The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1867-05-11
No. 40

/ terms, as it would afford him an opportunity
] to crush the commerce and manufactures OF
! old England, and make her feel that she Is
/ dependent upon her ancient enemv, as well
as atone for villian0us treatment Of his illus
| trlOus uncle, Napoleon Bonaparte
! Dissolve the Union, you infamous Williams,
and we shall make this proposition 1T once
/ to Louis Napoleon, most sagacious mon
} arch, and he would quarter at New Orleans
/ 100000 Frenchmeu and Chesapeake 100000
more we would then command the Missis-
| slppI valley, 1Chip the Northwestern States
into OUR SOUTHERN C0NFEDERACY.
and we would then turn upon the New Eng
and States, and cause the hurricane Of civil
war to rage and sweep from Mason & Dix
Ons line to the cod fisheries of Maine. until
we would extinguish the last abolition foot
/ hold on the continent of America! Face to
face, knife to knife, steel to steel and pike
to pike we would meet you, and as we would
cause you to bleed at every pore, aoe 1youZI
make goa repent iB the bitter cgonies of
DEATH that you ever felt any concern for the
African race Sir, If the fanaticaI, wicked
and Internal course pursued by you and your
unprincipled associates, is continued, THE
RESULT WILL BE as | have said, and YOU
or your children viii live to see it Pale
faced poverty and dismay are already staring
some of your manufactures and operations
in the face. We are sending our orders to
England and France for goods, and driving
your hell-deserving Observation-Disclosures into
the holding Of Union meetings and nabjnq
these against their a0ilS, curse all agitators
of the slavery question, and resolve that
John Brown and his murderous associates
got only justice when hung at Charlestown." 1"
Carry on your war; if you choose death
rather than life, and 1Ce aCjU stain eUery
8lCaD1p IN the South acitb yOurs and our
OJUn blood, and with the vengeance of an
infuriated foe, we viii be upon you in the
North, at the hour of midnight, and as long
as a lucifcr match can be found, we viii burn
up your substance
Now, Mr.. Pryne, may l ask you and your
fellow laborers IN the cause Of the DeUI, to
pause, and lift the veil of the future not a
quarter of a century ahead of you; and
your influence to stay the fdBGticdE hand
raised to strike the blolo Of rain to YOa3.
country? Call around you a council of your
head men and warriors. Senators Seward,
Joshua r. Giddings, Chase and Fred. Doug
las, for whom you are doing journey work,
and 60 to that victim in the Iunatic asylum
Garrett Smith whose tool you have been for
years, and upon whose money you have
lived and fed your wife and children-ask
them all, if you had not better change your
programme. If the response is not satisfac-
bO4 CtiA d OLlGGNGI3 duu ali INC long IdCeQ
hypOcrites who insult God and mock religion
by calling upon Him for mercy-pray old
John Brown and his confederates out Of hell
where the whole batch of you are going
with lightning sPeed-ask God to forgive
you for your wickedness-p praying morning,
evening and noon with your face toward
Harpers Ferry; ask Him to wash your
filthy garments from the stain of blood OF
Kansas and Virginia MURDERS and impor-
tune Him until you get your answer" Go
and sin no more-sin no longer against con
science and your cOuntrys laws and Consti-
tuition" Don't pray for Heaven, for no
power can qualify you to walk the streets of
the New Jerusalem Don't ask mercy, for
the winged messenger can never light on
such mean and detestable creatures. Don't
ask to be punished in hell, for that would be
inadequate to your crimes. Ask to be ami
HiZated or banished to the utmost verge of
astronomical Imagination, where the ghost
of a negro may never rise up to remind you
whence you came. With this exhOrtation,
will let you rest until my many pressing and
official engagements will allow me to stir
upon some other point.
W. @. BRoWNLow
Editor Knoxville Whig.