The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1866-09-22

to order, and then introduced GenI J. G.
Fizer, who came forward and said that the
meeting had been held for the purpose Of ex-
pressing the views Of late Confederate soldiers
as touching the convention Of Federal soldiers
and sailors at that time assembled in Cleve-
land, Ohio, for the purpose of strengthening
the hands of our Chief Executive, who is so
nobly battling for the old constitution and
the law As soon as the gentleman named,
had brl ught his remarks to a close. Gen'i n.
B. Forrest was loudly called for, and being
present, he came forward and said be was
proud to talk to men who had been soldiers,
and when he last talked to them they were
soldiers He then read the following dis
patch from Cleveland
~. S G5EsyErss 4 p oH52 Sep: I e I Js5s
The national union convention Of soldiers
and sailors assembled here, are profoundly
grateful to you for your patriotic sentiments
expressed in your dispatch We hail with
pleasure every effort to restore peace, prOs-
peritv aud brotherly affection throughout our
entire country War has its victories, but
peace and Union are blessings for which we
viii manfully contend until harmony and jus
tice are restored under the constitution.
GoRDoE 1RAseER, Pres. Convention,
g. A. GUSTAV,
JOHN E. Wool,
THOMAS EwING, Jr.,
j. w DENVER,
THOMAS T. BRANLETTB,
THOMAS i. CRITTENDEN.
THE above dispatch was IN response to a
greeting sent by the soldiers of the late c. s.
a. to the convention at Cleveland day or
two previous, assuring that body that South
ern soldiers were ready and willing to unite
with them in the noble effort now being made
to restore the country to permanent peace
and brotherly fraternity.l
The dispatch was vOciferously checred,
and three cheers for the convention now
assembled at Cleveland were given with a
/ vim. Gen. Forrest then said he had met
the signers Of the dispatch on many a bat
tle6eld, and that he was now glad to shake
! hands with them for the sake and glory of
/ the whole Union He had heard that peo-
i pie from the north were not allowed In the
south, but he thought it otherwise. He had
taken nine federal officers TO Coahoma
county, who were all abolitionists last spring,
and all these were now good southern men,
and for this reason he wanted as many men
as possible to come here from the north, nc
matter what their opinion. BE would stand
| by Andy johnson as long as he stood by the
/ constitution. He had fought for four years
and fought all be met, whether he had ten
men or ten thousand. His men laid down
their arms when they no longer had a eOun
try and were willing and wanted to obey the
! laws Of the United States. He wanted
every man who lived In the so-called Confed
crate States to stand by the constitution, the
The following resolutions were then re
ported and unanimously adopted:
Resolyed, That we have seen with pleasure
the movements made by the soldiers anC
sailors Of the Union, for the preservation
Of which they have so long fought; and
that we have no fears that wrong or inius
tice will be done to US by those we have
learned on the battlefield to respect as " foe
men worthy of our steel"
ResoEUed, That we tender to them
soldiers pledge of our fidelity to the govern
ment, Of our assistance in the maintenance
of law and order, and our earnest desir
for the return of that day when the Ameri
can people can say with truth they know
no north, no south no east and no west"
ResolUed, That the charge that the life
liberty or property Of northern men is unsaf
or unprotected in the south, is a slande
which could only have emanated from tn
cowardly fears Of q Preside heroes or iron
the corrupt Vaccinations of reckless ofic
holders, grown desperate at the approach Q
retributive justice, and the loss of powe
and place.
JoHN L. SAFFARRANs, Chairman
JOHN w DAWSON,
CHARLES w. ANDERSON,
NJ MAGEvNEY, JR.,
w. Y. c. HUMEs
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c. Humes, Gen'l Chalmers, Col MINIS, Co
n w MeCluskey, of the Avalanche, an
John Fellows, Of Ark. For most of tn
above facts we are indebted to our spirite
Memphis contemporaries.