The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1872-06-21
Greeley and Brown-Letter from
..--.. Beauregard -..
New ORLEANS, May; y, l072,


ITO the New Orleans Times.
/ am informed that many of my friends
were disappointed at not obtaininga re,
sponse to their call for my views relative
to the subject under consideration ut the
great meeting of the people at the st.
Charles theatre, on the Goth inst, espcei
ally when | was one Of the signers of the
C II for that meeting, and had been se>
lected as one of the Vice Presidents un
that occasion did not respond, for two
reasons in the first place able orators
had been selected to address tue meeting,
and they were entitled to the hOor; sec>
ondly, not being a public speaker,
might have used language which mig!
not have expressed exactly my meaning,
thereby doing, perhaps, more than good
ltis but SC ldom that | take part IN pol
itic5, which offer generally little attrac-
ton to me but when the questions at is
sue are vital to the safety of our institu-
ton and welfare of the State or country,
every patriot should step TO the front aud
assume the individual responsibility
which belongs to a proper manhood We
have reached, ! think, one of those criti-
cal periods of our history when we should
chang out our banners on. the outer
walls We are now in greater danger
Oi lOhlll2 OuA anu llbbt blSlb Is
left of our property than in the fatal year
of 1868 We had then "hope" to guide
and cheer us along in the dreary path we
had before Us !; but now all is darkness
and gloom above the horizon, and We
should be careful in the choice OF tie pi.
| lots who are to take Us To port of safe
" they should be well acquainted with
| the bars and quicksands which lay in our
| course .
proclaim it as my cow elton, that
| the hour has struck when the voices of
the people shall be heard, reYerberating
| in loud and clear tones, from one end of
the Union to the other. In times of a.
| tional peril it is our privilege, as well as
! our right to be heard In public assemblies,
and no citizen should shirk that sacred
| duty.
| The old parties are powericss to save
usI We must call on all disc0ntentcd
clements, and parties to unite with US to
| resist the encrOachments and cOrrupting
| influences of the Government under
! which we are now living, or, | should
more properly say, dying for slow
but sure political death is staring Us in
the face, What th8, may be asked, is
the remedy that we have at hand 1t
may be an unpleasant one to many Of Us,
but we had better make virtue of ne
cessity and accept it ere it be too late
To me It appears plain that to insu 9
success, we mustall unite under the banner
Of 1.-The Constitution and the laws" re
union and reform, honesty and sniver'
sal amnesty" That banner has been
lately raised at Cincinnati, under the
leadership of Greeley and Brown, in the
past two Of our most earnest and darger~
Gus enemies, but two, also, of the purest
and most honest of men, who when they
/ shall have said to the country, "Let u5
| have peace" will mean it; and will give
rs peace, in spite of all opposition. For
I my art | prefer having as friend one
| who has been my open and fearless antag
/ onist 10 one who has friendship on ais
J lips, but hatred 10 his heart
( In conclusion, may | ask my friends
( il we are likely to 20 amiss by following
/ the example ofsuch men as Seymour and
/ Blair, Democratic candid ltes tor presi-
J dent and Vice President in 1868, and If
! Chas. r Adams, who would have been
very acceptable to the Democrats, it Is
: said, If chosen Uy the Cincinnati COnven-
tiOn in preference to Horace Greeley 2
/ Those gentlemen, Re are informed, ap-
prove and endorse the nomination of
I Messrs. Greeley and Brown, and adopt
the Liberal Republican platform Why
: should we be more hypercritical than
! they are2 Are they not supposed 10 be
! better judges than we are Of the merits
and qualifications Of the candidates who
can or should command success Let US
then bury the Ratchet, forget ard forgi We,
on both sidss, aud march IN solid phal~
anx to reform and victory.
q. I. BEAUREtGARD