The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1872-08-23
The Country not Prosperous Under
Grant,
From the Louisville Courier Journal


From the Louisville Courier Journal.
The country has not, as a whole, been
| prosperous under the present Admins
| tratlon, In one section of it business
has been almost completely paralyzed,
and in the rest whatever prosperity
exists is in spite of the baleful policy of
Grant and his party. The Southern
| States, which formerly paid large part
| of the expenses of the Government, and
would be doing it now under a wiser and
/ juster rule, are pauperized and made a
4 burden rather than help to the rest of
| the Union. The people of all the States
are GENEROUSLY taxed, and instead of the
proceeds being exclusively applied to
| legitimate purposes, vast sums are
sqUandered IN extravaganza, cOTruptly
applied to partisan and personal pur-
| poses or stolen outright by dishonest
! officials. One day President Grant, or,
what is the same thing, his man Bout
well, puts his hand into the Treasury
and takos out many thousands of dollars
extorted from the people by taxation,
direct and indirect, and pays it for a
campaign document, and a very poor
one at that. The next, under pretense
Of defraying judicial expenses in North
Carolina, he hands over many more to
United States Marshal. So it goes. IF
the vast sums collected had been legiti-
mately applied we should have had by
this time reduction of the national debt
worth talking about.
The administration of President
Grant, instead of conducting to the pros
perity of the country, has proved pos
itive curse. There Is sabsOlutely nothing
to redeem it in the estimation of the
people. For more than three years
extravaganza, corruption and fraud have
run riot among the public offices. Mis-
management and malfeasance have been
the rule, and capable and faithful dis
charge of duty the exception. During
President Grants administration the
policy has been to ALLEVIATE the sections
by contantly keeping alive the passions
and resentments that should have ceased
with the cessation of the war seven
years ago. During President Grants
administration the people of the South
cru States have been dealt with as sub
iugated but still hostile enemies, and
adventurers have been let loose onthem
to plumber and despoil in the name of
the Federal Government. During
President Grants administration lib
erty has lain PROSTATE at the feet of the
carpet baggerin States which, according
the others, and in those States taxation
without representation, which was a
chief cause of the American Revolution,
has been the order of the day. During
the period of President Grants power
the rights of the people of the States
and of the other departments of the
Federal Government, have been usurped
by the Executive. During that admin
istration the work of Capitalization has
gone steadily on, a constant and increas~
ing peril to the duration of constitu~
tional republican government. In all
this there is little evidence of political
prosperity. We're the materialprosper-
ity of part of the country a thousand
times greater than it is, it would not
compensate for the ruin of the other
part, for the usurpatiOns and oppres>
sions of the Administration and the
peril in which the very existence of the
government Is placed. Let not the
Radicals claim for their Administration
anything in the nature of prosperity.
The Grant policy isIm0re fatal to agri~
culture than the breath Of the simeon,
more disastrous to commerce than all
the storms that ever followed IN the
wake of the Flying Dutchman, more
depressing to finance than a thousand
crisises, and more threatening to the
liberties of the people than any number
of open rebelliOns The administration
of President Grant has been prosperous
for the rich that it has made richer.
but not for the poor that it has made
poorer. Grants administration has been
prosperous for the Grants and the
Dents and their favorites and friends,
but not for the people. Within the last
few years President Grant has from
oAkafnn1 vyout rvaolfh
As all the world knows, his labors have
been very light; but he has found gift
taking, speculations, and other means
that were open to him exceedingly
profitable. He entered upon public life
q pauper, and viii retire from 1t mll~
liOnaire To his relatives and friends,
too, he has given wealth through official
position. / wonder is not that Grants
Immediate followers, the members of
the Washington ring and the recipients
of the public patronage generally,
should insist that his is a prosperous
administration. Many large fortunes
have been made within the last three or
foar years very much the reverse of
Legitimate. These fortunes shave been
made at the expense of the people.
The country has not been as prosper
oas as it ought to have been during the
pre- eut Administration, but we predict
thai II VIII prosper as it scarcely ever
pfospered before for the four years
beginning with the 4th OF March next.
Then a Liberal Administration VIII be
IL power, with Horace Greeley at its
I1eGd-an Administration under which
the national finances VIII be carefully
looked after and faithfully managed,
under which the honest 1canduct of
Yublic affairs will at once diminish the
taxes and decrease the public debt, and
will be perfect reconciliation and peace.