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The assertion has been made that employers of freedmen in Hardeman have tyrannized over them and by threats so intimidated them that they dare not go to the Registration officer and apply for certificates. We pronounce the assertion a “slander and a lie.” By referring to the tabular statement in another portion of this paper it will be seen that the negroes have, so far, a majority of 126 in the county. Shame on the miscreant who so willfully wrongs the people of Hardeman.

The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.), 20 July 1867, Page 2. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress.

Brownsville is still garrisoned by a detachment of regulars and a company of militia. They don’t boil their coffee in the same pot though, by any means.

The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.), 20 July 1867, Page 2. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress.

With this number closes the second volume of the Bolivar Bulletin.

The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.), 20 July 1867, Page 2. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress.

The Knoxville Free Press says; We are informed that during the present week pure salt water has been struck at what is known as “Powell’s Salt Works,” in Hawkins county, Tenn. Mr. MUSSELWHITE, who has been engaged for some months boring for salt water, is an old hand at the business. Rumor says, the water found is as strong as that used at the celebrated “King Works” of Smythe county, VA. The “Powell Works” ar situated about ten miles northwest of the town of Rogersville, and in one of the best timbered sections in the State. We congratulate our Hawkins friends on their good fortune.

The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.), 20 July 1867, Page 1. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress.

Last Tuesday a public meeting was held in the town of LaGrange, Fayette county, at which speeches were made by six different persons, one of whom was a negro named CARTER. The crowd was composed of five or six hundred negroes and thirty or forty whites. CARTER made use of highly inflammatory words, and said that there was not to be found, even with a lantern, in broad day light, one honest man in the Conservative party! His object seemed to be a very bad one indeed, for he never failed to appeal to the passions and prejudices of his race. Just such harangues brought about the New Orleans, Memphis, Brownsville, Franklin riots, and are always the starting points of lawlessness, rapine and murder. This instigator of evil is made the associate of white men, who doubtless, applaud him for the assertion that there is not an honest man in the Conservative party. Whither are we tending?

The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.), 13 July 1867, Page 2. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress.