Southern standard. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1851-1856, 1851-05-31

received annually, So, 600 dollars more than tie
south In the next period, this yearly excess was
diminished to $4,000 dollars, but it rose to 339,7
900 dollars in the third period. From 1921 to
1880 it averaged 799, 600 dollars, and from 831
to 1888, 855, 900. In like manner grew the bur
den upon the south in paying the pensioners at the
north, besides those at home. In the first period
| it was All, 449 dollars in the second $40, OCO
dollars, in the third, 5000, 0O0 dollars; in the
fourth 800, 900 dollars; and in the last period
(of only years, $3.50, 900 dollars.
According to General Knox's report the north
sent to the army 100 men for every 227 of militia
ry age in 1890, and the south 100 for every 2O9.
But in l848, out of every 69 of the men Of mil
itary age in 1890 was Revolutionary pensoner
IN the north and only out of 10 in the south.
New England alone then had 8, 146 of these pen
sloners, than there were all the slave States
and New York twothirds as many, though she
contributed not one-seventh much to the war.
The results are equally remarkable, if we have
regard to the whole number of pensions, revolu-
tlonary and other. The expenses under this head,
for the years ending in 1897 (6) were 8,01o,c5I
dollars In the free States and g, 578 l01 dollars
IN the slave States, who not onlS paid their own
share, but $500, 900 to the north. New England
alone received 1894, Gil dollars, rather more
than two dollars head forevery man, woman, and
child in her limits During the same four years
she paid in taxes to the Federal Treasury, accor-
per head, so that she actually received more in
pensions than she paid in taxes In 1910 there
were not quite two and half times as many pen
sioners at the north at the south, but in i848
there were more than three times as many New
England had more revolutionary pensioners than
the five old plantation States had pensioners of all
kinds.
The public debt has been the source of vet more
enormous benefits to the north. The payments on
account of principal and interest had amounted in
all, on the 3Oth of September, 1848 (7) to 5OO,-
1878 dollars. Of this sum the south had paid
ll2,OOO, 600 of dollars from the lands ceded by
her, as before shown and 3O2 600 900 of the res
idue in duties On imports, making in all 4OOO,-
600, nearly the whole of which was paid at the
north. The chief owners of this debt have been
citizens of that section, partly because the funds
yielded higher profit than investments in their
lands-partly because they could advantageously
speculate in stocks, by means of the free use of
the large southern capital which, as we have
shown, continually passed through their hands
The average payment of the Federal debt BY the
south to the north has been over 1000, 900 of
dollars year. Well may the north say that "a
national debt is public blessingp'
The heads of the Federal expenditures which
we have examined give fair notion of the rest
and it may be safely assumed, that while the south
has paid seven ninths of the taxes, the north has
had seven-nnths of their disbursements The
military and navel expences, the civil and diplo-
matte, are partly in salaries; but chiefly in con-
tracts. As to the salaries, it is well known that
the north receives much the most: and it is equal
y notorious that nearly all the contracts are given
TO her citizens. 1t may be supposed that they are
the lowest bidders, and that if Southern bidders
made better offers, they would get the contracts
But before they can do SO, they must be placed on
an equal footing. The large capital which the
South has in the foreign trade, must be restored to
the hands of her citizens, for it is the use of this
capital, for which the northern man paws moth
ing, and the concentration by the Federal fiscal
action of all our commerce in his cities, that ena
BILE HIM to command all the lucrative contracts of
Government.
We have no means of computing the exact num-
Der of persons at the north who live upon the Fed
eral Treasury. Far the larger part of the custom
house and land officers, as well of the other
civil officers, are in the free States If we add all
these, the twenty odd thousand pensioners (8) and
the contractors, and the holders of
the public debt we shall be safe in estimating the
persons at the north, who are directly dependent
on the Federal revenues, at 50,0O0. Add their
families, and we have an army of 100000 tax
consumers in the free States, nearly all supported
by the slaveholdng tax payers.
Let us now compare the present condition of a
northern and Southern parish, each containing 100
families of SIX persons. In the former, we shall
find that there are some three of IT'S families who
derive the whole, or a part of their income, d.
rectly from the United States Treasury while there
is no such family in the latter, if it be like the
majority of the slaveholding communities of the
same size. If the Northern parish happen TO be
on the coast, every bay, and inlet, and creek has
been carefully surveyed by Federal Government,
and lights shine every twenty odd miles along the
shore, to protect its mariners. In the Southern
parish, the vessels must find their way through
the shoals they best can, for there has been no
survey, and no warning beacon cheers the storm
for hundreds of miles. The Union spends ten dol
lars in cutting roads and canals cleaning rivers,
and constructing harbors in the northern parish,
where it spends one in the Southern. And to Sc
cure these benefits the parish in the free States
pays in 388 dolls, and receives back in dis
bursements 1860 dolls; while the same number
of families in the slave States pay 1,620 dolls. and
receive only 270 dolls. The excess of $50 dolls
goes to be distributed amongst the northern par
ishes. This is not ALL for the hundred families OF
the Southern neighborhood are deprived of the
profits of using over 900 dolls. of their own cot
ton, tobacco grain, &C., in order to let the hun
dred northern families use over 5000 dolls. of il;
whole year free of charge When the two par
ishes join in war against common foe the South
ern must send five times many soldiers, and pay
FIVE times as much of the expenses; and yet, when
the contest is over it must suffer its partner 10
seize all the conquests, and at the same time to
kidnap its property and attack its domestic peace
Can insoIence-ean tyranny go farther? Or can
history show more degraded community than