The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1871-04-27

It's Governor, imprlson or disperse the
Legislature, silence its judges, aud
trample down its people under the arm.
ed heel of his troops. Nothing is left
to the citizen or the State which Gan
any longer be called right; all is
changed into mere sufferance.
Our hopes for redress are in the calm
good sense, the "sober second thought"
Of the American people We call upon
them to be true to themselves and to
their posterity, aud disregarding party
names aud minor differences, TO insist
upon a decentralization Of power, the
restriction of Federal authority within
Its just aud proper limits, leaving to
the States that control over domestic
affairs which is essential to their hap
pincss and tranquility and good gov
ernment
Everything that malicious ingenuity
could suggest has been done to irritate
the people Of the Middle and Southern
States. Gross aud exaggerated charges
OF disorder and violence owe their origin
to the mischievous minds of potential
managers ip the Senate and House of
Representatives, to which the Execu
tive has, We regret to say, lent his MD =,
and thus helped to inhame the popular
feeling. In all this course of hostile
legislation and harsh resentment, no
word of Cancellation, Of kind encour.
agement, or fraternal fellowship has
ever been spoken by the President, or
by Congress, to the people Of the South.
ern States. They have been addressed
only in the language of prescription.
We earnestly eatreat 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 any Of
its amendments.
Let us, in conclusion, earnestly beg
of you not to aid the present attem ps Of
Radical partisans to stir up strife in the
land to renew the issues of the war !;
or to obstruct the return of peace aud
prosperity to the Southern States be.
cause it is thus that they seek to divert
the attention Of tho country from the
corruption aud extravaganza in their
administration of public affairs, and the
dangerous and profigate attempts they
are making towards the creation of cen
tralized military government.
La the five years Of peace, following
the war, the Radical Administrations
have expended 81 200, 900 900 for ordi.
nary purposes alone, being within $780,.
100000 of the aggregate amount spent
for the same purposes in war aud in
peace during the seventy. one years pre-
ceding June 30, 1861, not including
10 either case the sum paid upon prin
cipal or interest Of the public debt. II is
trifling with the Intelligence Of the people
for the Radical leaders to pretend that
this vast sum has been honestly expen
ded. Hundreds of millions Of it have
been wantonly squandored.
The expenditures Of the Government
for the fiscal year ending June 30.
1861, were only SCI 100000, while for
precisely the same purposes-civil list,
army, navy, pensions, and Indians
sl64, 900, 900 We're expended during
the fiscal year ending June 30, 1870.
No indignation can be too stern, and
no scorn too severe. for the assertions,
by INSCRIPTIONS Radical leaders, that
the great Democratic and Conservative
party of the Union has or eau have
sympathy with disorders or violence in
any part of the county, or in the depri.
walton of any man of his rights under
the Constitution.
1t is to protect and perpetuate the
rights which every freeman cherishes
to revive in all hearts the feelings oil
friendship, affection. and harmony,
which are the best guarantees of law
and Order, aud to throw around the
humblest citizen, wherever no may BE-,
the protecting @gis of those safeguards
of personal liberty which the fundamcn.
tai laws Of the land assure, that we in
woke the aid OF all good men in the
work of peace and reconciliation. We
invite their generous cooperation, ire.
spcetive of all former differences of
opinion, so that the harsh voice Of dis
cord may be silenced; that new aud
dangerous sectional agitation may be
checked; that the burdens OF taxation,
direct or Indirect, may be reduced to
the lowest point consistent with good
faith to every just national obligation,
and with strictly economical admins
tration of the Government, and that the
States may be restored in their iutegri.
~ aud true relations to our Federal
Union.