The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1865-10-19


"Kinderhook.' Of the y. o. Pic0yyze,
writes from Washington, under date OF 18th
Sept, as follows:
Is The report Is being industriOusly cIrcu-
lated here, that a large number Of gentle
men from the South, recently IN New York,
on reading the recent Lancaster. Pa speech
Of Mr.. Thaddeus Stevens. have abandoned
their business projects and gone home dis
couraged because, az they saw. they have no
motive now to improve and increase the val
ne OF their property, rs It Is liable 70 De
swept away ct any moment by FutN'ess
cOn6scation-
l do not believe the report which oriSIna-
ted With n Republican newspaper IN New
yo-k But "a It may find its way % New
Orleans, and as the speech OF MI 9te's ems.
and chat Of Senator sumner OF Boston just
delivered. will be read there, desire TO say
%, r,,r1r readers that those speeches neeI not
5eTarsnv citizen of Louisiana from putting
forth his utmost efforts to repair the ravages
Of war and to place himself, his own estate
and the State of Louisiana IN the same path
Of prosperity that they occupied before the
war. Thaddeus Stevens and Charles sum
ner are, indeed, among the most able and IN
fuential leaders of the Republican party
thev will strive to the uttermUst of their
ability 20 bring about the state OF things de-
lineated in their speeches, but they will fail
The Dower which they WELD is far less than
the malignity of their hearts; and their pow
CT in their own party has been waning
steadily for the last three months, and IN
three months more 1t viii be far less even
than 1t is now They hate the Southern
people Mr. Stevens, because Of the de
structiOn of his iron works by the Coniede-
racv at the time Pennsylvania was invaded /;
and Mr.. Sumner, because his back still
smarts from the very deserved drubblng
which he received some years ago. But
they cannot carry that hate with them into
Congress, and make It operative there for
the ACKNOWLEDGMENT of their revenge /
sneak confidently on this point and what [
say is the result of close observation of the
current of feeling in the Republican party
during the last three months. The sum
ners, the Stevenses, and all the other radicals
declared war upon President johnson as
soon as his policy towards the South had
been disclosed in his North Carolina pro-
clamatiOn months ago They have spared
no effort since that devilish maliguiUy could
suggest to build up a party in opposition to
the President that shall, in the next Congress,
deprive the South Of their representation in
that body, force negro suffrage on the South
and entirely prevent the restoration of the
Union and that shall keep the southern
States for many years In the condition of
conquered territories.
But their plot will fail The President
was fully aware Of 1t three months ago, and
at that early day he took measures for the 7
discumf future His own plan TO- the restur,.-
ton Of the Union was deliberately formed
and he carried 1t ont step by step up To the
present moment, and he will carry 1t out
fully. lie knows the extent of his power,
and he will use his power to the fullest eE-
tent He is quite aware of the opposition
that his measures viii meet with in Congress,
and he Is prepared 20 meet thar opposition,
and not only to meet 1t, but to overcome it.
The people of the South need have no
fears, either in regard TO their individual
rights or the rights of their states. The
President recognizes them all Every per
sonal right and every State right which Is
conferred by the Constitution upon individu-
sis and upon States, will be secured 10 the
citizens of the South, and to each of the
Southern States by the President as fully
as those rights are enjoyed by the citizens of
the North, and by the Northern States The
radical Republicans may have designed TO
deceive and hoodwink the masses at the
North when for four years past, they made
their frantic appeals 10 them to support the
war on the ground that It was "a War TO re-
store the Union; intending all alOnc to
make It a war for the suhiuyaJion of the
EnJlLlif anu the EAlellLLlN tL4'N hi Llle NtitE4
Southern people. But Mr. johnson knows
that 1t was a war to restore the Union he
knows that the war has restored the Union,
and he IS determined that the radicals shall
not prevent that result
He stands upon the Constitution; he has
no other guide. Upon that rock he intends
% stand, and to bid defiance to the radicals
And when Congress assemblies, and Messrs
Stevens and Sumner come to count up the
supporters Of their hostility % the President.
they will find that they have reckonei with
out their host The battle will be a hard
fought one, and the victory may be doubtful
for awhile; but the President knows that at
the last his policy viii prevail.