The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1854-05-09
From the New York Tribune.
COST OF THE UNION.

Tho policy of the North looks home"a'u.-
Northern men seek no enlargement OF terrific
ry but they do seek to render productive what
thew have. To accomplish that object, they
need canals. railroads lighthouses and the re-
moval of distractions to the navigation OF riv-
ers, and for these latter purposes they nave
steadily and regularly asked the aid OF Con-
gross.
Southern policy looks outward Southern
man seek additions TO their territory, but they
do not endeavor to render productiAe what
thcy have Delaware. Maryland. and Virgin
with much of tho Carolnns, and of Kentucky,
have been exhausted by abstracting from tho
soil all the clements of production, and the oc-
cupanis of their exhausted lands find Them
selves forced TO seek abroad for new lands TO
be in their turn exhausted-and hence it is
that the South is always on the watch TO So
cure, by war or purchase, onlargements of her
surface. Southern men. consequently, deny
to Government tho right Of aiding in the con-
stuction # roads or canals, or for appropria-
| ting from the treasury anv moneys to De nsed
| in the construction Of lighthouses. the forma'
ton of harbors, or the removal of obstructions
from rivers; and il is to meet southern ooJec-
ton to governmental action that it is now pro-
| posed to establish n Croat system OF local tax
alton. calculated largely to interfere with the
| free circulation of men and merchandise thro-
out tho Union.
Half a century since. the great territory OF
Louisiana was purchased. chiefly for the South
At the close of that long period. the North
has obtained from il but single State while
tho South has had already threc, and now in
sists that the whole vast territory which yet re-
mains unoccuped should be thrown open to
cultivation by slaves In 1920 the territory or
Florida was purchased for the South. at cost
of seven millions of dollars, paid out OF taxes
imposed on property of the North and South
IN tho eight years succeeding that purchase
from 1921 TO lS29-the annual expenditure OF
the Government. exclusive of payments on ac-
count of tho national debt, was but thirteen
millions of dollars, and yet out of that small
sum considerable appropriations were made in
aid of the Cumberland Road and other works
of internal improvement.
The Administration of Gen. Jackson sue
ceeded to that of Mr.. Adams in 1929, and the
expenditure rose in the first term to nearly
seventeen millions. while in the cond Il
was more than twenty-five millions. little OF
none of which was expended on any OF those
works OF pence desired by the North. because
the Soath had then determined that all sucf
appropriations were violations OF the Consti
tuition. Ii was. however, deemed perfectly
constitutional 10 swell the military and nava
expenditure from eight millions in 1923 iC
f twenty two millions in 1886, because the OBJ
iect of that increase was the extirpation of th'
! few poor Semnoles of Florida. whose occu
. pancy in,erfered with the enlargement of the
fisld for slave labor.
Q Mr.. Van Buron followed, and in his perio'
we find tho expenditure TO have been carried
up 10 an average of thirty millions, no part q
which was permitted to be appropriated 10 in
| tcrna improvements asked for by the North
while the Florida war was allowed 10 Absorb
| Of frnn d..hN
the people >. IT. II. Sar- uf this Administrator
, the expenditure for military purposes alone av
/. eraged no less than twentv-one millions, an
the total amount so expended in the four year
>. was sixtv-pght millions, or sixteen miiiloi
, more than was expended for all purposes
;. Mr.. Adams 1t was, however, for souther
+ benefit, and therefore constitutional.
rs Under the succeeding Administration ti
"a total expenditure was reduced to twenty MI
70 ions. or less than was expended on the arm
m and navy alone by Mr.. Van Buren,, while ,,e, e.
n On gcd in clearing out the Scmlnoies. II
of death of Gen. Harrison having thrown inc e.
If ocntiyo mower int, southern hands, we III
that twice during Mr.. Tylcr's occupation
ke tho Presidential Chair was the veto apphed
%. bills intended To satisfy the just expectatio
no Of northern mcn anxious 10 imnrove the 'nte
course bv the lakes and rivers OF the west
ks With Mr.. Polk came The war settling t
m boundaries of Texas and enlarging the area
ry slave territory, and now the expenditure T,
ha tn an average of forty-four millions chiefly
,as slowed on the army and navy, Large move
en- or. as was the amount expended. not 40. .
nm could 90 for the promotion of the peaceful !
zoo nrovemen,s of the North: for when, in ls.
10 Congress appropriated about a million OF q
M lars for improvements in tho lakes and westt
!, rivers. tho bill was vetoed by MIR. Polk rs
al constitntional and when, in 1916. still nj
he modest bill WINS sent to him, appropriat
an only half million to all such purposes.
so pocEeted IL and il failed to become a law.
a,v same difficulty occurred in regard to bill
of the payment Of the debt owing by the fre'
re- nation To the unfortunate claimants on aceo
of of the French spoilations Passed oy Congr
art. it was vetoed by the President because IL
inconpenienL to pay such claims whiie enga
her in war for tho extension of territory on
nuo, southern and sonth-weste'n p"'ueiH
. rh,, cure that extension. we had to support an
ring pensive war. and finally TO pay fifteen MIL
non TO the Mexican Governments: but nap
lied "souattor government secured to the No
rom ern States n portion of the territory fc
your nearly all of which they had been require
it, paw.
ding Texas had been dragged into tho Uno
ares Mr.. Polk, and in 1850 tho people of the n
The were required to unite in paying ton m'i
llsh- for this enlargement oi si"'o 'o'''o.y'
Cap The expenditure seems now 10 oe nxe
from forty TO fifty millions of dollars. of "
the military and naval department.. excl
er of ofthe contracts for mail steamers require
leath than twenty. or one hdU more hdn 'eds "a
$ the ded by Mr.. Adams for all purposes, int
con- and external Having purchased LOUIS
ph in Florida. Texas and New Mexico for tho =
have Just escaped paying twenty million Il
not enlargement of the area of Slavery, ARA
life by Gen. Gadsdep, aud yet no approprlo
gem can be obtained for removing obstru'
Gun. from the great rivers of the West, or TO
,lono. proving the harbors of the lakes. Any an
udied NAV be lavished upon foreign missions: h
. for their object removal OF restriction
tho tobacco trade of Franco or German
,rpool cause that interests the South; but the q
before ry is hermotcally sealed against tho ola
!, and the North for any aid in developing
Can sources of it's territory. or in facilitating
v ran course between the States OF tho East al
city of West.
Offer We beg our readers to reflect carefully
these facts and then TO study how mu
a L. ot,tr for n N