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y.rtsa as millions. The South los. the US. Of the

psrted ef IS millions The South lost the use Of the
I'm che decennial period lss,-'3o this gala 70 the
Ncrth and loss TO the South, amounted to 90 millions
Of dsllars annually or, a We add the exports OF TO-
reiro produce 20 10 millions In the next period
lsSiJ40 the profit and loss amounts to the enormous
su. Of % millions per annum on the exports Of do
on the whole foreign commerce. Thus the South lost
the use Of the fourth part Of the whole annual pro-
Tucker from the census of 1910; and the North had
all that could be made by trading this enormous
to the North of this trade which properly belongs to
the South Is still mere asng for la ls4s find that
the free States had the of 40 millions Of dollars
worth OF the produce OF Southern labor for foreign
commerce. OF ls3 millions IL add the exports OF
foreign merchandise The slave States lost the OF
this great capital and the North gained 1t without
paying any sort OF Clui' Alent in return.
The same disnarity is shown in the receipts and
expenditures from the public lands. Upon other
expenditures q e drainage upon the South Is ex-
hibited as forciby upon the hypothesis that while
the revenues from exports and imports are mainly
collected from the South. they are chiefly expended
in the North. The following extract Is 10 the
point -
report Of the Secretary Of the Treasury, (is0 Ex
Dee 1887 So shows that in the i've years, 1887, out
Of l02 millions Of expenditures, only ~ millions
In the slave States Yet during the years cur
table shows that they paid 10 million of duties to IL
and half paid by the free States Therefore while all
that the North contributed to the support of the
Union was spent within her own berders she enjoyed
the additional expenditure of53 millions $40 600
year. levied on the south
An examination of the Secretsry's report will show
that even this statement does not give just idea of
the inequality. A better notion may be for9ed by
investigating in detail some branches of expenditure
of which We have full accounts.
The collection Of the customs revenue Is large
and incr aing item in the federal expenses 1t gives
salaries TO great numbered officers; at Boston, New
York and Philadel pha alone there i23 and 1t il
the indirect OF Subsistence six times many
persons These expenditures have amounted in all
from the tormato of the government to the year 1872
to So millions of dollars OF which only 10 millions have
been at the South Yet The slave States have paid at
least Eevenpnths Al millions of these expenses
that the free States had the benefit for their citizens
in custom house Offices cutters &G not only
of their PAYNE nts l. millions but Of 81 millions
paid by the South
The bountes on picked fab, and the allowances to
fshiIg vessels have amounted in round numbers, to
10 millions Of dollars. Nearly every cent OF hs large
sun has gone 10 the free States chiefly to New Eng
land. The records show that slayeholders have not
received so much OF IL a. $50 OC0 Yet these very
Shareholders have paid Of these boonties and charities
to the Nol tn no less than 81 SEQ COO
while Ss3S 70 have been Hpent by the federal 60
vernment IN deft nding with forts each mile Of the
Northern coast line from the river st. Johns in
Maine 70 Delaware bay only S545 II per mile has been
June 50th 1916 The latest period for which there
official returns. More than six elevenths OF the
penditures the Southern coast hare baen In forth
fying the Chesapeake bay and the moafh of the Mis-
sisspp that g. the TO The seat OF
and the great outlet OF northwestern commerce. II Is
fair, therefore to deduct what was spent at these
points which leaves only Sale SO spent per mile in
the Atlantic coast of the slave States
from North Car oliua to Mississippi inclusive Yet
while the South has not had half much expended
in her defence the Nerth she has paid four
teen Of eighteen millions Of dollars devoted TO
these ohjocts See on rep to the Senste, 10 Senate
Doc. 1916 7.
In the lighthouse system, and in pensions, the
contrast is shown TO be nearly as five 70 one in
favor Of expenditures in the North. Why this
contrast