Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1871-05-13

StH'idi W theii hapHiucss Auu tTaulullty
and good government. Everything that
malicious ingenuity could suggest has
been done to irrtate the people of the
Middle ard Southern States gross and
exaggerated charges of disorder and VIC.
lcnce owe their origin to the mischievous
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 helped to inhame the
popular feeling. In all this course of hos
tile legislation and harsh resentment no
word of Cancellation, Of kind encourage.
ment of traternal fellowship has ever been
spoken 10y the President or by Congress
to the people of the Southern States.
They have been addressed only in the
language of procrastination.
We earnestly entreat our fellow citi-
zcns in all parts Of the Union to spare no
effort to maintain peace and order, to care
fully 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 secured under the Constitution
or any of its amendments. Let us, in
consideration, earnestly beg of you not to
aid the present attempts of Radical parti-
sans to stir up strife in the land, to revive
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 cxtrava-
gancc of their administration of public
affairs, and the dangerous and proHigatc
attempts they are making towards the Gre
alton of centralized military Governments.
In the five years Of peace following the
war the Radical Administrations have
expended Sl,200,0O0,00 for ordinary
purposes alone, being within 100000, 900
OF the aggregate amount spent for the
same purpose in war and in peace during
the seventy-cne years preceding June 30,
1861, not including, in either case, the
sum paid upon principal Or interest of the
public debt. 1t is trifing with the intel
ligeuce 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 squan.
dercd. The expenditures of the Govern,
mcnt for the fiscal year ending june 81,
1861, were only s62,00O,0O0, while for
precisely the same purpose-civi list,
army, navy, pensions and lndians--$l64,-
100000 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 and conservative party of the
Union has or can have sympathy with dis
orders on 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 and pcrpetuate the rights
which every freeman cherishcs to revive
in all hearts the feeling OF friendship
affection and harmony which are the best
guarantees of law and ORDER, aud to throw
around the humblest citizen, wherever he
may be, the protecting egis of these safe
guards Of personal liberty which the fun
damental laws of the land assure, that we
invoke the aid Of all good men 10 the work
Of peace and reconciliation we invite
their generous co operation, irrespective of
all former differences of opinion, SO that
the harsh voice Of discord may be re,
licved; that new and dangerous sectional
agitation may be checked; that the bur-
dens of taxation. direct or indirect, may
be reduced to the lowest point consistent
with good faith to every just national obli-
cation and with strictly economical admin
istration Of the Government, and that the
States may be restored in their integrity
and true relations to our Federal Union