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The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1876-11-23
THE NEGRO DEMOCRATIC VOTE

Various ingenious Republican writer's
are endeavoring to show that the number
of Republican votes ought to have been
greater ir certain portions of the South
ern States, because the negro population
is greater than the reported Republican
vote. They assume that the census re-
port tells US exactly what the Republi-
can vote is. This error iS in supposing
that the negroes are unanimously Re
publican. The truth is, that the negro
Democratic vote is growing every year
The negro is finding out that ais inter
ssts are better guarded By his former
friendly owners than by earpet-bag
thieves. He is finding out that the
Southern whites are honest, and mean
to deal fairly with him. He is finding
out that the carpet baggers aud the gen
eral run Of the Republican politicians in
the south are thieves. The Freednens
Savings Bank failure opened his eyes,
and the frequent con6scatien of colOred
mems property for taxes stolen by the
earpet-baggsrs, have served to keep them
open. The spectacle of poor negro
going about with subscription paper,
asking for small sums to keep bis little
patch of ground from being sold from
under him for taxes has been a familiar
one in South Carolina in the past year
The negI oss know who levy these Op-
pressiVs taxes, and who steal them, and
they have ceased to be solid for the
Republican party. This is What the
! election of Wade Hampton means in
South Carolina, and what Denocpatie
victory in Florida means. AS for Losis-
lana; that has been Democratic for four
years, though it has been counted Re
publican. So; when your Republican
friend talks negro census to you, tell
him that the census was taken six years
ago, aud that since that time the color
line has been broken, as it should be.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1876-11-23

eaRnot be sustained l0ithOUt disTegdrding
al! the principles Of latg applicable to
TIRE subject, aud ignoring the distinction
6et1ceeR good faith and fraud
Considering al the facts established be-
fore your Committee there seems no eS-
cape from the alternGtiUe that the Mem
cry Government must be recognized by
Congress, or Congress must provide for
a neto election
The Senate, however, was still too
much under the influence of President
Grant to carry out the recommendations,
though they came from some of mis-
warmsst friends The Kellogg Govern
hlent was recognized, and the crowning
outrage of TIE century was thus made
complete: The Senate, however, stulti-
fed itself by refusing to admit either of
KellOgg's Senators, thereby acknowledg
ing that it's former action was unjusti-
fable.
This is aa accurate and impartial his
tory of, the Louisiana outrage. Is there
to be another Do the Republican man
ayers suppose that if Louisians has gone
Democratic the American people will
permit the man who was made Governor
by such means to count in by the same
method President who has not been
ieg- lly elected? God forbid that they
should make the attempt, for they do not
know the awful storm that would break
upon their heads.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1876-11-23
" BETWEEN TIE PEOPLE AND
THE MANAGERS"

When the wisest of modern Massachu-
setts statesmen said that this Presiden
tial contest wss between the people and
the managers" he was wiser than he
knew. No doubt he expected, as all
other geod citizens expected, that whss
the great conflict had been once decided,
the issue 0oHll be accepted in good
faith by the defeated party, whichever
it might be. We doubt if any law-abid-
ing citizen was in the least prepared for
the spectacle that now presents itself
of party beaten at the polls using the
long arm of the Federal Government to
tuEn the electoral vote Of States which
undoubtedly voted for Tiljen agsinsr
Tilden, and marching troops into States
where there is no possible pretext for
their presence, in order that fraud may
be safe ly consummated.
And yet this is just what we see
Governor Tilden has conceded to him
by the Republicans I84 votes, with both
parties claiming South Carolina, Florida
and Louisiana. The vote of any one
of these will more than elect Governor
Tilden, and the managers at once, ON
discovering the situation, began their
desperate game to capture all Of these
States, two of which, at least, have un
doubtedly gone Democratic. Troops
are sent by midnight order of Presi-
dent Grant into Florida, where runners
have been sent out all over the State to
alter returns and cancel the major ty
which Governor Tild en- has undoubtedly
received. In Louisiana the same Re
turning Board that perpetrated the ia>
famous fraud of counting IN Govern or
Kellogg is getting ready to count in the
Republican electoral ticket. Probably
no candid man of either party doubts
for moment that these two States baye
gone Democratic, and a verdict against
Samuel J. Tilden in the one by force,
in the other by fraud, Will be swept
away by the overwhelming indignation
of solid North and a solid South
We warn Republican managers that
they are going TOO far. The Am ;rican
people have decided to take the Govern
ment out of the hands of the present
ofice-hoiders, aud they do not propose
to have those ofice-Aolders retain it b.
means of an armed usurpation. The
issue is now simply whether the ballots
of the people are to be honestly counted
or not, and in that contest the people
are all on one side. We apprehend no
disturbance Or violence, and pray God
none may come. There are peace ful
remedies even for military erin es. The
Democratic House Of Representatives Is
now the sheet anshOr of the people, and
that House will insist upon the inaugu-
ration of the Presiien: who has been
rightfully elected If it should prove to
have been Gov. Hayes. we'll and good;
but if not, not the whole power OF the
Federal Government can prevent the
inauguration Of Samuel J. TIlden.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1876-11-23
IsHAM G. HARRIS.

