The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1877-05-10
GONE OUT OF THE BUSHES, COL.
ZURICH.

Last Saturday the people OF
Nashville, irrespective of party
relations, met at the court house
to express the sentiments Of the
city concerning President Hayes
Southern policy. There was a
large attendance Of both parties,
but the Democrats were in the
majority. Judge Whitworth,
Ex-Gov. Neil S. Brown, Judge
East, John Overton, Thomas
Claiborne, T. NJ. Cheatham, Fl.
8. Foote, and other large lights
were present, but the published
proceedings give no mention
that our friend and confrere, Col.
Jno. 9. Burch, was on hand to
give additional responsibility to
the assemblage. OF late we
have read with special interest
the columns Of the American to
gauge the drift of its thinkings
and doings, but for the life Of US
we have been unable to locate
Col. Burch on the Hayes policy.
lie seems very fdgety and ner-
vous, half approving and half
disappearing, first on one side
and then on eanother-very IN
sARTIN where to stand. We feel
sorry for him. He is staying too
long in the bushes. He should
coEe-out and go along with the
rest Of his kin up the great broad
highway of national pacifcation
and interstate fraternity. This
distinguished Democratic chief
tain of Tennessee should be in
the lead, bugle in hand, rallying
our people to endorse as one
man Hayes home-rule policy in
the South. He should not allow
the American to exhaust its
wind in handling thread bare
scientific theories through well
loaded columns, varying the
dish with labored articles dag
nosing the peculiar autonomy OF
the Turkish and Russian gov
ernments, with a chorus each
week upon Ultramontanism in
Europe. We admit all this to be
palatable reading, for it embod-
les much truth and exhibits no
ordinary scholarship, but such
diet for a constancy at this time
is rather too heavy and mOnoto-
nous for the season. The fresh
ness of unfolding Spring-time, so
full Of promise to the husband
man, has certainly an apt reflec-
ton in the opening pacific course
of His ExcelIency, President
Hayes. Let our respected con
temporary chime in with the
drift of things as evidenced both
in nature and in the administra-
ton of federal affairs. Give the
public a seasonable bill of fare.
To keep on re-dressing and re-
cooking sectional issues which
have already become fly-blown,
is to feed people upon mess
Of political putrescence. The
shambles are filed with fat,
tempting bits Of meat, waiting
to be dispensed to all corners,
Why refuse such inviting ma
terials as Conservative Party
ism, Fraternity, Goodwill to
Hayes, Down with Scheming
Politicians, The People and not
the Party Hacks should rule the
Party, etc?
For ten years the South has
needed a good, invigorating ap-
petizer, and this spring she has
had it to her hearts content in
Mr.. Hayes friendliness towards
her people, which, figuratively
she has relished, after a long
winter of discomfort, just as
much as she has the crisped iced
lettuce and luscious berries sc
beautifully provided by her gen
ial soil. Col. Burch's potential
voice once sounded up and down
the democratic line, pointing the
way to high endeavor, but al
this timeHt has lost its old timed
ringing shrillness, and is known
only by the low, dull notes OF ITS
mufIied tongue. This is not as
it should be. The leaders in oul
Democratic brotherhood seem tc
be afflicted with a Bull Run dis
comfiture since President Hayes
unfurled the standard of section
al reconciliation. They seem tC
have lost both courage and WIS
dem. They should return from
their wanderings IN the wilder