The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1866-08-25
No. 2

HACAits JUL Stiu dS ne COnSluereQ nlmSeH the
host of the Convention, one of his distin-
guished guests would address it, by virtue of
authority unanimously derived from the Com
mittee on Resolutions, namely-the Hon.
Henry j. Raymond, Of New York.
Mr.. Raymond, therefore, proceeded to read
the address which had been written bg him
self, as had also the declaration of princi-
pies. He was so frequently interrupted by
applause that the Chairman appealed to the
Convention to restrain such manifestations
until the reading. of the address should be
concluded nevertheless at the close of the
one sentence declaring that no people sub
jected to such treatment as that to which the
South was now subjected could long remain
loyal, cheer after cheer resounded through
the wIgWam.
Senator johnson asked that the sentence
be repeated.
The sentence was read again, as follows
No people has ever yet existed whose loyalty
and faith such treatment, long continued,
would not ALLEVIATE and impair The ten mil
lions of Americans who live In the South
would be unworthy citizens of a free coun-
try, degenerate sons of heroic ancestry, unfit
ever to become the guardians Of the right
and liberties bequeathed to us b 2 our fathers
and founders of the Republic, If they could
accept, with uncomplaining submission, the
humiliations thus sought to be imposed upon
them
This sentence was again cheered with the
| greatest enthusiasm, and at the close Of the
| reading of the address, Ex-Governor Perry,
of South Carolina, rose and moved its adOp-
ton. The motion was declared carried unani-
mOusly, amid prolonged cheering
Mr. Samuel j. Tilden, of New York then
rose and proposed, on behalf of the New
I ork delegation, three cheers for Hon. Henry
}. Raymond, who prepared the address just
read
Mr., Patterson, on behalf of the Pennsyl-
vania delegation, seconded the call, the cheers
were then enthusiastically given The adj
| dress contains about eight thousand words
and will make not far from six solid columns
of the New York morning papers, it de-
munds the universal acknowledgment of the
legitimate consequences Of the war, which
are the perpetual maintenance of the Union
and the destruction of slavery
1t asserts that the Government acquired
no new rights or powers by the war; that it
acted only on the defensive Congress had
/ passed a resolution that when the war closed
all the powers and dignity of the States
should remain unimpaired and intact The
power assumed by the Government in the
States since the war closed was in violation
! of the Constitution. The Constitution de-
/ ciaTes that no State shall without its own
| consent be deprived of its equal representa-
! ton in the Senate-the action of Congress
/ denying representation to the Southern
/ States, appears as great an effort to over
| throw the Government as was that by armed
rebellion. If one Congress can exclude on
one pretext another Congress may exclude
other States on another. There is no war
| rant for this in the Constitution Not only
cannot Representatives be excluded from
/ Congress, but no State, without its own con-
/ hn cd of 70
| ton, even by an amendment of the COnsti-
tuition. The only pretext for the action of
| Congress is that the states lately in rebellion
! have lost their rightto representation, which
the supreme Government only can restore.
But it is a principle that no right can be for
feited, nor can the right or duty of State
to be represented in Congress be impaired
by rebellion. Only its enjoyment of that
! privilege can be obstructed.
The address further asserts that the posi-
ton of Congress on the matter is not war
ranted by the Constitution and is not COM
patible with the public safety It is also ar.
! gued that the three-quarters of the loyal
! States cannot change the fundamental law
affecting the voters, and they have no right
! to pass Judgment upon the motives Of any
citizen of the United States, when his acts
are loyal. Nowhere are the laws now obey
ed better than in the States lately in rebel
| 4lOu Au6 uloGuIDduCGb bual nave OCCuIE6Q
were due as much to injudicious political
movement as to any purpose hostile to the
| Government
If the people of the South show less dis
position than formerly to acquiesce IN the
/ new order of affairs, it is because Congress
has withheld their rights from them. If they
felt otherwise, they would be degenerated
sons Of their sires. No people ever existed
| whose loyalty would not have been impaired
by such treatment Thepeople of the South
would not be worthy to be trusted in the ex-
ercise of their rights, if they were willing to
| submit to such humiliation
/ These men acted as they did either from
conviction or compulsion. For this they have
suffered ten-fold more than those who have
remained in allegiance. The writers pledge
future obedience to the laws. The war has
swept away slavery, the cause Of sectional
variance and hostility, and las revealed and
developed our power. The address directs
attention TO the fact that a new Congress is
soon to be elected, and adds, thatf the pres
ent policy be pursued, civil war may be re-
newed, and calls upon every Congressional
district to return only members who are ia
vorable to the policy of restoration.
Telling Fortunes by Lines IN the Hand