The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1868-02-08

stacks and harvest fields Of the United
States, but &c likewise taxes what 3 let to
keep a standing army over the ghast!y ana
sm uIdering ruins It has made
'sBut / may be told that the destruction
Of slavery is tie cause of the destruction q
So much wealth. that The figures which Z
have produced from the census of $50 were
based upon slave labor. At that time the
South contained q white population Of foor
millions. six hundred and four thousand, Its
black population numbered three rniliFons,
eight hundred and ninety-six thousand.
There that population, trained to labor, re-
mains to-day. The ravages Of war and the
] result of emancipation have been made up,
or nearly so, By the law Of natural increase.
The statesmanship, then, of the country,
finds vast laboring population IN posses
sions of the most fertile and productive re-
gion Of the earth, and by its policy turns
that region into n barren desert and howl
/ inc Wilderness. The rich lands arc all
there. The brawny and stalwart labor Is
there and actual want is there's But the
miserable and incendiary politician FROM
the North is also there; the infamous Union
League, which to seduce the negro to MS
ruin, Is there; q vast appalling military
despotism, created and used by political
party for purposes Of party abomination, IS
there the lfreedmen's Bureau that guaran-
tee of your pockets that tde negro may live
without work, isthereS with its mighty elan
of perticious, poisonous emnissariesi ard
the darkness, reptile, loeUsts and Flagues
were not more fatal to Egypt than are these
gigantic evils Of that ruined land We hear
the dreadful cry OfeGctIIal starvation cop1lng
up at this moment from county richer lar
than the delta Of the Nile A loan of thirty
millions, to be paid by you Is Ia coatempia-
ton by the officers of the Ereedmen's Bu-
reau at Washington, with which to Int intain
a people who VIII not work or let. others
work, in. the garden spot Of creation Is
this the banquet to which you were invited
BY the abolition of slavery2 is this the
feast of good things to which you were
hidden by Abolition emmissariesg
What furtherof the Radicals
"Thus Radical reconstruction proceeds,
and it is the open and avoWed purpose OF
Congress to admit these States. thus IN the
hands and under the control of the negroes,
before this session closes The great crime
is. pressed now each day and hour with Eeree
desperation, and who so blind IS not to see
the odious purpose? a Presidential cleo
ton is abshand, and the first fruits of this
aceursed conspiracy are to be seyenSy elee-
torial votes deposited for the Raaical can
didate by the hands of the negro. The
negroes Of Georgia in their dense barbaTity,
are to outvote the freemen of Indianain the
choice of q Chief Magistrate The negro
on the levees Of the Mississippi Is to drown
the voice of the intelligent farmer of the
North / speak adYisedly.
The Radical leaders, since the late cleo
tions, expect to carry but few Of the North
ern States. They despair Of controlling
anv longer the white vote of the country.
They seek no longer to govern this gssat
Republic by the white mans influence.
They Weld all that to the Democratic party,
and denounce a white mans party as an
intoIerable offense But with seventy negro
electoral votes, and to them added the votes
Of Tennessee and Missouri both bastard Oh
springs of the buyOnet, they are preparing
to rob the people of their legally expressed
public viii. The act of reconstruction. Is
unconstitutional, il there is Constitution
| in the land; it is n fraud on the purposes
and objects Of the war, upheld by perjury
/ and duress, if there be such crimes; and yet
we are expected to quietly yield to its claim,
/ that the negro shall make the nexs Fresi-
dent"
Mr. Voorhees, made some inquiry as to
what the African has done;
q His race has been in this world as long
as YOURS, The earth and the lllness thereof
has been for him as well as fer you. Every
avenue of human thought and action has
been open to him from the morning Of erea-
] BIOn. l1uB WDerC are the IOuuudtlDhb uS mas
/ laid, the structures he has reared
Where are the books he has written
! Where are the temples dedicated to science
| Where are his histories, filed with his
achievements in war or peace2 Where are
/ his epic poems, his odes, his ballads Where
/ is his sculpture What block of marble
/ ever took the human face and form unde-
| the divine inspiration Of his genius Where
/ is his architecture? What quarry did he
ever open, and what Doric, Gothic or Ionic
columns did be ever raise Where are his
cities He has had six thousand years in
which to build them Where is the work Of
/ his hands and the offspring Of his enterprise
! All history is silent to these questions. he
has made no sign of progress in III the wide
realms Of the ages, The great creations Of
/ human genius, the mighty productions Of
science, are TO him an impenetrable mys-
terry"