The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1867-07-06
GOLDEN AGE OF TENNESSEE

30 lar as the present State Government
has had power to embody great principles in
statutes, and put them in practice, Governor
BroWnlows administration may be Justly
called the Golden Age of Tennessee
Nashville Press and Times.
The embolden age of the hell hounds of
iniquity, you mean! So far as the present
State government has had power +"
you say. Please tell US the time the
present State Government did not have the
power to do It's dirty work. Who prevented,
OF could prevent, the present State Govern
ment from stealing the S6I8,000 school
fund Who prevented, or could prevent,
the present State Government from passing a
law giving the members Of the Legislature
the right to draw their pay in gold, thereby
actually robbing the public treasury Who
prevented, or could prevent the present
State Government from unlawfully appoint
ing directors for the Nashville and Chatta-
nooga railroad Who prevented or could
prevent the present State Government from
stealing a large portion Of the ground sur
rounding the remains Of the heroic Andrew
Jackson Who prevented, or could prevent,
the present State Government from expelling
duly elected members Of the Legislature,
and that, too without TIE least shadow of
reason Who prevented, or could prevent,
the present State Government from passing
cOwardly sedition law7 Who prevented,
or could prevent, the present State Govern
ment from passing a thieving Metropolitan
Police bil2 Who prevented or could pre-
want tho Y,rnsaDt Stota COvornyoov,t f,o,,
enacting law that no honest man, north or
south, east or west, believes to be right2-
the miserable, designing, sneaking, vulgar,
niggardly franchise law; law that protects
the guilty and brushes the innocent; law
that was framed and enacted for the sole
purpose of keeping in power handful of
base, inconsistent and unprincipled blood
suckers a law that tramples upon the
rights of the true Union men of the State :;
law that places the power of creation and
destruction in one feeble and demented old
mans hand; a law that says you are voter
to-day, slave tomorrow; a law that breeds
mischief, engenders passion, breathes cor
ruption, and keeps open the painful wounds
consequent upon a four years war law
that blackens the page on which il is printed
with its foul, vindictive, revengeful and dire
entent; law that goes far beyond any en-
actment ever placed upon the statutes of any
State, Republic, Dominion, Empire or King
dom Of this or any other age; a law that
gives to the ignorant African, just from the
bonds of slavery, political rights far in ad-
vance of nine-tenths of the intelligent de-
scendants of the heroes of the revolution
of 70; a law that compels honest men to
ask favors at the feet of fools and knaves +
Who prevented, or could prevent, the present
State Government from passing the oppres-
sive Militia bill ? Who prevented or couldn't
prevent the present State Government from
paying the Governors staff " SIS, 900 of the
peoples money Who prevented, or could
prevent the present State Government from
sending lawless militia into Franklin
county, where they murdered people in cold
blood Who prevented, or could prevent,
the present State Government from being
what it is-the laughing stock of the civilized
world2 Who prevented or could prevent
the present State government from driving
immigration from Tennessee and opening
wide the channels of immigration Ger
tainly not the present opponents of RADICAL
ism Take back, Mr.. Times, the cruel jest
Brownlow's Administration may be Justly
called the golden age of Tennessee" o for
a whip made of the fangs of a thousand rat
tIe-snakes with which to lash the author Of
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