The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1878-11-28
Business Must Have Peace.

Philadelphia Times.I
The present would be most I'M
proptious time for a wanton renewal of
sectional hate. 1t would be bluuder
as political measure. for, with nearly
two years of freedom from violent DO
litical strife before US, the recovering
business interests f the nation would
crush out any party or any administra-
ton that attempted to embarass the
struggling efforts of industry and trade
for Il restoration to thrift. And would
be an unspeakable calamity to all the
material interests of the Union. 1t
would weaker the integrity of the Gov
eminent, depress public credit; para
lyze commerce; make capital shrink
from investment in every enterprise,
and, more than all, it would prove that
the whole capital, industry and pro-
gres of a great nation is ever at the
mercy of political leaders. It would
breed organized revolt in the great
centres of commerce and business, but
even when the reckless agitators were
overthrow, it would be at an incalcu-
liable sacrifice Of otherwise attainable
prosperity. Philadelphia, welded as
her people are to the Republican faith,
would lead in determined resistance
to revival of sectional discord. AL
ready her trade has suffered unjustlybe-
cause of violence of her partisan jour
mails in the desperations of our political
campaigns. They are presumed to
speak for the business men of Philadel-
phia whom they Te.vert and deEounce
unfortunately, every effort of the
South to rescue its States from the
most desperate adventures of modern
history, when, in point of fact, no bus
mess community could be more just
to the South than the community that
is thus libeled by its political journals.
The business men will sustain the
South in nothing that Is wrong, nor
will they condemn them in anything
that is right. They earnestly desire
peace and the supremacy of law in all
sections, and it will be an evil day for
the political leaders when they ask
Philadelphia to join in a violent parti-
san crusade against any section merely
to serve political ends.
Business wants peace; it must have
peace. There is no issue between the
North and the South and there can be
none, unless a powerful party, backed
by the countless resources of the gov
eminent, resolve to have strife for the
sake of strife. Violations of law North
and South bring shame to the people
that must confess them, and the State
that tolerates them and the citizens who
excuses them, invite disgrace and law
lessness upon themselves. The time
has come when Pennsylvania and
South Carolina, New York and Louis
ianna can punish their own crimi
nails, protect their own citizens with
scupulous impair tally and assert al
the perogatives of government. When
they or any of them fail, the strong
arm of the national government hon
estly welded, and no. the politicians
who seek place at the cost of the safe
ty of the country and the prosperity o.
the people, must declare the law anc
administer its judgments. Sectional
strife means every evil that can strike
at tie prosperity of the nation, anC
there will be peace because the hungry
cry of all classes and all parties is fol
the speedy restoration of the business
prosperity that is just dawning upon 8
long suffering country.