The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1858-07-17
From the California Chronicle.

ton is no longer the ruler of the politica
fabric. He is dethroned, shorn of his roy
atty, deprived of his diadem, his sceptre il
broken and destroyed; another king now
reigns over US, and the throne is sustained
BY the strong hands and broad shoulders OF
the toiliug millions. "Gold is king" and
working men are his loyal subjects. The
old Kings Premier Tobacco is dismissed
too, aud all the attendant Lords in waiting
Sugar, Rice, Hemp, Flax; Hay is Premier
now, and Wheat, Corn, Oats, Hops, Maple
Sugar, Butter, Cheese and Beeswax the no.
bility who surround the throne.
Looking through De Bou's Reriep, the
find that the Hay crop of the Free States
exceeds that of the Cotton, Tobacco, Sugar,
Rice and Hemp of the South. The value Of
all these products is $l38, ,723, while
that of Hay alone is $l42, 4S,9OS. Excess
Of Hay over the Eve principal products of
the South, 3,533, ,275. Then all hail to
the sew crowned monarch of the North, who
sits cn,hroned on the sides and SUBMITS of
the hills. All hail to his followers whose
red shirt banners are haunted to the oceans
breeze! Up with the pick, the shovel and
the spade All hail to the Harvest King rs
he holds high revel in our blooming valleys!
Up, up with the plow and the reaper!
All hail to the new monarch of the work
shop. Up, up with the engine, chisel and
plane. Let working men hold high carnival,
for "Gold is King" and labor honorable
"Free soil for the free labor of free men,
is the motto of the new regime.
Cotton is no longer king! A revolution
has taken place, and this tyrant of the rice
and cane fields, now lies powerless at the
feet of the men of the workshops and far
mers Of the North. The "greasy mechan-
les" are aroused to knowledge of their
power, and their mighty influence in the
politics of the American Union. The work
is sectieral one, for it is the effort of one
section to free itself from the oppression of
another. 1t is a war of classes, for it is the
effort of class of free working white men
to demonstrate their superiority over the
aristocracy of the slave power. Free homes
against slave cabins; willing labor against
enforced seryitude.
There are only three hundred thousand
slave owners in the American confederacy,
and they have succeeded in moulding the
policy and controlling the destiny of the on
ly free Republic on the face of tho earth,
and that policy and that destiny has ever
been for the extension Of slavery. Five
millions of poor white men at the South,
and fifteen millions of freemen at the North,
have been governed. directed and controll-
ed by this miserable fraction of Goldfish
arEtocVacy, whose coat of arms has no 9TH
er device than human bondage and human
shackles.
70 sustain slavery and extend slave terri
tory, We have dsbursed the national treas
ure, and poured out on battle fields the ma
tion's blood. Every movement for the ex-
tension of empire has been for the purpose
of extending the area of human serfdom.-
Every effort of foreign diplomacy has been
to secure new alliance for King Cotton.
Every political exertion at home has been in
recognition of the fact that King is Cotton
and Cotton is King.
The Northern people have been dcspiscd,
condemned and nsulted BY this insufferable
Southern arrogance, while it is fact patent
to the world and written all over American
history, that the North and the people of the
North, rs nation and as a people, are
superior in every single particular to the
South. In arts and arms, literature. mo-
rality and religion, in social virtues, and in
public morals, in enterprise, spirit, energy
in everything that makes nation great We
are their peers. In everything but Office
and intrigue, the North is paramount. In
agriculture, mechanics and commerce, the
North stands proudly pre-cminent.
Let the following figures demonstrate
how great the disparagement between the
free North and the slave South. Equal in
,>hscnl rocftson With o1t
mate and fertility Of soil in the slave States,
starting equal with the North in the career
for greatness and success-mark the issue:
Tonnage Of the Free States 4,252,7l3
Tonnage of the Slave States S55,5l7
Exports of tho North $l67,52O, ,693
Exports of the South lO7 ,43o,6S7
Imports Of the North $237, ,747 $40
Imports of the South 24,5S6,52
Value of annual products N. $S42, $3.50, ,05S
Value of annual products S. l65,4l3,027
Capital invested North $43O, ,245 ,O5l
Capital invested South 95,O29 S79
Miles of railroads and canals N. 2l,537
Miles of railroad and canals S. 1915
Their cost North $53S,3l3,747
Their cost South 95, 252,59l
Bank capital North $3.50, 100, $40
Bank capital South lO2,01s,949
Militia force of the North 1881 .S43
Militia force of the South 1887
Postage collected North $4,67O,7 725
Postage collected South l:553,l9S
Cost to Gov. transport'g mails N. $2,6lS, ,295
Cost to Gov. transport'g & mails 5. 2,oS5,95
No. of Public Schools North 62,433
No. of Public Schools South 1S,5O7
Number of pupils at the North 2,169.9Ol
Number of pupils at the South 5sl SOL
No. of vols. in public libraries N. 3,SSS, ,234
No. of vols. in public libraries S. 649,577
Newspapers and periodicals N. 334, lac, PSI
News papers and periodicals S. Sl,O3S,693
llliterate whito adults North 422,5l5
Illiterate white adults South 5l2,7S2
T In this last item, the South ranks superb
or to the North. With one third the popu-
lation, the South exceeds US in men and wo-
men who can neither read nor write.]
Value of church property N. $6S,773,477
Value of church property S. Il 4,5Sl
New inventions pat. from the N. 1929
New inventions pat. from the S. 26S
for bibles & tracts n. $45l ,637
Contribut'ns for bibles & tractsS. 92,S50
Contrib's to missi'ns & cooniz' n N. $553, ,lO4
Contrib's to missi'ns & coloniz'n S. l29,542
Now let us see how the othces OF our TO-
vernment have been dispensed since the for
nation Of our Confederation.
Of eighteen Presidents, twelve Of them
have been Southern men and shareholders.
When Mr.. Buchanan's term closes, and he
is ranked rs Northern President, the
South has held the Office forty-eight years
and three montls--more than two-thirds of
the time.
The Judicial Districts are 50 organized
as to give five Judges to the Slave States
and four to the Free States.
Of Secretaries of State, the first Office in
the Cabinet, the South has had fourteen and
the North Ell ght. Counting by years, the
South had forty out of sixty seven.
The President of the Senate, pro tenn,
the South has always had, with two excep-
tions.
Of Speakers of the House of Representa-
tives, the South has had sixteen and the
North eleven.
OF the Attorney Generals, the South has
had sixteen and the North eleven.
For n period Of seventeen years, or since
lS4l, the South has monopolizcd the Offices
Of Secretary of War and the Navy nearly all
The time although the North furnishes most.
~ all tho .b;nni,o aud tho scarnen. OF