Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1855-08-17

Than labor the deep midocean wind and and
Oh rest ye, brother mariners, will not wander more
I From the N. Y. Herald.
ss Millions slavery ''---EstImates of a Seward
! Organ---The Boot the other Leg.
! We find in the Buffalo Express-a conspicuous or
gan OF W. H. Seward and his anti slavery coalition
"a leading article bearing the significant caption OF
" Millions for STRENGTHENING for Commerce" In
this article we are told that southern slavery has
ever been pet institution of government, and has
grown fat and strong from the public treasury Eacn
President in tun, has caressed and patted the thing
on the head while the Secretary of the Treasury has
constantly fed it from the choicest pap afforded from
the government resources In this way it has been
reared spoiled child '-deSiring and coveting all
that sees, and proving fretful and uncomfortable if
! its every want is not speedily gratifed."
To establish the charge that this pet institution
OF the South i" has grown fat aud strong from the
public treasury" the following given by our buf
fao philosopher of the items of expenses In
Cured by the general government account of sla
very:
Purchasing Louisiana in lS03 $50, 900
Florida War with the Indians lss4'S8 s2244OOO
Vas WsPP to pbtap aiG% TeFssg 9Iss OSO
Paid to Texas for sham claims in 185O55. l6OOOOOO
Mesilla Valley, to Santa Anna, 1853 1000 900
Total $50, ,97o, 900
Now, shall proceed to take this bill of costs to
pieces, and it we do not prove that figures can le
we think shall satisfy the reader that they may
be used TO suppress very material facts, and to estab
llsh the most ridiculous conclusions. Let US look,
then, into these items of the Express of the expenses
OF " the pet institution in connexlon with this out
cry of 81 millions for slavery-nothing for commerce."
The first item relates to the Louisiana territory
and the cost of its purchase is set down at $23 $780,
QUO. Grant it-grant that the territory purchased
was saveholdiDg territory: were there no advan
tages in the purchase TO the North, and " nothing
tor commerce !' AS understand it. the great OBJ
Jec of the purchase to the outlet OF the
Mississippi river and its magnificent and prolific
valley, for the benefit Of commerce. In the way of
trade, this acquisition, since 1903, has been to the
Tree States and Territories contiguous to the Mssis
sipp and its tributaries equal in value to at least one
thousand millions OF dollars. Then, again, parts
OF this louisiana purchase, the North have secured
the tiourshng State of Iowa. the beautiful and thrifty
Territory of Minnesota, and the tremendous Territory
OF Nebraska, to say nothing of the chances for Kan
sas, and the praries 10 the south of it. All this is
an Offset which cannot be measured in dollars and
cents; but the public lands in this Louisiana pur.
chase sold, and to be sold, will probably foot up in
the end at the Treasury Department gross amount
IN hard cash of not less than two hundred millions of
dollars, exclusive of grants to northern railroads.
We fnd then, that the account on both sides,
touching the Louisiana purchase, stands as follows
Purchase of Louisiana NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. 1928 $50 900
Aetua! benefits to northern trade from the
psEd stOn ton. of IL the mouths of the 600
1U"!lc landS, ID cash. NpU,OOO,OOU
Total. 200 900 900
Deonct outlay for slavery ........... 23,53O,OOO
Balance, clear gain by the Union 1,l7e, 47O, 900
Over eleven hundred millions clear gain. Answer
fool according to his folly" saith the Scriptures
This balance will pay for the purchase of Florida
the Florida from first to last and the purchase
OF Mississippi from Georgia, to say nothing of the
revenues and materials from the public lands in those
States; and we shall still have margin to spare of
a thousand millions in favor of the Louisiana pur
chase
The next three items are
The to obtain Texas 846'47 .$2l7 l74Oo
Tex9s Claims l8oU-' 5..................I6 rs 600 oOn
The Gadsdep treaty. 10 COG 600
Add Mexican ndemI ties, l84S IS 600 600
And we have II Observation-Disclosures. .25s 1854 OG0
This Is a large I'm expended in behalf of the ''pe,
institution" OF III government, resulting from the
annexation of 'iexas. But lei look the other
side of The cccunt. The and the peace with
Mexico lave given the North the sp endid State of
California, whose seaport Of San Francisco is the
New York Of the Paclc coast. But must not
overlook the solid specie dividends of California,
nearly the whole OF which have been the suhstan tla
gains of the North Since the discov of the gold
washings the Rio de los Amer'canos, in l848, the
export Of California gold, manifested and in private
hands to The Atlantic Northern States, has bren we
dare say, fully up ace hundred and fifty millions
OF dollars.
Our Northern account with Southern Slavery.
therefore, concerning Texas, The war with Mexico.
&c. is as follows
Total profits in solid gold 350, ,00O,00O
Balance, clear gain by the Union. 81 826 900
Or in round Numbers, ninety two millions of dollars!
And how does this rreposerous rubbish of millions
for slavery and nothing for commerce" apply TO Cal
| ifOrnia The acquisition of that country and the
discovery OF the gold there, have given greater i'm
pulse to our commerce, domestic and foreign, Allan
| tic and Pacific, than would have been given to it,
without California, had huudred millions year
for the last half century been appropriated the i'm
provement of rivers and harbors
j We think made out. In our purchases
OF and for southern territory neither the public
treasury the northern States have been the losers
On the contrary while the treasury has been replen-
ished from these acquisitions account of the net
institution of southern slavery '-while our com.
merce, from the TO the rivers and the lakes has
been vastly benefued-and while the North has Sc
cured of the richest and farest of these ac
Qustons-we have secured with them the whole re-
gon of the gold country, and the monopoly of its
bouhtful digg wet and dry, the ports of Califor-
MIA, the isthmus passages, and the command of the
Pacific trade.
In view of such splendid advantages as these de-
rived from our outays account of the pet in
stitution' under debt of the heaviest obi
cation to the South. This debt cannot be cancelled
in dollars and cents-it can only be met by the exer-
else ct that spirit of compromise and concession to-
wards the South which distinguished the fathers of
the constitution. In the exercise of this spirit should
the South give shape and form the State nstitu-
tlons of Kansas it will be small concession to them
to admit the State thus organized into the Union in
consideration of the balance due the South on ac-
count of the Louisiana purchase every inch of which
belonged to them the date of lis acquisition from
the Balize to the British boundary above the head
springs Of the Mississippi We can spare Kansas to
the South if they win it according to the law and
the constitution, and still hold lrodigious slice o
the original French Louisiana.
Let our Buffalo contemporary try it again. His sta
tstics upon the text Millions for slavery, nothing