The true Democrat., 1855-08-28

Fl Chld'-deslrlng and coVethS all 1hat lU secs and proving fretlul and uncomiortaole oi lt' every want if not speedily gratlhed."
 TO establish the charge that this "pct nsti tntiou', of the south " has grown fat and strong from the public treasury" the following are gi # ven by our Buffalo philosopher as some of tho items of the expenses incurred by the genera government on account of slavery:
 Purchasing Louisiana in 1903 3,5300Ot Florida from Spain in 1921 6,490OO( Florida war with the Indians in
 l834-38 32,244OOC Mississippi from Georgia 5,532 ooo War to obtain Texas, 1840-'47 2l7,l74oO
 I85o-55 l6OO0ooO
 5,,3 195S '''''' " '''''' 100000
 Total S3l0970,OOO
 Now. we shall proceed to take this bill of costs to pieces and if we do not prove that i- onres can lie. we think we shall satisfy the reader that they may be used to suppress very material facts. and to establish the most ridicu- lous conclusions Let us look, then, into these items of the Express, of the expenses of the pet institution" in connection with this outcry of millions for slavery-nothing for com merce"
 The first item relates to the Louisiana terri tory: and the cost of its purchase Is set down at S23 5300O0. Grant it-grant that the ter ritorv purchased was a slayeholding territory: were there no advantage in the purchase to the north, and nothing for commerce?' As we understand it, the great object of the purchase was 10 secure the outlet of the Mississippi IT, yer and its magnificent and prolific valley, for the benefit of commerce. In the way of trade, this acquisition since 1903, has been to the free States and territories contiguous to the Msss sipp and its tributaries equal in value to at least one thousand millions of dollars. Then, again, as parts of this Louisiana purchase, the north have secured the fiouri7hing State of Iowa, the beautiful and thrifty territory of Minnesota, and the tremendous territory of Nebraska, to say nothing eff the chances for Kansas, and the prairies to the south of it. All this is offset, which cannot be measured in dollars and cents; but the public lands in this Louisiana purchase sold, and to be sold, will probably foot up in the end at the treasury department a gross amount in hard cash of not less than two hun dred 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 s23, ,53o,Ooo Actual benefits to northern trade
 from the acquisition of the
 Mississippi l,OOOOOOOOO Public lands, in cash 2OOOOoOOO
 Total l,2OOOOQ,OOO Deduct outlay for slavery 23,53oOOO
 Balance, clear gain by the
 Union l,lG,41O0O
 Over eleven hundred millions clear gain Answer a fool according to his folly" saith the Scripture. This balance will pay for the purchase of Florida, the Florida wars from first b 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 a margin to spare of thousand millions in favor of the Louisiana pur- chase.
 The next three items are
 The war to obtain Texas,
 1Sl6-'47 S2l7 TAO Texas claims, 185OJ55 16OOOOOO The Gadsden treaty 10OOOOOO Add Mexican indemnities, 1848 100000
 And we have total of 258 164OO0
 This is large sum expended in behalf of the "pet institution of the government, resulting from the annexation of Texas. But let us look at the other side of the account. The war and the peace with Mexico have given the north the splendid State of California, whose seaport of San Francisco IS the New York of the Pacific coast. But we must not overlook the solid specie dividends of California, nearly the whole of which have been the substantial gains of the north Since the discovery of the gold washings on the Rio de los Americanos, in l848, the export of California gold, manifested and in private hands, to the Atlantic northern States, has been, we dare say, fullyup to three hundred and fifty millions of dollars.
 Our northern account with southern slavery, therefore, concerning Texas, the war with Mex leo, etc, is as follows:
 Total expenses $258, ,l74OO0 Total profits, in solid gold 35O,OOOOOO
 Balance, clear gain by the Uni
 on 91,826,OOO Or in round numbers, ninety two millions of dolars And how does this preposterous rub bsh of "milions for slavery and nothing for commerce. apply to California? The acqusi- ton of that country and the discovery of the gold there, have given greater impulse to our commerce, domestic and foreign, Atlantic and Pacific, than would have been given to it, with J for the last half century been appropriated to the improvement of rivers and harbors.
 We think our case is made out. In ourpur- chases of and wars for southern territory nei- ther the public treasury nor the northern States have been the losers. On the contrary, while the treasury has been replenshed from these acquisitions on account of the pet institution of southern slavery"-while our commerce, from the sea to the rivers and the lakes has been vastly benefted-and while the north has secured some of the richest and fairest of these aequisitions-we have secured with them the whole region of the gold country, and the monopoly of it's bountiful digglngs, wet and dry, the ports of California; the isthmus pas sages, and the command of the Pacific trade.
 In view of such splendid advantages as these derived from our outlays on account of the "pet iustitution," we are under debt of the heaviest obligation to the south. This debt cannot be cancelled in dollars and cents-it can only be met by the exercise of that spirit of compromise and concession towards the south which distinguished the fathers of the consti- tutIon. In the exercise of this spirit should the south give shape and form to the State institu- tions of Kansas 1t will be small concession to them to admit the State thus organized into the Union, in consideration of the balance due the sOnJh on account "i tue Louisiana purchase, every inch of which belonged to them on the date of its acquisition, from -he Baze 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 con- stitution, and still hold prodigioussice of the original French Louisiana.
 Let our Buffalo cotemporary try it again. His statistics upon the text, Millions for slave ". nothing for commerce,' recoil against him. self and his cause. It is true that in our pur- chase of southern territory, and in our acquisi- tons from southern territorial wars, we of the north have secured the lions share of the plum der, and it is folly to deny it. The outlet of the Mississinni and the gold mines of Califor.