The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1876-11-02
SCHURZ7SM.
WHAT CARL SAID IN '72
THE SOUTHERN QUESTION.

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Good Reading for Radicals by
Radical Leader.
Carl Schurz is now making speeches
throughout the North for Hayes ana
Wheeler. They are being delivered in
German, and ne have not translations
at hand, hut in justice to him assume
that they contain nothing i'm conflict
with his previous utterancss. Here is
few things he said in 1872, when sup
porting Mr. Greeley:
A blight has fallen over the South
It was not so much the war that. wac the
cause of it as the shameful corruption
which preYades the state governments.
| Fraud, pltnder, shameless robbery
these have been the ch racter.stIcs, in
days gone by, of the Southern State
governments. And who is responsible
for it Was it not Grants admiuistra-
ton to which ali these robbers, all these
plunderers chung for supportf But how
could these thieves keep themselves in
power2 Their most powerful aid was
the Federal Government, and their next
powerful aid they sought in the ignO-
rant negro vote.
THE BLOODY CHAsM.
Do zoe gain tie lore of man By
PICKING HIS POCKETS ? Do we gain his
love by robbing him Of his best rights ?
No, this is not the way to cross over the
| bloody chasm. No, this is sacrificing =
whole continent, or large part of con-
tinsnt, for the egotism of party. This
is setting on foot an era of despotism
DEsPoTIsM WHICH IS A DEsPoTIsM OF.
ROBBERY. have always been a Rspub-
iicAu; l hope good Republican, but l
have been a Republican to give the
South good government. have Bot
been Republican, I will net be a Re-
publican to deliver the Southern people
over to the aoorst set Of scoundreEs that
srer obtained political pOtOer.
GRANTIsM
We are not fighting merely to make
one man President of the Uuited States
in place of another; bat We are Sighting
for the ovsrthrow of system-G system
Of Unconstitutional arrogance Of pO'oer
system Of contempt Of laa0, system o.
government by force, a SYSTEM OF PLUM
DERINe IN THH SOUTH AND OF ooREUP
TIoN IN THE NORTH, = sys sm which
threatened to subvert the highest good
we possess-the freedom of election all
/ over the United States.
As l told MY German fellow-eitizens
the government Of the United State
: does not longer belong to the American
people, but seems to belong an fee siD1pL
to Ulysses S. Grant, and the Contra
Republican committee
g And thus it is that the great name
!, the great authority of the Republican
!. party in its national capacity, is beinI
e used this very moment to uphold tn
. most atrocious system of government
which this country ever saw, A part
which cannot live and prosper unless
q IL supported by a revival of the old wa
feeling, and by tearing open again tn
wounds from which the people of tn
United States have bled 90 long, sue
party, when it has come TO that, doe
not deserve to live.
a. MILITARY RULE.
ID Lst US look at the political develop
st msnts of tins country. We have becom
,h careless about the institutions of GU
nc country. You who havo studied histor
e know that in times of extraordinaI
IN urgency, in times of war, etc, We alto
We the government extraordinary perogativ'
20 which We would not allow the Cover
M ment in ordinary times You remb
T the Romans acted on this principle
Is When tia enc ioy was before the gat
So of Rome they invested Consul as
an dictator with supreme Fower. We d
I'M the same in the late war. Bat wb
H. have We seen in this country NiIita
lid rule has been prolonged, and the count
ru- seems TO be under The iron grasp of {
M arbitrary rule; the Constitution violate
90 and to restore the Constitution it m
take the blood Of thousands Of people.