The Abbeville banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1847-1869, 1850-06-01

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81 90. I propose to advert to few items
only, which suppose the clerk did not em.
brace I'm his calculations. They will show
%hich section Of tie Union has foraged most
literally from tle public treasury. The ex4
penditure for pensions upto 1888 amounted
in the Northern States to $2S,OO0,0OQ;%# IS
in the Southern States to S7,0OO,o0O. New
York contributed to tho support Of the Re.
volutionary war s7,l79,9s3, and had fc.
ceivcd in 1888, iii psfisions, s7,s5o,054..
The PUBLIC lands donated by Congress to
the Northern States have been Worth
$7,5s4,s90 the same in South 81 O25, 900.
Since the establishment of the Cover. mcnt,
the cost Of collecting the customs has been
S53,ooo,O0Q; $43,00O,OOO expended in the
North, and $lO,OOO,OO0 in the South,
Bountics on picked fish, &c, in the Notthii
exclusively, $lO,ooo,Ooo. The forts on tho
Northern coast have cost, on each mile,
$s3s; OH the Southern coast s535 per mile.
In ls46 there was oiie lighthouse to erefy
fifty miles of Northern coast; whilst in tho
South there was one for every two hundred
and sevetty-six miles. The expenditures
for internal improvements from 1924; to
1888, in the North, was S., 104 AL; ia, thu
South $957 900. From 1884, to ls45, for
the same purpose, in the North, 81 ,o3l $3.50,
and in the South Sl,l7l,5OO. ,r ...
This fiiich, sir, with reference, to what Etia
gentleman said about appropriations. pw,.
pose now to examine 50 much of the gentfet,
mans speech as to tho relative number OF;
troops furnished by the North, and the South
in the late war with Mexico. adopt his
figures and assume them to be correct. Tho
South furnished 47,G49 volunteers the
North 24,7l2. The gentlemen says that
this is not. the fait way Of making the calcu-
lation-that the amount of service rendered
in months is the tairest way of making tia
calculation" His fguras show that the
South furnished service in months 365,5OQ
months; the North 309,4O0: This still
gives the South preponderensc. Not cont
tented, hswavef, with this result he sets out
upon a third series of figures, that he may
give the North the superiority. This calcu:
lation includes all the enlistments made du-
ring the war, rs also for the ten new regi-
ments; and assumes that tiso-thirds Of thesa
enlstments were from the North !; and when
his calculation is footed up, the North fur
nished service equal to sI3,849 month, and
the South equal to 627, ,625 months. Well,
1 go back to the census of 1910, and lie, at
least, can make no objection to the authority.
having. appealed to this source in the first
branch OF his argument. therefore take
his figures, reply with his authority. If tho.
South furnished Al $40 volunteers, according,
to the Populations the North should have
furnished so, 4s. They furnished 24,712-
deficit of thcir just proportion 73,43G. :
The South furnished service Of volunteers
i'll months equal to 3G5,5OO months. Tie
North should have, furnished ( service IN
months equal to $4,000 months !; flleysfur.-
nished 309,4OO-deicit Of their just D %.
portion 44l,62o. Buff the enlistmennittst are
superadded to the. above, it will be seen that
he North furnished in smonths equal ta
sls,64s; the South 627,825. The Nortli.
should have furnished service in months
l,294,5s0 Inonths-deicit of her just pro.
pSytions4S1,13g. s.,..,
I sSter.ilto these eslcalstipas for the pur.
spgss IN ;sl; & ! Che South, a.,
the truth 81 the allsE 0a Whial hsys BEEN
made. by Southern memJcrs On this .fbof.s
That the South contributed more than her
just proportion Of troops in making the aesS,,
quisition from Mexiso which tie NORTH
nlSsiA lS41axcluue uSslkOiu, elthcE chIouSh hho
ssiimot proyiis9s6 the,sa 'lo,- interpelstio'ssa
policy, in connection wath~tAe- prctcnce that
| the. Mexican laws are IN force.7sHe went
"a little further, and introduced an sassh-
mate Of the service by til, North and ,tHe
South in the Revolutionary war. HesaJss
for the cntinental line of tlio Resolatien,
tho North furnished l72,43G men, mud ttg
South 50,335. :: ., 49, S
who is famili;l with Che history of the Revs
olution, that a very large. proportion OF the
troops that were engaged in That protracted
and perilous contest were not connefted
with the continental army. If the gentle:
man hadi made m accurate examination Of.
the nunlb.r of troops furnished by each of thea
States, he would have found that Vigini4.
alone furnished 5e,72f. Peipsslsauia, with
population equal to Virginia, furnished
81, zoos; New York 29.e36; South CsE4lif
na II ,l3l. South Carolina sent thirtyisevsi se
Eout Of evefy fortyty-twosd, her citi9elis ca1
pable of bearing arms, Massachusetts, thinty1
two, Connecticut thirty New Hampshire
eighteen. a.. - ~. 81 i...:.,.
I viii answer with statistical facts the de-
FUSION existing iR,stbe minds of some who
[believe that the pSSsuniary and social cond;3
Efion, is more eleyeed ih tie North than i'll
Ethe South. Welhave heard that Virginia
Eaas sinking M falling fast iuto decay; that
her sister States have sdyanced in prosperity
and wealth whist she, has been fadingS
all of whiich IS attFibuts to 4 ss aystemsof;
| domestic sersitpd sirgg 5]l sttt;
ans aassinib ii ion 81 1le sss NJ
sumps because iit ilx
act.. Tie abalitio
believe TINT II ~
tstatat hat her fore 6een
tha Zee .of hi fsnfos
ffdscp Naiiies lhiaat sE floSi eIbun2 hSss
Ebssn sexa aausSed with ms iillSls hns
yirgina s n,ore veal e sss9 diI g Pepl