The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1867-04-20


perpetrated. The Governor has addsd
another proof to the list of his incapacities
@ govern free people By his proclama-
ton ne has unnecessarily exercised a wicked
power given him by weak and corrunt
Legislature who assembled together and
alter mature elaboration, stuItifed them.
selves BY passing law and then giving the
power OF repeating the whole or aay part Of
ssio law to one man, and that man, Brown
lo|' the slavery champion. before the late
rebellion, the truculent abolition worshiper
during the same period of disaster. and now
tne- irresponsible exponent Of a faction in
the State who forced him into the guberpa-
torlal chair By fraud and fovce of arms and
now Is given over to the devices of his own
economical heart, that his damnation in the
eyes OF all sane men and true patriots may
s@be the more swift and certain. By one act
ne has disfranchised the loyal and true citi.
Gems OF nine counties, including Harde.
man His object is palpable. He knows
that the men of this county, who stood as
nrm as adamantine rock in support of the
United States Government in the time when
such position was dangerous in the ex-
Teme, but whose hearts never failed nor
courage forsook them, would be opposed.
almost to man, to his reelection to a posi-
ton which he prostitutes to his lust for the
exercise Of arbitrary and absolute power.
The men OF Hardeman, since the cessation
OF hostilties, have been regular and quiet;
submissive to all laws and to all authority.
1he civil law never was more completely
exercised or more promptly executed, even
during the halcyon days of peace, than it
has been since the surrender of armed
rebels. Crime has been less than before;
All men seemed DESTROYS of hiding the ugly
scars made by internecine wars. The
Union element among us went quietly to
work to carry once more into operation the
county government no resistance from anv
quarter no opposition from factious rebels.
but with hearty cooperation on the part
Of every sensible man of the late rebel
army. Why, then, should Mr.. BrownIow.
without any apparent reason, and without
consulting our true men, issue his ukase.
like petty Gar, depriving US of the dear
est right purchased by the patriots of the
revolution with their blood--the right Of
selfgovernment through the ballot box2
He has, by his will alone, regardless of his
oath Of fidelity to the Consultation. declared
70 the loyal-hearted men of nine counties
that you shall not exercise your high pre-
rogatlve because you dare say you will not
have me for ruler. This is his true reason
written so plainly that "he who runs may
read" Even the Governor must have had
some kind of information upon which to
found his most unjust action towards u.s.
and who gave it7 AS far as tn is hapless
county is concerned, little bird whispers
as that one General J. w. Smith must have
remembered his nOn-representatfve charac-
ter in this county, and wracked his pueriIe
brain to find means of safe revenge on
patriots who repudiated his course whilst
occupying his usurped seat in our last Leg
isiature. He found it by telling the greedy
cared man at the head of State that Harde-
man county YVES cOntumacious, rebeIiious.
and opposed to the sage chief himself; and
above all, refused to have anything to do
with him, the illustrious Brigadier Smith
How his atom of a soul must have pirouetted
when he saw the bait swallowed and our
fate sealed. Faugh the whole thing stinks
in the nostrils of honest men. The fiat has
gone forth, and we must submit. but bide
your time, men of Hardeman, a dav of
reckoning must come, and when it does,
rest assured it will be full and complete.