The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1854-05-09

allow.d 10 accent. free of cost, tho British pos
sessions With two and half millions OF free in
habitants, and yet the South does not hesitate
in buying Cuba at hundred millions, nor
would it hesitate about involving tho wnole
country in a war that might cost twice that
sum for the purpose of preventing any move
ment in the island looking to tho enfranehise-
ment of its negro population.
The North as we have said. scarcely need
an army II has bnt little need tor a navy; |
but even admitting that fve millions were re-
qured for that purpose, it is difficult TO see
how the expenditure of Mr.. Adams could be
much exceeded The Post Office of the North
could support itself at lower rates tha'i tnose
now paid: for we have thrice the amount OF
population capable of maintaining correspon
dence. and three times the quantity of exchan-
qes. while the organized territory of the South
Is greater by almost one-half than that OF
the North The diplomacy of the North
would require small expenditure. for we have
nothing to ask for, and there is nothing Tor
which we desire to fight. Northern pohcy
looks as we have said, always homoward,
while tha, of tho South looks alawys outward,
as witness the constantly repeated invasions OF
Texas, of Cuba and of Mexico.
Admitting, however, that the expenditures
should reach the sum of twenty millions, even
that is less by five-and-twenty millions than its
present amount-and not onohaf of that ex-
cess is paid by the South. How, indeed, shod
il be? Nearly all onr revenue comes from du-
, ties on foreign merchandise,of which slaves con-
sumo but little and the poorer class of white peo-
ple of the South consume but little more. Ia
king. however, the whole white population of
the South, we have Ave millions of consumers
. To put against thrice that number at the North;
and If the consumption. per head, were eqnai
ly great in all portions of the Union their con-
tributions would he but ne-fourth OF the
9 whole, or about one-half of tho twenty-five
millions of excess expenditure. That the SOU
thern consumption, per head. VIII average less'
/, and much less than that of the North, no one
can doubt; and it is, we think, quito as little to
be doubted that the contributions of the South
toward the revenue are less than ten millions
of dollars-a sum not more than sufficient To
paw 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 twenty millions
more. and. if Cuba can be had at hundred
= millions it will be bought-and the interest
:, on these two sums alone would amount TO sew
- en- millions two hundred thousand dollars or
larpe portion of thu whole amount of coutrlbu-
,, ,ions furnished by the South. The same men
y who now urge upon the whole Union these O.
y normous expenditures for southern purposes.
:, deem it so highly unconstitutional to appro-
, . pirate any part of the revenue for the improve
mcnt OF rlveTS ana ndrDOrs, tHdt tO htcp
70 the letter of the law they would violate its spr-
il by authorizing states. counties, cities, and
y towns to make improvements and charge tun-
- mage duties upon ships and merchandise by
" which Iowa and Illinois. Missouri and Ken
= tncky. would bo compelled to contribute large
- v in taxation for the promotion of the trade o
- New. Orleans. ,.v-,v
n, ;co neoro popuation. Well! the land IS pur
" chased and next we are told that labor u
III scarce-that negroes are high-tbat 1t Is uhlus
RS n hermit Alabama and Texas to- be taxen oN
us Viroinia to tho extent OF thousahu u""i
ny for negro. when as good an one can De oro
III from Africa for hundred and h'ty ao'iars-
and that therefore, wo should re-estauilsh III
~, mo African slave trade. Such is tho ,ehuo"cy
Ill thinos. and such is tho end to when we ar
ny nointed before the close of a century after tn
m publication of the Declaration of independence
nc In which it was asserted that all men were IRE
*. and equal" Prussia has emancipated nc
no serfs. and Russia and Austria have long pee
OF moving steadily towards the entranehlsemei
10 of their people; but we of the North are pay
ms ing many millions of dollars annually for u
er enlargement of slave territory, to end in re-e
II, iablishing the Infamous trade by which Atrie
the WAS so long degraded and is at this moment d
OF nonnlntcd We are urged to spend sever
nse millions upo, our stenm marine. and amor
DC the mpo;unt reasons for this measure oner
ev- nv Mr.. Bocock of Virginia is. that "the late
,iar spark" of freedom may perhaps blaze out
IN Cuba. when tho "blood of Mr.. Crittenden al
40 his companions will not in vain cry FOR We
loi ceance" Should, however, the spark OF lrt
ern dom blaze out among tho faborers OF that
un- land. these steamships will certainly be us
ore for lis extinpuishment Mr.. Bocock is for
ing tending the area of slavery, and not that
he freedom. and il is for that object he would ho
ne no us build so many ships.
Tor There are in the United States, as we
'nch told. 234 colleges, with l.65l teachers ~
'uh' students. and an annual income OF Sfoz,o
ress from endowments, Sl5,iS from taxatl
was SIs4,549 from public funds, end Sl2i4..
lged S,a.. n,'or sonrccs. making. in all. 81 9l66
our OF public schools, for common and acade'
Sc education there arc 80 991, with 92,OOO tea
ex- ers 3354173 pupils. and an income OF %
hons 594 from endowments, $4,SS6,4l4 rom Ia
opiiy 40 547. 500 from public funds. and S2l
or'h- from ell other sources reaching a tota' OF
or so 5oi53O. Adding together these sums, we
gu 10 an expenditure for popular education' ,n ~
departments, of $l1, ,50S,l5 OF money:
IN by this the proportion expended north OF Ma
Worth Ia Dixsson.s line ;s nrobably not less
mons fourf ffths or more than nine mill Ms OF
lars n considerable sum certainly. Dnt ye'
eh at thnn the interest on the expenditure 'or
when chasing Florida and exterminating the 81
usive noles-for purchasing Texas and carrying
""'o the war that was declared 10 exists W."
rpen- eos doemed desirable to enlarge The bounC
ernal r., Stoto hv se;zino on Now Mexico
siana, 0f ,ho hn, dred millions already ofere
south, a.. Sui for Cubo. fonr-ifths would be
for an ~, H. Nor,b. AID IL northern men desi
anged ~, ~ aars,and the object for which they ar
atoms ouired to pay this enormous sum, they vii vii
ctions tain tho information by reading the folio
or inn passages from The Richmond Enquirer
mount ,,o Lie, oe ,b;s measure az O
having ~ o,her ,s de,emined sy the paramount and
on trolling consideration Of southern interests IL
~. bo- regard the acquisition ei una Us d
rcasu- to the stao,ity o' ..e Sn,b ,h,, e cons
'iWs vi forero our habitua repugnance to political CT
tho and IN advocate measure of such vast, and in
inter- respects. uncertain consequences Inc OF only
nd tho ble way In which the South can indemnify Its
its concessions 10 the Anti-Slayery ianaiicism
the acquisition Of additional slave territory.
y upon We must reinforce the powers OF slavery as
ich ment of political accord, and this can only be
nrfh the ncansitinn of Cnba. IN no nther ulIee