The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-11-07
The Jail Question

Mr. EDIToR: Is it rot rather curious
that any one should take the repairing of
our county jail so much to heart az to be
moved to utter such a poor sarcasm on
our county court as appeared in your pa
per of the Oath ultimo? Is 1.-TWO Stars
in so much trouble about the jail build.
ing as not to be able to slumber2 Is there
no danger that his great mind may ex-
haust itself in these mighty efforts to
such an extent as to impair its usefulness
in teaching the young idea how to shoot
correctly? Had not Two Stars better
bend the energies of his brilliant intel-
lect to the due performance of his pres
ent duties than to be wasting them in
pusrile filings at the Magistrates for doing
their plain duty Would it not be we'll
for this " Old Man Eloquent" to attend
to his Immediate duties and see that they
be performed in such a manner as to
merit and elicit the approval of his fell
low citizens, than to be striving to belit-
tie body of men who stand so deserved
ly high in the estimation Of the people as
our Magistrates do2 Our friend " Two
Stars is not even just in his ungenerous
criticisms. What could have induced
him to go out of his way to hold up for
public ridicule, a man so thoroughly in
earnest, and who works so truly for the
interest of our county, as the present
Attorney General? And why shou d he
attempt to throw dull witicisms at aEoth>
or citizen, an old and tried one, who
exercises his privilege to explain his
honest views to the members of his
county court? Our consolation IS that
such childish twaddle falls harmless at
the first touch of the lance of Truth.
For years the Jail in this county has
been stigma upon it's good ma e for
years it has been All unfit place to confne
persons Jound gully Of the worst often
ses, and totally unfit for the safe keeping
of those only accused of crime. Free
quently the building has been offensive
to people passing along the street and on
entering the cells men have been known
to turn sick at the fetid smell of confined
personal exhalations and necessary bodi-
ly excavations; and now that the Court,
finding the county prosperous and able to
bear the expense, has taken the matter in
hand, up jumps Two Stars and at,
tsmpts to freighten it with blast from
his penny trumpet
Out upon such nonsense Let the
Magistrates 90 on doing their duty, and
rest their regulations with the thinking
men of the county Let 1.-TWO Stars
attend to his own little affairs first, and
then, if he has leasure to discuss public
business, let him select his topic, and af-
ter studying, so as to understand it, let
him throw out his thoughts, and probably
good may ensue. But no good can follow
from any ones printing lot of crude and
illnatured stuff, the emanations of an idle
mind, the utterances of prejudiced and
feeble tongue. Suppose, for argument
sake-of course it could not really be
that our friend, 1.-TWO Stars, should him,
ecil DC dCCuseu u CI4LueI HO"efeE
light and trihing, and suppose he should
be innocent but unable to give bail, how
would he like to be confined in this cold,
dirty and uncomfortable jail ? Would
this not be furnishing him before hand for
crime never committed 1t has occur
red that innocent men have lain in this
! Jail for weeks and months. men who were
pronunced guiltless by a jury Of their
peers. l have heard such men declare
that years confinement, at hard labor
in the penitentiary was to be preferred to
three months in our county Jail, the re-
pairing of which seems to have stirred
the bile of Two Stars so deeply
JUSTICE