The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1867-04-06

RIGHT WRoN1s No. OvE.- Several
weeks since the Nashville Press and Times
stated that tho Conservatives, or at lea st a
portion Of them, were urging it upon tho
negroes to send delegates to the forthcoming
convention. We took the liberty to deny the
charge in toto, having failed to see such a
movement recorded IN any Democratic Jour.
nal but from recent information received
from Middle Tennessee are compelled to
state that we were in error and acknowledge
3 shortness Of words TO express contempt
for men who would degrade their manhood
for the purpose Of even gaining q political
victory, no matter how intensely such victory
might be desired. We desire that the con
vention should be a success, but if it is to be
brought about by placing the negro, inlet
tered and unWashed, upon an equal footing
socially with the white man for the sake Of
truth let it fall short Of its mark From the
first we have urged it upon the people to 90
into convention, TO organize, and work with
determination BETTING the occasion, and
in the future will continue to do our duty
and strive to correctly represent the senti
ments of the voters Hardeman county. As to
allowing negroes to sit in tn convention,
we do not believe it will be done, neither do
the people desire it, no matter if few news
paper correspondents and weakened
" champions do urge such course Al
though the negroes, by law are allowed to
vote, it does not follow that they, for the
sake Of their favors, should be taken up in
the arms Of their former masters and pre-
sent superiors aud born into the midst of
deliberatiVe, representative body. The ne
grOes do not expect it our necessity, though
great, does not require it. and the great
mass Of the voters do not nor will they allow
it. Those who know the freedmen best
know that they dislike to pay poll tax, and it
is fact beyond dispute, that if the negroes,
individually, were Intercepted as to their
choice between being allowed to vote and
paying for the privileges or denied the right
and be poll tax free thatthey would almost
unanimously declare in favor of the latter
proposition. They, as a race, have the good
sense to know and feel their inferioritv, and
do not desire to engage in politics of any
kind, and that same good sense tells them
that if they do they viii only be stepping
stones for designing men to mount to official
positions, (which, when attained, will be too
lofty to admit the occupants shaking the
black hand that scrubs the dirty floor be.
meath, or sweeps tobacco guilds from the
grOg shop door We honestly believe that
the people, and by the people we mean the
white registered voters, are determined and
able to right political affairs in this State,
and there is no need Of burdening the con
vention with a question which is fraught
with no good. The Press and Times refers
US 10 the speech of Joe Williams" deliv-
cred before the county convention of David
son on the lst, in order to make it plain that
We did its editor injustice when we, week
or two since, branded as false its statement
that movement was on hand to induce ne
grOes to sit in the State convention, and will
now do him the justice to clip a resolution
passed at the convention which " Joe Will
hams " addressed 1t is as follows:
ResolUed That the County Court be re-
quested to tender this hall for the use of the
Conservative colOred people as a place in
which to hold their meeting"
In the language of an eminent though un-
known author, "that settles the question, +"
and now. POLITICALLY speaking, we say d-n
the settlement