The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-10-23
MUNRO JUMBO.
About This Time Expect a Fresh
Crop of 0utrages Full and
Complete Answer to the
Chattanooga Convention

Complete Answer to the
Chattanooga Convention
From the New York Herald
The bloodhou3ds of tie south about /
this time begin their deep>mouthed bay
ing. The newspapers of the north echo
this terrible music The cries of the
negro are heard as he flies from the fe
TociOus pack. The encouraging tones
of the angry kuklux blend with the
general discOrd, which is altogether like
San Francisco minstrel burlesque of
one of Verd's operas, with a colored
Leonora ou her knees, believing her
woes to some gesticulating count, while
the republican Manrieo bowls from his
dungeon the anguish which rends his
breast 1t reminds Us of what we used
to read in the old almanacs, About this
time expect rain, or "a bout this time
expect thunder" 1t is now approach
ing to election time in the north, and it
is inevitable that there should be an avn
full time in the SOUTH The killing of g
dozen negroes in any part of the south,
even if they should survive it, has always
been a sure way of carrying a northern
State for the Republican party. There
fore, they must be killed. The elo-
quenee of Mr. Blaine, or Mr.. Garfield,
or Senator Conkling or Gen. Butler, has
great effect with northern voters, as evN
cry one who has heard Of these modern
Marc Antonys will cOLcede; but it is
nothing when compared with the infu>
ence OF murdered negro. 1t does not
matter whether he is murdered or only
imagined to be, the effect upon the voter
Is the same. Mr.. Conkling dips his
brush in hues of earthquake and eclipse,
and paints lurid picture like that which
actually made everybody suppose it was
raining at the convention ut Utica, and
Mr.. Butler can whitewash the White
House ELL it is whittier than white crow;
but these gentlemen are not half as usea
full in a canvass as q kuklux outrage
telegrapbed from Alabama or Texas.
This being the case, it is no wonder that
such massacres are common in the
south whenever q Republican majority is
necessary in a northern State. The
Union must be preserved, we know, even
if a half dozen colored voters are deS
strOyed. The kuklux (who, some think,
are paid by the secret fund of the Re
publican party) appreciate the impor~
lance of their position, and regularly,
year after year, go to work 20 establish a
reign of terror. The negroes, also un>
Outstanding the nature of the case, offer
themselves up as sacrifices to our nUrth~
ern candidates. They gladly die that
Republican politicians may live. When
they are reluctant to perform this slight
service their objections are frequently
overcome. When the colOred voter deA
clines to be led to the altar of the party,
as Isaac was by Abraham; when the
sullen kuklux lays down his gun and
swears he will go to work and honestly
earn bis living; when whites and blacks
show a disposition to live together in
peace, then some carpetbagger from the
north Is sure to promote row. Order
and quietRess may be desired in the
south, but such n condition of things
would be dangerous to mum erous north
ern Statesmen, who exist only upon the
memories OF the war. These gentlemen
would be politically ruined, were the
south rendered tranquil By q policy of
restoration; for, where, then, would be
their reason for being Thus it is that
by the nobility of the negro in getting
himself killed, or the savage determines
ton of the kuklux to kill him, or the
skill of the carpetbagger In getting them
to murder each other, every year Just
the horrors of outlawry in the south.
The tale comes about November, like
the annual meteoric shower, and when
the heavens begin to fall the politicians
catch iarks. In the north it is only neces
sary that a negro should be killed in
Louisiana to induce Us to vote for Re-
publican thief in preference to a good
Democrat. The Democrats, it is well
known, are, as party, in favor of mass
acre, and must not be intrusted with
power Mr.. Gerri5 Smith has foreiblY
pointed this out, and has shown that
nearly One-half of the American nation
is so hOpelessly depraved that rather
than give it voice in the government
we should choose a Caesar to RUE over
US. Taking this view of the situation
we must say that bloOdhounds and blood
shed in the south ought to be encour-
aged by the Republican party as far
more useful than Il great cotton crop or
honest support of the Union. We ad-
wise the kuklux to keep On killing, and
the negroes to keep being killed, at
least till November is over TIL chair.
man of the Republican State committee
Of Indiana showed how neatly disaster
and death can be utilized for party
gains, when he sent the following pri>
Vate circular to the Republican press:
Sir desire to call your attention to
the horrible scenes If violence and blood
shed transporting throughout the south,
and suggest that you give them as great
prominence as possible in your paper,
from this until after the election. At
ter that event all parties concerned can
take the rest they certainly require.