The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1868-10-31
Address Of The National Democratic
Executive Committee.
New YoRK- Ootober DO

! FELLOW CITIZENS it is a great privilege
! and duty to address you on the eve Of the
/ great battle which we are to fight, and
/ which Is to decide whether the Government
| OF this Republic Is to remain four years
more in the hands Of the radical party, or
whether, by an energetic, united, and last
1 effort, you VIII wrest the power from its
grasp, and give to Us, under a Democratic
! conservative administration, a Government
! based upon principles Of Justice, economy
and constitutional liberty.
| The issues Of the present campaign are
! self-evident. They appeal to the intelligence
and patriotism of every voter in the most
unmistakable terms. They have been dis
cussed by distinguished orators of our party
| since the nomination Of our candidates
! What the Democratic party intends to do if
! placed IN power by your suffrage is to re-
! store peace and union to our country; to
/ heal the wounds and suferings caused by
| the rebellion; to give to the people Of the
South the rights which they are entitled to
under the Constitution and by which alone
we can bring back prosperity and quiet to
that distracted section; to reduce materially
/ our military and naval establishments kept
! up now on an immense scale and at an enOr-
nous COST to introduce into every depart
ment of government the strictest economy,
and to develop, by an equitable system of
! taxation, the growing resources of our cOun-
try, and thus place the Federal finances on
a stable and solid footing and to pave the
way to a gradual and safe return to specie
! payment.
We are charged by the radical party, the
/ party Of violence and usurpation, which for
/ the last four years, to prolong its existence
has set at naught the Constitution and the
/ fundamental principles Of our government,
! that we intend revolution and defiance of
| established law. The accusation is IN
! founded and absurd. i can't be entertained
for moment by any intelligent voter who
has the most superficial knowledge Of the
history Of the country. The Democratic
party can proudly point to every page Of its
! history. 1t has never violated a single Obli-
CATION Of the fundamental compact by which
! these United States entered into the family
Of nations. Its WatcGWOrd in peace as in
war has been, and viii always be, the Union,
| the Constitution and the laws and no man
or set Of men, however high they might be
placed by the sufrages Of their feilOW-citi-
Zens, can ever expect to receive the support
Of this great conservative party in any reyo-
lutiOnaTy attempt against established laws.
The ballot box and the supreme will of
the American people are the only means of
redress to which we look. Fellow Demo
Gratis, you are fighting for a righteous cause.
! GU have for your leader a tried statesman
and patriot, who stood by the Union in It's
darkest hour, man equally beloved for the
purity Of his private character as hOnored
for his public virtues. Opposed to you are
the men who have subverted the structure
Of their own system of representative self
government, indicated to the world by more
than half century of prosperity and great
ness; the men who have increased our enor-
nous debt by prohigacy and corruption IN
paraleledi the men who, in two successive
! Congresses, have demonstrated their inca
pacity to diminish our burdens by economy,
or appOrtIon them with equity; the men who
have so distributed out burdens that they
press with excessive weight upon the labor
and industry OF the country, making rich
men richer and poor men poorer.
! Opposed to you are the men who have
denied, for three years of peace, and who
Will continue to deny, until your votes ar
rest them, selEgOVernment to the people of
ten States; the men who have taken away
the power of our Chief Magistrate to insure
a faithful execution Of the laws or command
the army and navy Of the United States
the men who did their worst to expel the
President from the White House for obey
ing faithfully the interests of your supreme
law; the men who, being conscious of their
twenty-nine crimes, dreaded to have the Su-
preme Court declare their quality, and there
fore abridged It's jurisdiction and silenced
its voice; the men who have Usurped and
are grasping and welding powers not pos
sessed to day by any monarch among civil
lied nations.
Against these men, their crimes in the
past their netarIOus designs for the future,
you are soon to make one final and de-
termned onslaught Four years ago we
failed to expel them from power, though we
predicted then, as we now predict, their in
competency to give the people peace declar-
ing then, as we now declare, the revolution
airy purposes of their most active leaders,
! who ruled their party as they would the
country, with a despotic sway. But these
four years have justified our warning and
f our worst predictions.
What we feared they have done The
revolution has made steady progress, and
once more we call every patriot to Join our
ranks If the people will now rise in their
majesty and might they can save their insti
, tdtIOns and rebuild them. If they are re-
gardless of their sacred interests, so much
IN the last four years has been accomplished
and so much in the next four years may
easily be accomplished, no obstacles then
} remaining, that the revolution will become a
fixed fact. The structure Of our government
Will have been completely remodeIed 1t
may be a government still, but it will no
longer be a representative self government
For this final struggle, then fellow Demo-
Gratis of the United States, let US invigOrate
every muscle and nerve every heart. The
: time is short; the foe is stubborn and des-
perate. Our victory would be the death
blow to the Republican party 1t could
have been held together by no other nomin-
+ alton; it cannot survive your success; one
I victory is enough. Your triumph in No
j vember will finally re-estabIsh the Union
and the Constitution for another generation
of men. 1t viii restore peace and good or
der to the South, prosperity to the North,
; and wise and frugal rule to both These