The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1866-11-10
BOLIVAR, HARDBMAN COUNTY, TENN. November TO- 1866

giving and national The other IS vague
undefned, incomprehensible of various con
tonaL The first Is the Christians policy,
+ for 1t recognizes the equality Of all tie
States, and has for its foundation the a.
mental prineiple of our Governments
came from tbs Fathers, to-wit: The rigEE oF
representation to the taxpayer.
1t Is the policy proposed by Mr. Lincoln,
and put in practical operation by Generals
Grant and Sherman, when they received the
/ surrender of the Confederate armies; it is
the policy that elected the members of this
Congress; it is the policy that was approved
by the Governors of all Northern States
and indeed, all classes and parties in the
North We'd with other in its approval. till, at
or near the meeting of Congress. when it
was discovered that the wounds Of the re-
cent war were being healed too rapidly to
promote the intere Is of designing dema-
I gogues and political hucksters, since which,
these have assailed it, with a vindictlye sue
cess that threatens, if unchecked, the most
direful results.
Not which Of these policies meets our ap-
proval, but how most successfully to support
/ the one of our choice, Is the question of in
terest, and has been the burthen of this com
municdtiOn and to the suggestions already
made, l might add-it viii, in my belief, be
best to attach, for the present, no Importance
! gress as the admission of ali the Southern
members would still leave the Conservatives
IN a helpless minority, while digni6ed in
difference will sooner command the sympa-
thy and respect of mankind, both in this
| and other nations.
The admission of the Tennessee members
has, as predicted beforehand, done more
immediate harm than good, as it has been
and is being successfully used in the present
campaign an argument to show how ready
the dominant party are to admit the others
on like guarantees.
The fact Of our admission, after the pre-
tended ratification of the Constitutional
Amendment, viii also be used as an argu-
ment to induce other Southern States to sub
NIT to a like humiliating degradation
In this it is earnestly to be hoped they
will not succeed, as there is no reason to
believe that admission of their members
would result; and, in fact, some who are
authorized to speak for the party openly say
it would not The South can well afford to
wait, with the assurance that the reaction in
their favor will be IN direct ratio to the in
dignities they suffer and the manliness with
which they endure them.
There is no ground for Encouragement
though the maiOrities seem large against US
1t is an accepted axium that one man within
good fortifcatiOns Is equivalent to four with
OUt-and entreuched, as the President and
his party are, behind the Constitution and
laws made in pursuance thereof their posi-
ton is impregnabe, and neither threats nor
aliurenents win induce them to abandon
such reliable protection.
No purely sectional party, whose leaders
cannot rise to the dignity Of statesmen, and
whose minds are too narrow to contain, or
too weak to comprehend national ideas, can
long remain dominant; hence the Republi-
can party must soon pass away.
At the convening Of this Congress the Re
publican party might, by obeying the die
tates Of enlightened craftsmanship, and
adopting the advice Of its more Conservative
members have received large acquisitions
both from the Southern members elect and
the Southern people, but when it chose the
programme Of its Radical members it lost
| forever Gas some Of its leading spirits admit
and regret) this golden opportunity to be-
come a national party 1t can, under its
present management, never have an exist
ence as q party IN any of the fifteen South
ern States where the climate is as uncon-
genial to Radcalism as that of Maine is to
pineapples and bananas. True, we some
/ times find these delicate Southern fruits in
the hOthOuses Of Maine, as we also find
sporadic cases of Radicalism in the South;
but in neither case IS 1t perfect specimen,
but always dwarfed, and often diseased.
The present Congress, or rather Congress
at the present time, is extremely Radical
but that is not positive evidence that it viii
remain so. Its members were mainly cleo
ted on the principles of the Presidents policy,
which, through some secrect influence, they
have been induced to desert; through some
equally potent influence they may be induced
to return. Convictions Of duty have less to
do with these changes than convictions of a
change IN the sentiment at home. Convince
the majority in Congress that at their next
IL Il. -
tive, and IN twenty-tour hours, or as soon
as they could hold caucus, they would pre-
sent q solid phalanx of Conservatism.
When | said we had no cause for dis
couragement, l did not mean our skies are
bright but, on the contrary, though, esteem
the ultimate triumph Of the President as
fixed as fate those who sustain him should
do so for the justice Of his cause, under the
full conviction that there may be an inter-
vening night of deepest darkness before the
coming Of the bright sunlight Of constitu-
tional liberty.
impeachment is a desperate alternative
and, never having been resorted to, It would
only be to accomplish desperate ends
The question: once only stealthily limited
at in dark places, by political incendiaries,
is now being openly threatened by members
of the Congressional party, once respecta-
bic
In order to producs the mental reaction
that alone can save US from revolution, it
may be well enough for it to be done, pro-
vided, always, the impeaching party are the
aggressors, as they, IN such event, are sure
to be.
There are still thousands Of misguided,
though honest, Conservatives inthe Republi-
can ranks who are 10th to believe the ten
denotes Of the party are as dangerous as they
are, and this class viii never leave it till the
elimination of their plans in some overt act
of revolution, as this would be.
This too, would alarm the capitalists Of
the country, and convince them that Radi-
calism will in time. if unchecked, plunge
US into a civil strife that would depreciate
our bonds to q level with those Of the late
Confederacy These threats Of impeach-
ment, the recent Radical triumLhs, and the
character Of the men who are assuming the
leadership Of the Republican party, have
already caused material advance In gold,
and q corresponding decline in our bonds in