The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1857-03-19

! 1ICC OtdltS, cO, %
Net sum paid into the Trea-
.sury from Free States, $-95,327, ,935
Amount of revenue in slave
States, se37,o75,351
Expense of collecting in
Slave States, - 1852, 593
Net sum paid into the Trea-
sury from Slave States, $g-9,7l3.9 .961
Excess paid by Free States, S615,614, ,o24
These facts demonstrate and prove that
while the people Of the North have only
had single State added to their rum
Der to Eve added to the South, out Of ter
ritory purchased by the General Govern
ment, they have furnished more than
tAreeJourths of the purchase-money paid
for the whole. And all this is Northern
aggression!
Since the adoption Of the Federal Con-
stitution, nine Slave States have been
added to the Union, containing 1868
square miles, and seven Free States, con-
tanning 448.256 square miles, leaving the
balance of 288,572 square miles in favor
of the South. Maine and Vermont were
formed by dividing old States. I might
pursue this part of the subject much fur
ther by showing the enormous amounts
paid out of the Treasury for local objects
| in the District of Columbia, the compara-
tive appropriations for the North and
South, and the great excess of postage
paid by the Aorth; but have no time to
do it. e
With the President, and many of his
party, everything that does not tauor the
institution of Slavery, is Northern ag
gression." If the people of the Free
States think or say that Slavery is moral
ly wrong-that it is not Divine institu-
ton, and does not contribute to the wealth
and prosperity of the country, North
ern aggression is trumpeted forth
through the whole country. If the peo-
pie of the North do not leave their peace
full avocations and turn bloodhounds to
hunt down and worry out the painting fu-
gitive who is running for dear life, then
comes the cry of " Northern aggression, =
loud and long. And thirdly, to follow
out the specifications of the President, in
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lions of the North and South, whose labor
is their only capital, exercise their con-
stitutional rights in constitutional man
ner to prevent the spread of Slavery over
free territory, and the degradation of free
labor to that of slaves-then again comes
the old charge of !" Northern ags ression." /"
Another charge against the Republi-
can party, made by the President, is an
attempt on their part, by a sectional
"party and movement, to usurp the con-
"trol of the Government of the United
Estates" This is, indeed, a modest
charge to be made by the President d
the United States against million and a
half of the free electors of this country -
To organize party upon the platform oi
| Washington, of Jefferson, and all the ear
! ly fathers of the Republic, is SECTIONAL
ism - and to exercise the right of suf-
frage in a. constitutional. legal manner, is
''usurpation I" The Republican par
ty which assembled at Philadelphia in
their call invited the people of all the
States to meet them in Convention. 1t
was in no sense an invitation to the peo-
pie of any particular section or locality.
This call was responded to by gentlemen
living in particular portion of the Slave
States and why was not representation
from all the slaveholding States present
in that Convention {? 1t was not because
there are no citizens in that part Of the
country who sympathize with us, and be-
1 lieve in the doctrines of the Republican
party, for we have abundant evidence
against this hypothesis.
Why was Mr.. Underwood driven Out
of Virginia, away from his own home and
his own State, after having attended the
Philadelphia Convention ? Why was
Professor Hedrick driven out of Nortl
Carolina The answer is at hand. I
was because freedom of thought, liberty
of speech, and freedom of action are no
tolerated or allowed in the South. Dis
tinguished gentlemen from the Soutl
visit the Free States, and publicly anl
privately advocate their peculiar politica
doctrines, and they are treated courteous
ly and kindly, and are listened to respect
i fully; but let a Northern man go int
the South and preach the identical doc
trines of Washington, of Jefferson, an,
Madison, and9he would be told to leav