The voice of freedom. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1839-1848, 1844-03-07

,. auueQ 10 the tWenly-IOuT now lHeTe DIS tn
h peculiar representatives of the slave pow
J, err, makes a power numbering onesirt)
u the whole power of Congress, in bolf
Houses.
a S. In 1921, in defiance of their own
: doctrine of Implied faith" they secured
1 the admission of Missouri as a slave state
into the confederacy under threat OF a
dissolution Of The Union,
have thus grouped together facts suf-
fcient 10 satisfy any candid man that the
slave power, wields the national gov
ernment for its own purposes. now
propose to bring forward facts of a pecum'
iary class, to illustrate the servilty of the
North, and the impudence and pover'y OF
the South
Paupers never pay taxes. The whole
south is a Lazar-House, the people infec-
ted with wholesale poverty; bankruptcy
which is contagious. If they were o
pay their honest debts, they would be
stripped TO their shoe strings.
From 1889 TO June, 1910, period Of
p years, the whole amount of The reve
nue., exclusive ofloans, was l5,29l,027
OF this the north furnished. :. 1872, 009,285
Which leaves the amount the
south ostensibly fcrnished... 53,28l,742
So, for % years, the northfur-
nished e.iourths ofthe rev.
enue. The expenses during
the same period were. $50. ZIG, 394,534
Ofthis the south should equt-
| ably have furnished half, say los, ,267
Subtract from this her amount
of revenue for the same time 53,28l,742
And you have as the amount
the north paid for the south, ---
during period of 22 years. $54 ,9l0,525
This opens the book of the post richly.
Bultbis view ofthe case presup-
poses that all the expenditures
during this period were bene-
fetal to the nation. Let US
see. During this period, Lou
isiana was purchased at a cost
Of SIS 100000. Of this ami
the principal and interest paid
up to 1910 was, ...........8 475.Ooo
During this period The gun boat
system, a southern measure,
was brought forward. ITO
gun boats were built, at coast
of $4,000 each, making the
sum OF. l,|UU,UUO
Cost Of keeping, fitting, repair
ing them, during the years
lS09-l0, was at least half
the cost of the whole navy ex-
penses,* which would bring it
uplo. 49,. =. l.o75,Ooo
The embargo of 22d Dec 1907
comes next The Na!iooal
Revenue for 1907, was &c.
492,s89. Had this continued
through the years 1903, 9, 10,
the sum would have beeni$49.-
AIS, 667, but the actual reve-
nue. was, during the same pc
riod, but S27,072,492. Sub
tract this from the sum which
would have accrued had no
embargo been laid, and you
have as the amount the north
paid the south, in this depart
meut. ..............., 22,4o6,l75
We have. then,to the year 1910,
as the amount which the north---
paid TO the Stare poUer. go. $50, l66, 700
The war of 1912 comes on The
tapis about this period. 1t was
southern measure. lis ex-
penses may be set down to
The bankrupt end of the Un-
ion. Ii cost Sl00,0O0,0O0, but
let US have the figures. For
the year 1911, the ordinary
expenses of the government,
were, for military and naval
establishments, S4,2s8, 394.-
Multiply this by 3, the num-
Der of years of the warf and
you have as the amount of or.
binary expenses in these de-
parments for three years,
1896, 1872. But the expen-
ses were $85.l74,07O. which
leaves after deductlng ordinary
expenses. I2,%IO, SSS
as the cost the north paid for
the war in the military and ma
val department alone. 1t may
be said that the south paid
part Of these expenses; but
poupers necer pay any thing,
and till the products OF the
south are greater than her con.
sumption, she must not talk Of
paging expenses of government
Here let me add the expenses
up to 1910, say, SO, l66,7oo
the sum accruing from the ml---
ilary expenditures during the
war, g. you have the sum ofSl61.445, 588
which the north paid for the
south to 1915.
Now add to this sum the follow
ing liens which have been
compiled with care from the
American Almanac, Bradlord's
Encyclopedia of Geography,