The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1877-04-19
COME, Mr.. MEMPHIS APPEAL
LET Us REASON TOGETHER.


LET Us REASON TOGETHER.
We respect the high personal worth
represented in the able management Of
this metropolitan journal, and coneede to
our contemporary the same patriotism
and purity Of motives we claim for our
selves. But this we do say. that it sig
nalIy errs in it's harsh judgment of Mr,
Hayes and, in seeking to ALLEVIATE the
South from hearty support of his ad-
ministration, it is doing violence to its
own name and fame as an acknowledged
organ of Southern sentiment and, If per
sisted in, it's course must and viii very
seriously embarrass tbs friends Of the
South in their effort to effect a full and
complete paciacation of these States.
Let as examine the grounds Of the .-AP-
yeaTs opposition to President Hayes. m
charges that he was frandulently elected
and hence should be antagoDized by our
people. We admit that extreme partI-
sanship secured his elevation to the
Presidency through the forms of law
and in the face of pronounced verdict
in favor of Mr. Tilden. Nevertheless
his election was legally declared and ac-
cordingly approved by Congress aud has
received the acquiescence Of the Ameri
can people. 1t thus stands solidly founded
as an established fact Being thus in
vested With the aecfedited pFsrogatives
. and the amp'est authority as Chief
Magistrate, not representing any particu
lar faction or section but the recognized
constitutional head of the whole eoun-
try, is it, we ask, in accord with the
spirit Of an elevated and enlarged pa
triotism to faunt forever before the
public gaze those charges of fra nd,
thereby seemingly attempting to cmbit-
ter the Southern mind against his ad-
ministTation and to imperil his openly
declared conciliatory course2 How can
devotion to the best interests of the
South sustain such opposition? What is
to be gained2 Shall Onr people tell Mr..
nayes that because he va frauduleBtly
elected President we despise his friendly
overtures and prefer to bear arother four
years lease of Federal vindictivenessf
Shall we tell him that peace is not 50
sweet as rovenge-that prosperity is not
80 needed by our stricken section as a
reign of sFiteful party hate2 Shall we
tell him that Southern Democrats had
rather see their homes cursed by Federal
prescription than that cur peopie should
be instrumental in contributing to the
success of his pacific administration?
We can only characterize such conduct
as judicial blindness, not unllke the de
spirtngy extremity of. reckless suicide,
There is not an atom Of wisdom ia such
opposition, but in it, we can clearly dis
Germ the handwriting Of an early and
sad doom awaiting that Interstate fra
ternitY which we had hoped would soon
become the heritage of the whole repub-
lie. We appeal to the Appeal to ascend
the Pisgah heights, of far-reaohing pa
triotic conception of the present du ties
and demands ef Southern citizenship
and survey the horison and see if loyalty
to the pressing needs of our section does
not require at our hands a cordial en-
dorsement of every bipartisan and con
ciliatOry act of President Hayes. We
appeal to the appeal to liftu itself above
the foul atmosphere Of heated paftisanry
and cease breathing the sitting vapors OF
acrimonious sectionalism.
Moreover, our esteemed contemporary
says IL is opposed to the Southern policy
Of the fraudulent President becanse i
is timid, cowardly and yacillating.
When we consider that Mr.. Hayes elec
tieR was directly the work of ultra Re
publicaBs and that in developing hi
policy Of friendship towards the Soutl
he bid defiance to thelemphatie counsel
of many of bis ablest and strongest sup
porters, we care not warranted ntstyl
ing his course ''timid, cowardly ant
vaciilatihg." But granting this eharg
Of the appeal is well founded, can w
reasonably expect to induce AR. Hayes
to become less timid, less cowardly ant
less vacillating by continually ineitint
Southern people to abuse and nnathema
tizs him and his Administrations II th'
Appeal is sincere in stating the grounds
of its opposition, it should change il
tactics and instead of vituperation- ust
the more rational weapons Of entrsatl
and forceful argument, and while accept
ing the good will Of Mr.. Hayes, show hia
that tn South is ripe and fitted to ap
preeiate and enforse. the righteousnsss q
his theory OF local selfgovernment, an;
that the material necessities of our poo
ple claim at his hands the fostering car,
Of .aspusitiys pasiGy policy,