New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-12-13
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The four States OF SOuB CdrDh"t 'eDIBil,
Alabama, and Florida propose to r;nse at Icss.
GEO troops to keep Secession working smoothly.
/ Now, an army is not = fancy ball. bot stern
and hungry reality, whose daily bread Is not got
| by praying for it. Every soldier IN the United
States service costs the Government 5000 a
year. The chvalry will not volunteer for less
pay and fewer ratiOns. or 10000 men the an.
nual cost viii thus b. $6,0OO,0O0. Then the
States will probably need mails. As the country
they are to traverse ia very extensive ihey can.
not be carried for less than another 81 ,G000 900,
unless the general cessation Of business cOnse-
quent on Secession should result in empty mail
bags, and so induce n curtailment Of the service
In addition to the army, there viii BE- crowds Of
patriots, emnl0us and even rampant, b. serve
their country at large salaries, as Presidents,
Judges, Legislators, Foreign Ministers, &C.
These, even without the stealings, would
quickly swallow up Sl,OO0,0O0 more. With
HEM conjecture is at fault. But the taxation
in these States already amounts TO $1,000. 900,
making a grand total of $l0,O00OGO annually.
Now, let us see who is to pay this
Ten years ago the population Of these States
was 2,5I5 000 and il can be but little more
now, as the South increases very slowly. But Of
this there were only l,2S5, 900 whites. Two
thirds are women and children who pay ta1es
nowhere, leaving say 100000 white males Of
whom at least 600 minors. South Caro-
lima has but AZ 600 white males over twenty
wears of age. Now, tax this handful Of
whites say ten millions annually and it will
grind them to powder New-York, with her
1900 600, or Pennsylvania, with her 30OO,000,
would be crushed out BY such burden. The
tax-gatherer would be regarded and resisted as
r0bber and the effort 10 collect such tax
would prove an utter failure. Property Of oil
descriptions would sink twO-thirds in value.
Men who owned no real estate would imms-
diately move off, to be followed by thousands
whom starvation would drive away. The States
would be depopuated outright; aud as it is pop
ulation alone which gives value TO land, the value
of the whole would sink to that Of SOuth Caro-
lima, where the average is now only 80 per acre.
In short the attempt to maintain a separate
military force Of only 10000 men would plunge
these States into certain and hopeless ruin
But there are other incidents of Secession. A
ned, arsenals and navy yards established, CAPT.
FOL erected, and n Thousand sother expenses in
Cured, amounting to millions Of money. How
is this money to be provided Not from Gus
toms because Free-trade will prevail. Not from
bonds, because the North would not touch
Southern obligations of this kind, while Europe
still holds millions that have been repudiated
twenty years ago, and thinks that quite enough.
Not from their own citizens, because o 1.-THE Of
the amount required does not exist among them.
They are now largely in debt 20 the North,
without being able to pay, and can have
nothing TO lend. Their banks can give no aid,
because only the other day they had but one
dollar of coin TO every six Of paper a6Oat, and
are now suspended Beside this, the losses on
slaves and personal property will amount to
many millions, thus alone unpoyerishing the com
munty. So far from being able to assist the
State, every man will have enough to do to take
care Of himself Chaos itself would come again.
The slaves, feeling the common pressure, and
witnessing the general Reorganization would
easily and safely break away from obedience.
They would either rise in murderous rebellion
against authority just as their masters are now
threatening TO do or they would move OFF in
large bodies toward the Free States their num-
bers enlarged by accessions of other fugitiyes in
States equally disOrganized, until Slavery, as .
compact institution, would measurably cease 10
exist.
Yet, in the face of such probabilities the
people of these States are so blinded by passion
that no consideration of common sense appears
TO weigh with them. They share in the loss OF
500 COO,LU0 already realized ON the cotton crop.
more, another loss of the same magnitude must
be suffered. This is dull beginning for seces-
siOn Rebellion should be out of debt, at least,
at the start.