The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1850-07-30


| to choose between secession and negro emancipa-
ton Sir, do not desire to be considered an alar-
mist; but il gentlemen will recur to the history
of the country, they will learn that the anti-save-
ry party was contemplate and Insignificant, but il
has now grown to be great colossal power, over
shadowng almost the entire North, and has enlist
ed under its banner all the political parties there.
If its progress is rapid in the next five years as
! for the last ten, you will find no Northern Repre-
sentative who will far outrage the sentiment.o
his constituents as to oppose even the abolition OF
slavery in the States.
will here dgress MIR. Chairman, to reply to
complaint which has been urged by several
Northern gentlemen, charging that the South has
for series of years occupied the Federal offices.
On reference to the past, it will be found to be
that the South has held a larger share Of the pro-
miasnt offices OF the Government than those OF the
North l am able to give a satisfactory reason for
this fact, and to show whence it arises. When
Southern man enters into public life he is brought
in by the party to which he is attached and he is
continued in Office, he be faithful representative,
so long MS his party continues in the ascendency,
or until he chooses voluntarily to retire. In the
North different rule prevails--rotation in Office
is the recognized system with all parties. The
rule may be a correct one in Offices of profit
merely, but when applied to representatives,
either State or Federal, the constituent can never
be so well represented Southern men remain
longer in Congress they have therefore better
opportunities for the development of their genius
and talent, and their experience gives them the ad
vantage over ADLER men who are without exper-
fence their services become more conspicuous
and when individuals are selected for prominent
stations in the Government, they are placed there
because they have more national reputation. But
Northern gentlemen, whilst they have observed
| this fact, with some manifestations Of jealousy,
forget that threefourths Of the public expenditures
of this Government fall into the Northern lap
The gentleman from Illinois Mr.. HARRIs denied,
for the first time, as believe, this statement and
went into minute examination for the purpose
Of showing that the South had received more than
| her proportiate share of those expenditures. He
obtained the services of an experienced clerk in
making the calculation, and he reports that in the
period of years, out of nineteen millions for
local appropriations, nine millions have been given
! to the South, while only ten millions have gone TO
the North. The clerk has committed a palpable
blunder, and wonder that he has not been gull
lotined ere this for incompetency or nfdelity.-
Only nineteen millions of dollars expended on To-
cal objects during period of ten years! The
gentleman from Illinois hurries to the census Of
l84O, to learn that this appropriation gives to
every white person in the North ~ 02, and at the
South III 80.
| propose to advert to a few items only, which
suppose the clerk did not embrace in his cal
culations. They will show which section of
public treasury. The expenditure for pensions
up to 1888. amounted in the Northern States to
S28, 900 ,00O;~ in the Southern States to "a, 000,
600. New York contributed to the support Of the
revolutionary war $7,179, $685. and had received in
1888, in pensions, $7,S50,054 The public lands
donated by Congress to the Northern States have
been worth ~ ,584 1899; the same in the South g.,
025,000. Since the establishment of the Govern
ment, the cost OF collecting the customs has been
$53 900 900; 600 900 expended in the North,
and $40 900 900 in the South. Bounties on pieked
fish, &C., in the North, exclusively, $4,000, 900.
forts thor
mile, 1898; on the Southern coast $685. per mile.
In 1916 there was one lighthouse to every fifty
miles of Northern coast; whilst in the South there
was one for every two hundred and seventy six
miles. The expenditures for internal improve
ments from 1894 to 1885, in the North was S5,-
1S45, for the same purpose, in the North, ,23I,-
| 500; and in the South S1,17I,5 500.
| This much, sir, with reference to what the gen
reman said about appropriations. | propose now
to examine so much of the same gentleman's
speech as to the relative number of troops fur
nshed by the North and the South in the late war
with Mexico. adopt his figures, and assume
them to be correct The South furnished Al, 649
volunteers; the North 24,7l2. The gentleman
says that this'is not the fair way Of making the
calculaton-that the amount Of service rendered
in months is :" the fairest way Of making the cal
cuation." His figures show that the South fur
nished service in months 365,500 months the
North 309, 400. This still gives the South pre-
! ponderance. Not contented, however, with this
result, he sets out upon third series Of figures,
that he may give the North the superiority. This
calculation includes all the enlistments made dur
ing the war, as also for the ten new regiments;
| and assumes that two-thirds Of these enlisments
were from the North and when his calculation is
| footed up, the North furnished service equal to
8l3,648 months, and the South equal to 627, 625
months Well, go back to the census Of 1910,
| and he, at least, can make no objection to the
1 ninth ppp nd To in 4 he
first branch Of his argument. therefore take his
| figures, and reply with his authority. If the
South furnished AZ ,649 volunteers, according to
population the North should have furnished
98,l4S They furnished 24,712-defcit of their
| Just proportion Is, 436.
| The South furnished service Of vol lnteers in
months equal to 365,500 months. The North
should have furnished service in months equal to
/ 754 900 months; they furnished 309, 400-defcii
of their just proportion 444,620. But if the en-
listments superadded to the above, it will be
seen that the North furnished in months equal to
813,648; the South 627,6 SOS. The North should
have furnished service in months ,294, 760 months
| deficit of her just proportion 49,, 132.
enter into these calculations for the purpose of
indicating the truth of the Southern Address
for the purpose Of indicating the truth of the al
1 legations which have been made by Southern
members on this floor, that the South contributed
more than her just proportion of troops in making
| the acquisitions from Mexico which the North
mean to exclude us from, either through the Will
mot Proviso or the "noninterpenfon policy, in
connection with the pretence that the Mexican
laws in force. He went little farther and in
| troduced an estimate OF the service by the North
4 and the South in the Revolutionary war He says,
| for the continental line Of the Revol, ion, the
North furnished 172,436 men, and the South
| 50 1886
| 1t is known. Mr.. Chairman, to every one who
is familiar with the history of the Revolution, that
very largeproportion of the troops that were enga
ged int hat pretrated and perous contest were not
connected with the continental army. If the gentle
man had made an accurate examination Of the
number of troops furnished by each of the States,
he would have found that Virginia alone furnished
56,72l. Pennsylvania, with population equal
/ TO Virginia, furnished 34,965; New York % ,S36;
j South Carolina 81 ,I3l. South Carolina sent thir-
ty-seven out of every forty-two Of her citizens
| capable Of bearing arms, Massachusetts thirty
two, Connecticut thirty, New Hampshire eigh-
| teen.
| will answer with statistical facts the deluson
/ existing in the minds of some who believe that
the pecuniary and social condition is more eleva-