The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1871-05-05

zens I'm ~ parts Of tho Union t0zGpare
no effort to maintain peace and order
to carefully protect the rights Of every
citizen, to preserve kindly relations
among all men, and 10 discountenance
and discourage any violation = the
rights of any portion OF the people
secured under the Constitution, or any
Of its amendments. -
Let us, in conclusion, earnestly beg
Of you not to aid the present attempts
of 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 to the Southern States, be-
cause 1t is thus that they seek to di-
vide the attention of the country from
the corruption and extrayagance in
their administration of the public af-
fairs, and the dangerous and profiigate
attempts they are making towards the
creation of q centralized military gov
eminent
In the five years Of peace following
the war the Radical administrations
have expended I, IN, 900, ,0W dollars for
ordinary purposes alone, being within
500, 900, 900 of the aggregate amount
spent for the same purposes i'm war,
and in peace, during tn > seventy-One
years preceding June 80, 1861, not iu-
cluding, in either case, the sum paid
upon the principal or interest Of the
public debt.
1t is trifliny with the intelligence Of
the people, for the Radical leaders 10
pretend that this vast sum has been
honestly expended Hundreds of mil
lions Of it has been wantOnly sqIan-
dered. The expenditures of the Gov
ernment, for the fiscal year ending June
30, 1861, were only S6s,O0,WD, while
for precisely the same purposes-civil
list, army, navy PENSIONS and Indians
-S16i, 100000 were expended during
the fiscal year ending June "a, 1870.
No indignation could be tO) stern,
and no scOrn too severe for the asscr-
tions by unscrupulous Radical leaders,
that the great Democratic party of the
Union has or can have sympathy with
disorders or violence in any part Of the
country, or in the deprivation of any
man Of his rights under the Constitu-
ton. 1t is to protect and perpetuate
the rights which every freeman cher
ishes, to revive i'm all hearts the feelings
of friendship, affection and harmony,
which are the lest guarantees Of law
and order, and to throw around the
humblest citizen, wherever he may be,
the protecting egis of those safeguards
of personal liberty which the funda-
mental laws Of the land assure, that we
invoke the aid of all good men i'm the
work of peace and reconciliation.
We invite their generous co-Opera-
ton, irrespective of all former differ.
ences of opinion, so that the harsh
voice ofdiscord may be silenceJ; that
q new and dangerous sectional agita-
ton may be checked; that the burdens
of taxation, direct and indirect, may
he reduced to the lowest point consis-
tent with good faith to every just ma
tional obligation, and with q stricter
economical administration of the Gov
ernment, and that the States may be
restored, i'm their integrity and true re-
lation to our Federal Union.
Senator's EUaENE CAssERLY, Cal.
GARRETT DAVIS, NY.
JOHN w. JOHNSON, Va.
II. f. BAYARD, Del.
JOHN II. STOCKTON, " j.
FRANK =. BLAIR, Mo.
ELI SALISBURY, Del.
n. 81. THURMAN, Ohio.
GEORGE VCKERs, Md.
!. w. STEvENsGS. Ky.
JAS. X. NELLY, oregon.
WM. L. HAMILTON, Md.
III. q. DAVIS, w. Va
HENRY COOPER, Tenn.