Year: 1871

it's Governor, or imprison or disperse
the Legislature. silence its judges, and
trample down its people under


THE ARMED HEEL OF HIS TRooPs.


Nothing is left to the citizens or the
State, which can any longer be called q
right. All is changed into mere suffer
ance. Our hopes for redress are in calm
good sense, and the sober second thought
OF the American people. We call upon
them to be true to themselves, and tc
their past, and disregardiug party names
and minor differences, to insist upon q
decent equalization Of power, the restric
ton Of federal authority within its just
and proper limits, leaving the States that
control of their domestic affairs which
is essential to their happiness and tran
guilty and good government. Every
thing that


MALICIOUS INGENUITY


could suggest has been done to irrltate
the people OF the Southern States. The
gross and exaggerated charges OF dis
order and violence owe their origin to
the mischevious minds Of political
managers in the Senate and House OF
Representatives, to which the ,Execu'
tive has, we regret to say, lent his aid,
and thus helped to inhame popular feel
ing.


In all this course OF hostile legisls,
ton and harsh resentment, no word oil
Cancellation, kind encouragement, OF
fraternal fellowship has ever been
spoken by the President or by Con-
gress to the people Of the Southern
States. They have been addressed only
in the language OF the prescribed. We
earnestly entreat our fellow-citizens in
all parts Of the Union to


SPARE NO EFFORT TO MAINTAIN PEACE
and order, and to carefully protect the
rights of every citizen, to preserve kind
ly relations among all men, and to dis
countenance and discourage any viola
ton OF the rights OF any 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
partisans to stir up strife in our land,
to renew civil war or to obstruct the re,
union 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 EXTRAVAGANZA
of their administration Of public affairs,
and the dangerous and prohigate at
tempts they are making towards the
creation OF a centralized military gov
ernment. In the five years OF peace
following war,


RADICAL ADMINISTRATIONS HAVE BXPEND-
ED 81, ,2O0,0OO,OO0


For ordinary purposes alone, being
within $200,000,000 of the aggregate
amount spent for the same purposes in
war and in peace during the seventy
one years preceding June 80, 1861, not
including in either case the SUN paid
upon the principal or interest Of the
public debt. 1t is trifliug with the in
telligence of the people for Radical
leaders to pretend that this vast sum
has been honestly expended. Hundreds
of millions of it have been wantonly
squandered. The expenditures Of the
Government for the fiscal year ending
June 80, 1861, were only $62, 1000, ,00O
while for precisely the same purpose the
civil list, army and navy, pensions and
Indians, $l64,OO0,OOO were expended
during the fiscal year ending June 80,
1870.


No Indignation can be too stern and
no scorn too severe for the assertions
by unscrupulous Radical leaders that
the great Democratic and Conservative
party Of the Union has or can have
sympathy with disorder or violence in
any part Of the country or in the depri-
vation of any man Of his rights under
the constitution. 1t is to protect and
perpetuate the rights which every free
man cherishes; to revive in all hearts
the feelings of friendship, affection and
harmony, which are


THE BEST GUARANTEES OF LAW AND


ORDER.


1t is to throw around the humblest
citizen, wherever he may be, the pro-
tecting safeguards OF personal liberty,
which the fundamental laws Of the
land assure, that we invoke the aid of
all good men in the work Of peace and
reconciliation. We invite their gener-
Gus cooperation, irrespective Of all
former differences Of opinion, 80 that
the harsh voice of discord may be re-
lieved; that a new and dangerous Sec
tional agitation may be checked; that
the burdens Of taxation, direct or indi-
rect, may be reduced to the lowest point
consistent with good faith to every just
national obligation, and with strict
lv economical administration Of the
Government, and that the States may be
restored in their integrity and free rela-
tions to our Federal Union.


Here follow the signatures Of all the
Democratic Senators and most OF the
Representatives.-ED.