Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1871-05-04

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to the States that control over domestic
affairs when is essential to their happi.
ness and tranquility ard good govern
ment. Everything that malicious inge
putty could suggest has been done to ir
rilate the people of the Middle and
Southern States. Gross and exaggcrat'
ed charges of disorder and violence owe
their origin to the mischievous minds oil
political managers iu the Senate and
House of Representatives, to which the
Executive has, we regret to say, lent his
aid, aud thus helped TO inhame the pop
ular feeling. In all the hostile course Of
legislation and harsh resentment, nc
word of Cancellation, of kind encourage
ment, Of fIaterual 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 eutreat our fellow-ci'izens
ia all parts of the Union to spare no ct
fort to maintain peace and order, to
carefully protect the rights of every cil-
zen, to preserve kindly relations among
all men, aud to discountenance or dis.
courage any violations of the rights of
any portion of the people secured under
the Constitution Or any of its amend
mcnts.
Let us, in conclusion, earnestly beg
of you not to aid the present attempts
of Radical partisans 10 stir up the strife
in the land, to renew the issues Of the
war, Or to obstruct the return of peace
aud prosperity to Southern States; be-
Cause it is thus that they seek to divert
the attention Of the country from the
corruption and extravaganza of their
administration of public affairs, and the
dangerous and proaigatc attempts they
are making toward the creation of
CENTRALIZED MILITARY GOVERNMENT.
In the five years of peace following
the war the radical administrations have
expended 81 200, 200, 900 for ordinary
purposes alone, being within S200,00O,-
900 of the aggregate amount spent for
the same purposes in war aud in peace
during the seventy-one years preceding
June 80, 1861, not including in either
case the sum paid on principal or inter
est of the public debt. 1t is triAing with
the intelligence of the people for the
radical leaders TO pretend tina, this vast
sum has been honestly expended. Hun.
dreds of millions of 1t have been want
only squaudered. The expenditures of
the Government for the fiscaI year end
ing June 80, 1861, were only s62,000,-
600, while tor precisely the same pur.
poses-civil list, army, navy, pensions,
and Indians-SlG4, 100000 were sx-
pended during the fiscal year ending
June 80, 1870. No Indignation can be
TOO stern and no scorn too severe for the
assertions by
UNsCRUPULOUS RADICAL LEADERS.
that the great Democratic aud Couser-
vative party OF the Uuion has or eau
have sympathy with disorders or vio-
lence in any part of the country, or in
the depriva'ions of any man of his
rights under the Constitution. 1t is to
protect aud perpciuale the rights which
every freeman cherishes to revive ia
all hearts the feeling of friendship, at.
lection, aud harmony, which are the
best guarantees OF law and order; and
to throw around the humblest citizen,
wherever he may be, the protecting egis
Of these safeguards of personal liberty,
which the fundamental laws of the land
secure that we invoke the aid Of all
good men in the work of peace aud rec.
ouciiaion we invite their generous
cooperation, irrespective Of all former
differences Of opuiou, so that the harsh
voice of discord may be relieved that
new aud dangerous sectional agitation
may be checked that the burdens of
taxation, direct or Indirect may be re-
duced to the lowest point consistent
wi good faith in every just natioual
obligation, aud with strictly economi-
cal administration of the Government
and thai the States may be restored in
their integrity and true relations to our
federal Union.
The foregoing is signed by the Demo-
cratic Senators and Representatives.