Good timber is scarce. Modern
craftsmanship has been a patchwork Of
purchasabls mediocrity and doubtful
compromise. The sterling integrity
and clear, diamond-cut intellectually of
Othsr and golden days in American his
tory, have been absent as a controlling
factor In the American politics of this
day. The late revolution SO radically
uprooted Conservatism that It is with
difficulty that the people can succeed in
securing the services of our best eultu-
waited and experienced citizens in shap>
ing the general legislation of the coun-
try. Especially IN the South has their
course obtained. Very many of our
most eminent men by reason of this
Confederate war and civil relations have
been branded as useless and ia 9ficient
They have been elbuwed out of Office
and forced to be idle. That was done
to crafty a morbid Northern sectional
ism, and to show the world that the
South was in truth reconstructed ac-
cording to the true spirit of Federal
legislation.
During the enforced seclus ion of our
distinguished statesmen the drift of our
State and Federal legislation has not
been Of an elevated and marked char
acter.
a new era now dawns. New ideas,
new interests brighter hopes and bright
er prospects, demand that mediOcri'y in
craftsmanship should yield TO the high
est aud best standa, d. The exigencies
call to the front the staunchess, aOlest
and boldest defenders of the early coz
stitutional policy of the Government.
| We have TO return to first principles
in general legislation. We have drifJed
too far out upon the sea of doubtful
experiment and untried makes hitts-
To recover lost ground ne have to eie-
vate TO Office our best trained and pur-
est citizens The war is over, with its
predjHdiees and hates, and no one con
nscted with that struggle should tn ereby
be ostraeizei in public life.
In scanning the list of Tennessee
great men who have suffered in silence
and get pined TO cast in their might OF
help to lift their State and section out of
despond, and give the people the benefits
aud blessings of q restored Union, We
find conspicuous among the names Oi
these distinguished gentlemen the name
of Isham g. Harris.
The Southern States are new rehabilits.
ting themselves in their former influence
and power in the councils of the nation
and Tennessee must see that her in-
terests and fame be entrusted TO those
whose gifts and graces will equal the
leftiest IN the land. We need not say
that Governor Harris, as a United States
Senator, can stand side By side with the
picked men of auy section. The Sena
torial robe would most worthily be worn
By him, and its folds would never be
tainted with the littleRess of latter-day
current craftsmanship. His purity ol
character, public experience, liberia
and enlarged views on questions of State
policy, entitle him to occupy scat il
the Federal Sc nate All parties ana
sections of the State see in him an un
matched representative man. The times
point to him as the ''Great Unknown.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1876-11-23
NONRESIDENT NOTICE.

In the County Court of Hardeman Coun-
ty, Tennessee, Susan Alice Knight and
w. e. knight vs. j. |. Simpson, OF ais,
petition TO sell land. No l,03S r. d.
1t appearing from the petition in this
cause, which is sworn to, that defend
ants, Winfield S. Simpson, Emily Cox
and her husband, w. A Cox, Bryant
Simpson, Nancy Ward and her husband,
Daniel Ward, are non-residents of the
State of Tennessee. Is is therefore or
dered that they make their appear ancs
herein, at the Court House in the town
OF Bolivar, on or before the first Monday
in January, 1877, and plead, answer or
dsmur to the petition Of compiainants
or the same will be taken for confessed
as to them, and set for hea ring exparts--
and that q copy of this order be pub
lished once g week for four successive
weeks in the Bolivar BULLETIN.
w. G. DORlON, Clerk.
This 18th Nov, 1876
J. and F. FsntFess, attorneys for petit
tioners. nOvl6 At
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1876-11-23
ARE We MEXICANIZED ?

