The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1871-11-03

might interfere with the emoIuments Of
their Offices Take the County Clerk, fer
instance, and if the new county was orr
| ganized and some white man or negro
wanted to get married down there, he
would lose his dollar for issuing the IL
| cense, and 50 it is with other county offs
| GERS, But there opposition is interested,
and should not weigh feather IN the de
termination Of this question.
Bot it Is the county officers, sir, that
make ali this trouble. 1t Is the Fayette
County officials, with Chief Justice Lynn
at their head, that have stirred up ali this
opposition.
We had as fair an election as ever
was held IN the State, at which about
seyen-tenths of the voses polled were for
the new county, hut when re attempt to
organize, these Fayette County officials
get their County Court to make an ap-
preparation Of thousand dollars to hire
lawyers to proseeute an injunction to de
stroy the constitutional rigRts of the very
people that they bad collected large
portion Of that mo ey from That, Mr.
Speaker, Is what / call administering
eternal justice with vengeance. Anil
here they are now, sir, threatening as
with repetition of the same thing But
! pass tlisBill, and defy all their appro-
priations. And l apprehend, sir, that if
this bill passes, and the people Of Bell
| County comply and organize under 1t,
| that officials of Bell County will soon
| make it necessary for the Chief Justice
to get his associates together and make
another appropriation to refund to those
/ people the money be has SO cruelty and
uujustly taken from them. Add these
are the innocent people of Fayette Coun-
| ty that the gentleman insists on repre-
sentiRg on this particular occasion.
But take the broad gronnds sir, and
| defy any gentleman to cOntroyeIt it, that
| if the people want that new county, and
! comply with the requirements of the con-
! stitution aud Ia rs on that subject that
no Representative, no county officer, nor
no other human being on the whole face
of God green earth, outside the limits
of the new county, has any right TO say
they shall not have it
Then if am right in this position, he
| is only the Representative OF that portion
of the people of Fayette County inside
the limits of Bell County on this particu-
lar question. That being the case, l call
| upon him here and now to come up and
| by his vote assist me In extending to those
/ people the rights guaranteed to them by
! the constitution of their State, as he did
in the Nashobee case. They expect il
of you thev have a right to expect it OF
you they all like You; they all voted for
you, fully believing that their rights were
safe in your hands.
But the gentleman has made the mar
Velous discovery that the people of Bell
County themselves don't want It. He has
| made flying trip on lightning express
! train through Bell County, and comes up
here and asserts that the people them
selves don't want it But he, like the
| gentleman from Fayette, has to make the
assertion in the face Of those same two
thousand petitioners to the contrary.
Well, sir, if they done want it, then why
oppose this bill T? 1t only proposes to
give them an opportunity to say whether
| they do or not, aud if they do not they
vii! say so, and not give you the trouble
to say it for them. Oh, my dear Jimmy,
that dodge wont do. Now, sir, if you are
so much devoted to the wishes Of the old
portion OF Fayette County, why did you
vote for Nashobee They are more Op~
posed TO that than they are to Bell, but
you knew, sir, that it was the cOnstitu'
tional right Of the people, and you came
up and voted like man to give 1t t.
them, and again l cali on you to do the
same for Bell
Mr. Harris arose to explain
The Speaker-"Doe the gentleman
from Hardeman yield the floor ?"
Mr.. Rosson-"Yes, sir; l have already
said more than l expected to say when
commenced, aud viii yield to the gentle
man to conclude the argument, and MAKE
the most of it he can"
Mr. Harris then explained that he was
under some pledges to the people O
Nashobee that he was not under to the
people of Bell, and SO ended the discus
| sion