The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1859-06-07

the same time that it shows the usual progressive
ineoualty of expenditures between the two sec
tions. A calculation founded on the data IN 5Ol
Senate document 1S58-'59, shows that from 1871
to 1888, inclusive, So, $685. 1854 had been pald ior
Revolutionary pensions, of which the North recelv-
ed s28, 262, 597, or 1927 20 for every soldier she
had in the war, and the South s., 336,36l, being
only $40 80 for each of her soldiers. The num-
her of soldiers here estimated according to Knox
ronort which confessedly does not show, by great
deal. the full exertion of the South in raising
troops. Let us then compare the amount recelyed
with the white population of each section IN l9O;
and we find the free States in 1888 had received
S14 35 of revolutionary pensions for every So"' IN
their limits in the former year, while the South
had received only So 81 for erery white. But the
military efforts of the slaveholding States were
fully in proportion to their whole population, Tor
the labor of the slaves on the plantations lett
much larger proportion of their masters free to
take up arms On this supposition, the Southern
soldiers received only So "A for the same revolu-
tionary services which brought the Northern
Sl4 SIS This gross inequality remains the same
whatever test is tried. For example:
The seven free States contributed
to the expense of the war, sol,9'l,1'o
And had received in pensions in
1888, 2S'zoz'o9'
Rolonca in their favor, %, 7OS, 573
Tho civ slave States contributed, 52,438, 123
And had received in 1888. I,33O,3OI
Balance in their favor, %, lol 100
Now let us see how it stands with single States:
VIRGINIA contributed 1905 ,9S2
And received in pensions up to 1888, l,9o9'o24
Massachusetts contributed, 1I,9of,olo
And received in the same time, 4Voo'Ool
South Carolina contributed, ll,oz5,zJ9
And received in the same time, 43l, II
Now York contributed. 7,179,9S3
And received in the same time. 7,SoO,Oo4
TO appreciate this injustice fully, we must re-
memblr that the South not only PAID into the
Federal Treasury all she ever received back IN
PENSIONS but also S16,663 1913 Of the pensions
given to the North The inequality of the appor-
t.onmcnt Of these revolutionary pensions has grown
with the Northern majority in Congress. In the
first decennal period, 1871, 1900, the free States
received annually S5S, 900 more than the South.
In the next Pc io1, this yearly excess was dimin-
ished to S43, 700, but it rose to s339, 600 IN the
third period From 1921 to 1880, it averaged
S79J 900: and from 1881 to 1888, SS55,ODO. In
like manner grew the burden upon the South IN
paving the pensions at the North bes.des those at
home In the first period it s+l7 ,449; in the
second $3.50 900; in the third, S3,OO0,O0o; In the
fourth 81 800, 000 and in the last period COT only
eight years. s9,750,O00.
In 1913, New England had of revolutionary
pensioners 5, l46 more than there were IN all the
stare .Stots and New York two-thiJ1s as mnmy
though she contributed not one-sese"M as "'"ch to
the lrdr.
The expenses Of the payments of all pensioners
for 'the TOUR years ending in 1887, were eight
million ten thousand and ifty-onc dollars in the
free States, and TWO million five hundred and
eighty-eight thousand one hundred and ninety-one
dollars in the stare Satcs who not only paid THEN
own share but six millions three hundred thou
sand dollars to the North Ncu England atone
received three million nine hundred and twenty
four thousand nine hundred and eleven dollars
rather more than two dollars head for ere'y man
| ,coa,an and chHd an her Limits. During the foul
years. she paid in taxes to the Federal Treasury
according to our tables, one dollar and seventy
two certs per head, SO that she actually recetreo
mare III , enS0ns than she IGM an tGrcS.
These striking and important facts show how
the Pension system operates to the benefit of the
North, and to the prejudice Of the Scuth-how tho
North rcaps the profits, while the South bears the
! burdens.