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

port OF iawabiding, patriotic men, Andrew
johnson is The man. be has labored with a
zeal worthy of final and complete success.
Has that success crowned his efforts No
right minded person can say It has. On the
contrary, wiley and unconscientious foe
has thrown barrier after barrier Of no mean
proportions in his pathway to peace and the
prosperity of the American Union In the
elections which have Just transpired in some
Of the most powerful Northern States the
issue was plain and unmistakable; there
could be no doubts as to the positions as
stunned, and men went to the polls and there
deposited their votes with facts, not surmi-
see, staring them in the face All minor
points were lost sight of and the contest was
reduced down to the main dividing line
the old constitution and the Union intact
or a mutillated chart of liberty and the I'm
ion incomplete. Strange as this may seem,
It was nevertheless true. Leaders of the
hump Congressional party boldly proclaimed
tsat negro equality and confscation was what
she NORTH demanded; while the Conserva-
tive party implored the friends of the Old
Union to stand by the Constitution and
States Rights. The appeal made to the
pocket won, and just so viii the case be in
all the other northern States. But it does
not follow thar it is lawful for men in power
to rob those who arc not; and our Chief Ex-
ecutive has firmly planted himself in front
Of the merciless storm of fanaticism that
threatens to bear away from its mooring the
last vestige Of American freedom. In this
trying hour be needs and looks for " aid and
comfort from all good citizens. No assur-
ances of suceor come from the rock-bound
coast Of the puritanical, selEconceited East
ern States the Summers, the Wades, the
Phillipses, the Bankses, the Buffers, and the
long list of other selfish and designing men
of that section have too efectually accom-
plished their hellish work but it is from the
fertile lands and teeming valleys of the great
Northwest that aid must come to build up
anew the crumblng edifce of the old Fede-
raj Union-that Union which was once the
pride and glory of not only the American
citizen, hut of the Christian world. Men in
high stations have let their greed for power
and place carry them into excuses, indeed
those Who'should have been first to step for
ward and lend helping hand to the Chief
Executive have held back as though they
were waiting for an opportunity to arise for
them to seize the reins of Government and
thus perfect their own schemes at no less a
price to the nation than its very existence.
IF this country cannot live in peace under
the broad folds Of the old chart of liberty,
how, in the name of common sense, can it
do so when subject to the changing whims
and caprices of an unstable element that is
composed Of men who violate their oaths,
work in secret conclave, and who are as far
removed from the dictates Of honesty as
their own souls are from future state of
bliss? Facts arc stubborn, and no matter
how'HnweleOme are the disclosures Of truth
it is 'uHma6ly, uncIristianllke to attempt
eoncedlment Andrew Johnson is the law
full Chief Executive of what is left of the
American nation; if he remains idle, and we
do not believe he viii, his star of destiny.
like that of the great Napoleon, may fade
and go down amid the barren waste of some
lonely island far away from the home of his
boyhoOd and the scenes of his glory If, in
the future, as in the past he proves adequate
70 every emergency, he may bring us out of
the chaotic state into which we have fallen,
and aided by the great and good men who
are now standing by him. plant our nation
atty upon q firm foundation that will never
more yield to the entertainments of wicked
partizan leaders. His opportunity is almost
at hand q few short weeks will tell of a ma
ton redeemed or people worse than extinct,
among whom strife, bloodshed and the fire.
brand will be as familiar rs household words.
Looking forward into the future the pros
pect, should johnson delay and allow the
Rump Congress to impeach him. is teemine
sEith woes and dire calamities rendering
'doubly uncertain even that which is now
counted almost certainty. We do not say
that President johnson has not erred, and
we do say that there never was a man but
what has still, one thing is apparent, and
that is he is doing all in his power to re-
store Us to constitutional liberty; that he is
bitterly denounced for this; that he cannot
stem the tide that is setting in upon him 10.
less he has the aid and hearty support of ali
men who desire Right to prevail over Might
Stand by the President, for if be falls, so dc
we, and so falls the work of our Revolution
airy fathers, 40 falls the American nation
Thisds no idle portraiture, drawn without on
objeet; it is not sketched from fancy, bat
draws It's color from truth and occurrences
that are daily transporting
The Radicals of Davidson county have
nominated Capt John Wilson as their can
didate for a seat in the Legislature. The