The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1867-09-28
The Issue Inevitable.

H 1t Is useless to shut your eyes, and think the
lion is not in your path because you do not
see it The negro means to be, not only
the political, but the social equal of the
white man; nor viii he be satisfied to be his
political equal He means to be his supe-
rior. The Memphis Post, which publishes
with an admirable gravity accounts of negro
tournaments, in which African "knights ."
do witch the world With noble horseman-
ship" and lay the trophies of their ehiyal-
rous achievements at the feet of black
! "QueeDs Of Beauty, attended by their sable
" Maids Of Honor, says to the negroes, in
an article urging them to patronize radical
merchants:
/ You know by the treatment which you
/ receive on cars and steamboat what sort of
men are getting the profits of your industry
/ which arises from carrying your cotton and
/ the articles you use. +"
And the seed which the Post thus malig-
nanbly .sows have been sownl elsewhere, by
itinerant politicians and Office seekers; but
also by Sheridan and Sickles, by the forcing
of negroes upon paves, and compelling the
4 opening to them of street cars in New Or
leans and Charleston; and by the latter, in
/ fneing a captain of a steamboat for refu-
1 sing to give a negro wench cabin passage
among respectable ladies' The seeds so
sown are bearing fruit, as will be seen by
/ the following, which we clip from the Phila-
/ delphia News:
] On Saturday last the Norfolk and PENN
i sula delegates were returning from the radi-
/ cal convention at Richmond, on the steam er
! Mystic, and at dinner the colored portion of
/ the passengers proceeded to occupy the first
! table. Some objection was made By white
/ passenger and quite a scene ensued. Pistols
/ and knives were fourished, but no blood was
/ shed. The irrepressible sons of Africa,
] however, carried the day. A eolored lady
/ was triumphantly escorted to the table by a
white radical from Norfolk, and those white
i passengers who did not choose to eat with the
! colOred folks went dinneTless. Some white
/ ladies on board retreated to the captain s
/ saloon, where dinner was sent them. The
| captain of the boat Yainly endeavOred to
| maintain the supremacy Of the white ele-
ment The darkies threatened TO put him
ashore if he made further trouble, and take
! charge Of the boat themselves. Col. Glib
son, of Gen. Sehofeld's staff, was aboard.
I 1t VIII soon come to pass that the secesh y
1 when colOred folks are present Northern
radical whites will for awhile be allowed to
associate on equal terms with colored folks
/ but the time viii soon come when the dar-
! kew Will treat the white Yankee radical with
as much contempt as be does the mean white
trash Of the South. Your true African is a
/ great aristocrat at heart ~
A dispatch of date September 10, from
New Orleans, says
In the Common Council last night, at an
election for assistant recorders, one white
man and three negroes were chosen. Seve-
raj other negroes were chosen for other
municipal positions
And New Orleans Journal makes the
following statement
1t is not generally known that the spirit
of John Brown u Is still walking and talk
ing through the South, he being one of the
elements with which the RAIDS ardently
hope to bring about St Domingo massacre
or as it is popularity termed, a war of the
races ~ John Brown clubs havegbeen
established in our city by the loyal league
and the following Is truthful report Of one
of their enthusiastic meetings held las
week on Cypress street, a portion of oul
city very thicklY inhabited by the elevated
{ citizens '' OBJ color p
F A speaker spoke from u gallery in from
Of house in that region, and said that we
newly enfranchised, have the State and city
; put your foot on the neck of the white man
we We been slaves all our lives; it's now tn,
{ white mans turn; Wen e into the public
schools soon as we GET cur officers; white
men is Riggers now; kill every -- rebel
/ if the landlords ask. too much rent, don
pay it. take the house-we'se free, no NOR
, work; wese gwine to hold all the hOssifes.
During the delivery of this harangue til
black throng shouted, " Well do it ;" AM
/ they shouted it so often that one would b
: excused if he believed they would Whit
men were not allowed to listen while thes
things went on, the negro policemen sayin
r they had no business dar.
q The New Orleans Times says
It is undeniable that a strong feeling @
caste-of exclnsiveness--is growing up i
? the breasts of the cOlOred people, and tha
i the tendency to ignore white men as cour
0 sellors and leaders-even though they be c
o the most radical type polihcaliy-is cor
= stantly on the increase. Even at this earl
- day. long before an election fer new lOca
3, governments can be held, there IS scarcely
o state or municipal Office that can be names
n for which a negro candidate has not alread
been put forward with strong and actiy
a supporters at his back. A cOlOred maj
a now holding Office by appointment of Ger
n Sheridan, boasted on a leading thorougl
fare, IN tones to be heard by passers, th;
he would be the next sheriff elected, if
e cost him fifty thousand dollars. He is col
IS fdent of succeeding without any such lib
J, raj expenditure; another is quite as con-
dent Of being the next mayor. The meI
7 Der of Congress from the first district is d
d eided upon, and so on to the end of the lis
is An impudent negro Of New orlean
e named Charles Brown, hasaddressed a lett
e to the editor of the New Orleans Time
u from which the following is an extract
We intend to show to this city, State al
the world that we are capable Of goTeFniu
Is not only ourselves, but white men, y
y former master (and he was a good man) 10
n me that white men would govern, take ca
. Of and protect the niggers, because g
~ gave them the right and made it their du
n so to do We are willing to do the same
re YOU We shallhave no use for Goldman
4 NAPLES, or any Of their class after our ne
State election 1t IS not an easy matter
- disfranchise as after We once have the elt