The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1871-05-03

is denied its just reward, and industry
is prostrated by invidious discrimina.
ton. Nearly 100000, 600 acres of
public lands, which should have been
reserved for tho benefit Of the peo-
pie, have been voted away to
giant corporations, neg lcotfng our SOL
diers and curiching handful of gree
dy spectators and lobby lists who are
thereby enabled to exercise q most
dangerous aud cor,upting influence
over State Federal legislation. Ii tho
career of thess conspirators be not
checked, the downfall Of free govern
meut is inevitable, and with it the
elevation Of IL military dictator on
the ruins Of the republic.
Under pretense Of passing laws to
cnforce the fourteenth amend ment,
and for other purposes, Congress has
conferred the most despotic powers
npou the Executive, aud provided IN
official machinery, by which the liber-
ties of the people are menaced and
the sacred right of local self govern
mcnt in the Safes iguored, if not ty-
ranically overthrown. Modelled up
to tho scdition laws so odious in his
tory, they arc at viriance with all the
sanctiicd theories of our institutions.
And the construction given by these
Radical interpreters to the fourteenth
amendment is, to use the language Of
an eminent Senator, Mr.. Trumh ull,
Of Illinois, an "annihilator of States"
Under the last enforcement bill ",he
Executive may, iu his discretion
thrust aside the government of any
State, suspend tho writ of habeas cor
pus," arrest its Governor, imprison or
disperso the Legislature, silence
it's 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 suiferance. Our hopes for re-
dress arc in the calm, good sense, the
''sobcr second thought" of the Amori-
can people. We call upon them to
be true to themselves and to their
past, and disregarding party names and
n inor differences, to insist upon de-
cent equalization of power, the res
friction Of Federal authority within
its just and proper limits, leaving to
the States that control over domestic
affairs which is essential to their
happiness, and tranquility, and good
government.
Everything that malicious ingenui.
ty could suggest has beeh done to
irritate the people of the Middle and
Southern States, Gross and exagger.
ated charges OF disorder and violence
owe thei origin to the mischievous
minds Of potential managers In the
Senate aud House of Representatives
to which the Executive has, we re-
gret to say, lont his aid, and thus
helped to inAAme the popular feeling.
In all this course of hostile Legislation
and harsh resentment, no word Of con-
ciliation, Of encouragement or frater'
nal feeling has ever been spoken by
Che President or Congress to the peo-
pie Of the Southern States. They
have been addressed only in tho Ian
guagc of prescription, We earnestly
cntreat our fellow.citizens, in all
parts of the Union, to spare no efforts
to maintain peace and order to care.
fully protect the rights of ever citi-
acu l.; to preserve kindly relations
among all men, and to discountenance
and discourage any violation of the
rights of any portion Of the people
secured under the Constitution or any
of its amendments ,and in conclusion,
we earnestly beg Of you not to give
aid to the present attempts Of Radical
partisans to stir up strife in the land
to renew the Issues Of war, or to OBJ.
truct tho return Of peace and pros
purity to the Southern States, be.
cause it ls thus that they seek to
divert the attention Of tho country
from the corruption and extravagance
in their administration Of public
affairs aud the dangerous and profit
gate attempt they are making towards
the creation Of centralized military
government.
In the five years Of peace following
the war the Radical administration
have expended 81 10000 900 for or
dinary purposes alone, being within
$20O,OOO,o0O Of the aggregate amount
speut for the same purposes in war
and in peace during tho seventy-one
years preceding June 80, 1861, not
including in either case the sum upon
principal or interest Of the public
debt. 1t is triaing with the iutelli-
genee of the people for the Radical
leaders to pretend that this vast sim
has been honestly expended. Hun.
dreds Of millions of It have BEEN wan.
t,nly squandered. Tho expenditures
Of tie Government for the fiscal year
ending June 80, 1861, were only $62,.
600, 900, while for precisely the same
purposes --oivil list, army, navy, PEN
sion and Indians--$l64,0 900, 900 were
expended during the fiscal year eud-
ing June 80, 1870. No indignation
can be too stern and no scorn too