The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1875-09-24
THE HANDWRITING UPON TFE


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local rights Of the people, and the mani
fest failure Of the republican party to
give prosperity to the country under ITS
long rule, contrasted with its unprosper-
Gus, and in many sections suffering
condition of the people, resulting from
their bad management of both natural
and local affairs, has forced the conclu-
SION upon the American people to dis
card the party, and look for one better
calculated to administer the peoples az
fairs. The result of the last fall elections
was significant of this fact and the cleo
tons that have taken place since that
time all point to the same conclusion.
There has been nothing in this years
elections which has more terrified the
hosts Of radicalism than the recent cleo.
ton in Maine. Not even the Waterloo
defeat in Californ ia. The Maine election
proves that the gospel - hate. the back
bone OF the skeleton upon which the rad
zeal party is built, and is held together,
has been destroyed by the gospel of broth
erly love, and returning goodwill has ia
ken its place Othelos occupation is
gone. The party is without rallying CRY
to which hate responds. The bottom
has dropped out, and the bloody shirt
with it. People cannot always be hum
plugged, and when once alive to the
means by which their passions have
been played upon for selfish purposes.
they turn with Disgust from the DO
IiticaI charlatans who have by such I'M
worthy and selfish aims attempts to
control their political acts, in behalf of
party. The year 1875, will be known
as the great reconciliation year-the
year when reason resumed the throne
usurped for many dark years, by unhal-
lowed passion. From the North and the
South the waves of forgetfulness, or
rather Of reconciliation for injuries mu-
tually inflicted, have mingled together
and hidden deep beneath its uniting
floods the bloody chasm which divided
them. This returning good has fore
ed the politicians, the foul harbingers of
distrust, contention and hate to stand
from between the people of our bread
land. The people are in advance Of the
ill-omened oroakers who preach but from
one text, hate, hate The leaders see
and feel this, and hence the dismay man.
ifested, by the results In Maine. Mr..
Speaker, Blame, tuned his pipes and
played most lugrubriously upon this once
affective strain. The keeper of the
bloody shit in Indiana, the redoutable
Morton was sent for to sing the rank Of
Tense of rebels, and their heIIish deeds
but such strains have lost their power tc
stir the passion of men who have learn
ed the lalseness Of the old retain. For
bearance, goodwill, reconcilement, for
getfOlness of the buried past has taker
its hateful place. United with this efor
of BLAME, N orion and their followers
the power of money was said to have
bean freely used, but all to no purpose
emily to sho w in the result Of votes Of tn,
honest masses that radicalism is doomet
in the far off State of Maine. IF the ap
pliances are found to have have lost thei
efficiency in Maine, the conclusion force
itself upon a dispairing party that tht
beginning of the end had come which only
awaits a full manifestation in 1876
Read the the ominous notes of the n
Y. Tribune, from an iRdepedent stand
point commenting upon the2 results 0
the Maine election. "Even in Maine,'
remarks the Tribune, "it has ceased to b
profitable to keep alive the controversial
of the past and rekindle the issues of tn
war. So ehrewd a politician as MI
Blaine, who We suppose conducted tn
canvass, made the mistake of appealin
to the animosities and passions whicl
ought to have been buried, and unde,
wise administration would have beer
buried long ago 1t was on his invita-
ton that Senator Morton came from In
diana and unrolled his budget of dis
counted and rejected scarecrows. ii
himself was not above appealing to tn
same feeling in the few speeches h
made in the canvass. The result show
that it was a mistake. The people hav
gone faster than the politicians, and, be
fore the latter. were aware of it, forgive
ness and reconciliation were complete
appeal to the burned out passions ger
Grated by the war was in vain" An
then adds the Tribune with portentou
significance Enough is shown by tn
first figures to indicate more clearly tha
any political event of the year the ser
business of the peril which besets til
party in power
The n. Y, Graphic a staunch admins
tration organ seems to contemplate tn
same eonsummation and whilst attemp
ing to account for. the unlocked for resu
complainingly asserts that Blaine an
Morton have overacted their part
says: They (the people,) are wear
and disgusted with the whole Souther
outrage busin ess, and it great mistak
on the part Of the Republicans to Civ
the least prominence to the played-O0
issues left by the war. Reconstructio
Is over, the amendments are accepted
the fire brands are burning themselvc
out. and the last Pickering spark OF r