The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1860-03-21
For the Lancaster Ledger.
MARION G., H., Feb. 27, 1860.
To the CitisenS Of this Congressional
District and 10 The Southern Stdtes =:

~ INtScHS tttS SoHS 'esS'o""t
District and 10 The Southern States =:
l give herein, response, to call TO
serve AS n representative Of this, the Eas-
tern Congressional District, in the next
Congress. must obey the summons;
although have but weak hope Of being
able 10 help the South. except, by help.
ing her out Of the faihless compact Of
Iyrdnt Union, Nth the domineering
North. write some ofmy sentiments and
cast my bread on the waters that the
people of my native land may read and
know some Of my opinions, AS heretofore
expressed.
The Union was established for nothing
less than ITO secure tie blessings OF lib
erty." The South has long been satisfied
that her share of these blessings has been
alIoyed by expressions which freemen will
no, endure. The NvIIh has always had
ihe advantage and the fraud and in
gratitude OF that section manifested itself
IN the Revolution, even IN the bloody
struggle which achieved the indeper 6euce
of tue colonies. The continental service
during the war, embraced 23l 900 regu
lars, and New England alone boasts that
she had llS,000 whose names were on
the roll. Where were they during the
las, three years Of the war, when peace
rpigned at the North, and the storms Of
British vengeance ragged At the South =
They were quietly tliiig the soil, and at
tending 10 The various ayocatlons of peace.
They refuse to fight for the groaning
g.. 4. 1 oh ulr,
they hal secured iime'y and abundant
succor in their hours of need, during the
early period uf the war. when she desruc'
tive demon, Mars, spread carnage over
iaeir fields and devoted their cities TO fire
ani sword Even General Washington
'u!i not persuade them 10 assist the
S"uth. Not twelve soldiers OF their line
eVer fought on Southern battle fields !;
and although Grecnc, Lincoln and Gates
came from the North, they brought no
soldiers, but filed their ranks with coutjn
gents drawn from Virginia, Maryland,
North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia
and Delaware. Towards the close "f the
war, when The fighting Lad Q ,s.d, Gen.
Greene succeeded IN procuring a body rf
soldiers from Pennsy yIvanra, cho actually
%0td him To tie Cnemy, and were only de
ieaied III time Ia arevent his delivery.
AIN supported ty history N n this ; and
am much indebted to an excellent article
in the Southern Review fnr Ju'v, lS4S,
headed South C,r"Irua in the l;evo'u
tion," which furnishes rcfere:cc to the au-
tauritrs on this subject
l|ur uotNi hstaniing this def,lCa,on
III ,hv cuurag" aud partit'sm "f h n rrh
during the RyvoIa .ou, Low stands The
account, when the prusiorc's have to he
pad by Congress, cut "f the taxes which
have been levied chiefly on the South
The northern pensioners have received
tGenty eiYht millions Of d0itdrS and are
sill drawing from tie treasury while
thr Soaihern soldiers have received only
Seven miiiiOns. 1t l,as been face;iousy
said tha, Northern Pension er is intmor
toi might multiply instances Of IA like
kind but | dcsst.
The system OF taxation and the mode
of eSpending the public moGey. since the
Union was established, show similar in
justice and inequality. The able writer
of pamphlet entitled the "Union Past
and Future, shows from aulhen;ic doc.
nments. that during the Years from l84l
To 1915, the amount II taxes paid by the
North and South into the federal treasu
.ry, in the ratio Of the exports Of their
produce, WAS as follows: the South paid
$76,700,000, while the North only paid
$l9,425,339. This shows ;ha, the South
ern people paid in those years $40 46 per
head, while the Northern people only paid
$l.99 per head. These are the calcuIa.
tions Of Mr.. Garnett, one Of the first men
in Virginia.
This immense revenue is almost Who'll.
ly spen: to build up Northern grandeur
and power, While the oppressed South is
yet lying passiveIy down, in submission
TO the vampire which sucks the very life.
blood from her juglars. Southern valnr
and treasure were employed 70 wrest from
Mexico. the immense territories Of Cali
fornis, Utah and New Mexico. Bu, Cal.
ifornia, embracing 1853 200 square miles,
with the richest gold mines in the wOs!d
has been taken by our enemies, from the
South, by the artilice Of admitting it as
State into the Uuion, excluding slavery
in violation Of the Missouri Compromise
aud regardless Of the fact, that the char.
acter Of its population should have pre-
vented it, admission into tue Union.
The Mexican war which acquired these
territories cost the United States $780,.
, 100000, and the loss Of many of the
braves: men that ever furnished themes
for poetry or history.
The South. as all know, bore more than
an equal share OF the burdens Of this
war; but the benefit Of il is seized by
the aboIiiionists and ffeesoilers, in appro
pria,ing a.! the new territory TO the in
crease Of Northern power, by converting
il, with hot haste, into States, which will
exclude slave property. and aid the North
to accomplish the Deisrious schemes oI
abohshing slavery everywhere in the
Union.
One universal sentiment prevails at the
NnVfh that Naiaya.., e.. q