The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1878-11-07

would be not unimportant or inef-
fective factor in bringing back the
country to It's normal prosperity.
This must be brought about by gen
erous concession and just compromise.
Principle may never be compromised,
but expediency requises it often. The
God-head itself, happily for poor fall
en- man, was compromise between
justice and mercy. In a country
like ours-so vast and so embracing
of products of every soil and eli
mate, of every variety of manufac-
ture and commercial enterprise-con-
cessiOn and compromise may, with
our hearts in their right places, be
made the efficient hand-maidens of a
restored tranquility and common
prosperity. And was there ever a
more propitious time to inaugurate
this new era ?-ever period when
the public heart was more sensitively
animated in this direction? And now
upon the eve of the great political
campaign opening up before us, does
it not behoove the people everywhere
to put their unmistakable stamp of
reprobation and telling censure upon
a repetition of the unholy work of in
citation of section against section
which has been going on for years,
and bid it stop right here? This
fraud upon truth, for political effect,
has been Perpetrated long enough.
The people of the North and South
do not hate each other. Else why
this wall from the land Of the scourge
and the pestilence, and the ready re
sponse it has found in the sympa-
thizing breasts of a Northern broth
erhood. In my late visit to your
great commercial emPorium-so cos
mopolitan in its character and noble
in its charities-as a Southern man |
have been profoundly impressed and
deeply touched by the manifestation
of tender consideration, in all classes,
for the suffering, stricken communi-
ties of our Southern cities. Already
more than a hundred thousand dol
lars have gone forth to the scenes of
devastation from New York alone,
while Philadelphia, Boston, Chicago,
Cleveland and other towns through
out the North have spoken right out
their heartfelt sympathy, and given
substantial effect to it by generous
contributions to the plague-invested
cities of the South. And the work
still goes bravely on! l heard. too,
the fervent supplications from the
!, chancel and the pulpit to the Lord
of life and death, of sickness and
health" for the arrest of the march OF
the fatal scourge, the recovery Of the
sick. the spiritual consultations of the
dying and the comfort of the broken
hearted living-and all the people
cried Amen
Men and women in the South in
whose natures are tabernacled gene
rous impulses will never forget these
kindly ministrations in the dark hours
f of disease and death. Not South
f ern hand that will not be reached
forth in grateful acknowledgment and
: heartfelt appreciation for the sponta
; neous sympathy and timely aid Of oul
, Northern brothers. They have in
f deed proved that 'blOod was thicke
} than water" Let us hope, then, tina
f this Wholesome frame Of mind ma,
+ not be disturbed by another era 0
= maIdened elimination and recrimina
$ ton; and let the South especially Ia.
5 this lesson to heart, and keep 1t con
=. stantly in her memory: That when he
own were a-hungered and thirsty an,
= naked and sick, and near the prison G
:. death, they were kindly ministere
e unto by her Northern brethren of
; common nationality Nor let the me
!, of the North cloud their noble nc
II tives and stultify the noble deeds the
, have done and are doing in the caus
4 of humane philanthropy by count'
t" nancing a political canvass eharactel
K lied by acrimonious abuse of thei
S Southern brethren, All this is mo.
D unnatural and improbable. As SUI
d as good is true it is wrong and has hs
re much to do with the general distre
2r of the country. There can be 1
re common prosperity in the absence
n vital community of interest in eac
" other. The battle-axe- must not on
Ii be buried, but the sword and the spe.
d must be turned into the ploughsha
j. and the pruning-hook, and the cal
70 met of peace must be smoked throug
er out the whole length and breadth
IL the land. Let Congress leave off pc
:, itics and give us wise and peaceti
- legislation, and then, and not unt
-P then, shall We see a truly united pc
IS, pie. restored to the inestimable bles
Is ings of happiness and prosperity.
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