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

mail arrangements, but anticipate a decided
Improvement atau early day, as we are soon
to have the cars running to this point on the
N c Railroad. Then we can get our ez-
changes more promptly. In a week or so.
the telegraph will be prepared to furnish US
with news from all parts of the country, aud
then, once a week, we will furnish the sub
scribers of the BULLETIN with items twenty
four hours ahead of the Memphis daiIies
Many of the leading journals of the
North that oppose the policy of permitting
the Southern States to send representatives
to Congress unless they extend to the negro
universal suffrage, are exercising great
deal of pretended solicitude about the poor
whites who iuhabit the land of " cinnamon,
sege, etc" and are striving to make it APP
pear that there are thousands upon thous-
ands Of persons in the sunny South who
viii die from actual want unless steps are
taken to alleviate their sufferings So far,
so good" barring the exageration. But
the self-same "disseminators Of useful
knowledge argue that the people of the
South went into the war pledging their prop
erty. their lives, THEIR ALL, to the establish
ing of q separate and independent govern
ment; that they failed in the attempt, and
are in honor bound to conform to the self
imposed obligation to win or lose ALL that
by the fate of war they have lost their prop
erty, and that they enjoy life itself is due to
the humanity of the victors, and not by any
right guaranteed to them by the constitution
and the law that they rebelled against tn
constitution, and defed the law of the land,
and having thus grievousIy sinned, must
suffer the consequences, and abide the de-
cision enunciated by the victorious party, no
matter what it may be-
If the programme of the cOnfscationists
Is carried out as arranged by the mouth
pieces Of these negrO-loyinc, white men
haters-and we do admit that it is not with
out the limits of possibility, Judging from
the black shadow that reflects the complex
ion of the next Congress-wil there not be
seventy thousand more poor whites and
their families too, added to the untold
numbers who are already on the verge of
starvation p It does seem to US that there
Is considerable inconsistency exhibited in
the scrub hobby of deep solicitude for
the poor whites of the South, and the set
purpose of robbing seventy thousand white
men of all the land they Possessl We are
disposed to doubt the unseIfshness Of their
philanthropy, but not the confscatoa pro-
gramme. 1t speaks for itself and Is so
glazing in its hideous proportions " that he
who runs may read
For the sake of truth and charity let US
hear no more about the poor whites of the
South" while arguments are being used to
bolster up and give strength to hoped for
sure guarantee that will see amonstr0us law
enacted which is to reduce to perjury
and want seventy thousand men, Where,
We would ask, do all these poor whites of
the South reside 1t happened to be our
good fortune to be born and reared in the
State Of Tennessee-aS State that has suffered
rs much by the raYages of the late unhappy
war as any in the SOuth-and we frankly
acknowledgement all the information regard
ing the destitute condition of the Southern
people is derived through Northern papers
We receive weekly exchanges from all sec
tons of the country wherein the poor
whites are said to dwell yet through their
columns we do not read of a single locality
where deaths are likely to occur during the
coming winter from exposure and starvation
Bolivar Is situated on the great highway that
traverses the Western District from north to
south; it is the same road over which the
Confederate or Federal troops advanced or
retreated during the greater part of the war
There was not a day from the time the Con
federate forces were first organized until the
surrender, that soldiers of either one army
or the other, and very often both, sometimes
in large bodies, were not quartered upon
some portion of Hardeman county. Men
were consoripted, houses were burned, crops
destroyed, horses seized, fences torn down,
cattle killed, and the whole country subject
to the frequent ra7ages of f0racing parties
and yet we know Of no poor whites who
are actually starving" nor do we believe
that the people in any locality of the Soul
ern States are in so depl0rable condition as
these eonfsoati0uists would have us think.
IF these consistent Philanthropists really de-
sire to befriend the "poor whites" Of the
South, Why do they insist on driving them
to the wall, and empaling them to plank
which they cannot walk themselves: for.
judging from the recent elections in CoIora-
do and Connecticut, they cannot degrade the
whites Of their own States to level with
the negro; and, being in the minority there,
why do they seek to control in the Southern
States what they cannot control at home
We do not want bread nor clothes other
than what we can earn by industry; but we
want our representatives to occupy seats in
Congress, and we want to send them there
on white basis. Help us to do this. and
then you may talk about aiding "the poor
whites Of the South" Don't make believe
that you are anxious to stuff US On wooden
hams and pine bark nutmegs, while attempt
ing to gain votes for two of the most infa-
nous propositions that ever disgraced the
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