The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1876-01-13
CENTENNIAL YEAR AND THE
FEW REMAINING SOREHEADs.

YEN LIN ~ 1AL EAh AN u TdE
FEW REMAINING SOREHEADs.
The year 1876, the Centenn ial of the
United States of America is destined to
witness the full and complete restoration
Of the fraternal regard Of the North and
the South, which as far back as the days
when abolitionism began its first aggr.s-
81 9ns on the rights of large portion Of
the people Of this United States began to
est-ange them IN mutual esteem, and af-
fection. The feeling engeDdered by the
controversy growing out of the Missouri
compromise, loosened many links in the
chain of mutual affection In the days
of Modification when we had giants and
not pigmies, in the councils Of the coun
try, the strength of our institutions were
again shaken, and the confidence of the
sections in each others justice and pa
triotism was weakened. The passage of
the fugitive slave law by Congress, and
the counter legi lation by several of the
Northern States to nulIify in effect this
national legislation for the protection of
the rights (uader the constitution of
the people Of the South, went far to
loosen the rivets which held US together
as confederate nation. The cloud of
abolitionism which had not arisen in the
time Of our fathers, for we were then
all shareholders from Massachusetts to
Georgia. scarcely bigger than ones
head in the days of John Quincy Adams,
(who adroitly carried it into the Nation
al Council under the guise of the sacred
right of petition) has continued unceas-
| iDgly pouring its poisonous waters into
| the very spring of our national unity,
| and never ceased to embitter its pure
waters until it eliminated in the cleo
ton by sectional party Of a sectional
| President in Abraham Lincoln of lii
nois. We all know what followed, and
it is too sad to comment upon. Time,
| the great healer is about to obliterate
the hate engendered by fratricidsl war.
With exception of few pig-headed i'm
praetlcables the American people are
| DESTROYS to ignore the devils work of the
past, shake hands of the reunited
chasm SO recently yawning between a
J divided people where fraternal feelings
had been entirely disrupted and had
given place to luminosity of the bitterest
/ character. Thank God a change has
come, and it augurs peace, happiness
and prosperity for the future; particu-
larly as the question which has been tie
cause of every arrangement between the
two sections, slavery is put to rest for
ever-SO mote it be.
Unfortunately the soreheads are not
all dead, or reconciliation would now
be fully accomplished One Mr. Blaine,
a tall gobLler" among the Radicals, in
| PRODUCES an amendmentto MIR. Rsndalls
bill Of general amnesty now penang in
Congress excluding Hon. jefferson Da-
Wis from the benef of the bill Mr.,
Blaine's caliber is too small to rise to
| the conception Of how much he beiittles
himself and attempts to disgrace a great
nation by attempting to make it back up
his hate against one man, who is no
more to blame than Lee, LoDgstreet,
johnson or any of our Generals, or mem
bers of the Congress of the eonfederacY.
Mr. Davis remained in the United States
Congress until his State passed its ordi-
nance of secession, and when he came
homo simply became a representative Of
his peoples feelings and determination
Being purely representative man.
where is the justice, prOpriety, sense or
decency in attempting to make him a
seape-goat for the acts of his people I?
Mr.. Davis can afford to pity the miserO ,
BILE feeling which embitters the hearts of
such men as Mr., Blaias and the Win
nebago tribe Let them howl until they
are hoarse, it probably tickles their own
ears, grati6es their own malignant pas
sions and hurts no body. Mr. Davi-
like lofty mountain, whose head is in
the clouds, looks calmly down upon the
musky fogs which hover at its base, hoy
erirg over their manly birthplace The
sun will dispense them after a while.