Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1858-08-28
WHAT it Costs to keep up the South,

The following extract from Trumbull's
late speech at Chicago, will tell what sla.
very costs:
This is SO, mot only in regard to the dis,
tribution of the business of Congress, but
IN the appropriations. At the last session
of Congress more than three-fourths of all
the money appropriated for Notifications
on the Atlantic and the Gulf coast, was
appropriated for Notifications 10 save-hold
ling States. There are two buildings in
South erected for custom house purposes
one at New Orleans and the other at
Charleston--not yet completed, aud no
estimates yet furnished of what the cost
of completion will be; already more than
FIVE millions of dollars have been appro-
priated to build these two houses alone.-
There's where the money goes. The Iasl
Congress appropriated $450,O0o to con-
,inue the work upon them; and when
inquired in The Setate, of the Chairman of
the Committee on Finance. how much the
custom house at Charleston was to COST
l
that no estimate had been made; !.ut tn
inquiry led to the disclosure Of the fact that
marble palace was being built fronting
CA fish market on one side, which had al.
ready cost with the appropriation then as
krd, some two millions of dollars, and it
would COS. some three millions before il
would be finished. How many men do
you suppose arc to occupy this building
when finished? Forty eight was the nu'n-
Der Of employees in 1857, the last year re-
ported, and the amount Of revenue eolIec-
ted was little over $4,000. Laughter.
The so-caled democracy want, for The ac.
mnodation of these forty-right persons
and to collect 100000, \ building to cost
three millionsl In the great city Of New
! York there is a custom house-many OF
Won have seen it-a fine building it is,an,l
it cost about eleven hundred THOUSAND dol
lars. How many persons do YOU suppose
are employed at the New York custom
house, and hos much revenue collected
The last year reported more than forty two
millions of dollars collected at New York,
and there were employed in its collection
and building costing little over mil
lion was sufficient TO do the business il -
Do you suppose such an appropriation as
that for the custom house at Charleston
could be obtained to erect public build
ing in the Northern States! No! no
The custom louse in the city of Philadel
pha only cost some four or FIVE hundred
thousand dollars; that in Boston about y
Million while that of New Orleans has
cost more than three millions. A Voice
"And sinking at that" Laughter Yes
sinking At that. Like the Treasury, m.
friends, it is based upon sandy founda-
ton. [Renewed Laughter. While three
fourths Of The money appropriated for for
tifca,iops at the last session is 10 be ex-
pended in slave States not a dollar was
appropriated for the fertilization of the
Northwestern frontier. While the party
can appropriate five millions to build two
houses. one at Charleston and the other at
New Orleans, how much money do you
suppose it appropriated at the last session
TO save the hundreds lives lost in sight OF
,our city, upon this lake, aud to ave the
millions of property that annually 60 down
to the bottom for want of some little i'm
provelnent of your great harbor9 Not a
dollar could be Obtained for such a pur-
pose.