Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1849-05-18

whist the property of the Northern
States amounted to 81, ,o42, 1892, ,2e4. for
,4,326,56o population, or only $24o per
head ~
Even in Manufactures the South, at
that period, excelled the North in proper
ton to the numbers of their population
In 1910, according to the returns of the
Malshals of the U. States, the fabrics of
wool, cotton and linen, manufactured in
the Northern States, amounted to 40
344,274 yards, valued at $21, ,O6l ,525,
whilst the South fabricated 34,7e6 ,497
yards, estimated at at$l6,771,724. Thus,
after the lapse of the first quarter of a
century, under our present form of Gov
ernment, the South had surpassed the
North, in Commerce, in Manufactures.
and in the accumulation of wealth, in
proportion to the number of citizens of
the respective sections.
Since that period great change has
occurred. The harbors of Norfolk, of
Richmond, of Charleston, and Savannah.
have been deserted for those of Philadei.
phia, New York and Boston; and New
Orleans is the only Southern city that
pretcnds to rival its Northern competjt
ors. The grass is growing in the sire sof
those cities of the South, which original
" monopoh2ed our colonial commerce
and maintained their ascendancy in the
earlier years Of the Union. Manufac-
lures and the arts have also gone to take
up their abode in the North. Cities
have been expanded and multiplied in
| the same favored regians- Roilsoads and
canals have been constructed, and cdu-
cation has delighted there to build her
colleges and seminaries.
These phenomena have made pro-
found impression on rejecting minds
throughout the Union, and particularly
in the South. BY her leading states
men, these result have been ascribed to
the policy pursued by the Federal Gov
eminent since 1916. It'was at this nc
}n99 that the system of direct taxation
was finally abandoned, and the whole
interest of the public debt, then so much
augmented by the war;, as well as the in
creased expenditures of the Government,
were made chargeable on the foreign
commerce of the country, except the
| slight income from the public lands.-
And as at the close Of the war, the p.in-
cipal articles of export, in exchange for
which, we obtained our foreign goods,
consisted of cotton, tobacco, and rice, it
I was held that the new policy was pc
! culiar burden on the States that pro-
duced those staples. In addition to ttiil;;
the establishment of Bank of the Uni
ted States located at the North, with
large deposites of Government money.
and enabled by the confidence of the
Government to maintain a large circula-
ton, which would naturally be devoted
to the promotion of Northern com
merce, it was thought also adverse to
Southern commercial rivalry. These two
measures were the work of "a Republican
Administrationlof the Government, but
they were strenously opposed by the
State Rights party. On their passage
IN Congress, it was declared by John
Randolph, one of the most profound and
sagaclous statesmen, Virginia, or any
other country ever produced, that rev.
oluton in our Government had occurred,
whose consequences no man could cal
culate. Theresult verified this predic-
ton. Our population is now twenty
millions, and yet it is thought by all par
ties that twenty-five millions of dollars
per annum is enough for the support of
Government in time of peace. Yet six
teen years ago, when our population
was but little more than half of what il
Is now, this Government exacted $780,
100000 as duties on our foreign imports,
and that too, when in consequence of
this heavey burdehson our foreign trade,
we only imported $4,000, 900. The Co
yernment took half the value of the i'm.
ports, as a tax on foreign trade. This
outrage was the cause of South Carolina
notification.
| Now the power of the Federal Gov
ernme = over foreign commerce, is, by
the Constitution, precisely the same as
that among the States. It is a power to
regulate only. And the South contend
ed Chat inasmuch as the simports from
abroad were Che proceeds chiefly Of her
staple exports, and were therefore, to all
intents and purposes, the product of her
industry and capital, that there was no
more constitutional right to tax them ON
arriving in our ports, than to tax the
products of the North, when shipped to