This episode of an election claimed
by both sides wssk after it is over has
one excellent effect in showing the more
thoughtful Of our public men the extent
to which We have drifted from the old
landmarks of constitutional rights. We
adopted, Immediately after the close of
the war, its greatest General as our
Prssidsnt-a man ignorant of Law, and
with too much of the soldiers contempt
for it-snd, unconsciously to uany Of
US, We have gone on using the methods
of war in a time of profound peace and
getting more and more and more familiar
with practices that were justified IN war
only by extreme necessity and could not
be justified in peace at all. So far has
this steady, but gradual Decentralization
gone, that when the President orders
troops into State when it is in condi-
tion OF absolute peace, aud does it of
his own motion, without the application
from the Governor of the State, required
ny the Constitution, the whole Rspubli
can press applauds. There is no iusar
rection or domestic violence whatever
existing in Florida or Louisiana, much
less any violence that the Governor Of
the State has certified that he cannot
suppress President Grant might, with
the same propr iety, have ordered troops
into New York State OF Ohio, and he has
so little sense of the deterioration tha
comes to = people accustomed to military
control, that he doubtless would have
done so if it had occurred to him with
as little compunctiou as he now issues
his orders for war measures when there
is no war. This taint has spread through
the whole people. 1t has been shocking
to hear, in the last week, the number of
apparently respectable Republicans who
have talked openly of counting in Gov.
Hayes, and who have justified it on the
ground that it was necessary to keep the
Government out of the hands of the
Southern "rebsls F' The time was
when a man Who talked in this outrage
Gus fashion would have received the
treatment such infamous ssnt Iments
deserve. but now they seem 30 excite
little surprise and less indignation.
The truth is, we are more Mexicanizej
than many good citizens realize. We
need civilian President. such as we ara
to have in President Tiiden, a man not
only versed in law, bet with all 3 great
lawyers respect for It's smslIesI require
ment There will be no soldiers at the
polls under Pretident Tilden, and such
an outrage as the marching of troops
into a State to prevent violence, of which
the Governor has signifed no fear, will
be impossible. Ulder a firm, wise, law
respecting, law-enforcing rule like his,
the people will learn again the true
bounds of Federal authority, nd know
IN future when their rights had been
infringed upon. This they do not know
now, and this will be among the frs t
things that Mr.. Ti!dcn, the first states
man President that We have had in many
a year, will teach them Heaven speed
| the fourth of March
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1876-11-23
GOV. ]. MADISON WELLS.

This delectable ofFshoot of Louisiana
Republican humanity was once ped
dler of Yankee goods and wares all
through this county. Many of our I'll
zens knew him then, and know when he
went South to torment that chiValrous
people With his efFonsery aud base po
lincal tricks. The late revolution spswsd
him forth, and now, as a fungus growth
he must be endured; but soon be aud
his tribe will be driven from Office. The
decree is entered.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1876-11-23

What does Mr.. William M. EvartS
think about it He was the most CON
spicuous Republican who protested
against the mar ching of troops into the
Louisiana Legislature, and the kindred
Louisiana outraEes. Now precisely the
same game is attempted by the very same
msn-Ksllogg, Grant and all the rest
and the end desired is the counting in
of the candidate in whose support Mr..
Evarts came out before the election.
The Journal Of Commerce, the most con
ssrvative and probably one of the most
dignifed papers IN the country, says
thst Mr.. EVart's speech was made for a
fee. This may or may not be true. but
It would nevertheless be interesting to
know what Nh. Evarts thinks Of elsoting
the President on the Louisiana plan.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1876-11-23
THE ELECTIONS.
THE LATEST NEWS.

