Year: 1871

ed to infame popular feeling. In all
this course of hostile legislation aud
harsh resentment no word ofconciliation,
Of kind encouragement or fraternal fel
lowship has ever been spoken by the
President or By Congress to the people
of the Southern States. They have been
addressed only in language of pro-
scription.


We earnestly entreat 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 dis
courage any violation of the rights ofany
portion Of the people secured under the
Constitution or any of its amendments.


Let us in conclusion earnestly beg of
you not to aid the present attempts
of the Radical partizans to stir up strife
IN the land, to renew the issues of the
war, or to obstruct the return of peace
and prosperity to the Southern States,
because tits thus that they seek tdSdi
vert the attention of the country from
the corruption and extravagaDce Of their
administration of public offices, and the
dangerous and profigate attempts they
are making toward the creation OF cen
tralized military government. In the
five years of peace following the war, the
Radical administration have expended
81 200 900, 600 for ordinary expenses
alone, being within $500, 100000 of the
aggregate amount spent for the same pur
poses in war and in peace during the
seventy-one years preceding june 80,
1861, not including in either case the
sum paid upon the principal or interest
of the public debt 1t Is trifiug with
the intelligence of the people for the
Radical leaders to pretend that this vast
sum has been honestly expended. Hun
dreds of millions of it have been wanton-
iy squandered.


The expenditures Of the Government
for the fiscal year ended June 80, 1861,
were only $4,000 900, while for precise
y the same purpose the civil list, army
and navy pensions and Indians S164, 600.
600 were expended during the fiscal year
ending June 10, 1910. No Indignation
can be too stern, and no scorn too severe
for the assertions by inscriptions Radi
cal leaders that the great Democratic
aud Conservative party of the Union has
or can have any sympathy with the dis
orders or violence in any part of the
country, or in the deprivation 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 feeling of friendship, affec-
ton and harmony, which are the best
guarantees Of law and order, and to throw
around the humblest citizen, wherever
he may be, the protection of these safe
guards of personal safety which are the
fundamental laws of the land; that we
invoke the aid of all good men in the
work of peace and reconciliation. We
invite their generous co operation ire
spective of all former differences and
| opinion, so that the harsh voice of dis
cord may be relieved; that a new and
dangerous sectional agitation may be
checked; that the burden of taxation, di-
rect or indirect, may be reduced to the
lowest point coaeistsnt che s<ooa fsit7.
its every just national obligation, and
with strictly economical administration
of the Government, and that the States
may be restored in their integrity and
true relation to our Federal Union.
Here follows the signatures of all
the Democratic Senators and most of the
Representatives.