South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1871-04-28

Our hopes for redress are In calm good
sense, and the sober second thought of the
American people. We call upon them TO
De true to themselves, aud TO their past,
ana disregarding party names and minor
dinerences, to insist upon descent equaG-
za'ion OF power, the restriction of federal
authority within It's just aud proper limits,
leaving the States that control of their do
mesuc affairs which il essential 10 their
happiness aud tranquility and good govern.
men;. Everything that
MALICIOUS INGENUITY
could suggest has been done to irrilate the
people OF the Southern States. The gross
and exaggerated charges of disorder and
violence owe their origin to the mischiev-
Gus minds of political managers in the Sen
ate and House OF Representatives, to which
the Executive has, We regret to say, lent
lls aid, and thus helped to infame popular
feeling.
In all this course of hostile legislation
and harsh resentment, no word of concil-
anon, kind encouragement, or fraterunl
fellowship, has ever been spoken by the
President or by Congress to the people of
the Southern States They have been adj
dressed only in the language ofthe proscr-
bed. We earnestly entreat our fellow-citi-
zens In all parts of the Union to
SPARE NO EFFORT TO MAINTAIN PEACE
and order, aud to carefully protect the
rights of every citizen, to preserve kindly
relations among all men, and to discoun-
tenance and discourage any violations of the
rights of any portion of the people, secured
under the Constitution or any of It's amend
ments. Let US in conclusion earnestly beg
of you not to aid in the present attempts of
the Radical pariisans to stir up strife In
our land, to renew civil war or to obstruct
the reunion of peace or prosperity to the
southern people, because it is thus that
they seek to divert the attention of the
country from the
CORRUPTION AND EXTRAvAGANCE
OF their administration of public affairs,
and the dangerous aud prohigate attempts
they are making towards the erection of a
centralized military government. In the
five years of peace following war,
RADICAL ADMINISTRATION HAVE EXPEN-
DED 81 ,200,000,000
for ordinary purposes alone, being within
S20O,000,000 of the aggregate amount
spent for the same purposes in war and in
peace during the seventy-One years prece-
ding June so, 1861, not including in eth.
or ease the sum paid upon the principal or
interest of the public debt 1t is trifng
with the Intelligence of the people for Rad
ical leaders to pretend that this vast
sum has been honestly expended. Humid
reds of millions oc it have been wantonly
squaudercd. The expenditures of the
Government for the fiscal year ending June
30, 1861, wero only S62 100000 while
for precisely the same purpose the civil
list, army and navy. pensions and Indians,
SlG4,O0O,000 were expended during the
fiscal year ending June 30, 1870.
No indignation can be too stern and no
scorn too severe for the assertions by un,
scrupulous Radical leaders that the great
Democratic aud Conservative party of the
Union has or can have sympathy with dis
order or violence in any part of the coun-
try or in the deprivation of any man of his
rights under the Constitution 1t is to
protect aud perpetuate the rights which
every free man cherishes to revive in all
hearts the feelings of friendship, affection
and harmony, which are
TIE BEST GUARANTEES OF LAW AND OR
DER.
1t is to throw around the humbest citi-
zen, wherever he may be, the protecting
safeguards of personal liberty, which tho
fundamental laws Of the land assure. that
we invoke the aid of all good men in the
work Of peace aud reconciliation. We IN
vite their generous co operation, irrespect.
iye of all former differences of opinion, so
that the harsh voice of discord may he re-
lieved; that new and dangerous sectional
agitation may be checked; that the burd-
ems OF taxation, direct or indirect may be
reduced to the lowest point consistent with
good faith to every just national obliga.
ton, and with strictly economical admin
istraIion of the Government, and that the
States may be restored in their integrity
and free relations to our Federal Union.
Here follow the signatures Of oil the
Democratic Senator's and most of the Rep
esentatives.-ED.
DISASTROUS FIRE-It apnoors that y