The Placer herald., 1871-05-13

ilDeTtieS VI TIE people are menaccO ana the
sacred right of local self-govemment in the
States is ignored, if not tyranically over
thrown. Modelled up to the sedition laws,
so odous in history, they are at variance
with all the sanctified theories of our insti-
tutons. And the construction given by
these Radical interpreters to the Fourteenth
Ame idne 1t is, to use the language of an
eminent Senator, Mr.. Trumbu!, of Illinois,
an "annihilator of States" Under the last
Enforcement bill "the Executive may, in his
discretion, thrust aside the Government of
any State, suspend the writ of habeas corp
us, arrest its Governor, imprison or disperse
the Legislature, silence its Judges, and
trample down its people under the armed
heel Of his troops. Nothing is left to the
citizen or the State which can any longer be
called right; all is changed into mere suf-
terance. Our hopes for redress are in the
calm, good sense, the sober second thought
of the American people. We call upon
them to be true 10 themselves and to their
post, and disregardmg party names and mi
nor differences, TO insist upon decent equal
zaton of power, the restriction of Federal
authority within its just and proper limits,
leaving to the States that control over do
mestc affairs which is essential to their hap
piness and tranquility, and good government.
Everything that malicious ingenuity could
suggest has been done to rrtate the people
of the Middle and Southern States. Gross
and exaggerated charges f disorder and vio
ence owe their origin to the mischievous
minds of political managers in the Senate and
House of Representatives, to which the EX-
ecutive has, we regret to say, lent his aid
and then helped to nhame the popular feel
ing. In all this course of hostile legislation
and h ,rsh resentment, no word of conc Ii :.
ton, of kind encouragement, of fratemal fel-
owship has ever been spoken by the Presi-
dent or by Congress to the people of the
Southern St"tes. They have been address
ed only in the language of prescription.
We earnestly entreat our fellow citizens in
all parts of the Union to spare no effort to
maintain peace and order, to carefully pro-
tect the rights of every citizen, to preserve
kindly relations among all men, and to dis
countenance and discourage any violations of
the rights of any portion of the people Sc
cured under the Constitution or any of its
amendments.
Let us, in conclusion. earnestly beg of you
not to aid the present attempts of Radical
partsans to stir up strife in the land, to re-
new the issues of the war, or to obstruct the
return of peace and prosperity TO the South
ern States, because it is thus that they seek
to divert the attention of the country from
The corruption and extravaganza of their ad-
ministration of public affairs and the dang
erous and proAigate attempts they are max
ng towards the creation of centralized mill
tary government. In the five years of peace
following the war the Radical Administration
have expended 81, 2O0, 900 900 for ordinary
purposes alone, being within $500, 900, ,000
of the aggregate amount spent for the same
purposes in war and in peace during the sew
tnty-one years preceding June 30, 1861
not including in either case the sum paid
upon principal or interest of the public debt.
1t is triiling with the intelligence of the peo
pie for the Radical leaders to pretend that
ihis vast sum has been honestly expended.
Hundreds of millions of it have been wanton-
y squandered. The expenditures for the
Government for the fiscal year ending June
30, 1861, were only $62, 600 GOO, while for
precisely the same purposes--civ list, army,
navy, pension and Indians s-Sl64 600 ,0OO
we're expended during the fiscal year ending
June 30, 1870. No indignation can be too
stern and 10 scom too severe for the asser-
lions by unscrupulous Radical leaders that
the great Democratic and Conservative par
ty of the Union has or can have sympathy
with disorders OF violence in any part of the
country, or in the deprivation of any man OF
his rights under the Constitution. 1t is to
protect and perpetuate the rights which every
f.eeman cherishes; to revive in all hearts the
feeling of friendship, affection and harmony
which are the best guarantees Of law and Or
der and to throw around the humblcst citi-
zen, wherever he may be, the protecting ~gis
Of these safeguards Of personal liberty which
the fundamental laws of the land assure,
,hat we invoke the aid of all good men in
The work of peace and reconciliation. We
invite their generous corporation, irrespec
i've of all former differences of opinion, SO
that the harsh voice of dscord may be re-
relieved, that new and dangerous sectional
agitation may he checked; that the burdens
of taxation direct or indirect, may be re-
duced to the lowest point consistent with
rood faith to every just national obligation,
and with a strict economical administration
Of the Government; and that the tates may
be restored in their integrity and true rela-
tions to our Federal Union.
Here follows the names of IA Democratic
United States Senators and "a members Of
Congress.