Lucius QCLamar: his life, times, and speeches, 1825-1893 . uage; but he utteredthe very words that the lips long since sealed in death had spoken. The letter from wliich the following extract is taken was written byMr. Lamar to Walter Barker, Esq., of Mississippi, in the year 1891: You are right in supposing that I still feel an interest in dear old ]Mississippiand all that concerns my old and well-loved friends. I have watched the recent po-litical developments among her people with deep, intense, and almost tremulous so-licitude, mixed with painful regrets at the wonderful change which has b
Lucius QCLamar: his life, times, and speeches, 1825-1893 . uage; but he utteredthe very words that the lips long since sealed in death had spoken. The letter from wliich the following extract is taken was written byMr. Lamar to Walter Barker, Esq., of Mississippi, in the year 1891: You are right in supposing that I still feel an interest in dear old ]Mississippiand all that concerns my old and well-loved friends. I have watched the recent po-litical developments among her people with deep, intense, and almost tremulous so-licitude, mixed with painful regrets at the wonderful change which has been going onin the character, spirit, and purpose of the farmers of Mississippi, indeed of the wholeSouth. Up to a very late period the planting and farming classes of the South con-stituted the most conservative and the most patriotic electoral body in this or anyother country. Broad in their love of country, elevated in principle, and proud in theconsciousness of their individual independence, they exercised the elective franchise ?Apjiendix, No. HIS LIFE, TIMES, AND SPEECHES. 553 and cast their votes without any motive of personal advantage or profit to themselves^without even a glancing thought of selfish ambition, but regardful alone of what con-cerned the public weal through the track of coming years. It was this spirit of the agricultural people of the South which enabled her to con-tribute to the nation those great men whose names even now our national historywill not let die, and who, in every development of public achievement, have done somuch for the prosperity and greatness of our common country. What are thoseclasses now ? They are, in some measure—too much, I fear—what the new spirit, bornof Northern alliance., has wrought into their character. AlHances organized in secret,and acting in concert to convert the elective franchise into an enginery for the ascend-ency in government, and for making it minister to their own recently awakened cu-jiidity and lust
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