The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1854-05-11

fye-and twenty millions than its presen
amount-not one-half of that excess Ii
paid by the South. How, indeed, should
it be? Nearly all our revenue come!
from duties on foreign merchandise, o
which slaves consume but little, and the
poorer class of white people of the South
consume but little more. Taking, how
ever, the whole white population Of the
South, we have but five millions of con-
sumers to put against thrice that number
at the North; and if the consumption, pei
head, were equally as great in all portions
of the Union, their contributions would
be but one fourth Of the whole, or about
one half of the twenty -fve-million of ex-
cess expenditure. That the southern con-
sumption, per head, will average less, and
much less, than that of the North no one
can doubt; as it is, we think, quite as lit
tie to be doubted that the contributions
Oh inc ICOuGu tOh IL NS Cno lCFSHuS "AN
less than ten millions Of dollars-a sum
not more than sufficient to pay the mere
interest upon the sums expended in the
purchase OF southern land, and in the
making of wars for southern purposes
We have now been asked to spend twen-
ty millions more, and, if Cuba can be had
at hundred millions, it will be bought
and the interest upon these two sums
alone would amount to seven millions
two hundred thousand dollars, or large
portion of the whole amount of contribu-
tons furnished by the South. The same
men who now urge upon the whole Union
these enormous expenditures for southern
purposes, deem it so highly unconstitu-
tional to appropriate any part of the rev.
enues for the improvement of rivers and
harbors, that to keep within the letter of
the law they would violate its spirit by
authorizing states, counties, cities, and
towns to make improvements and charge
tunage duties upon ships and merchan-
disc, by which Iowa, Illinois, Missouri and
and Kentucky, would be compelled 20
contribute largely in taxation for the pro-
motion of the trade of New Orleans.
We are assured that all these expendi-
lures are necessary to provide an outlet
for the rapidly growing negro population.
Well the land is purchased, and next We
are told that labor is scarce-that negroes
are high-that it is unjust to permit Ala
bama and Texas to be taxed by Virginia
to the extent of thousand dollars for a
negro, when as good an one can be brought
from Africa for an hundred and fifty dol
lars, and that therefore, we would re-es-
tablish the African slave trade. Such is
the tendency of things, and such is the
end to which we are pointed before the
close of century after the publication
of the Declaration of Independence, in
which it was asserted that all men were
born "free and equal" Prussia has e.
mancipated her serfs, and Russia and
Austria have long been moving steadily
towards the enfranchisement of their peo-
pie; but we of the Nuoth are paying many
millions of dollars annually for the en-
largement of slave territory, to end in re-
establishing the infamous trade by which
Africa was so long degraded and is al
this moment depopulated. We are urged
to expend several millions on the enlarge
ment of our steam marine, and among
the important reasons for this measure
offered by Mr.. Bocock of Virginia is, thai
"the latent spark" of freedom may per.
haps blaze out in Cuba, when the "blood
of Mr.. Crittenden and his "companions
will cry for vengeance" Should, how
ever, the spark of freedom blaze out a
mong the laborers of that island, these
steamships will certainly be used for it:
extinguishment. Mr.. Bocock is for ex
tending the area, of slavery, and not tina
of freedom, and it is for that object b,
would have US build so many ships.
mere dlC III IuC CHlICu pbdlSny do wv
are told, 234 colleges, with ,65l teach
ers, 27 ,l56 students, and an anual income
of $452, ,3l4 from endowments, SIS, AS;
from taxation, $184, $40 from pubic funds
81 ,264 $50 from other sources: maxim!
in all, 81 ,9l6,628. OF public schools 70
common and academic education, ther
6O,O9I, with $1,000 teachers, 1854, II;
pupils, and an income of sl82 ,594 from
endowments, 1866, Ala from taxes, 81,
TAT ,669 from public funds, and $2,l47,
e53 from all other sources: reaching a to
: tai of sc, ,59l $50. Adding together thes
sums, we find an expenditue for popula
education, in all its departments, of Sll ,
sos, ,l5S of money. OF this, the proper
ton expended north of Mason and Dix
on's line, is probably not less than four
ffths, or more than nine millions of dol
lars, considerable sum certainly, bu
yet Tess than tie interest on the expenditure
for purchasing Florida and detterminatin.
the SeminoleS-.for purchasing Teas an