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SPEECH UF TIE HON. JAMES l.. ORR,
OF SOUTH CAROLINA.
ON The SLAVERY Question, ociiVcrcd in The House
Of Representatives; Nay 8, 1850.
coNCLUDED
willkere digress, Mr.. Chairman, to re-
ply to complaint which has been urged
by several Northern gentlemen, charging
that the Soutl, has for a series of wears
occupied the Federal Offices. On refer
ence tothe past, it will be found to be true
that the South has held larger share of
the prominent Offices of the Government
than those of the North. / am able to
give satisfactory reason for this fact,
and to show whence it arises. When n
Southern man enters into public life, he
is brought in by the party to which he is
attached, end he is continued in Office, if
hc be faithful representative, so long as
his party continues in the ascendency, or
until he chooses voluntarily to retire. In
the North a different rule prevals--ro-
tation in Office is therecognised system
with all parties The rule may be n cor
rest one in offices of profit merely, but
when applied to representatives, either
State or Fedcral, the constituent can nev.
or 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
/ experience; their services become more
conspicuous, and wien individuals are
lcctcd for prominent stations in the Coy
ernment, they arc placed there because
they have more national reputation. But
Northern gentlemen, whilst they have OBJ
served this fact, with some manifestations
of jealousy, forget that nearly three
fourts of the public expenditures, of this
Government fall into the Northern lap.
The. gentleman from Illinois (Mr HarriS)
denied, for the first time, us believe, this
statement, and went into a minute exam
ination for'thc purpose of showing that
the South had received more than her
proportionnte share OF those expenditures.
lie obtained the services of an cxpeiien-
ced clerk in making the calculation, and
he reports that in period of ten years,
ont OF ninctcenmillions for local appro-
priations, nine millions have been given 10
the South, while only ten millions have
gone to the North, The clerk has COM
rnittcd a palpablo blunder and / wonder
that he has not been guilotined ere This
Tor his llIcompctency or infdelity. Only
nineteen millions of dollars expended on
local objects during period of ten wears!
The gentleman from Illinois burries to
T. Shecensus d 1910, to learn here TINT
this appropriation gives TO every white
person IN 'hc North, Sl,02, and at The
South 81 go. | propose to advert to a
few items only, which suppose the clerk
did not embrace in his c. ..lculations. They
will show which section Of the Union has
foraged most literally from the public
treasury. Tho expenditure for pensions
up TO 1888 amounted in the Northern
States to s2s, ,ooo, ,ooo;~ in the Southern
States TO $f,o00,oGo. New York con.
tIlbuted to the support Of the revolution.
Nry war 81, no. 1888, and had received in
1888, in pensions, $7, ,S5o,054.
The public, lands donated by Gehress,
70 the Northern States have b .wortIs
S7,58As99; the,samc insthe Sopsh Sf.
025,00o. Since the ostablislinien6of the
Goycrnment, the cost of oollSs :Iig the
customs has been $50, 600, 600; 600,
600 expended in tho North, and ooo.-
900 in the Sonth Bounties On led q
tisi, &C., in the North, exclusissay SO,
opo, 900. The forts on tl,o7ss ostliefii
eoast,haye cost, on each mile, 83s; on
the. Soati'efn coast $685. per Anile. III,
1916 there was one light-hous& tS every
..i, am indebted to tho author Of d pan,phics
entitled The Union past and futllfo--l,w 81
works, ana now to save IL" for mt,y Of these
STATISTICS, Y,;;.ssS y.