The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1871-04-28
TIE PEOPLE APPEALED TO.

Our hopes for redress arc in the
calm good sense, ''the sober second
thought" Of the American people.
We call upon them to be true to them
selves and to their past. and, disre-
garding party names and miror diff
fercnces, to insist upon decent eqall--
zation Of power, the restriction 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 ingenuity
could suggest has been done to 'rrI,
tate the people of the Middle and
Southern Statcsj gross and exa sgcr-
ated chaagcs of disorder and violence
owe their origin to the mischlevous
minds of political managers in the
Senate and House of Representatives,
to which the Executive has, we regret
to say, lent his aid. and thus hcl7ed to
infamc the popular feeling. In oil
this course of hostile Legislation and
harsh resentment no word of concllla-
tion, of kind encouragement Of frater-
nal 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.
VIOLENCE DEPRECATED.
We earnestly entreat our fellow
citizens in all parts of the Union to
spare no effort to- maintain peace
land order, to carefully protect the
rights of every citizen, to preserve
kindly relations among all men and
to discountenancc and discourage any
violations Of the rights of any portion
of the people secured under the con-
Fstitution 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 review the issues of
the war or to obstruct the return of
peace and prosperity TO the Southern
States, because 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 profiigate attempts they arc
making towards the creation of GEN.
tralizcd military governments.
RADICAL ExTRAvAGANcE.
In the five years of peace following
the war tho radical administrations
have expended 81, 200, 100000 for or
dinary purposes alone, being within
s2,OO,o0O,o 1000 of the aggregate amount
spent for the same purpose in war
and in peace during the sevenly-one
years preceding June 30, 1861, no:i
including, in either case, the sum paid
upon principal or interest of the
public debt. 1t is trifinS with the
intelligence of the people for the
radical leaders to pretend that this
vast sum has been honestly expended
Hundreds Of millions of it have been
wantonly squandercd- The cSpcndi
lures Of the government fer the fiscal
year ending June so, 1861, were only
SG2, 100000, while for precisely the
same purposcs-civil list, army, navy,
pensions and Indians-s164; ;0oG, 900
were expended during the fiscal year;
ending June 80, 1870.
No indignation can be too stern
and no scorn too severe for the asser-
lions by unscrupulous radical leaders
that the great democratic and. conscr- |
vative rarty 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 constitution.
RIGHTS TO DE PROTECTED AND pERPET-
UATED.
It is to protect and perpetuate the
rights which every freeman cherishcs,
to revive in all hearts the feeling of
friendship, affection and harmony,
which arc the best guarantees Of law
and order, and to throw around the
humblcst citizen, wherever he may be,
the protecting Ggis of these sate-i
guards Of personal liberty which the
Fundamental laws Of tho land assure,
that we invoke the aid Of all good
men in the work of peace and recon-
cliation we invite their generous
cooperation, irrespective of all for
mcr differences of opinion, so that the
harsh voice Of discord may bc relieved;
thar a new and dangerous sctional
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 u
strictly economical administration of
the government, and that the States
may be restored in their integrity and
true relations 10 our federal union,