New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-04-19

10 seyen millions tEo hundred thousand dollars oTk
lsrse portion of the whole Amount OF contributions
fur ished BY the South. The same who now urge
upon the Whole Uaiou these enormous expenditures r
southern purposes deem II 80 highly unconstitutional
10 appropriate al! part Of tie revenue for the i'm
proveuent If rivers ard harbOrs that 20 keep within
the leter Of tie Law they would violate it's spirit by
authorizing states counties cities aud towns to make
improvements and charge tuunaRe duties upon ships
aud merchandise BY whi-h Iowa aud Illinois, Missouri
and Kentucky would be compelled to contribute large
" in taxation for the promotion of the trade of New
Orleans.
We are assured that all these expenditures are
Necessary provide outlet FOR the rapidly growing
negro population Well the land is purchased. sud
next We are told that labor il scsrce-that negroes
are hgt-thst il is unjust to permit Alabama and
Texas 10 be taxed by Virginia TO the extent of thou
sand dollars for negro, when as good an one can be
brought from Africa for hundred aud fifty dollars
and that therefore we should re-esblish the African
slave trade Such is the tendency OF things, and such
is the eud 10 which we are pointed before
the close of century after the publication of
the Declaration Of Independence, 10 which il was as
serted that all men were born free and equal"
Prussia has emsncpated her serfs, and Russia and
Austria have long been moving steadily towards the
eniTanchement of their people; but We of the North
are paying msny millions Of dollars annually for the
erareeMeIt of slave territory TO emf in reestabshing
the infamous trade by which Africa was 40 long de-
graded and is at this nom, ut depopuated We urged
10 expend several millions the enlargement OF orr
steam marine and among the important reasons for
this measure offered ny Mr DOccck of Virginia is that
the latent spark OF freedom may perhaps blaze OUT
ia Cuba when the blood OF Mr.. Crttenden ald his
companions will nor ia vain cry for Vengeance
Should, however. the spark OF freedom blaze out
among the GJoY,rs vi that bland these steamships viii
certainly be used for its extiDguishment. Mr. Bocock
is for extending the of slavery and not that OF
freedom and IT is for that object he would have US
build 30 many ships.
There are il the United States as We are told pa
colleges with Col teachers q l59 students aud an
annual income OF Si52 3li from endowments SIS i35
from taxation. Slsl $40 from public funds, and
81 264250 from other sources; making, in all Sl,9l6.
G2s. OF public schools for common and academic
education there are 6099l with $4,000 teachers,
1854 I73 pupils and an income of Sl52 594 from
dowments, S4 6S64I4 from taxes, $2547,6j) from
public funds and - l47 553 from all other sources;
reaching total of 80 59 $50 Adding together these
all its departments of Sll SIS l5o of money. Of this
the proportion expended north of Mason and Dixons
line is probably not les than four-ffths, or more
than nine millions of dollars considerable sum
tainy but yet less than the interest the expenditures
for purchasing Florida and e1terminating the Semnoes
for purchasing T;ras and carrying tie ,car that
uos declared TO rs ,chen deemed desirable to
eniarge The bounds Of that STATE by Selling Ns,c Mereo
.Jr I,t he Soutb
for Cuba four fhs would be paid by the North and
if northern men desire understand the object for
which they are required to pay this enormous sum-
they will obtain the information BY reailng the follow
ing passages from The Richmond Enquirer:
"Our view of the policy of this measure, Of erery
Otey, is determined by the paramount and controlling
consid7a'i0n II southern interests 1t is because
gard the acquisition Cuba essential 10 the stability Of
lie System If Star0y, and to tie Just GscendaHcy 81 the
SouM thai consent t. fDrego habtua repugnance
to pol tics change and to advocate measure Of such
vast, ana in some respects uncertain consequences
Tie only possible way in which the South can indem
nifty self for its concessions 10 the Anti Slavery fana
cisn II by the acquisition Of additional Stare territory
We must re. htorce h porers of Slarery as an ee
nent Of political control and this only be done by the
0nHe,ofion 81 Cuta In no other direction is there a
chance or the aggrandzement of Slavery The nrgues
of Great Britain for The abolition Of Slarery IN that island
are purued with zeal aud an energy which cannlt fail
of unkss the United Stafes interfere TO preUea The
consumm0'ioa. The only elecual mode by which this
may be done, is By he traHer Of the island 10 ne domin
ion Of he States Ii contemplate the possible aerna
tive of the Gsrvpon Of tie Union by the mad spirit Of
Abolition tie necessity for tie acquisition Of Cuba as
spBpott TO he South, become manifest anil ur
etnt With Cuba in the possession of an hostile interest
southern Slavery would be exposed to an assault which
could neither resist endure Van Cuba a memJer
If gye0t SOutera COntederaey Sarery might bid def
GKee 10 as encmies.'
We are now called on to convert the Mesilla Valley
into slave territory and to arrange for bringing the
eroes of Cuba within tie Union, aud thus forever to
prevent the island from becoming the property of free
black men and the annual iaterest Of these two
purcbases-to say nothing of the additional army aud
Davy that will be required-will m)unt to four fths
Of the whole ameuDt pay for educational purposes
throughout the free States OF the Union.
Such is a portion of the cost of tbe Union What is
it's value has been shown On a future occasion we
shall furnish some further items OF the cost bu mean
time will beg our readers to reflect whether trade
that cspnot be worth dozen millions per annnm is
not dearly paid for by the maintenance OF system
that takes from the North so many millions annually to
be applied to the purchase Of southern land the sup
port OF southern wars and the enforcement of the
powers Of Slavery element of political control,
when they might 40 advantageously be applied to the
Improvement Of rivers and barbors by which northern
farmers could chespy get TO market aud the improve
mept of schools at which northern children might be
cLeaply educated.
RAILROAD IRON AND RAILROAD BONDS.
The conduct of the persons engaged IN the making
Of railroads appears border closely insanity