The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1880-09-02
THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY.

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How many times has It's fearless
hosts protected the weak against the
strong-religiOus liberty against in
tolerance-the birth right Of the hon
est poor against enemies who would
take it away.
But the most wonderful of all its
glories is that it has always refused
to foster jealousies between classes, or
to ride into power on domestic brOils.
1t has always turned its back upon
those who would array the prejudices
of the people against any class Of men,
and has clung with a faithfulness de-
serving of all praise to such principles
and lines of policy as are like the
blue canopy of Heaven-that over
shawdow all and rests unequally on
none"
Democrats of Hardeman, think of
the past glories Of our party before
you listen to the siren voice of these
men who have bolted, and are setting
up false Gods in Israel.
Think Of 1915, when the fathers OF
democracy in the Declaration of In
dependence arraigned the King OF
Great Britain because she had excited
domestic instructions among US, and
chad forbidden his Governors to pass
laws of immediate and pressing I'M
pOrtance. unless suspended in their
operation till his assent should be OBJ
tstined' Think of the time when
they struggled against the federalists
for the Independence Of the States, in
their own domestic affairs, and for
home rule.
Think you. poor man, of the time
when evil-minded persons excited the
prejudices of the rich to deny you the
right to vote. unless you happened to
own certain amount of property
and how the old democratic party
espOused your cause and with the
battle-ery, "a mans life and liberty
are worth more than property" de-
feated those who would have made
poverty a political crime.
Think you, men who have had
little education, of the time when
fomenters of domestic discord ex-
cited the prejudices of those who were
more favored amongst US against your
! unfortunate class, and strOve to deny
you the right to vote until you were
educated, and of that old party which
fought your battles and never faltered
until State after State which had Dc
MED You the right to vote, at last was
overcome, aud a freeman's right to 8
freeman's ballot was established
Think you, Catholics and foreigners
who came from the despOtisms of Eu
rope to make your homes with US, o.
the time when misguided persons ex
cited the religious prejudices Of native
born Americans against you, demand
ing laws against your becoming citi
zens, or being allowed to vote, unit
they had raised such fury that many
of you were insulted and beaten anC
some of you hanged on meat-hoOks il
q market house. Remember the ole
party that came to your rescue, anC
defended your right to live and enjoy
your own reBg ion.
Well do we remember that tina
stadnch and veteran democrat, Elk
Gov. Henry A. Wise, threw himsel
right across the path of Know Moth
ingism in Virginia, and by untirinl
zeal, and matchless eloquence chokeC
the life out of that revolutionary fac
ton, and thus established the fac
that democracy is the chosen cham
pion of the foreigners constitutions
rights.
i Think of those men in the EOrtl
that arrayed the prejudices of tina
people against your holding tht
slaves whom they had sold to you
until the radical party cried the Con
stitutiOn of the United States is
covenant with death, an agreemen
with hell, and rushing over the de
cision of the supreme court of tn.
United States, inaugRrated a civi
war, and desolated your country.
Remember the democracy Of tn
North which tried to stay the war o
one faction against another, of one par
of the people against the property o
another part.
Think, you democrats of Hardeman
of the republican party which ever
now is waving the bloody shirt anG
striving to continue their fraudulen
control of this great country b.
arOusing the antagOnism of one sec
ton of our common country agains
the other.
In a recent issue of the FOn du Lac
} Wisconsin, Chronicle, We find tn
following:
Let every Republican go the poll
, armed Let the grain-stacks an,
houses of the leading democrats b