The South Carolina Returning Board
report in court 23O majority for H4yes
electors.
The Louisiana Board over-rule all
the motions of Democratic counsel, and
refuse to FIJI the existing vacancy. They
seem to be fixed in the rules and regula-
tons for counting in Hayes.
Florida status not materially changed
Republicans delaying the count. The
opinion Is that this State like the ethers,
will be cast for Hayes, as just one more
vote to 1'ildens IS4 will elect him.
The whole matter will be brought be-
fore Congress for settlement, and the
country will have pleOty of it before it
ends. The scene thickens.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1876-11-23

The tables of the Republican papers
show that Gov. Tilden has a majority of
the popular vote of between 100000 aud
100000. The honest count of the cleo
toral vote will show that he has a ma
jority of the college, and neither Presi-
dent Grants bayonets, nor Zach. Chan
dlsr's mouey, can reverse the verdict Of
a free. nation. Samuel J. Tilden has
been elected President, and he will be
inaugurated, aud it will be done peace
ably and in order. It will not be long
before the Republican managers begin
to discover that they are presuuing too
far upon the forbearance of the people,
and they will be compelled to give away
quietly before an unmistskable populs
sentiment.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1876-11-23

The Republican thieves we're seen to
be desperate during the campaign just
closed, but il was never supposed that
they were so desperate as to attempt to
carry an election by force and fraud,
which they could DOT carry by honest
ballots. Their conduct since the cleo
tion bas been amply sufficient to justify
the popular impression that they are
fighting to keep out of the penitentiary.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1876-11-23

"GiVs US an honest count" the Net0
York Tribune demands. That is the
demand of the whole people. They be-
lieve that Samuel j. Tilden has been
elected President, aud they demand thIt
she ballots shall be counted. They in
sist upon a fair count; they will not
submit to count manipulated by Re
turning Boards aud ovsrshadowed by
Federal bayonets.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1876-11-23
$1,000 PROFIT ON 500 !!

Made any day in Puts and Calls. In
vest according to your means. $40, $50
or $l00 in Sick PRIvILEG Es, has brought
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We advise when and how to operate
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free Address orders bV mail and tels-
graph to BAXTER / CO,
Bankers and Brokers,
noVl6-1Y II Wall ST, n Y.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1876-11-23

The Republican papers are yelling
"Ku-Kiux and White League" BOsh !
The people of the United States express
ed their opinion of that sort of nonsense
on November 7th in giving Samuel j..
Tilden majority in the electoral col
I'ge, and 100000 majority on the popu-
lar vote.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1876-11-23

The United States Senate, serViIe as
it was. would never recognize KelIQggs
usurping Government 10 Louisiana By
admitting aay of his Senator's to seats
though they hammered away at the
doors fer three years. Do Mr.. Chandler
end President Grant SUPPOSE that the
American people will couDtenanes g
similar fraud now, II it should be com
Initted by desperate men, to save then
selves from political and personal ruin
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1876-11-23
Ole 8ulIftim.
Geo. ". Armistesd. West. S. Armistead
ARMIsTEAD BROTHERS,
Editors and Pro prioto o rs
PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY.
Belivar, Tenn, Nov. 2s. 1876

The election suspense is terribly dis
organizing commercial matters in the
country. It is creating distrust for the
future, and awakening anxieties that bOde
Ill to the business int rests of the people
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1876-11-23

Before the election it was coa.eSt
between parties. Now it is a CONTEXT be-
tween the people on one side, and the
oace-hoders supported by the army on
the other. The people have cast their
ballots and propose to have th EN- count
cd as they were cast; the Office holders
propose, if necessary, to count in Pres
ident who will not drive them out OF
Osice and into Jail That Is the whole
story
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1876-11-23

William Pitt Ksllagg, vi hO was himself
counted into Office by the most disgrace
fuI fraud known to American politics, is
preparing to count in Rutherford B.
Hayes. How do the people of the North
Ike I'D
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1876-11-23

In some respects the record of the Re
publican party is noble one; in Others
it is infamous But it is apparently to
be reserved for this party to inaist upon
this country the crowning disgrace of
attempting to count in a President. No
party over before cid anything 80 shame
r
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1876-11-23
Memphis & Charleston
RAILROAD.
Centennial rates from stations on Mem
phis and Charleston Railroad to
New York and Philadelphia
and return

The rates quoted Via Norfolk includes
me ais and staterooms on the Old DOmin-
ionIsteameTs, between Norfolk and New
York This is indeed a splendid route
for excursionists.
NJ. s. JAY,
General Passenger aud Ticket Ag't
may25
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1876-11-23
1TERCANTILH.
Dry Goods.

