Southern standard. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1851-1856, 1851-02-15

& .a,d tho account of the disbursement of thes'
sal 600 600 of revenue ? Are the $22, 900 ,OOe
which are taken from the labor of the South ex
pended at the South, to enrich her citizens ana I'm
prove her section and only the 5000, ooo whlci
are contributed by the North spent among her PEG
pie i? Far, very far, is this from being the case
We have not within our reach the documents Whici
are necessary to exhibit this point; but we see
and feel and know that hansh injustice Is done u
in this matter 1t has been asserted, on good au
thority that seven nnths of the income OF the tie
neral Government are spent at the North; and bu
two-ninths at the South. According to tins est
mate whilst the Southern States contribute OF tho
S31 600 o0O S22, 600, 900, they receive back, t.
be spent among their people, but Sc, 900, GOO and
whilst the North contributes but 50, GOO to
that fund they contrve so to divert the current o
Expenditure out of its natural channels as to spend
THE enormous amount of $24, LOG, 600 among her
own people, which is $15.000,0O0 annually more
than they contribute and the same amount SO
much taken from tie pr9fts Of or ministry TO en-
rich their citizens and section. Ihls Is equal
y true of the revenue also from the sale our pub
lie lands and all other sources of our public income,
amounting to near 81, 600, 600 more, which sWells
the amount disbursed among the free soil States to
nearly S28, 600, 900, whilst the sums expended at
the South are less than 100000
''In estimating, then, the value of the Union to
them, as it has no doubt often been cyphered out
in the true Clock Maker State by the Sam Sticks
of the North, it has been without doubt ascertain
ed, and credited in their bank book, being
worth to them, in hard dollars, at least eighteen
millions of dollars annually in clear gain, and free
of all expenses Hence the tender affecton-the
reverental regard, which they pretend to feel, and
eypress for the sUnion >: and hence the adherence
which they express at the thought of separating
from their beloved brethren at the South, and
the denuncation of those who breathe the word
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South begins at length to understand the sincerity
of these professions of veneration for the Union
and the disnterestedness of their indignation at
those who would dissolve it; and especially when
they threaten to hold us in their embraces by main
force and with al the violence of musketry and
cannon, if need be.
''They arc III danger of losing, not merely the
bounties which give life to their manufactures, their
shipping and their commerce. but the good round
sum of S18, OO0 900 annually which is taken from
the pockets of southern planters, to be transferred
by sort of legislative egerdemain, into their own
pockets, to enrich themselves and give prosperity
to their sections. Deprived by dsunion of this an
nual and refreshing supply, they must either per-
NIT the hundreds of thousands of their citizens who
are now nourshed by those expenditures to sink
down in suffering, and the public works upon which
they squandered, to go to decay they must
raise the amount by taxes upon themselves. But
how raise them? They appropriate to themselves
out of the public treasury, not on y the nine null
lions of their own but eighteen millions and more
contributed by the South making their shares of
the expenditures over S27, 600, 900. Now it has
been seen that their share of the imports amount
only to about $45, GOO, COO upon which it would
require duty of so per cent to raise the S27, 600,
600 of revenue, which they are now accustomed
to spend. But as no commerce could bear for any
length of time a burden of 60 per cent, then The
resort would have to be to direct taTeS which Ii
Lac al,
the Southern States would submit to.
cit may be assumed, then, thing that's GER
tain, that that amount of revenue could not Tex
cept by borrowing, be supplied for purposes of
either war or peace and that all the interests and
projects which are now fostered by that expendi-
ture will be suffered to languish and decay.
Gin every point of examination, then, it will ap
pear that the dissolution of the Union will be fol- |
lowed by infinite disaster to the North and with
comparatively little to the South Let every South
ern man then firmly persuade himself of this fact
that the Union is of vastly more value to them
than it is to us; and that 1t is for Hen and not for
as make sacrifices and concessions to maintain it.
GAS long the principles of the Constitution
are faithfully observed, and the Union made to pro-
mote the purpose for which it was formed, it be-
becomes our duty to support it
In view, therefore, of the great damage that
must result to the North from dissolution of the
Union, we cannot bring ourselves to believe that
our Northern brethren wovld perpetrate an act so
suicidal to tempt ruin upon their own heads by
forcing the South to secede The dominant ma
Jorlty of Congress press their aggressions, the
belief that will acquiesce and the work of plum
der go on without endaegering the Union. If the |
whole South would stand up one man and pro-
claim determination to resist, we are hopeful of
reactlonary feeling on the part of those who seek
to Cypress and degrade us. But so long as they |
believe that the Ucion is stronger than slavery and
that prefer the loss of property to the loss of the
Union, we need not expect any lull in the storm,
or any break IN their encroachmentS. Hence it be-
comes us to act in such manner as will nndeceive
our enemies, and in a form which cannot be mis-
understood
Beset on all sides, the South in her perilous con
dIuon can alone find safety in her own firmness.
Fidelity tie herselfm preserve the Union as it was,
and with 1t the guarantees of political equality An
undivided Southern 'front.' moving steadily on the
line of duty, will either repulse the enemy, or fix
the responsibility of the conflict upon the agrees
slVe party The Southern people anxious to
preserve the Union in its original character Its
destiny IS in the hands of the Northern people
they can destroy by pervertng its character and
pushing Their encroachments to It's overthrow they
can save 1t by administering jcstice and adhering
to the Constitution which made it, 1t is for the 1
North to calculate its value and to determine IFS
existence. The South is in the minority, and, act
ing ON the defensive, cannot be held responsible for
the consequences which may follow the acts of a
majority intolerant in its opinions and destructive
IN its policy.
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