The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1868-05-02
No. 40



1t does our hearts good TO read such pa
pers as the Hartford Times, New haven
Register, Pittsburg {Pennsylvania) Post,
+ Detroit Tree Press and Cincinnati Enquirer
j These papers are fighting our battles with
an energy. bolGness and ability truly won
\ derfuL From day to div they show that
i the Radieais have divided the Union when
i the South could not do it That they are
making war upon an unarmed people, That
they are spending hundreds Of millions Of
dollars upon the army to keep the Union
divided. That they are carrying the conn
! try to reputation, for iarge-standing armies
/ States held by bayenets-alust lead to
that That they are assailing the Judiciary
/ They mean to get it out Of their way as
I they rush on tyrannicaily That they are
! trying to break down the Executive depart
ment Of the Government-bo q geti out of
j their way. That they are breaking dewn
the checks and balances. OF the Constitution
= destroying the safeguards to personal lib
i eTty-the guarantees of the Republic Z hat
i they are repeating old laws of States by mili-
tary DEGREES. Military despotism always
7 spreads 1t must be checked here, or It viii
Il destroy She liberties of the country. That
/ they demand that the Government shall be
/ administered on their ferms-not on the
terms of the Constitution That they have
trampied down the right of representation,
on which our Republic rests-a dangerous
/ experiment That they have inaugurated
| negro supremacy at the South, and are
| obliged to keep large standing armies to sus-
tain them-for negroes cannot sustain civil
government Of themselves That they pro
pose to force negro suffrage upon all the
States and have bin before Congress for
that purpose On the contrary they show
that the Democrats support the Constitution
and laws. That they are the Union party.
They demand that the Union, or the terms
of the Consultation, shall be preserved.
That they are opposed tolarge standing
armies. That they are in favor of economy
10 public expenses. That they desire to re-
duee and pay of the public debt, and to re-
turn as soon as possible to specie basis.
That LDey are in favor of a specie currency,
and tlle payment Of the public debt, accord
ing to the contract of the GoverAment
They hate and despise Reputation or Viola
ton Of agreement in any form. That they
demand a reduction of ezpeuses-a Teduss
tiOn Of the army-a reduction of the navy
"a suppression of fraudulent contracts and
public robberies That they demand a re-
duction of taxes, and equal taxation. That
they demand peaceful Union Whieb
| viii bring prosperity. That they demand
chat friendly feelings shall be cultivated
! among our own family Of States-ahd that
Wav upon our own countrynen n shall cease.
| That they demand that the white race shall
rule this Republic, and make it great and
prosperous. They oppose negro suffrage
and uch negro mixtures as have ruined
! Mexico and the South American States.
| That they take the Constitution for their
guide. Such is the contrast between the
two parties. The issues are broad and dis
tinct The antagonism Is irreconcilable.
| Look at tke Jacobins at Washington. The
highest Judicial tribunal, remarks a eotena-
porary, sits ia covering siience while the
D
R0bespierre Sumner, and Jean Paul Marat
Butler for It's mouth pieces, is howling for
the official blood OF our Chief Magistrate
We are to have absolute Reputation of the
| national debt next year by the deliberate
nOn-payment of its proper interest We
/ have a war of races duly in process of Or
i-ganizatiOn In the South by the Ku Kluk
Klan on one side, and the Freedmens Bu-
Teau on the other. We have such prohigate
corruption IN the "OficiaI rings" and ali
other branches of the public financial ser
| vice. as has never heretofore been witnessed
! in any country pretending to be civilized
We see an attempt made to permanently
crush five millions of educated white men
and women, in one section Of our country,
under the barbarOus heels Of four millions
of uneducated and brutal negroes Ne see
the Constitution and laws of the United
States openly scofed at, and made target
of derisiOn, on the floor Of Congress. AID
we further find such n state Of commercial
suffering and business depression among
nearly all classes, except the Office thieves,
as has never heretofore been known IN this
once happy land Such are the first fruits
of Radical rule in its present stages Of de-
velopment What it viii finally bec5me
when our present free representative system
of government shall have been utterly over
thrown and a Congressional Oligarchy, aup-
/ ported by the bayonets of vast standing
army, shall have been consolidated IN perma-
nently usurped control Of our national desti-
MES, we leave the future to determine Now
/ is the time, men Of America, to resist this
! threatened despotism now before maelsti'om
/ Of JacObin misrule has involved US fatally
and forever in the aceelerating velocity of its
! downward course But there is some hope
ahead. The expressions Of public opinion
| in Michigan, Connecticut, Ohio, Illinois,
| Kansas, California New York, Pennsylvan-
! Ia, Wisconsin are most cheering. The
result of these elections retrieve more the
fainting hopes of the despondent, cheers
/ the hearts Of all good men, and confirms the
/ faith Of the old Democracy IN the virtue and
/ intelligence in the great mass of the people.
| The faith Of the Democracy has never, In all
these years Of sore trial, been for one mo-
ment shaken. They have never doubted but
that, though the people might, by artful and
| cunning devices, by specIous pretezbs, by
falsehood and deceit, be occasionally misled
deluded and deceived yet, that they were
certain IN the end to discover and vindicate
the truth We thea say to the people of the
South, stand firm, be patient. aud hopeful
What you can do for yourselves, do it By
all means, and do it with your might But
this i emphatically the fight Of the white
men Of the North They intend to wage
this battle, and to win it. It involves the
honor the purity and the supremacy Of the
white race of America, and 10 such a contest
what white man viii be found placing him
self on q level with, and disclaiming all SUI
peFioFitY over, African barbarians, who
never, but from contact with the white race.
arose above the most debased heathenism
or but little above the intelligence and
habits Of the brute creation On this ques-
ton the Northern people intend to kindle a
FIRE in this land which cannot be quenehed.
And woe be unto him who stands ii the
way Of It's consuming flames, for he shall
surely perish The next Presidential cleo
ton is to be decided BY white votes, and