The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-05-15
POLITICAL EVENTS.
"THAT REVOLUTION" {"
How &c is Raging an Our Believed LAND
a SiO0my Picture
The Nation Ind

How iG is BsEinE an Our Relieved AaHd-
a SiiOSmy Picture.
The Nation. Ind.
There seems to be little doubt that a
revolution has broken out which ought
not to be lightly passed over. The
democrats are pledged to refuse supplies
to carry on the government unless the
seventy-iour soldiers snd the officer now
believed to be quartered in the south
aIe forbidden to interfere with The free
dom of elections by " keeping the peace"
and the republicans are pledged to pre-
vent the passage of any bill which makes
the withdrawal of this licentious soldiery
3 sine qua non. As the parties are almost
exactly balanced in the two houses, and
Mr.. Hayes is a president who always
tries to do what bad men would dislike
q good man do under the circumstances,
it is pretty clear that, In the beautiful
language of Mr.. Robson, one Of the
"spheTes is going to invade the orbit"
Of one of the other spheres, and the in
vasiOn must necessarily cause trouble.
Moreover, General Grant is going to
land simultaneously at San Francisco,
whence he will be escorted across the
continent by one of the most ferocioua
hOrdes of politicians ever let loose IN any
country. Predatory by disposition, oc>
cupstion and training, and serving, too,
on committees of escort " without pay
it is not very difficult to see that by the
time they reach the longitude OF Wash
ingt0n, infamed as their worst passions
will th n be by 8 weeks intercourse with
their old leader, they will be ready for
any desperate attempt. A collision be-
tween Blackburn and his followers,
m2ddened to fury by months of congress
Ejona1 OTztoTy, and the union forces
under Grant will be inevitable, and It is
at least an even bet that the mailed hand
of the soldier will tighten around the
throat of shrieking liberty, strangled
amid the totteriDg wreck of the three
coordinate, yet independent, depart
ments of government.
A gloomy picture The worst of it is
that we care so little sb0ut it. Not q
man turns from his accustomed vocation
to prepare himself for the fray. Not g
man takes down the old family bible at
eventide and reads to his assembled
household words reminding them Of
their duty in the hour of peril Not
even a mass-meeting irrespective of
party" "a measure of pTecautiOn seldom
left untried in New York; has been
called. On the contrary, the banker
goes on banking, the merchant buying
and selling, the stoCk.broker dealing in
"puts snd calls, :" the lawyer arguing
his cases under the code and the cOdifer
changing the code under which he
argues them, the builder continues to
build, and the real estate speculator to
take advantage of the recent shrinkage
in real estate. The securities of rail
roads, too, 60 on improving in value,
while the government sells a hundred
millions OF four per cents at par.
The blow, perhaps, when it comes will
be all the harder to bear. In South
America and Mexico, where revolutions
Ocdr every year or two, the inhabitants
who do not take part for or against the
rising generally retire into their own
houses, baTricade their doors and wins
doWs and wait till the storm Is over.
Here, while q leader of one party is
denouucing any person who dallies
as " bastard " and consigning doubtsrs |
IL eternal damnstion, and q leader of |
another party is predicting an evasion |
and destruction of one coordinate sphere |
by another coordinate sphere, and Br. |
Wheeler is estimating the expenges of a |
trip to his home in Dutchess county for |
mis- sabeT, everybody goes on with his |
accustomed business as if there were no /
revolution in progress at all. Such q |
CSse is without parallel in the history of |
any country. In previous instances, it |
has been the people who have set the |
revolution in motion, and the politicians |
have rather reluctantly taken part in il. |
Here, the politicians in q most handsome |
way provide a revolution for the people. |
and the people viii not have anything |
to do with It. Whether this is from |
sheer obstinscy, or from the fact that it
has escaped their attention that there is
a revolution in progress, it is perhaps SIS
yet too early to say.