Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1856-09-11

has pursued, and which has exhausted the
wealth of the South and lavishcd it upon
the North. Without enlarging on this top
ic, twill be a sufficient indication of the cx-
tent to which this unequal operation of the
revenue system of the Federal Government
has gone, to state from official tables before
us the following results: The aggregate rev.
enues collected on the foreign importations
into the country from 1791 to June 30, 1915
were 1927, ,050,097. Of this sum the South
if contributing according to, the ratio of her
population in the Union, should have paid
s394, ,7O7 ,917, and the North s532, ,342, ,l80;
whereas, the, South did in fact pay SILL
200, 0,000-almost double her due proportion
while the North paid but s215, $780, ,007,
or but half what she should have paid. An
extension of the tables from 1S45 to 1856
would show still more enormous disproror-
paid by the South. 1t would be considera-
bly, understanding the fact to say, that this
immense aggregate of revenues, thus une-
qually collected, has been disbursed at the
rate of two dollars at the North for one at
South, making the aggregate Of legal robbie
ry which the South has suffered for the ben
eft of the North since the institution of the
government several hundred millions of dol
lars. Not only in large things, such as these
revenue disbursements and collections, has
this injustice to the South exhibited itself in
the operations of the Federal Government,
but it has done so in small things also. AL
though Southern troops aided the North in
fighting the battles of the Revolution on Nor
thern soil, and afterwards, unaided, fought
their own battles alone on their own soil
yet there had been paid by the Federal CO.
vernment, in June, 1915, only 81, 967
to Southern revolutionary pensioners, while
there had been paid to Northern pensioners,
s2S, ,2G2, ,597, or four times as much. The
effect of this enormous withdrawal of capit-
al from the South and bestowal of it upon
the North, in destroying the political equili-
brium between the two sections, has shown
itself in one most striking particular; for
while the aggregate number of the foreign
born population living in the United States
in 1850 was 2,244, ,64S, and that of the i'm
mediate descendants of immigrants 607, 1858,
making an aggregate of ofimmigrants and their
descendants of 1882, ,49S; 2,41S, 500 of this
aggregate were residents of the Northern
section, and but 5l4 900, of the. Southern
section; making nett accession to the North
from this source, chiefly in consequence Of
the advantages of the immense transfer of
capital from one section to the other by the
operation of the Federal Government, of
nearly 2 2,000,0 900 of souls--which shows that
half the prepondcrance of the Northern
population over the South in 1850, which
we stated in the beginning to be 1925, 900,
is made up of foreigners and their immedi-
ate descendants of the whole blood. We
quote from the "compendium of the census
Of $780," when we add, as another effect of
this unequal system of collecting and disbur-
sing the federal revenues, of the native born
population of the Union, that-"while more
than one fourth of the free persons born in
tho Southern States have left those States
for other sections, or7fy one sixth have left
the eastern and Middle States"
The other great cause which has produced
this disproportion between the North and
the South is to be found in the series of acts
of Congress, by which the South has been
excluded from the common territory belong
ging equally to all the States. The first
of these acts was the ordinance of 1887,
which excluded her from the country which
now embraces some of the most populous
and wealthy States of the Union, and con-
stitutcs very large fraction of that political
preponderaDce of the North which We have
already specified The next of these meas
urcs was the Missouri Compromise act,
which excluded the South from all the Lou
isiana purchase which lay North of SO So.
The next of the series excluded the South
from all Of Texas lying above the same line.
The next of the series excluded the South
from all of Texas lying above the same line.
The next shut out the South from the Ore
gon and Washington Territories, and our
whole PaciGc coast not embraced in the &C
QUESTION from Mexico. The next was the
admission Of California with squatter SOW
ereignty constitution, the product of squat
ter sovereignty Convention, at the promp-
ting of the Taylor Administration, which
was efectuated, endorsed and sanctioned by
that of Mr.. Fillmore.
BY the ordinance of 1857, the Missouri
and Texas restrictions, and the Oregan and
Washington acts, the South was excluded
from ], ,23S, ,025 square miles of domain
The South was left by these acts an equal
chance with the North to secure the portion
of the Territory of Louisiana lying south of
$50 90, which, with the then Territory of
Florida, and the whole of Texas, Ga large
portion of which is in contest between the
two sections under the New Mexico Terri
torial Compromise act of 1862 altogether
amounts to 609,043 square miles As to
the territories acquired from Mexico, Gin
cluding California, which is already admit
ted as State with Constitution excluding
slavery the North made the most strenu,
Gus efforts to appropriate the whole of that
rich and extensive acquisition to herself by
the Wilmot Proviso, and is still continuing
those efforts by the present Black Republi-
can agitation. The Black Republicans will
fail to elect their President; but the very