The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1866-10-27

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THE NEXT WAR
The late war is over; the next is to come!
Shall digress moment to tell YOU how
lis easily told. They have proclaimed it
lready-Bingham, Wade, Stevens-the lea
dcrs of the Republican party everywhere
Under pretencc of impeachment, they mean
to depOse him.
do not say impeach that is a mild, gen
tie, constitutional word-though it is absurd
in the extreme to talk of impeaching Presi-
dent for supporting the Constitution and
maintaining the Union They will depose
him by violence, though under the pretended
form of law; and let me here say very
emphaticallg that upon the fundamental
maxim of Lincolns administration, they
have a perfect right to do so. What was it 2
lie boldly aud repeatedly proclaimed and
mercIlessly be acted upon it from the begin
ming to the end and sustained all his under
liugs everywhere in executing it, that he had
right, and that it was his duty to remove
every obstacle, OF whatever kind, human
or material-men things, or institutions;
which lac believed stood in the way of che
successful achievement of what he called
his patriotic purposes. And in this mon
strous claim he was supported in the begin
ming 10y the great mass of the people of the
: tates, North and West u. Il throughout by
majority of them, with recklessness and
bitterness. and "a severity, too, never before
exhibited by free people, in any country
or in any age.
Now, upon precisely this same maxim,
thus vigorously practieed upon, the Radicals
have right to remove the President from
his office, and to imprisOn, exile, or even to
put him to death-upon the pretext that he is
believed to be an obstacle in the way Of the
successful execution of their plans and
policy for what they choose to call the public
good. And | do not know that any one
who, in Linco!n's time, gave sanction to the
eXecrable doctrine, could have any right to
complain
would have that right The Democratic
party would have it-and here and there, IA
solitary wayfarer, marching out of place
with the Republican hosts Bat no matter;
let me warn all concerned, that this pretend
ed impeachment, this intended deposing of
the President viii be resisted to the last ex-
tremity lie is President under the Consti-
tuition, and has precisely the same right TO
exercise tue duties Of the Office to the end Of
his term March t, 1869, that the members
of the Senate or House, or any other of the
officers OF GOvernm Mt have. and these men
viii ind million hearts of oak and arms Of
steel to defend him Ia the enjoyment Of that
right We want no more war-abOve all no
I t.
shall be, viii be war TO the knife, and the
knife To the hilt"
But TO return. The recent civil or sec
tiOnal war is over The Confederate armies
have surrendered and been dispersed. and
the Federal army, twelve hundred thousand
strong, has been diminished to less than ffty
thousand The war is over, but the Union
Is not restored. Did war restore the Union ?
Let every soldier and every officer answer.
If war restored the Union. what were thew
/ doing here advocating tie PRESIDENT policy ?
1 They all did their duty like brave men Il
was no fault of theirs that their work did
not restore the UniOn They break down
the armed hostility 70 the Federal Govern
ment and it was because, in the eternal
nature of things, 10y the decree Of the Omnip-
Otent God, force could not cement a Union
made by consent, that the Union was not
restored; and HOW the entire Democratic
/ party IS where It has always been. and every
| soldier and officer who fought ia that war
should como forward and unite with the
4 Democratic party in seeking to accomplish
through the ballot the work that war could
/ not accomplish
/ New ORLEANS, October 23.-Seven build
ings, on Fulton and Front Levee streets
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