The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1878-11-07
A UNION OF HEARTS.
A Plea From Beverly Tucker, of Vir-
ginia, fer sympathy and Charity
Between North and South.


To THE EDITOR OF THE WORLD =
There have been numerous specula-
tions as to the cause of the financial
depression that at present pervades
every branch of industry and all de-
partments of trade. There is no sec
ton of this grand ocean-bound land
that has not been laid ender a terrible
tribute to its blighting visitations.
Public men, merchant princes, pohti
clans -too'often nowadays misnamed
statesmen-alike with the honest,
quiet thinker Of every profession or
calling, have essayed, each in his
way, and by his lights and from his
standpoint, to solve the mystery.
The efforts have, however, been far
from satisfactory, and have resulted
in 50 great contrariety of conclusions
that the public mind is left without
available enlightenment and the peo-
pie withoutrelief
The remedies, too, for the abnormal
condition of the largest commercial.
agricultural and manufacturing land,
redundant Of every elemant Of
wealth possible to be drawn from a
soil of unsurpassed generosity and of
climate as varied as the zones, have
challenged like assiduity of study
and research. But these have also
failed of solution, perhaps because
they have been as multiform as the
vocations of life or the work of man
itself l do not say this, however,
to cast any discredit upon the various
theories or the value of them that
this investigation has eliminated
On the contrary, l only wish to con
tribute a little mite to the treasury of
thought which the consideration of
this large and vital subject has at
tracted. Is it an Overdrawn senti-
mentalism to claim that much of this
grave trouble comes of the habit, too
long induIged in both sections, OF
thinking the North and South two
countries, inhabited by two distinct
) peoples, with separate interests, sep
arate missions and separate aspira
tions in a grand future, when such il
: not the fact? Our material interest.
are indissolubly bound up together
We are living under one Govern
ment, and have, after the stern les
sons and arbitrament of civil war
q repledged ourselves to live in peac,
under it. We are too much accus
+ toned, in this material, driving age
, tc confne our reasoning upon on
r, difficulties to the domain Of mere phy
steal conditions-to limit the opera
: ton of the laws of ''cause and effect
h to these only. We seem to overlool
the fact that there may be, doubtles
are, moral causes that have contrib
= uted not a little to the widesprea
% nndnCldI OISiSSS GHUCI W IiiC4l W ( ~
o. suffering. Is it a too sublimated G
: too plain a view TO assert that if W
. were more united in heart and syn
4 pathy as a people-less swayed b
/ the demagogical poi t clans of bot
At parties, who for party capital an
! their own selfish purposes are unit
+ ringly melting selfish animosity-w
,e should not only be a wiser and bette
n but q more prosperous people? Tn
u ty is power, but it must be unity
20 fact as well as form if we would rea
N blessings from the power it beSet
70 and so the putting of the shoulder
N together" in hearty cooperation fC
in the common veal would do much
IS bringing back prosperity and healtl
, full life-more, | hesitate not to sa,
u u than the repeal or non-repeal of r
10 sumption acts; more than the TRUMP
d of the hard or soft money party; mo
fe than protection or free trade; mo-
ne than the issues of the two great n
- - tional parties of the country. On a
ID these great minds of good men diff
widely and differ honestly, But