The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-05-01

day last brings ont new phase of the
Democratic doctrine of State Rights.
and makes a distinction which is quite
novel. 1t was claimed by the Briga.
diers quite early in the session that the
General Government bad no right to
establish quarantine or take any san
/ airy measures that would prevent t, 6
yellow fever from entering the South
and spreading over the country. The
Southern cities are notoriously dirtv
and unhealthy, and it is equally motor.
ious that they won't clean up their
dirt, as the white people won't work
and the blacks don't want to work for
nothing, having the mistaken idea
that they are free men, and therefore
entitled to compensation for their la
Dor. 1t IS notorious also that the DO
hce regulations for enforcing sanitary
measures are not carried out, and that
yellow fever in consequence has an I'M
obstructcd field of operation.
Last summer the charitable people
OF the North came forward voluntarily.
opened their hearts and pockets, and
helped the South out of wretched
plight. As all the signs of a return of
the disease this summer were apparent
the North conceived another humaEe
project for Southern relief by the in
PRODUCTION ola bill authorizing the Ma
tIonal Government to use It's money
and It's pOwsr TO do for the South what
1t cannot do for itself, namely, estab-
lish rigid guarantees and ward off the
threatened visitation of this horril ! F.,
disease. Immediately the confederate
brlgadiers arose, with Virginia at the
head, and furiously denounced this
humanitarian project as an invasion of
OF the State Rights and an unwarrant-
able and insolent interference with the
functions of the States. They were
willing that the Northern people should
contribute their money and supplies to
help the South in its extremity, but
the General Government should never
lnterpose its powerful arm and hold
the yellow monster at baY-nevcr,
never, not even hardly ever
But one man of the whole Southern
delegation, and he the one who had re-
manned at his post like a hero fighting
the yellow fever-the Hon. Casey
loung-had the nIanliness to stand
up and support the bill, while the other
brIgadlers, who had rusticated in the
healthy Northern cities during the pro-
gress Of the epidemic, beloved their
hatred Of the Federal power and their
love OF State sovereignty.
Now, after this display Of malice
toward the General Government. and
Of determination that it shall not inter
pose its power in behalf Of sick men,
come these same brigadiers, with Viz
ginia at their head again, and ask the
General Government to spend lis mo-
ney and interposo its power i'll behalf
Of sick cows in the South; in other
words, to authorize Federal officers to
visit Southern farm-yards and kill all
cattle suspected of having pleuro- pncu-
mOnia.
1t seems, then, chat in the minds of
the Southern Brigadiere there IS, 50 far
as State Rights are concerned, a radi-
cal difference between a man with the
yellow fever and a COW with the pleu-
or a hog with the cholera.
The General Government can help
The hog, but it must not help the man.
This is inconsistent ON It's face. If the
Government cannot interfere to pre-
vent yellow fever, it has no right to
eradicate pleuro- pneumonia. If it
must not come to the relief of sick
men and women, it certainly must not
help sick cows and hogs. fthe South
viii have yellow fever rather than give
up its doctrine of State Rights, then
let 1t have pleuro-pneumOnia also, and
all other diseases in the category. fl
the Government cannot be permitted
to help men and women, it is an insult
to ask it to help cows and hogs.