The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1871-05-10
can any longer be called a right; ALT
changed to mere snfferance.

| ID mere SuueGauCc.
Our hopes for redress are in the calm
good sense, the second thought of the
American people. We call npon them
to be true to themselves and to their
postcrity, and, disresarding party
names and minor differences, to insist
upon decentralization of power, the
restriction of federal authority within
its just and proper limits, leaving to
the States the control over domestic
affairs, which is essential to their hap
piness, tranquility and good govern
ment.
Everything that malicious ingenuity
could suggest has been done to irritate
the people of the Middle and Southern
States. Gross and exaggerate charges
of d sorder and violence owe their o,i-
gin to the mischievous minds of the
potential managers in the Senate and
House Of Representatives, to which
the executive has, we regret to say.
lent his aid, aud thus helped to iDflame
popular feeling. In all this course of
hostile legislation and harsh resent
ment. no word of Cancellation, of kind
encouragement or fraternal fellowship
has ever been spoken by the President
or by Congress to the people of the
Southern States.
They have been addressed only in
the language of prescription. We
earnestly entreat our tellow-citizens,
to spare no effort to maintain peace
and order, to carefully protect the
rights of every citizen, to preserve
kindly relations among all men, and
to discountenance and discourage any
violations of the rights of any portion
of the people secured under the con-
stitution or any of its amendments.
Let us in conclusion earnestly beg
of yon not TO aid the present attempt
II of the radical partisans to stir up
: strife in the land to renew the issues
of the war, or to obstruct the return
OF peace and prosperity of the South
ern States, because it is thus that they
: seek to divert the attention of the
: country from the corruption aud ex-
> travagance in their administration of
9 public affairs and the dangerous and
profigate attempts they are making
: toward the creation of centralized,
military government.
j. In the five years of peace following
;. the war the radical administrations
II have expended 81 100000 for or
. binary purposes alone, being within
5000, 100000 of the aggregate amount
spent for the same purposes in wal
= and in peace during the seventv-o ne
years preceding June 80, 1871, not
including in either case the sum paid
> upon principal or interest of the pub.
lie debt. 1t is trifing with the intelli-
a gence ofthe people for the radica
!. leaders to pretend that this vast sun
s. has been honestly expended hundreds
of millions Of it have been wantonly
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squandcred.
a The expenditures of the government
n for the fiscal year ending June 80, 1861
. were only S62,OOO.OOO while for pre-
d cisely the same purposes, civil list
;. army navy, pensions and Indians
). Sl64 100000 were expended during thu
o fiscal year ending June 80, 1870. N.
W Indignation can be too stern, and NJ
~ scorn too severe, for the assertions b.
INSCRIPTIONS radical leaders that tn
great Democratic and conservative
party of the Union has or can llav
- sympathy with disorder or violcnc
in any part Of the country, or in tin
~ deprivations of any man of his right
under the constitution.
1t is to protect and perpetuate til
rights which every free man cherishes
y to revive in all hearts the feeling o
friendship, affection and harmony
which are the best guarantees OF lax
:. ;, aud brder, and to throw around TIL
" humblest citizen, whatever he may be
: the protecting aegis of those safe
: 4guards of personal liberty which til
fundamental laws of the land assure
80 that we invoke the aid of all good me
" in the work Of peace and reconciiia
''' ton.
y We invite their generous co-opera
= ton, irrespective of all former differ
:. ences of opinion, so that the hars
81 voice of discord may be silenced tia
new and dangerous sectional asita
ton may be checked; that the burden
of taxation direct or indirect, may h
OF reduced to the lowest point consister
en with good faith to every just nationa
e, obligations, and with a strictly econe
a mical administration of the govern
n ment, and that the States may be re
d stored, in their integrity and tru
~ relations to our federal Union.
us
tie PREVENTING DAMAGE TO FAR
er FIELDS BY WINTER AND SPRING RAIN
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