ople of the South, or any very harsh criticisms of his own
party. By inheritance, by training, by political association,
he was intensely anti-Southern. His manners toward Southern
men, so bitter are his feelings, are often cold and reserved;
and nothing but his instinct and refinement as a gentleman,
which he is in every respect, saved him from sometimes being
supercilious; acute in intellect, cultured, trained to the
highest expression of his powers, quick in his resentments
and combative in temperament, we certainly expected no quarter
from his hands. But beneath all this there were genuine truth
and manhood in Hoar that lifted him above the sordid feeling
of malignant passion. He went, then, to that country, and
he made a report; and, while there is much in it that saddened
my heart, while there is much which I say is unwise and unjust
in his observations, there are some things, fellow citizens,
which you people of the North should hark to bear in mind,
while you are coming to your conclusions with reference to
the relations which you intend to sustain to the prostrate
people of my section. Here, fellow citizens, is what Mr.
Hoar says in reference to the South: 'We do not overlook the
causes which tended to excite deep feeling and discontent
in the white population of Louisiana. (I must read these
extracts to you because a people's interest, a people's destiny,
hang largely upon the action of the people of New Hampshire
and other Northern States.) There has been great maladministration;
public funds have been wasted (that means public funds have
been embezzled, appropriated by these governments that are
sucking the blood, the life blood, from a people already impoverished
by four years of calamitous war); public lands have been wasted,
public credit impaired.' Now, fellow citizens, that is the
testimony of one of the most uncompromising Republicans in
this country."

Mr. Lamar would not have used, I am sure, the word "bitter"
after we came to know each other better. Perhaps I may be
forgiven if I insert here a letter from Mr. Lamar's nephew,
just elected a member of Congress from the State of Florida.
I know I must attribute the eulogy which it contains to his
kindness of heart, and desire to meet more than half way my
own cordial feeling toward the portion of my countrymen to
whom he belongs. I do not take them literally. But I confess
I like to leave on record, if I may, some evidence which will
con