The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1877-01-18
HENRY WATTERsUN ON THE
POLITICAL SITUATION.
Repu blican Conspiracy to Count
Tilden Out and Hayes In.
The People Must be Aroused to the
Danger Ahead.

EDDIIT HOUSE, WASHINGTON
January -, 1871
Congress reassembles, after ten 6avs
of Eseless junksting, TO find the situa-
ton precisely what IT. was when 1t took
lts recess, and indeed very much az it
was the first CAV of rhe se-~i0n Thus
far nothing has 5,-.u t-vslru-d At " ash
ingtOn except tr- "T~ ana means by
which the lead IT,. Ire Republican
conspiracy rrop 81. conn { Idpn cue
and Hayes in -..a lection OF Tildsn,
the existence Of he c"uspiracV and th"
names of the consIIratO-s are known tn
day no better than they were a month
ago. The President, he Secretary
the Interior and the Secretary of War;
Senators Morton and Sherman, AMI the
General of the army, emb ace the list in
full, How they are to partition the
Government out among themselves after
they have usurped it belongs tn the cate
CORY OF drtails which it is not worth our
while just now TO attempt to E,th0m
Their organization and purpose are
clear
IL ia unlikely that the conspiracy
reaches farther among the leading Re
TunlIcans The persons indicated have
constituted themselves into close Ger
Doration They think that, with tie
d
bold, defiant and lawess policy, br ng
the Senate TO their heels, and compel the
people to choose between them and civil
war. Hayes is a mere incident; men
alike Logan and Taft simple tools Much
enc, uragsment has been given the hopes
of the cOuspirauors by the pliancy of
these, but still more by the seeming
apathy of the country, which, in the
vain hope that Congress would strike out
q lead, has waited upon the nOn-acting
Democrats Meanwhile, the Dem Ocrats,
unused to the responsibilities of power,
have hesitated, and not without reason;
whilst the EasterA press, representing
the WpaIthier classes, has added its in
fluence to the prevailing iTresOlutiOn.
The truth is that Congress is merely a
reflector Ii is not a breeder of ideas.
Time was, before modern appliances had
given the people the opportunity to com
Inune promptly among themselves, when
men looked to Washington for adVISe-
Inenr. Now Washington looks to the
country. The chief argum mt offered in
favor of adinurning over the holidays
was embraced by the suggestion that
members would come back refreshed
and reinVigOrated by contact with their
constituents.
The people must act for themselves.
Without their support the House Of
Representatives. is pOwerless. A cor
POral's guard may dispense it. The ar
rest Of half a dozen of its members
would den oral re it. ANY hing every
thing Is possible to those who oppose
themselves to the cOaspirAtOrs But un-
less the PEG lie act there will be no need
OF violence on the part of the cORspira
tors. They will proceed without gard
TO pTecedents or facts with their plan to
gut he defeated candidate FIR President
In the " h tie House, lie We Congress to
pursue it's policy of impotenj protest,
and, having Weathered the 5th Of March,
gay with compIaeency to such as qugs-
ton, What are you ICING to do about
iI2''
Is there no peaceful remedy2 1 think
there is. There is the right of petition,
which, adequately pr scented and urged,
becomes n power. The Democrats do
not include civil war liz the list of their
resources Civil war is not a red-tape
affair. 1t does not come in the regulation
way Nor is il likely to happen ever
until all the peaceful methods for the
redress of grievances have been ex-
hauzted. TIE Democratic party plants
itsen upon the law aud tie facts 1t de-
clares that the vote of no STATE shall be
counted without .h- oa-ynr Of both
Houses of Con- 30 e. e. v.te has
over been or Since tn .
Ecundation Of % sh-
present time, l.. t-ac- fur
nIshed by th !, -....t ADDE'S them
selves. all auth s.y -u~Cuin- thi4 post
ton. On it thu u mucratc party plants
itself, and means t. sand until it is
driven of at the point of the bayonet
IC Is for our people TO determine, there
fore, whether this shall be done. If
they Will rise in their might and, exer-
csng the peaceful right of petition, will
memOrIaliZe the Senate to do its duty, to
do that which every Republican mem
Der Of the Senate is committed to, and
will end hundred thousand petition rs
to Washingt 90 the l4Gh of February
to present the memorial in person, there
will be no usurpatior aud no civil war.
The cOnspirators will be thwart"d
There will e Republicans ennu IN IA the
Senate to defeat them, and we shall haVe
the Presidential result settled by we'll
established constitutional methods
Otherwise tlose Republican Senators
who wish TO do right, seeing that the
country Ia going TO submit too, and VIZ
shall drift into a rev era of pOpuir dis
content, the end of which no man car
see.
The convention called to assemble in
Louisville on the 18th should consider
these things There is little mOlexiGy
whatever in the situation. All that
have written here may be elied upor
with absolute assurance. 1t is no pleas
ure to write such tning~; but they shout,
be written simply and distinctly. If tn,
convention wishes to do som ething let i
take ground firmly, not nois'Iy, for tn
Joint right of the two Houses. fortified a
it is by all precedent and having thu
memorialized the Senate, let it provid
for the presence OF at least ten thousan
unarmed KPntuckians in this city on tn
coming 18th OF Febr uary. Less thai
this will be of no avail. So much, sui
p!emented as it will be by other States
will secure through civil agencies tn
peaceful settlement of the most danger
Gus issue that ever menaced the exisi
ence of a tree guve' nment b. w.
There IS no need, in this emergency
for arms and ammunition There Is
mower more potent than the sword; it
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