The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1866-06-16
Mexican Emigrants from mississippi


and Tennessee.
The following appropriate and well-timed
remarks are taken from the editorial columns
Of the Memphis Bulletin Of the 18th 1t
teens with truth and good advice
The Bulletin has persistently opposed
emigration to Mexico. 1t IS surely wrong
to abandon ones own country when most
emigrants have been chief agents IN super
inducing evils from which they fly. The
South is surely poor enough and must feel
the loss Of wealth and energy distracted by
emigration II is true that very many who
now abandon the South, were most devout
UniOnists. Such people have been most
disappointed in the course of events shaped
by Congress EnbigTe8 from Mississippi are
Old Line Wings. The South can III afford
to lose such men. Their conservatism and
wisdom is still required to give direction to
popular sentiment restrain partizanship and
suppress sectionalism. Eight even six
months ago, the feeling Of the South was
infinitely better than today; but now its
tone Is changed, and a spirit Of partizanship
has been excited, which does not, in all in
stances, discriminate between a Radical Con-
gress and party, and the government whose
destinies 1t temporarily guides. There are
those who never take pains to distinguish
BrOwnlows from the government of the
Union
The Congress and the local oligarchy which
rule Tennessee have done more to perpetu-
ate ill-feeEng between the North and South
than blOOdiest battles. Brave men, after
mOstdestructiye fights, met each other kindly
No true soldier ever harmed prisoner or
refused service to the fallen or vanquished
Soldiers are not In Congress. Its members
were elected while battles were pending
The capital was remotest Of ali places from
denger. Congress does not represent the
army, and VIII not, the people if Southern
folly be not equal to Radical madness.
Thoughtful Southern men do not suffer
themselves to be influenced In opinions or
feelings, by the rage of Stevens; still less by
the insanity Of BrOwnlow. Nothing graft
hes Radlcalism more than the abandonment
of the South by the wisest and best citizens.
It's capital stock in trade consists in the pc
culiarities of two extreme classes, the igno-
rant and oyerwrought, incredibly refined
| intelligent Massachusetts, over educated,
! furnishes more inmates to lunatic asylums
| in proportion to population than any State
in the Union. Phillips and Brownlow or
| Duggan are representatives of the two classes
Of people who constitute mischief makers
in government. The one defines genius over
! tasked the other, ignorance, guided by the
instincts Of brutal passions. Nothing so de-
lights men of this character as the disgust
and adherence they excite. Abuse is
choicest fattery, and the abandonment Of
the country by representatives of its inteli
gence and refinement would crafty them be.
yOnd all measure.
Not only is wrong done themselves by
en1igres, but those whose condition and pow
erty renders their departure impossible, have
their misfortunes aggravated by each South
ern accession to the population of CordoYa
Weaker became barriers to aggressive, re
lentess, tireless Radicalism with each &C
cession to the American population Of Mex
leo. By the change, nothing is gained
Whoever may be master in Mexico, it can
not be a SOutherne-. DISTINGUISHED he ma,
be in the South, but he is effectively removed
from all share in Mexican government
Worse than all this, there can be no stabl
government in Mexico, and simply for tn
reason that If President johnson suffer tn
Monroe doctrine to be defined, his successO
may be military chieftain, seeking quietud
for the Union by miseries Of war indicte
: on helpless Mexico. Even worse than thi
incertitude Of Maximilians fortunes,
that incident to the tenure of property il
case of another revolution. Recent event
show very clearly how Juarez and his RI
: publican followers regard these America
. protegeeS of the Emperor COrdOva's II
habitants have been plundered, and many
, them, borne away prisoners, are held f
ransom These facts, we would fain hop
viii not be disregarded by many citizens
this and adjacent States, who contemplat
D removal to Mexico.