The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1878-05-02
T4LMAGE AND THE SOUTH.
VindIcation or Southern PeOpIe-IIuion and
Fraternity Forever.
Extract from a late lecture in tin Tabernacle on
his visit South.

his visit South.
The South Is rejoicing in the rescue
from years of unrighteous govern
mcnt. just how the State of Louisi-
ana has been badgered, and her every
idea of self-goverment insulted, can
be appreciated only By those who
come face to face with the facts.
While some of the best patriots of the
North went down with right motives
to mingle in the reconstruction of
the State governments of the South,
many of these pilgrimists were the
cast-of' and thieving politicians of the
North, who, after being stoned ont Of
northern waters, Crawled up Oh the
beach at the South to sun themselves.
T Applause. The southern States
had enough dishonest men Of their own
without any importati'n. The day
Of trouble has passed. Louisiana and
South Carolina, for the most part, are
free. Governor Nichols Of the one,
and Governor Wade Hampton Of the
other, have the confidence of the great
masses Of the people. There Is only
one word that can describe the feeling
Of the South to-day, and that word IS
hope They haverecovcred from the
first discouragemento fruined fortunes,
and are expecting better ones than
they lost, and they will have them.
Ny opinion is that the largest fortunes
are vet to be made at the South, be
cause there is more room to make them,
greater reaches Of country to be dc
Velopcd, and more cOngeniality of eli
mate ready TO smile upon great indus
tries. So | change Horace Greely Us
famous advice, Go west and say to
our young people, 60 south Ap-
plausc. During my two weeks ut
the South, mingling with all classes Of
people, and III perpetual conversation,
often iacog,oito, l heard not enc unkind
word toward the North, or northern
people. CAppIause.] My opinion is,
that if to-day a northern man gets
hanged at the South, it is because he
deserves to be hanged! Applause ]
Those congressional politicians who
are charging upon the bclligerent
state Of the south must have some bad
design, or be President-making. There
| is no spirit Of fight in the south. do
not speak of what | read; l speak of
what | know. Ny observation is that
there is not so much need that the
south be reconstructed toward the
north as that the north should be to
ward the south. CApplause.] No
man on a lecturing platform to-day,
in the south, can make any allusion
implying loyalty to the United States
government but his voice will be
drowned out by the uproar of enthu-
siasm. There is no more use Of Fed
cral military at New Orleans that in
Brooklyn And vet there are men
hereabouts who are still cursing Press
dent Hayes because he withdrew the
military, and have not found out in
the last fourteen years that the war
was over. Let our newspapers and
our platforms quit stirring up the old
strifes. There is now absolutely
nothing to fight about. Peace from
Passamaquoddy bay to Lake Ponch-
artrain. Let there be peace
l bring a message Of greeting from
the churches of the south to the church
cs of the north. They are praying for
YOU. Let us pray for them. 1t is
high time that in all our denomina-
tions we mad determination. If We
can not agree-we Christians of the
north and south-God will kill us,
and raise up men with more large
hearted Christian charity We belong
to a denomination that about eighteen
years ago broke apart with awful VIC
lence. Since that day the two sec
tons have not been in brotherly cor
respondence. They think We are
christians, aud we know they are, and
VIC shall have to spend ten thousand
million years n heaven; aud ycl We