Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1855-11-14
THE FEELING ELSEWHERE.


THE Columbus (Ga.) I" Times,' one of the most
spirited papers of the South thus aludes to recent
suggestions preparing for the Cincinnati Conven.
tion:
We hope the compromise of the Advertiser will be
accepted. The Georgia delegates will be specially
instructed insist upon endorsement of the Nebras
ka Kansas act and Of the fugitive slave law as pre-
iminary to cooperation their part with the Nation
al Democracy Cannot South Carolinn follow suit
She has stood aloof too long already and weakened
her influence by her supposed haughtiness and sell
conce. Il must now be evident that if the Union is
saved and the rights Of the South are protected in the
Union, the National Democracy is the only party which
has the will and power to do the work. 1t is there.
FORE the duty Of every Southern State to strengthen
the Democratic party and tho time to purify
it by the infusion of sound and the expulsion Of
unsoand men from its bosom.
CALCULATING THE VALUE OF THE UNION
The following, from the Nswberry Mirror" "
brea,hes the right spirit and puts which the
"Union praisrrs in South Carolina" will indeed find
it hard to get over. WAsnIScTos's Farewell Adj
dress may possibly clear away the difficulty; bur We
must be allowed to doubt until the Patriot" tells
US how.
The F." Mirror" says: Some articles have recently
appeared in the New York Journal Of Commercs,
upon the benefits of the Union to the North and South
respectively The articles are republishedin DeBows
Review with the appreciation of its editor. Is the
following statement, which ~e copy, correct!
"Tho South has been burdened with an unequal
taxation for the support Of the Federal Government,
which has been a source Of thrift to the Norh from
which it would be measureaby relieved tby separa.
tion.) For example from l79l till 1915, the principal
receipts of revenue at the Custom houses of the United
States amounted to 1927 0,067, Of which the slave
States paid S71l 100000, and the free States S2l5,
SjO,097. We will take period Of four years, from
1893 10 1897 and the figures Of Mr. Woodbury., to
plain in what manner the public money is expended
relatively in the two sections. The free States re-
ceyed S65 900 00O and the slave States only S32 600
600, while the latter contributed S90,0000O0 10 the
Treasury, and the former but Sl7,50O ooO."
From this it follows: that the South pays to the
support of the Government three or four times as
much ar the North, while it receives in disbursements
the North receives three four times much as it
pays The burden Of the Government therefore falls
not partly but exclusively upon the Sonh the North
not only enjoying the benefits of the Government, but
being clear gamer, pecuniarly, TO more than three
times the amount il pays.
H these facts are correct and they stand unconradic-
ted in newspapers ohe highest authority the country
there was never upon eartha huger swindng concern
than the Federal Government.
We invite the attention to these figures of the roci-
ferrous Union praisers in South Carolina. There is
one Editor who refers to the Farewell Address Of
Washington TO prove the great benefits and blessings
per. By showing these figures 10 be false, or by
planning hem lie will make more pertinent argument
for the Union, than by digging in the dry bones and
fossil remains Of antiquity, in the shape OF farewell
addresses, or other antiquaied documents.