The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1872-10-04
The late Tituperdtire, Bitter and tsRcall-
ed .torAttack o.pon the Gorernor
Anstrered.
Tie Ec President Must RISE to Explain
HIS Reputation for Teraety at
Stake
The School Fund Agaiu-Am Old Libel
Repeated by indy Wiyully
and KHolcingly.
MEMPHIS. Sept. o6. 1879.

| "He (Andrew JuhusOn) then alluded
| to his record as Military Governor II;
said he stayed at Nashville, but Cheat
! ham Governor Harris q ii in dastardly
| precipitation from his capitol, taking with
/ him the peoples money, and the chill
| dren' : school fund, peregrinated through
the South, paying himself in gold and the
poor Confederate soldier in trash, and
now the people Of the State are heavily
taxed to make it up again"
And in Il subsequent part of his speech
the reporter says:
"ue alluded to the time, two yea S
ago, when a particular individual was the
| choice of two-thirds Of the Democratic
party of the State for Senator, but was
defeated by conspiracy and treacherY.-
| This same Green Harris, who robbed the
! bank, and these same men who now
! champion Oheatham, made a bargain
with twelve of those boosted Radicals fir
anything to beat Johnson, and overrode
! the will OF the people "
While hold my public acts and POI
| htical record to be public property, and
open to the animadversion and criticism
| of all men, my honor and private chars
acter are sacred, and at all times and IN
der all circumstances l will vindicate
them
In answer to the above cowar1ly as
sauIt upon my private character, l have
only to say, that when Andrew Johnson
| asserted or insinuated that robbed the
bank" or appropriated to myself one cent
of the peoples money or the children S
school fund he asserted a wILLFCL, DE-
LIBRKATE AND MALIGNANT LIE.
The Bank of Tennessee, with its capt.
tai, school fund, and all oC its assets,
were In the custody of the officers of the
! bank, and the only connection | ever had
with the bank or its assets, after its re-
moval from Nashville, was, through my
| influence with tn? Commanding General
| of the Army of Tennessee, to furnish, as
occasion required it, transportation and
ii military guard to protect it, telling the
| Confederate authorities, In tune of their
| EXTREMIST need, that while was willing
to appropriate to the cause everything
| that possessed this fund belonged to the
! people of Tennessee, and should be pre-
served to them ut all hazards.
1t was preserved through the vicissi-
! tudes Of four years of war and after
Generals Lee and Johnston had surren.
dered, and when General Taylcr was
agreeinG upon the terms of surreu der in
! Mississippi my last official act was to
obtain q safe conduct from General Can
| by, of the Federal army, for messen-
ger of mine, by whom | sent an order to
the officers of the bank, then in Georgia,
to return the capital Of the bank, with all
| Of It's assets, to the banking house at
Nashville, and Andrew johnson knows
the fact, that they were returned to Nash
Vile
With regard to my salary an the pay
of the Confederate soldiers, have this
to say The soldiers OF the provisional
army of Tennessee received their pay in
precisely the same character of money
That l received my salary, but when that
army passed from the service of the State
TO that of the Confederate States, in the
latter part of the summer of 1861, had
no more power over the question of
amount, or character of funds paid to
the soldiers than Andrew Johnson bad
but | received my own salary in Confed-
crate money from the time it WAS put in
circulation to the end of the war, with
the exception of one year, which | re-
ccived in gold, while | had a perfect
right to have demanded and received my
salary in gold during the whole time
As to the imputatiOn against my personal
courage contaired in the words bastard
ly precipitation, l have only to say that
Andre Johnson's conduct, in connec-
ton with his side of the cUntending ar
| mics, and my conduct in connection with
my side, are so we'll known In Tennessee
rs to render unnecessary any discussion
| by me of cur comparative merits on that
score.
With regard to the extremely modest
assumption that Andrew johnson was de-
| feated for the Senate, two years ago,
when two thirds of the Democratic party
| preferred him, by conspiracy and treach-
| cry, and a bargain with Radicals 'for
anything to beat Johnson" | have sim
| pie to say that | opposed his election
| earnestly, openly and boldly because
| from his public record, ] honestly beleiv
| ed then, as | do now, that he was un>
| worthy the confidence of free people
| But when he charges me with having
made or been cognizant of any bargain
with Radicals, or any one else, to defeat
| him, He LIES. -f..
! ! have opposed him earnestly and
| boldly, not because he was 4 Union man
for have always held that every citi-
zen had the same right to decide for him-
| self the question Of union or secession
that claimed for myself-but | opposed
| him because the result of his teaching foI
many years, inevitably lead to secession
| and when the time arrived to put into
| practical operation the doctrines he had
| Taught the people of Tennessee, he bases
| ly deserted them fled the State, and sought
| protection behind, and gave aid to, the
| bayouets of our invaders.
| | opposed him bpcause of his reckless
/ disregard and gross violation of the con
| stitution.
BY tho suspension Of the writ Of habeGS
! corpus in time of peace.
BY reducing sovereign States to mere
provinces, and subjecting them to military
| rule, and denying to their citizens the
! right of government by the exerc Sc
Of the elective franchise
/ BY the appointment of Military Com
! nlissions to try citizens charged with Of
! feuses against the criminal laws, when
| the civil courts were open for the trial oil
! offenders and the redress of wrongs
Bv arbitrarily assessing citizens, and
enforcing collections at the point of the
! baYnRes. ..-
| For these and many other similar
reasons, | have opposed him earnes tly-
perhaps Utterly, but | have never de-
ssended TO an assault upon his private
! character, nor will do so now, however
| vulnerable that character may be non
would | have INDUCED in the harsh
terms herein employed, but for the con-
/ temptible and cowardly attack upon
mine.
ISIAM G. HARRIS.
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