The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1877-06-07
THE MEMPHIS APPEAL.

=
characterizing it as an ally of |
Tammany in undertaking to |
break down the Southern restor
alton policy of Mr.. Hayes. Wei
stated facts we'll known to the
reading public and are not res
ponsible if our lance made the
Appeal squirm under the incis-
ion Of an attested statement.
We would have it known that
the BULLETIN has the highest ad-
miration of the personal worth
represented in the management
of the Appeal, and does not deal
with its private character, for
that is private property, but
claim a clear legitimate right to
handle its public character, for
that is public property.
1t is undeniabIe that the Ap-
peal is recognized within the
range Of its influence to be red
hot Calhoun Bourbon Democrat,
intensely sectional, uncompro-
missing and dictatorial in its pre-
tentiOus partisanship, and has
policy exhibited in its oppOsi-
ton to Southern restoration
which directly points to the ear
Iy, complete destruction Of ma
tional pacification, reverting the
South to its late condition of
merciless military rule. The
very atmosphere about the Ap-
peal is freighted with hostility
to the business prosperity and
material development of the
South. Located at one Of the
chief trade-centres in the Missis-
sippi Valley, which OverIooks a
vast territory just emerging bat
tered and impoverished out of
the commercial and political
gloom of accursed Republican
misrule, the Appeal is rash
enough to attempt to infame the
Southern bosom against the IN
doubted friendliness Of the ad-
ministratiOn towards the South.
when it must know that success
in this direction is to force Mr..
Hayes into the clutches Of Nor
ton and his ilk. Let the Appeal
succeed in its course and what
will ensue? The sentiment of
re-awakened natiOnaIism now so
happily binding anew the sec
tons in the brotherhood of a
cordial interstate fraternity
will be Observation-Disclosures
will lift once more its monster
front in our midst-confidence
in commercial circles will be de
strOyed, and the arts and appi-
ances of peace in aid of business
thrift and productive industry
will again forsake our section.
The Appeal in planting upon
the high bluffs skirting Memphis
a banner with His Fraudulen-
cy" and "ElizaPinkston" inscrib-
ed upon its folds as the cherished
watchwords of its inspiration
and action, is a standing insult
to the spirit of patriotism now
so graciousIy moving upon the
great deep Of the public mind
and is a formal, published notice
to the business community OF
Memphis that the Appeal would
rather see grass grow knee high
along Front Row than have the
South restored to prosperity dur
ing the administration Of Mr..
Hayes. Surely some such de
mon, spoken Of by ancient wri-
tiers, controls the deliberations
of the Appeal that it can rush
headlong against the overwhelm-
ing verdict of the Southern PEG
pie in their expressed apprecia-
ton of Mr.. Hayes services in the
interest oflocal self government
throughout the South. The Bull
LETIN in its Democratic makeup
is of purer and more reliable
texture than the raw-headand-
bloody bones warp and wool of
the Appeals Bourbonism. We
tenaciously cling to the true
blue Jefiersonian school OF Dem
ocratic orthodoxy in which we
were reared, in cOntradistinc-
ton from the Calhoun radical
ism of the Appeals Democracy.
We believe that devotion to
the unity and integrity Of the
Democratic party in the South
forces us to endorse Mr.. Hayes
in every move he makes inside
of the circle Of Democratic the
DRY and practice, and to do other
wise is sheer disqualification,
the climax of disgusting politi-
cal phariseeism. The BULLETIN
would demand the enforcement
of home-rule through the agency
of peaceful, constitutional meth
DDS, the Appeal would reach the
same result by revolution born
of a deeply sectonalized South
- Lnnrt Ihn Rr-r 1 my thinL-s