Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1850-03-16
PIcXENs COURT HOUSE, s. G., SATURDAY, MARCH 1e,

! ding the States OF Louisiana ana Arkansas, ana
the territory lying West Of the latter and south
of SO 80, called the Indian country. This, with
the territory of Florida, now the State, makes
in the whole, 2S6,503 square miles. To this
| must be added the territory acquired with Tex
| as. If the whole should be added to the south
! ern section it would make an increase $685.
| $50, which would make the whole left to the
South, 6o9,023 Buta large portion ofTexas
| is still ia contest between the two sections,
which leaves it uncertain what will be the real
| extent of the portion of territory that may be
| left to the South.
| l have not included the territory recently ac-
quired by the treaty with Mexico. The North
is making the most strenuous efforts to appro-
propriate the whole toherself by excluding the
South from every foot of it. fshe should sue
ceed, it will add to that from which the south
has already been excluded, 526,07S square
miles, and would increase the whole which fine
North has appropriated to herself to, 1904
023 not including the portion that she may
I succeed in excluding us from in Texas. To
sum up the whole, the United States, since
they declared their independence have nc
quircd 2,373046 square miles of territory,
! from which the North will have excluded the
South, ifshe should succeed in monopolizing
the newly acquired territories about three
fourths ofthe Whole, leaving to the South but
about one fourth.
Such is the first and great cause that has
destroyed the equilibrium between the two
sections in the Government
The next is the system of revenue and dis
bursemcnts which has been adopted by the
Government 1t is we'll known that the Gov
ernment has derived it's revenue mainly from
duties on imports. Ishall not undertake to
show that such duties must necessarily fall
on the exporting States, and that the South, as
the great exporting portion of the Union. has in
reality paid vastly more than her due proper
ton of the revenue; because deemit unneces-
sary, as the subject has on so many occasions
been fully discussed. Nor shall /. for the
same reason, undertake to- show thai far great
er portiun of the revenue has been disbursed at
the North than its due share; and the joint
effect of these causes has been to transfer vast
amount from South to North, which, under an
equal system of revenue and disbursements
would not have been lost to her. If to this be
added that many eff the duties We're imposed.
not for revenue, but for protection--that is, in
tended to putmoney, not in the Treasury, but
directly in the pockets Of the manufacturer
some conception may be formed of the i'm
mense amount which, in the long course of six
ty years, has been transferred from South to
North There are no data by which it can be
estimated with any certainty, but it is safe to
say, that It. amounts to hundreds of millions of
dollars. Under the most moderate estimate,
it would be sufficient to add greatly to the
wealth of the North, and thus greatly increase
her population by attracting emigration from
all quarters to that section. .
This, combined with the great and prima-
ry cause, amply explains why the North has
acquired preponderance over every depart
ment of the Government by its disproportion.
ate increase os population and States. The
former, as has been shown, has increased in
fifty years, 100000 over that of the South.
This Increase ofpopuiation during so long pc
riod, is satisfactorily accounted for, by tho
number of emigrants, and the increase of their
descendants. which have been attracted from
Europe and the SOUTH in consequence of the ad
vantages derived from the causes assigned. If
they had not existed ifthe south had retained all
the capital which has been extracted from her
by the fiscal action of the Government; and, if
il hed mot heen excluded by the ordinance of
$50, and the Missouri compromise, from there
gioil lying bAtsss~N.i Al = CT
nj rivers, and between the Mississippi and the
Rocky Mountains north of SO 3o,--it scarcely
admits of a doubt that she would have divided
the emigration with the North, and by retain
ing her own people, would have at least equal
led the North in population under the census of
1910, and probably under that about to be Ia
ken. She would also, if she had retained her
equal rightsin those territories, maintained an
equality in the number of states with the North
and have preserved the equilibrium between
the two sections that existed at the commence
ment of the Government The loss then Of the
equilibrium, is to be attributed to The action of
| this Government. w
But while these measures were destroying
the equilibrium between thettwo sections, the
action of the Government was leading to arad-
ical change in its charactedr, by concentrating
ali the power ef the system in ITSELF The oc-
| casion will not permit ts,ne to trace the meas