Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1862-04-29
The East EnEiched and thewess
Impoverished by the war.

Hon. Francis P. Blair ir, the well known
Republican leader in Missouri, and rank
ing among the first in Congress, gives a
faithful picture going to show that the
people of the Abolition States are made
happy BY this war-since it gives them
money the most desirable of things accord
ing TO their calculation" Ii leads also
to the solution of their desperate efforts to
envenom and provoke the south to eternal
resistance, by threatening them with con-
tiscation and an utter destruction or their
political rights Mr. Blair shows that thew
can become rich by prolOnging the war
and that the west has to foot the bills of
the war and build the yankee factories.
We make the following extracts from his
s, eech in reply to Mr. Morrill,, Of Vermont.
who, like eastern Abolitiouists generally
opposes western improvements for national
defence:
Except for the burden of the Morrill,
tariff, We would have got along very well.
Why, sir, the eastern and SedG0d1d portions
othe Union haze made money om of this
rebellion. The great SerUitjes oJthe acdr hare
fallen upon tie people Of tie pest. The
natural avenues of their commerce. 10 the
ocean have been closed by this war. and
while they have been closed the east and
HeSedboard hare enjoyed profits whichthey
neoer enjoyed during times of peace.
1t seems to me whenever any measure
Is proposed in this House for the benefit of
the west, that we find these gentlemen de-
murrIng TO 1t on account of the times. The
freight of railroads has been going IN con.
stanlv since this war commenced. Before
the war began, the railroads would take n
barrel Of -four from the west for half
dollar, whereas they now charge 50 so
es, SIR ~ now costs g so to get a barrel
oil hou- to the east from the Mlssissinni
river. The east has taken the entire pro6t
OF the labor OF the west. Yet the west has
come forward to supply her products in
place oil the cotton which heretofore saved
the balance of trade from being against us
We have relieved the government in that
and every other way. But the west has
gained nothing by it, The entire profit has
gone in the freight charges to the east
The gentlemen is opposed to every meas
ure by which the west might find relief
lie is opposed to the ship canal with Lake
Michigan and Illinois Ca,
nal.
We are, as has been remarked by other
gentlemen, engaged in war out of which
Will grow other wars. and we will have 10 |
be prepared for them. We cannot post
pone this ship canal if We intend to have a
connection between the east and the west
between the Atlantic and the Pacific sea,
board, which will be able to preserve our |
possessions upon the latter. Looking 70 |
what it has done and what it has suffered
the west has right to appeal TO the pa /
tlonal legislature. | have spoken of its
losses, have spoken of it's sufferings. | |
have spoken of its trade DESTROYED. Yet. |
loIttte tie i0est has suffered, the east has eHjoy
'd almost exemption. Your victories have
been in she west. The soldiers of the west
have given their due proportion of the
victories IN this war. They have poured
nut their blood on almost every battlefield.
Yet that people haze been discrimiuated
against Slnce this acdr commenced.
DO not see the reason why people who
nave suffered so much upon the battlefield
IND ~ the destruction their trade ebould
rave this new burden imposed upon them.
Jne OF the departments of this government
las interposed to prevent the men of that
ectloa who have done much for the gov
,rDmeht from receiving their pay. Even
ne iaoering man is kept out of the money
he has fairly earned.
l say we of the west have been treated
Ike step children by the government, and
We shall always be treated in that way. and
,ostpened. And now, the gentlemen from
'ermont, Mr.. Morrill, holding the high
'os'tlon that he does in this house. ad-
hitting that this is 4 measure of great i'm
,ortanee, that ought to be favorably cons
lderei, says that it must be postponed
nder the circumstances, alleging that the
government is i'll its death throes, when it
really viet0rious-and victorious. we
night claim, if we were disposed to do So
$ much eY the efforts of western men as
I any other people. will not say moro.
VIII not discriminate against the men of
ne cast, even though the west has been
IscrlmInated against | will not cav more.
ut l do say that the west has done its du-
IN this matter, and has given this gov
rnment the amplest support on the field.
% everywhere else, and it becomes the
representatives. of the people not to treat
as step'children any longer.