The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1867-03-09
The soutb is to be Ruined.

The Congress of the North, says the Pub
lie Ledger, seems to be resolved on three
propositions. One is that the white people
of the South shall be subject to the negro
another is that emigration shall not flow to
the ten prescribed States; and a third, en-
bracing the gist of all is that their resOur-
ces shall remain undeVelOped, to the end that
they shall never become rich, popnluus or
powerful The first, it is useless to discuss.
Right III the face of the enlightened senti-
ment of the world, right in the flce Of his
tory, tradition, experience, and right in the
teeth of all decency, a miserable race of
former slaves, still stepped in ignorance and
still performing all the menial services ap
proprIate to the very lowest class Of human
ity, are suddenly tossed into power, and
changed into the uppermost and governing
class And whom do they supersede 2 The
refinement, cultivation and chiyalry Of the
South-the men who for four years, main
tained an independents government divided
a mighty Union, won victories with inferior
numbers, and although at last defeated, con-
tributed to history names aud deeds grand
as those Of Napoleon, or Wilmington, or
Cesar, or Frederick the ireat Where was
the negro during those bloody years. In
the field, with plOw and hoe, voluntarily sup
porting the armies, the women and children
and the Old men Of the South. They were
at liberty, perfect liberty, and many cases
are reported of faithful negroes, by their
watchfdlness and care over the helpless ones
at home, rescuing them from piunderlng
raids and from that which was great deal
worse. The whole South Is grateful to the
negroes for the service they rendered the
C0ntedcracy The great mistake the Con
federate States made, as party 10 q war,
was in falling to arm the faithful negroes
and put them in the field Results have
81 III. fnTfl HrrfI
black man is not only untitled to govern the
wLito man. butts unified to govern himself
lie has not asked, and does not ask to be per-
nitted tedo either The task Is thrust upon
him BY race Of maligBants whose boast
may well be, that they have not their par
allel in al human history.
If this we're the worst, It might be over
come by time but the policy Of Congress
goes still further. The period might come,
they correctly reason, when the superior
race would reascend to power. To provide
against such a contingency, tbs south Is to
be kept IN such condition that the people OF
other countries viii avoid it as they woald
I land Of pestilence No man In the North,
West, East, or Europe, would ever settle IN
n negrc colony, or consent 10 be governed
b7 negroes All the immigration from the
other side Of the Atlantic would, wall, stop
IN the North and West The white race of
& ttG f7QHtflr eAllftese4s anu EuiuS4s
would escape with precipitation - the North
and West or exile themselves to Central and
South America Meanwhile, the negroes,
inflated with their Importance, would, under
the manipulation of tie SOutbeFn loyalists,
lapse into politicians, sink into pauperism,
ant, at last, enter upon an awful career Of
mortality that would sweep their race from
the face Of the earth. We might trace the
disas.roEs consequ qusnees stih further We
might ask thc reader 20 look &C the south as
il was in 1860 aud compare Is With what it
win be. under negre rule, IN 1880 We
shrink back from She contrast and leave the
reade7 t. draw it Cor himself
A brilliant Eiri IS writing under the aoAs
de plane Of f" Rose. spicy letters on Man
nefs and Morals, 10 sfe l'llaflasgon 5lereury.
I IL her ias ahe says that eight men ont Of
every dozen are very Gar from being enter
+ tainiHg, bat tie epleFlasniug ioar are gsner-
nllY far more danHar5us tilaH the apenter-