The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1846-03-16
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The whole amount OF impor,ations may De con-
sidered, in round numbers, as 500 0U0000. OF
this vast sum the South brings, as a return for itS
| exported industry, more than one-half into
than one.half Of your revenue. And YET,
look at the vast dispropouon in the expsn-
diture Of this common fund, (it ought TO be.
Eleven hundred dollars more mile is expended for
defence Of the North, than is given 10 the South
Three guns are given to the North TO every mile,
and but one is given TO the South for the same pur
posei while three dollars is expended at the North
for internal Improvement, to every dollar grudgingy
doed out TO US!
Pray tell me, you good at 'eaieulatIrg,"
how long will IL take 10 render your portion of the
Union garden and ours waste place at this ratt'
And further tell me If the system Is not fast tending
TO relieve the North altogether from the burden OF
taxes by giving back TO IT, in the shape Of internal
Improvements, and Notifications thickly studded
along lis coastr-au that, nearly ALL that il pays
into the treasury in the shape Of taxes Most Of
your nayy-yards, foundries, barracks, and srmo-
res are there, and consequently the expenditure 70.
these means Of defence are made there. Prosperity
may well be considered stamped upon the face
OF The country aud its people.
what has been dlsbursed al the South has been
sninenty national; and, owing TO the course Of
trade as peculiarly for the benefit Of northern and
eastern shiPowners, and the farmers Of the great
Nahey OF the Mississippi, for the South. The
Trade OF the Mississippi has to disembogue Itself on
the gun by The mouth Of that river, has TO run
the gauntlet Of the breakers ON the Florida reefs,
and sail along our coast to northern ports or for
eign harbors. This trade ID carried on almost en-
hrely by citizens Of the North, and ia vessels owned
there; and yet, even with aid OF this fact We have
been thus partially dealt by.
l mention these facts 10 show, first, that
even for the legitimate purposes TO which pub.
NC money may DC upprupIiatsd its appropriation
has assumed a sectional partialityi and that when
the constitution has been so Numerically stretched
as TO make lin very joints TO crack, in order TO
lavish that money on works Of internal improve
ment, the single State OF Ohio has grabbing or
gnsping power equal TO the whole South
, 10 these arguments and facts, however, comes
Tie response, sit is for the general welfare it Will
cement the Unionn Never was reasoning vaineT
Or more absurd. The continued exercise Of I'M
powers will continually weaken the
bonds which bind us together. The repeated ex-
srcise OF even doubtful constitutional powers, and
he injudcious Of even conferred rights will in
lime create Jealousy, distrust, and heart burnings-
ny, and hatred, too, when accompanied, as in this
Instance, by rank oppression. Partially in the
distribution Of lawful federal patronage and proiec-
ion will produce these. Injustice in expenditure,
ana consequent inequality in taxation. far from
the various parts OF this Union into a
great whole, will either crush these various dis
inet, integral parts into one consolidated mass or
oree them asunder with power which cannot be
eslsted. IL you desne, indeed, to cement this
Union, abandon this policy policy 50 intimately
with the taxing power, to call for the
xercise Of each coextensively. Economy low
uhes, scrupulouS regard for State rights non
exercise OF doubtful powers, will preserve harmony
u this widespread repubhc-wi create respect for
ederal legislaton-will give rise to Free and
therefore, noble emulation among the States in the
ace for commercial and agricultural prosperity
md do far more TO perpeuate the Union than armies
" the lavish expenditure Of untold millions wrune
rom discontinued people.