The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1876-06-15
SAM MARDIsm.

centennial finishing touch this year
The Yankeeism it represents is, pecu-
liarlY, an American out-growth. It's in
genuity is SO daring and ubiquitous that
it has learned to subsidize everything
within its reach. At an early day IN our
history, booted and spurned, it mounted
religion and rode rough.shOd- over time
honored institutions into the clutche of
a lanatical puritanism. It's grasping,
mobilizing spirit soon seized upon poll
tics and found in this field one of the
best and most profitable hobbys for Fro
noting sectional agrandizement. 1t
operated so successfully on this line that
it has assumed, of late, the guise of pure
patriotism, and under the leadership of
Sam Ward, its blue-ribboned apostle, it
has projected at Philadelphia a monu-
mental national cheat enterprise, known
in current parlance as the Centennial
Exhibition.
Yankeeism must have sensation and
this its latest expression is the sweetest
and jucisst morsal that ever tickled the
palat of the most daring Yorker. 1t is
a scheme to food Philadelphia with mon
ey to the detriment of the country at
large and the national exehe9uer in par
ticular. Moreover, the vast gains thus
accumulated will eventually find a lodg-
ment in the pockets Of few managers.
What do these men care for the patriot
ism they SO ostentatiousiy seek to centen
ialize2 1t is merely a popular screen to
hide their cloven feet. They know not
what it is to feel an Eonest throb OF
heartfelt patriotism. Such a feeling
turned loose in their natures would
frighten into sickly pallor their money
loving spirit 1t would be an accusing
phantom visitor.
Every person in Philadelphia, from
the noisy boot-black to the railroad mag
nate, is enthused with the expectancy
that the exhibition will realize to the IN
habitants the riches of Nevada mine.
Sam Ward and his abettors entered
Congress for an appropriation and so
greenbaeked the purses and wined and
oystered the stOmachs Of many repre-
sentatives that princely amount was
given to aid the great Show. When all
the attending empty brilliance subsidies
and the skv is clear of the pyrOtechnic
display, this undertaking will appear in
the clear-cut outlines of its fraudulent
conception. The local managers hold the
purse strings and their Individual bank
accounts will exhibit high water green,
back over-f5w We concede that the
country needs reYivifying Of true pa
triotism to the extent that seotioDalisn
shall hide its hydra head, But no such
sham as this Exhibition is, can start afresf
the currents of a genuine fraternity. IT.
voice is too feeble to speak 'peace, 'bt
still, TO the troubled waters, PrOtesta
tions to the contrary, We believe that th'
life-force in modern Yankeeism is al
absorbing sectional selfshness. This
principle runs riot throughout the East
We are glad to know that most of thu
Southern States declined Sam Ward
Invitation to take seats at this Centen
NAL festive board. They have beer
so rifed of th cir rights as co
equals in the federation of States that
they have no sympathy for mockery O.
patriotism. They ask not for the mimic
~ but the reality of true politica
brotherhood. fit be, as it is, that, a
the end of the first century of our nation
al existence, the rights of the South are
found pleading for just a recognition, W.
trust that, at the close of the second, oul
section will be seen standing triumphant
ly indicated at the bar of public opinion
and surrounded by substantial evidence
of a sincere and enduring interstate
fraternity. Then, indeed, but not now
should we be found hurrahing over tn
achievements "of the best government
the world ever saw
The South declines Sam Wards inv
tation "to fiddle" while constitutions
liberty lies bruised and SCARED. Wit
her, at this time, calm, self-asssertin
dignity, and not dancing" is the teach
ing of co nsistent selfrespect.
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