The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1871-04-28
BLOOMSBURY. PA, FRIDAY. APRIL %. 1871.

ana exaggerated charges OF disorder
and violence owe their origin to the
mischevous minds of political mana.
gers in the Senate and House of Rep
resentatives, to which the Executive
has, we regret to say, lent his aid, and
thus helped to lnhame the popular feel.
ing. In all this course of hostile legis-
lation and harsh resentment, no word
of conciliation, OF kind encouragement,
of 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 fellow.citi-
zens in all parts of the Union 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 Sc
cured under the Constitution or sny os
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 pros
perity to the Southern States, because it
Is thus that they seek to divert the at
tention of the country from the corrup.
tion and extravaganza Of their admin
istration of public affairs, and the dan.
gercus and prohigate attempts they are
making toward the creation of centra-
lized military government. In the five
years cf peace following the war, the
Radical administrations have expended
81 0,0000 900 for ordinary purposes
alone, being within $200,000,00O Of the
aggregate amount spent for the same
purposes in war and in peace during the
II years preceding June 80, 1861, not in
Guiding in either case the sum paid upon
principal and interest Of the public debt.
1t is triAng with the intelligence of the
people for the Radical leaders to pretend
that this vast sum has been honestly
expended. Hundreds of millions of ii
have been wantonly squandered. The
expenditures of the Government for the
fiscal year ending June 80, 1861, were
only $G2 ,OOO,OO while for precisely the
same purposes, civil list, army, navy
pensions, and Indians, Sl6i 1000, 600 were
expended during the fiscal year ending
June 80, 1870. No indignation can be
too stern, and no scorn too severe, fol
the assertions by INSCRIPTIONS Radica
leaders that the great Democratic an(
Conservative party of the Union has o
can have sympathy with disorders o.
violence in any part of the country, o
in the deprivation of any man of hi
rights under the Constitution. 1t is t
T., protect and perpetuate the rights whic
, every freeman cherishes, to revive /
q all hearts the feeling of friendship
| affection and harmony which are tn
:, best guarantees of law and order, and
;. throw around the humblest citizen
e wherever he may be, the protecting egi
=, of these safeguards Of personal libert!
which the fundamental laws of the lane
| llidb We lnNOhS uii vi oi
good men in the work Of peace and re
conciliation; we invite their generou
cooperation, irrespective of all forme
differences of opinion, so that the harsl
voice of discord may be relieved ; tina
, a new and dangerous sectional agitation
| may be checked; that the burdens o
\ taxation, direct or indirect, may be re
, duced to the lowest point consisten
f with good faith to every just nationa
: obligation, and with strictly economi
, cal administration of the Government
and that the States may be restored il
their integrity and true relations to on
Federal Union.
('Signed by all the Democratic Senator
and Representatives IN Congress.)