The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1872-08-02


action lgreat applause] Even those who
had fought against each other in battle
clasped hands over the bloody chasm IRE.
newed applausel, and side by side, Ike
brctheTs with hearts beating unisoRs beat
ing with the same high purpose, they help
ed to bear the flag ofglOrious liberty. That
gentlemen is Liberal repubhcanism
[cheersl. and that is Democratic republi-
canism, Tgreat appla1se]. The outcEy
which came from that union was the end OF
prescription, test oaths, of pain and strife
and Of all disloyalty-in word, the real
! end OF civil war came with that victory
| and did n0tcome till then IN Missouri. In
| tense applause It redeemed that State.
It gave the right of freedom to seventy
thousand men that were bound and fetter-
ed. Missouri Is now a free State IN this
Union with her rights and dignity and
| e0nality under the Constitution, and not
! ore murmur of disloyalty is anywhere
heard. By that union Federal dictation
] in Missouri in their local elections was
/ overthrow, and By that union strife and
hate have given place to peace and to
goodwill. By that union, liberty, with
equal rights for all, has given to the State
unbounded prosperity and her people Joy
unSpeakleab. So great was their JOY and SO
complete their success that the Llberai
Republicans of that State were not content
the same union OfDemocgats and Liberals
Republicans, and with it the same bless
ng of liberty, peace and fraternity, to all
the other States Rounds of applause
Accordingly, In the State convention on
the 24th of March last they resolved to IN
vite the Liberal Republicans IN all the
States to meet them in national conven-
ton on the lst of May. That invitation
was accepted. There was indeed, a great
hv
such vast numbers that delegate conven-
ton of the Republicans of all the States
was formed-both from principle and from
necessity, to give form to its proceedings
Many Of the ablest of the country, lately
leaders in the Republican party, were there
aud took part IN its deliberations. They
were assured that large number OF Lit
eral Republicans in every State and from
all portions of the country stood behind,
ready to sustain them, and they were
morally certain that the millions whom we
this day represent cheersj would only
come to their support, the number of the
Liberal Republicans would reach half n
million or more. Great cheersl. That
convention presented platform and pre-
sented candidates to the country, for Pres
ident, Horace Greeley continued cheersI,
and for Vice President B. Gratz Brown
Tmore eheersl And that convention, for
the promotion and success Of the princi-
pies declared in that platform there enuR-
ciated and the support of the candidates
nominated by that convention, have invited
and cordially welcomed the cooperation
of all patriotic citizens, without regard to
previous political affiliations. Those prin-
ctples were clearly and concisely stated IN
the platform itself and restated in the
letter of acceptance of Greeley Lmore
eheers1, and they were so well known to
you ali that l will not restate them. For
weeks that platform and these candidates
have been before the country.
Meanwhile the convention called 90
nominate Gen. Grant Lhissesb and 10 IN
dorse and continue th6principles, practices
and policy ofhis Administration has done
its work LHissesl Between the Liberal
Republicans and the followers of the Grant
Administration the issue is now clearly
made up 1t is Grant or Greeley Cheers
and cries Of "GreeleYF'1
While these events are passing, the
Democratic Republicans whom we repre-
sent held their conventions la all the
States The Liberal Republican move
ment, the example Of Missouri, the Cincin-
matt Convention, its platform, and its can
didates with their letters of acceptance.
were oil before these conventions, which
we're very largely attended by their ablest
men; and the paramount questions before
all these conventions were: Shall we ac-
cent this invitation to cooperate with the
Liberal Republicans2 LGreat applause.
Shall we adopt this platform2 Loud cries
Of yes, yes" and some cries of never
shall we nominate the same candidates
T''yes, yes" and shall we elect them2
Eyes yes, yes and loud cheeringl, or
shall We refuse to cooperate? "Rof'i
nominate other candidates? mol not
Greeley !. Greeley ~ and strive TO elect
them over both tickets IN the held2 Gentle
men, these are the questions which you are
to decide here That you viii decide wise
ly, 1 can not doubt, nor can any one dOnbt
who looks over this body of men, repre-
senting as they do three millions of citizens,
and who feel as every one must feel the
high and patriotic purpose which inspires
you. Gentlemen, what means this great
uprising which you everywhere see Z What
means this proposed union of three mil
lions of DemOcratiC-RePublcan with n
million it may be of Republicans What
means this union upon a common platform,
and this proposed union upon the same
candidates-a union so sudden, 50 com
pact, so earnest, as to surprise its friends
and cOnfoRnd its eneinies2 applause
which comes as winds come, which, 20
borrow a figure, overwhelm ordinary cur
rents Of public opinion, as great storms al
ways run counter 10 surface currents 7
-
gents, it does not mean. 1t means not
abandonment of what is true, Of what is
just Of what is good in human government
[ Applausel / IL means no union of the
dead upon dead issues, but a union of the
living upon living issues Of the present.
[ [Applausel It means no union for the
spoils Of Office [applausel; but it means
the union Of men of the same faith upon
the great and paramount issues of the pre-
l. /. Il nfN
equal union of men who have the saaacity
to see and the moral courage to accept the
situation. Cries Of good, and loud cheer
ingl. Il means the union OF men who nave
the sagacity to see what is past and TO deal
with the issues Of the present. and for the
future TO do their duty TO their country,
their God, and their fellow-med. LAP
plauseI The Issue Of today IS not the re-
neal of the Missouri compromise, nor the
Question of slavery in the Territories upon
which alone the Republican party was Or
ganized in 1856. IL is not upon that
which followed when the Lecompton's cOu-
stitution for Kansas divided the Democratic
party in twain and elected Abraham Lin
colin to the Presidency IN 1860. It is not
the question Of secession, nor Of war 10 put
down rebellion, nor the abolition Of slavery
IN the States By military order or by con
stitutiOHal amendment upon which LIN
coin was reelected il 1864. Nor yet is IL
the question Of reconstruction, nor Of thc
fourteenth or fifteenth amendment, nor The
question Of negro suffrage, nor of the e.
tablishment by the Federal power or mn
versal suffrage as a condition precedent 10
the States ofthe South having any right
or existence as States Of the Union IL Is
none Of these questions that Is now The
issue; all these have been issues in the
past-greaf issues-sufiicieBt IN themsclvcs
to create and 20 dissolve political pafties,
b,c.us. id.as are stronger than men or