The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1877-06-21
A. PRYOR.

people. It's privileges and protection
are now everywhere restored, and the
I)yalty of Louisiana can be counted on
as surely as the fidelity of New York.
Henceforth the south is only ge0grapl
zeal expression. And this is a tribute
a confederate soldier brings to-day to the
graves of the fallen heroes of the union,
the solemn assurance that they fell not
in vain that the work they died to
achieve you have accomplished; that,
as they, by their devotion, saved the
union from overthrow, you, by the policy
of justice and magnanimity, have en-
shrined it in the hearts of its once furious
but now reclaimed and recOnciled foes
The people OF the north now have no
cause to mistTust the profession of fealty
to the union that comes from the soldier
of the south. Love of the union resumes
its original asCendanCe. Henceferth the
| strength and security of the south are
| only to be found under the shield of the
union. Freedom and facility of access
| in every part of this vast and Opulent
| land opens to the enterprise of the south
a bOundless field of adventure and i'm
parts to it's industrial and commercial |
| energies aquickening impulse OF develop |
ment and fruitiOn. Meanwhile an expe- |
dent devised to balk the ambition of the |
white race recOils upon its source and |
by augmenting the political power of
the south enables its aspiring spirits to
play a splendid and superior part on the
theatre of federal affairs. General Pryor
concluded with an eloquent appeal for
the perpetuity of the union.
HENRY wATTERsON.
There was an organic question left
fatally open by the authors of our con-
stitutiOn. There was property interest
madly entaDgled with the moral nature
of the time. There was no tribunal
having power to determine the issue.
: 1t is little perhaps to say that had the
people fOreseen all the consequences they
would not have TesOrted to arms but
recently experience shows us that they
would have made supreme sacrifices for
the sake of peace. History teaches us
] that wars are more or less the subject Of,
miscOnceptiOn and mischance It is
rare, indeed, if ever, when all the right
is on one side, and all the wrong on the
other. In our case, and / take leave to
! speak for both sides, we have much to
deplOre, nothing to make us ashamed.
Assuredly, the world has never seen terms
so liberal extended to soldiers beaten in
I civil broiI, or known such abstinence
" from sanguinary revenges during the
= progress of the strife. 1t is necessary to
q and Sherman in the moment of their
j triumph. The conflicts of this present
T, hour can not shut out from the hearts of
} greatful men the spectacle Of that dis
. NAL day, when, rising above the passions
. of victory and the ruins of conquest, the
/ chiefs OF the armies of the north remem
II beIed not merely that they were soldiers
y and men of honor, but that they were
e Americans. 1t was our Lee who paid
y the honOTs of war to your KeaTny.
u When the body of Morgan was borne tC
e its last resting place, soldiers of the
D union, assembled by chance on the public
a. square in Nashville, stood soldier like
l. uncovered as their fallen adversary
Oh passed. When Mcpherson fell a thrill
u of sorrow went along the whole con
!! federate line. / believe to day that the
81 assassination of Abraham Lincoln i
IL lamented in the south hardly less thar
in the north.
%, RICHARD o. GORMAN.
nd There lie here, too, some children o
Dle the Gael, whose fate it was to be opposed
OF to you, to be for awhile your foes. FO
on them, too, let the flowers of your sym
Ter pathy, your compassion, your generou
1T. affection be shed. They, too, were you
on brothers. They, too, were citizens q
lily the republic. They, too, believed tina
Os' they were in the right, and that thei
nd cause was the cause of justice and free
he dom. Submitted to the stern arbitTa
IN ment of war, the issue has been decide
he against them. They met their doom
he and there they lie in death. But tim
a is mercifuI, it considers circumstances
ad makes allowance for motives, mitigate
us the sentence and strips it of diohOnO1
asst There Is great virtue in time. 1t hea
,G many a wound, dries many a tear, an
en-, teaches men the blessed lesson of forgive
ing ness. Time has quenChed all The fire
Ill ancient anger. The common sense, tn
ect magnanimity, the instructive Statesman
tes ship of the people have recovered the
aid sway, and reconciliation, long delayed
1t is now not only virtue, it has become
ity necessity. The hOrrid nightmare, til
it dark fever of strife and struggle, wit
ans all their bitter memories have vanishe
ON ia the returning light of day, and a
yes men, north, south, east, and west, hay
ria, awakened to the consciousness that "
or are all one in destiny, united in Joy or
wn sorrow, for triumph or defeat one
YES language, in culture, in tradition a
ne structure of law, and that the bio
which strikes one section, one class, OF
ted race, one city, one village or hamlet
eIs the land sends the shock vibratir
The through it all.
'ul- lake, JneI, IndJ palmetto tree, anu =
DOd it, with all reverence, on the cOnfedeTa
her soldiers grave. He lived where it grey
Ost He was, | doubt not, a brave and tait
ed. full man, loyal to the cause he loved al
)od which he believed was worthy of h
If love. May the tree grow and fouris
the aud spread far its bOunteOus shade. Al
did so, rich in it's elevating, purifying, an
ar ennoblinginfuences let this day of cor
ant memOration be passed through all Il
she land. May no word be spoken that coU
us arouse ancient unkinduess. or stir tt
rec embeTs of an angry thought.
in The soldiers, by whose groves v
i'm stand, had little anger in their hearts.
ing have been told that in the midst of ba
1t tie, in the very heat and fire or cOnfiC
are federal and confederate soldiers hay
ON been known to pause for awhile by mi
Ose tual consent, Jay down their arms, drir
be at the same brook, out of the same Gu
hat exchange friendly courtesies, and, for Il
In time forget the deadly work which but
led few moments before had set them in arm
'ul- against one another. Could it be tn
9ri> we, after sixteen long years of peac
MT; have failed to acquire the same ma
ny, nanimlty which they, in the sho
my breathing times of battle, were used
'ur- display? The experience of all Il
5 a teaches us no worthier lesson than Il
I or wisdem of forgiveness. Look there ,
ing the graves, and receive the silent adm
ten milton of death. There at last. t
E. soldier of the north and the soldier
the south are comrades, and sleep 81
by side. On their graves falls the sar
sunlight. They are wet by the SAL
ago dew, covered now by the same verdi