The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1868-03-21
No. 81
The Next Civil war-Eow to Avert T.
From II. MssEopal!saa Rss9ras

Frea the Metropolitan Rso9rd.3
In the Judgment Of every rejecting man
who has given the slightest consideration to
the subject 1t must be apparent enough that
nothing can prevent the country from drift
ing into another civil war before another
year passes away, save such an overwhelm-
ing revulsion of public opinion rs viii enable
the Democratic party to elect It's candidate
for President, even if the radical tvrants
and traitors should insist on counting in
against him the electoral votes of the South
ern negro governments
Ii viii not do in order 20 avert that civil
war, 10 carry Just enough of Northern States
to give us the President without taking those
negro governments into account The radi-
Gals are making their arrangements to fall
back on these negro governments. We do
not belle the white men of the North ard
West are going to submit to have these rot
ten boreughs thrown into the scale bat as
not to sRbmit must involve resort to arms,
the best way, the suTest way, nay, the only
way t. avoid the trouble that is otherwise
morally certain to come, is for all hands to
go to work now, and so revOlutionize public
opinion throughout the country, that bv the
time November comes along, the tvrants and
traitors will not be able to carry a single
State beyond the limits Of New England.
Now It this IS not done, that is TO say, If
we do not carry enough free States to pre-.
vent the radicals from eleeting their man,
unless they count on the negro {borus) elec-
5oTai colleges against US, another conflict
a great conflict throughout the North and
the " est, can scarcely be averted. 1t is not
within tie pale of probability that these
Tree born millions of American white men
are going to look on passively at the spec
fsleie OF these semi-cizilized negroes dicta-
ting who shall be President of the United
States for the next four years All the man
hnesS, all the selfrespect, all the pride of
race which enter into the American charac-
ter, viii rebel at the thought What then
WhY, 10 all human probability Just this
by the time the Rump goes through the
ceremony OF counting the votes for PreSi-
.dentwe shall have another government "
IN full operation. The Democratic Presi-
dent elect and the Democratic Congressmen
elect will meet separately, and, backed up.
by the Democratic Governors, commanders
in-ehlef then of the State militia, who viii
on the first Of January be inaugurated GER
tainly IN the great States OF New York,
Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Ohio, the
crisis viii be precipitated in a manner which
viii at oHea Mezicauize the whole country
from Maine to Oregon. In taking up arms
to resist the atr0cious atteap pt of the Jaco-
bins to govern. the white men of this coun-
try, through the instrnmentality Of ths
Southern negroes, there can. be no doubt
but the proceeding wOlld be jus stihable on
strlcS constitutional grounds. The Rump
Congress, which sits in the Capitol to-day,
as has been time and again demonstrated, is
not Congress at all, but an usurpation IAN
usurpati0n the people have been oblised to
submit TO because they could not help them
seiyes), ,-buG when the time comes ior that
usurpatoH to attempt to pr9loas It's power
by che process we have Indicated, we repeat
we are much mistaken in the American
character, much mistaken in the spirit of
our Northern and Western eOuntrymen, If
they do not demonstrate, IN q manner not
to lB misunderstood, that this is not only a
white mans government, but a. sgoyernment
based upon a written Constitution and the
viii the people
That, then, is the prospect PurbGnd
people may pooh pooh it if they please, but
that does not change the situation, nor alter
the drift OF the current.
We don't want to see another civil war n
this c6cntrT as lcns as we live; neitherd0
we desire to behold in our day shat worse
than civil war, abiect submission to the most
est despOtIsm that was ever planted any
where on this side of the Atlantic; but the
wants or desires of no man will weigh q
feather in the scale to prevent it, unless the
people themselves resolve to rise in their
might and save the country, by sweeping
the tyraEts and traitors and usurpers from
power wherever in high places and in low
places they are. exercising it.