The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1872-05-24
GREELEYs PLUCK.
His Reply to the Union League
D Defense Of his Action in Bailing

His Reply to the Union League
Defense of his Action in BaiIing
JEFF, Davis.
BY a careful pursual of the following,
it will be seen that Honest Horace has a
vast amount of pluck, and is not likely to
back-down from any position taken hon
estly d ;ntelligently:
''At once a concerted howl of denunci-
alton and rage was set up from every side
against me by the little creatures whom
God, for some inscrutable purpose, per
Inits to edit maj GRITTY of our minor jour-
mails, echoed by yell of Stop my paper,
from thousands of imperfectIy instructed
readers of the Tribune. One impudent
puppy wrote me to answer categor ically
if was in favor of hanging Jefferson
Davis, adding that | must stop his paper
if were NOT, Scores volunteered assur-
ance that | was delying public opinion,
that most Of my readers were againt me,
as if | could be induced TO write what
they wished said, rather than what they
needed to be told never before real
lied so YivIdly the b .seness of editorial
vocation, according to the vulgar concep-
ton of it. The din raised bout my ears
now is nothing to what I then endured
and despised ! am inundated by the
reflection that it is or was Ia the power o!
such insects to anoy me, even by pre-
tending to discover with surprise some
thing that have for years been pablicly
and emphaticallY proclaiming.
"Gcntlemen-I shall not attend your
meeting this evening. | have an en-.
gagemeut ont Of town and shall keep it
I \ l. Il
/ Judging Or even fully experimenting me
\ on evidently regard me as a weak senti
mentalisJ, misled by a maudlin philoso-
ply. ] arraign. you as morrow minded
! blo1kheads, who like to be useful to a
great and good cause, but don't know how
| Your attempt to base a great enduring
party on the hate and wrath neccessariIg
| engendered By bloody civil war, is as
| though you should plant a colony on an
! iceberg which had somewhat 6rifteC
into tropical ocean. l tell you here, thai
| OUT of a life constantly devoted to the
| good of humankind, your children will
/ select nv going back TO Richmond anC
/ signing that bail bond as the wisest act
/ and will feel that it did more for freedom
and humanity than all Of you were com
| petent to do, though you had lived to tbs
I
! then, but that you proceed to your enc
| by direct, frank and manly wav. Don
! side off into u mild resolution of censure
! but move>the expulsion which you pro-
! posed, and which | deserve All | care
| for is that you make this square STAND
| up fight, and recover your judgement by
! yeas and nays. l care not how few vote
/ for me, or how many vote aginst me, fol
/ I loEE I
and ashes before three years have past
! Understand once for all, that dare and
defy you end that propose to fight it out
on the line that held from the day Of
Lees surrender. So long as any man was
| seeking to overthrow our government he
was my enemy; from the hour in which
he laid down his arms he was my formerly
| eTring countryman So long as any is al
heart opposed to national unity, the fede
raj authority, or to the assertion of equa
rights to ali men, which has become praet
| icaIly Unidentified with loyalty and nation
ality, l shall do my best to deprive him
| of power; bat whenever he ceases to dc
this, demand his restoration to all priv
| ieges Of American citizenship. 1 givS
| fair notice that L shall urge the re enfran
| chisement of those now prescribed for re
DSi4OuJ 50 5OOu as 1 Sldl t66l COuuuGul
! that this course Is consistent with tht
| freedom of the blacks and the unity O
| the Republic and that | shall demand
a recall Of all now ia exile only for par
| ticipating in the rebellion, whenever tlt
country shall have been so thoroughly
pacifed that it's safety will not thereby b.
| endanger ed. And so, gentlemen, hoping
/ that you will hencaforth comprehend
somewhat better than you hove done,
! remain, Yours,
/ - HORACE GRF,rIEY