4 DAMS, WELLONS & Co, west
u side public square, Bolivar TenE
A RMISTEAD & POLK, Bills block,
heast side public square, Bolivar, Tenn.
II KAHN & SONS, southwest corner
IL public square, Bolivar, Tenn.
T a. WILSON, south side public
= square, Bolivar. Tena.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1876-11-23
T0LACKSQN :

This train stops at eli regular stations,
and At hag stations when necessary.
Round Trip Tickets on sale ct Mem
phis, 70 Bolivar and Jackson, ct rsdass4
rates, u. =. JAY,
nay2S GsE. Psss. and Tiskss Aga
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1876-11-23
Memphis and Return.
Every Day Except Sunday.
MEMPHIS AND CHARLESTON
New Orleans, St. Louis and Chicag
RAILROADS.

4 through train leaves Jackson. BolivaE
and AL termedirte stations, every mora
ing for Memphis, returning same even
ing, with following time table
TO MEMPHIS
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1876-11-23
TENNESSEE GENERAL AsEsEM
BLY,.

Sepate-Demooratic, 30; Republicans IS
Houss-DemOcratic, 81; Republicans,
l6; Independents, 2.
Democratic majority on joint balloF54.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1876-11-23

Mckee, the whiskey fraud convict,
has been pardoned.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1876-11-23

Gov Portsr's majority over Thomas is
over $1,000.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1876-11-23
Bolivar Business Directory.

Business Cards. not exceeding lines
inserted in this Directory, aE.$6 90 pc
annum.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1876-03-02
Iaernnndtne n.snt Wan.
rom the Washingtol Capital.

From the Washington al itdt'
lie is very weil-known charac.p! Of
Washington. and not 50 weil-krown
either. as he is one Of its first c!a.s
sphinXcS, ubiquitous, acquainted with
every one and every one his acqu"'nt-
ancc. without knowing anything much
abou, him. lie calls himself General,
ard ! called General hangs about
Rum Row and bets drinks on tae size o.!
his muscle. ard that MS limbs are 60
firmly st that IL Is impossible 10 pinch
them. He sports lHXuriant beard, and
is something immense in physical de-
velopment. He isn't much on the grit
nor vet a geeat deal in striking. but IN
blowing ne is success.
1t was one o'clock Monica morning, IN
the barroom of a well-krown downtown
ayraue hotel, two young gentlemen, one
journalist from Alexandria and one
LAWYER fran Warreuton, were entering 10
take a night cap before retiring, WREN
the General followed, struck up con-
yersat'on, got into his old vein of mus
cularitv. displayed his powerful arm, per
formed few feats OF strength, and IT,
ished by inv ting the parties to drink.
"You were Confederate solder he
said. and Ia northern general, but !
don't mind that; come md drink.
"We've c'asped hands over the chssm
long AGO" said the iournsii>., "and pre-
Ter to spii, whisky straight TO gore.
After a little further conversation the
General asked the bar keeper for sip
ef pspe.. Il vii. write one, two and
three on this. and We vii draw for who,
will pay.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1876-03-02

opinion gratis. The New York dailies
seem to have the inside track and
crowd the home issues 10 the. ropes.
l tried to see the grandest Masonic
Temple in the world to-day, but as it
was stormy no visitors were admit d |,
SO couldn't get in to zine en-" The
city building now going up, covering
four squares at the intersection OF Broad
and Market, will bethe wonder of Am
erica if ever completed. Let your read
ers imagine marble structure capscious
enough to take within its inner courts
the entire capitol at Washington and
cover it up out of the wet, how'll that do
for a shanty? But think they are fool
ish for thus blocking up the two finest
thoroughfares of the city. I'll see the
boss Of the town about this before l leave.
I'm going to bed now
SALATHIEL.