shall ask a vote upon these resolutions ;. aim 1 desire merely to say in reply to the Senator from Mississippi that in the colloquy between him and the Sena tor from Vermont I understand this to be about the residuum, that if I move an in quiry into the' unconstitutional representa tion of Mississippi in the other House, he will move one into the constitutional rep resentation of. Maine in this branch ! Laughter. Mr. Lam r That will do pretty well for wit and pretty well for the Senator's pe culiar species of pcrversiou ; but i -will not do for the truth, for, sir, I protested that I uot only would inovenosuen inquiry but that I would oppose and fight agains't any such purpose. No, sir, the doctrine that I stated was that if the right of suf frage be invaded anywhere or any consti tutional rights infringed upon in any quar ter or by anybody, it shall be maintained and enforced if necessary by all the con stitutional power of the government. Mr. Edmunds Then we are all at one. ; Mr. Lamar Exactly so, but not upon ! the ground' that States shall be deprived i of any of their representatives, because under the operation ofthe Constitution, J either in its original provisions or in its l amendment?, their political power may be i not in exact proportion- to their numerical j power in this government. And I repeat j the warning against this agitation about 1 sectional power based on numbers, I warn Senators that in throwing their net into this troubled sea they may drag to the i shore a -vase like that of the fisherman in the Arabian Nights from which, vhen the seal was once broken, a demon emerged I more potent than his deliverer and threat i eniug his destruction. A Northern 1'aper iii a Rage. ' Xew York Herald Special, 12. The House passed to-day, to the general surprise, Mf. Reagan's foolish bill to regu j to'be late interstate commerce, it ug called a bill to block up the harbors nf , New York, Boston, Philadelphia and Bal timore, for if it should become a law, wbich fortunately is verj unlikely, it would make the shipment of. grain for Europe from the far AVest as good as impossible. 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We wish success to this interesting enter prise i ' (Weldon News.) It is a magazine of merit and we wish it much buceess. (Chronicle and Constiti tionai.ist.) It richly deserves the cordial support of all our people. (Biislical Recorder.) -It is printed in large, clear type and is a credit to the State. (Greensboro Patriot.) It is ably edited, handsomely printed, and gives promise of being a very, very interesting publication. (Elizabeth City Economist.) Altogether creditable. Its contributors are first-class and its mechanical and typographical execution excellent. (Hili.sboro Recorder.) Its list of contributors is an an able one and if sustained, will ensure the permanent success of the enterprise. (Wilmington Post.) It is a first-class litcray magazine, and one that the people of this city should be proud of and patronize, as well as the people of the whole state. (Raj.eigii Observer.) 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