The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1875-06-25

day. The Republicans have exhausted
the vocabulary of fappc curious epithets
sPon Northern, Democra ts, during the
4aet nine ears, because they have uttcmp-
red to shield their sourhera brethren frou
the expressions heaped upon them
through the hate of sectional party
The Republican rarity has wilfully
stirred up, and kept alive, the animosi~ |
1ics and hatred engend cred by our late |
war; and upon this hatred it has kept it,
self in power for many long years
Those democrats who opposed the uncon-
ttitutionality Of many Of the measures
passed with a view to reconstruct, or sub |
due, and politically control the people Of |
the South, have been denounced in the |
bitterest terms and under tho popular
feeling engendered by constant minis
tering to the war prejudices, the friends !
Of the constitution, law, and equality Of
right, have been for years excluded from !
control in public aflirs. The most OF /
pressiVe and unjust enactmants against .
the constitutional rights Of the people |
Of the South have been the result Of /
Radical legislation There was no out> |
rage upon the rights of the white people |
Of the South which this triumph ant |
party WAS not ready to perpetrate. The |
black GAIA ogue Of crimes enacted in the T.
last thirteen years against the rights of
local government and constitutional lib> /
erty has at last brought about a re a ctiOn. !
Men have seriously asked themselves,
by what, is this wautUn assertion of
power justified IN the constitu ton of
our common country ? To what will it
lead if continued to be exercised by
reckless party, built upon hate, and re-
gardess IF the rights Of States and the
people Of the States Is it true that the
people Of the South are such bad men as
our leaders would hava us telicre ? Are
they guilty of all the Outrages charged
against them by the carpet>bagger ? Is
1t necess AIRY to still crowd them down by
harrassing and unconstitutional laws,
that they may in time become fully re-
constructed and subducd? Might it not
possibly happen that the exercise of un-
authorized power by the Federal Execu
tive be some day used to overthrow the
local rights Of the people of the North ?
May not tn csc Democrats who have been
denouncing the acts Of our party as OPP
pressiye and revolutionary, and whom we
- ha
perheads and traitors, be right after all
But outside Of these considerations the
people. have awakened to the falsiry of
charges that have for years been brought
against their Southern brc thren; and the
utter depravity Of seaIawag carpet .bagger
Ct id OmHe genus from whose manuflc-
tured lies the outrage mill has been run
SO long for Northern effect.
These, and like considerations, have
induced the Northern mind to rehs elton,
ana to an ultimate, but long-delayed con-
v.c;ion of the impoicy,. injustice, aud
danger Of The public acts and doings of
this sectional party whilst controlling
thu dcstinies Of this great Republic The
masses are beginning to pass over tc q
party which claims the constitution as It's
guide A sense ofrcturning justice, and
rcul fratcrnal feeling for the Peopl Of the
South, has, Of late, taken the place Of
sectional hate The outrage mill Is no
longer patronzed The capet>bagger,
iu disrepute with thy Northern people,
aud dcspised for his Galschoods by the
colured man Of the Soatb, has entirely
played out, and has become a dccayed
feature of the past. The masses who
have witnessed the danger to which
popular liberty has been subjected, who
have groaned under the burdens Of an
unwise and oppressive system Of taxa
ton and the exac;iOns growing out Of
financial biundcrings, are seeking other
and better pcliticel affiliations. Men,
1isgusted with the corrupt influence Of
rings and money upon the legislation of
the National Congress, ave leaving the
Radical party like rats leaving a sinking
ship. The Republican party dies
whenever sectional hate, enSendcred by
the late war, gives place to better feel
iug. That time has now abJut COM.
There are evidences # this everywhere
visible See it at the mutual decoration
of the graves Of our dead soldiers. See
il in the commingli ngs Of social and mills
itary asscmblings, and see it in the cen>
tenuial celebrations Of those events
which tell of the common renown and
glory Of our people where Il patriotic
urduur is shared In common, and gen
uiaeuess 81 returning good will Is mLn-
ifested and Eel: to an extent nos before
reached lie enthusiastic reception Of
the Virginia, Maryland and South Caro-
lima delegates at the celebration Of the
centennial ofthe battle Of Bunker Hill,
was so warm and dcmCustratige. that the
AhakiDg of hands INDUCED in upon that
occasion, would have intercepted the
PROCESSION had the delegates been Per,
mi,ted 10 stop in the line Of march The
Grafton was conGned 10 a graphic de-
scrip,ion of the battle and an eloquent
nppeal for the burial Of ali political ans