The Kansas herald of freedom., 1855-07-28
tptnOe 1am Neuspper Iooeo au the 1ntes ioasas
what Slavery has Cost the Union.

what Slavery has Cost the Union.
The Cleveland Leader has been max
ing an estimate of the cost of the "heayen-
born institution of slavery. The result
viii show how much foundation there IS
for the claim made by the slave power,
that. the slave States have esntributed
largely to the support of the North, and
thai slavery has conferred innumerable
benefits and blessings upon the country.
twill also show whether it has ever cost
the North anything. The Leader first
considers the last statement. Louisiana
was purchased from the French, April
rs, 1903, for 5000, 600. The S15,-
100000 was paid IN stock; 10 the time
it became. due it was SO, $50, 1853 43,
making the total payment to France for
Louisiana S23, ,526, ,351 43. By means
of this purchase the South acquired three
new slave States, Louisiana, Missouri and
Arkansas.
Spain, In. 1921, ceded the whole OF
Florida as indemnity for spoliations COM
mitted on the property of American clti-
zers though it also received 100000
which, with 81, ,4s9, 768 66. Thus was
paid France. and Spain for the territory,
s30.ol9, l22 90. :
BY the purchase of Florida, the South
received another slave State. But this Is
not all Florida cost. Cotton planters de-
manded that the Seminole Indians should
be forthwith elected from the swamps
and everglades, SO that they might ex-
tend their plantations, stocked with tat
negroes. A long, expensive and bloody
war ensued, which cost the Union ,S22,
244, 900, making the whole cost of the
territory S38,734,ooo, or more than one
dollar and quarter per acre for the whole
tract acquired, good and bad. The ter
rltory embraced in the State of Missis-
sippi was claimed by the State of Geor-
gia. 1t was ceded by her to the United
States Government for totalof So, ,532,
600, and erected slave State.
Next comes Texas, which was annexed
in l345, and converted into slave State,
with proviso that it might be cut up to
make three more slave States. The an
nexation of Texas led TO the Mexican war,
which cost the country $4,000 lives by
sickness and battle. The cost of the war,
according to the Secretary of the Treas
urv, was S217,175,000. But this does
not include millions that was expended
to pay claims. damages, pensions, bounty
lands, &c. But even this is not ALL
Texas was paid $4,000, 900 for her qui
claim title to portion of New Mexico
a claim that was fraudulent and prepos-
ferrous. And at the last session of Con
gress So, 100000 more was voted to pay
her creditors. These sums, with accru
ing interest, amount to $1,000, 600
paid to Texas, Next comes Messilla
Valley, purchased at $4,000, 900. fol
the ostensible purpose of obtaining {
Southern moonshine railroad route
And last, though not least, the admins
tration offered to pay Spain S150,000,
600 for Cuba, in order to extend the are;
of slavery, and popery in its most de
grading form. Let us now recapitulate
or foot up, what extending the area o
slavery has cost the General Govern
| ment:
Purchasing Louisiana, in 1903, s93-58o 90
Florida from Spain, in 1872, $3.50 Oh
| Florida war with Indians, in lS34-3S, 83,2A-0)
Mississippi fron Georgia 1S02. 5532. Or
| Va TO obtain Texas, in lS46-t1, 2l7,l74-01
Paid Texas Tor sham claiIns. 1S5e-J5- 5000 %
Messilla Valley, to Santa Anna. 1S5s 1o,o9o,e1
From this expenditure the slave power
has erected Louisiana, Florida and Texa.
into slave States OF the worst sort. Thi:
same black powermadea desperate effor
to seize California, andfoF years has beer
trying to bully, steal or buy Cuba from
Spain to make another slave State. Lat
terly theirrapacity has been let loose upon
the free territory belonging, By compact
to the North, and Kansas is now wither
ing in their clutches. The immense sac
ritice of life and treasure male to obtail
this territory, has fallen chiefly on th,
| free States. Three -fourthS of the money
has been drained from Northern peck
cts; more than nine-teaths~ the lives los
belonged to non-s n-slaveholders, and NOR,
than half to the free States. The blac1
power continues to cry give, give. Lik,
Edeath, 1t can never be satisfied. Is it no
time to put final stop TO the ravages o
this cancer, ere it destroys the remaining
vitality of freedom and utterly ruins tn,
repubIic-Detrod 1ftbaRe.