The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1866-09-29
Thad. SteveVens on the StUmp-the
Constitution Abolished.

Thad Stevens has ascended the stump In
a recent speech at Bedford, he announced
doctrines more revolutionary than those gene
rally attributed to him.
MIR. Stevens says he intends to propose
again at the next session certain measures
that Congress failed to adopt last winter, and
he tells US what these measures are.
l. He intends that Congress shall pass laws
Oyerthrowing and discarding the present
! State governments in the Southern States as
utterly illegal-and providing governments
for them as conquered provinces-hxing the
qualification Of voters and requiring uniYer-
! sal negro suffrage. Mr. Stevens leaves no
doubt upon this point. He reproaches Con
gress with eowardice for not having done
this at he last session, and says it failed be-
cause the Rep1bliean party had not been
sufficiently informed On the subject But
now he thinks the party is prepared to adopt
/ 1t, and he looks to the coming elections tor
an Endorsement Of his views
2 He intends that Congress shall pass
! laws by which "a sufficient fund shall be
levied out of the property of the Southern
/ people to pay the expenses of the war
/ This cannot be less than four or five thou
sand millions of dollars, and Southern prop
! erty to this extent is to be cOnfscated. Con
! gress would have done this, too, at its last
! session, but for its cewaFdice. now trust," "
says Mr.. Stevens, shat our constituents viii
] give us more courage
g. The third measure Mr. Stevens intends
! to force upon Congress is to give homesteads
and the right to vote to all the cOlored men
who fought in the Union armies This Is
also to come out of the Southern people, and
is simply so much additional confscation.
f. The great fundamental question to be
met at this election, Mr.. Stevens holds, is
! Of TTrrh hfa oo6 fhot bn
means to force upon the action of Congress.
He asserts In the broadest terms his theory
that the Southern people have no rights
/ whatever; that they can claim nothing under
! the Constitution, and that the national Gov
| ernment is not restrained in the slightest
degree, in its dealings with the Southern
States and people, by any Of the provisions
Of that fundamental law It need not look
to see what powers are conferred upon it by
the Constitution. nor need it regard its limit
atiOns and restrictions as of the slightest
consequence In its dealings with the South
Its own will is its only law. MIR. Stevens
maintains that it has all the rights of a con
queror; that the lives, fortunes, property
rights, immunities-everythi belonging tC
the rebelIious sectiOn-are at It's absolute
disposal He holds that the Constitution
has not only been changed but abolished by
the war; for, says he, no principle is clearer
than that In war all the former obligations
treaties and compacts between the parties
become null and void, and after the war art
to be renewed or repudiated as the parties
agree, or as the conquerOrs decree" Th'
Constitution, therefore, being a compact be
tween the parties, may be renewed or repu
dated as the conqueror may decree. Wa
there ever anything in secession half so mon
strous as this doctrine? tits true, then sue
] -obofIiov,
DESTROYS the government rebelled against ant
overthrows the Constitution under Whicl
alone we have any right to wage the war at all
Riot at a Political Gathering in His
souri,
ST.. Louis, September 1.-THE Democrat
Iieavenworth special says: After the ad
iournment of the Platte county Radica
Convention at Platte City, Mo- on Saturday
drunken Union soldier named Donnega,
made some noise, and hOurished pistC
about considerably Sheriff Ogden took hi
! pistol away and told him to keep quie
which he did.
A short time afterward a returned COnfed'
2 rate named Callahan, acting as city marsha
| with a posse of ten men, demanded th
] surrender of Donnegan. A scuffle ensue'
e and pistols were freely used, resulting IN th
; death of three or four and wounding
|, eight or ten.
l A number of delegates who had starta
T for home, having heard the firing, returne
e 70 town and were fired upon by Callahan
party and several Of their horses kille
K under them Callahan fred twice at one
e the delegates who was lying under his wOu
ded horse, and was fred at in return al
= instantly killed.
I, The latest accounts say that several hu
IF dred armed bushwhackers hold Platte Cit
=. and have driven all the Radicals out Of tow
! and swear they shall not return Great G
citement exists.
n Governor Fletcher has been applied
n for force TO put down the mob
Riding DOuble.-An Irish sailor, as
ss was riding, made pause; the horse, IN be
te ING of the flies, caught his hind foot IN {
= stirrup. The sailor observing il, ezelaimt
= Ho# now, Dobbin, If you are going TO
h GA. ] VIII get Of for, by the powers, ! y
not Eide double with you