The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1866-06-23


So onward trudgsd msadow and green,
Where violets modest and daisies we're
Nor paused till stood in the valley below,
Aud gaEsd all around for the end Of the bow.
." Not here" said, sadly; but Nelly replied
. II IS hid in the moss BY the waterfalls side;
Run fast; fyou move Ger the pebbles slow
I'm sure I'll be the first at the end Of tbs bow"
We found not the treasure searched till night;
Bot Nelly, the sweet fragl blossom right;
From this valley Of she waa frat called to go.
To the spot where is resting the end Of the bow.
Where ralubovs Of glory increasingly play.
Dear Nelly is singing with angels to-day
And her light snowy pinions folded. trows
In the faliness Of joy at the end Of the bow
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Jefferson Davis
The position of this gentleman, says the
New Y ork Journal of Commence, is attract
ing more general attention than could have
been believed possible year ago. a close
prisoner for year past, cut off from the
world and all social intercourse with It, per
mitted only recently to receive the visits Of
his own wife, he has not sunk into oblivion,
nOr-strange to say-has the strong personal
bitterness which was exhibited against
him last year maintained its strength, al
though there has been constant discussion
about him. On the contrary, some of those
who were most severe in denunciation have
become almost his friends, and those who
denounced him and his coadjutOrs as having
forfeited all rights under the Constitution,
now unite with the editor Of the Tribune
In recognizing these rights as only to be
forfeited by legal progress, and approve the
feelings Of that paper, which, in a strong
editorial only yesterday, says:
Ne demand that this prisoner Of GOGT,
or prisoner of State, or a0hGteCer he may
be, shall haze the .fulJ legal rights secured
to him by the Constitution and taos Of the
land"
It is certainly something to hear, from
such a source, that Southern. rebel has
rights secured to him bymCOnstitution and
laws. We have been so many times abused
without stint for asserting the inviOlability
of constitutional rights, that it is a pleasure
TO stand side by side with the Tribune In
their assertion. Undoubtedly the long i'm
prisonment Of Mr.. Davis is a hardship and
6 wrong; but the magnitude of the hardship
must depend in some measure on his own
wishes and views Of the matter. Had he
been brought to trial year ago, the state Of
feeling against him would have led to a
military commission which would have made
short work of his case, and under the Nor
bury-like administration of the Bureau of
Military Justices" he would have become
the mere victim of Mr.. StantOn's malignity
and Mr.. Hollis stupid perversions of law
and fact A year in prison has saved him
rum SuCAA a l1bOs ~ Ids b4CFOJCc 1lAAl dloO
TO a different position In the public estima-
ton. We were roundly censured once
for calling him " Mr.. Davis, by radical
paper which insisted we ought to say jeff
Davis" and nothing else; but the same
paper to-day sedulously treats him as a
gentleman, and calls him always "Mr. JEFF
fersOn Davis" in sign of notification by no
means insignificant In fact, it is probably
no great hardships, after all, which he has
ILL Il 70 h.
occupies before the whole country the rep
resentative position Of the head of the re-
bellion, and the only discussion is whether
and when he shall be tried for the crime
Of treason. The accusation Of conspiracy
to assassinate Mr. Lincoln has been abandon
ed as without foundation. Probably no
one believed that it had foundation. 1t
originated, where a great deal of deception
has originated, for popular effect and 1t Is
now regarded as very foolish affair alto
gether.
But shall Mr. Davis be tried, and when
The unseemiy exhibition made by Judge
Underwood, at Richmond, which brought
him into such public disgrace, has added
a new objection to the trial In that place
The object of the trial should be to subserve
the great ends of Justice. IF needed at all
it is needed only to vindicate the laws Of the
land which were violated by the rebellion
The result of the trial can only be of use &c
establish the doctrine that secession is not
justified by any form Of law, and that trea
son is Just as much treason when the of
fender acts under the authority of q State
or cOnfederacy of States, as when he acts
with mere horde of rebels in arms Blu
will this trial establish that doctrine? L
the Chief Justice presides, and if Chief
Justices opinion are, as they are understood
to be, in accord with the majority Of Con
gress in political matters, there is reason
for grave doubt as the ruling he may fee
compelled to make. The present position
of the majority of Congress is plainly t.
this effect, that the proceedings of the
Southern States took them out of the Union
and that they lost their position under the
Constitution We quoted the expression
few days since from the Tribune, and re
peat it here as a very simple and intelligi
bic statement of the doctrine now main
tanned by the majority in Congress to wit
That the people Of the rebel States haC
an fact 9CitkdraloR from the Union aR1
made themselves subjects Of another govern
nlent If Chief Justice Chase holds this
view, as it is understood he does, and espe
cially, too If he holds the strong Stat,
rights views which he held when Fugitive
Slave Law was violated by Northerners, anC
annuled by Northern State laws it may
well be questioned what would be the result
of a trial of Mr. Davis with reference to it
effect on the Constitution. For no one need
to be told that if Mr. Davis did become tn,
subject of another government, he canno
be convicted of treason by proof of AM
act done during the war. We may, there
fore, with reason, doubt the beneficial effec
to result from such trial If the result i
to be the establishment of the doctrine tina
the States could and did secede, and estab
lish a hostile government, it surely will no
strengthen the Constitution and Union /
Is Unnecessary to allude, in this connection
to the strong argument which the counse
of Mr. Davis would make in support of tn
radical and secession theory, citing as the
would the flags Of truce, exchanges of pric
Oners establishment OF a blockade, an,
other acts of the government going to recoe
nize the truth of theory that the secession