Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1863-04-17

While the majority of the Representatives,
from their greater population, have always
been from the North. yet we have so gen.
orally secured the Speaker, because he, TO
aareat extent, shapes and controls the leg
islaiion OF the country. Nor have we had
less control in every other department of
the general government. Attorney Gen.
erals we have had fourteen, while the North
have had but five. Foreign Ministers we
have had eighty-six, and they but fifty-four.
While three-fourths of the business which
demands diplomatic agents abroad is clearly
from tie Free States, from their greater
commercial interests, yet we have had the
principal embassies so as to secure the
world markets for our cotton, tobacco and
sugar nihe best possible terms. We have
had vast majority of the higher officers
of both army and navy, while larger pro-
portion Of the soldiers and sailors were
drawn from the North. Equally so of
Clerks, Auditors and Compirollers filling
the Executive department, ,be records show
for the last fifty years that of the three
thousand thus employed. we have had more
than two-thirds of the SAM, while we
have but on--thrd of the white population
of the Republic.
Again. look at another item, and one, be
assured, in which we have great interest !;
Vt Is that of revenue. or means of support
ing government. From official documents,
we learn that a fraction over tl,ree-faurihs
of The revenue collected for the support of
government has uniformly been raised
from TIL North.
Pause row while YOU can. gentlemen,
and contemplate carefully and caudidly
these important items. Look at another
necessary branch of government, and learn
from stern statistical facts how matters
stand in that department. ] mean the
mail and Post-Oilite privileges that we
now enjoy under the general government
as it has been fer years past. The expense
for the transportation of the mail in the
Free States was. by the report of the Post
master General for the year 1860. little
over SIS 100000, while the income was
s19,000000. But in the Slave States the
transportation of the mail was Sl4.7i6 900.
while the rrvenue from the same was S.
0Ol ,026 leaving deficit of S6.1l5735, TO
he supplied by the North for our accommo-
dation, and without il we must have been
entirely cut off from this most essential
bra"ch of government.
Leaving out of view: for the present.
the countless millions of dollars yon must
rxpend in a war with the North with tens
of thousands of your sons and brothers
slain in battle. and offered up as sacrifices
fbn al TO- of ap,h,fsnn NJ & -.
what. we ask aoaiu? It is for The over
throw of the American Government. esiab-
iished by our common ancestry, cemrnted
and built up ny their sweat and blood. aud
founded on the broad principles of Right.
Justice, and Humanity? And. as such,
must declare here. as / have often done be-
fore. and which has been repeated by the
greatest and wi>esf of statesmen and natri-
otS IN this and other lands that AZ as the best
and treea gorernment-the most equal an IFS
rights the most Just IN us dccisiops--fhe
mast ien'ent tn It's measures. md tie most
inspiring IN us prtnciples to clerate he race
n men, that the sma Of hearen erer Mone
upon.
Now, for you 10 attempt to overthrow |
snch government as this. under which we |
have lived for more than three quarters of
a ceniury-in which we have gained orr
wealth, our standing as a ration, our do /
nestle safety while the elements of peril
are around us, with peace AMI tranquility
accompanied with unbounded prosperity
md rights unassaied-is the height of mad
'ess. folly and wickedness. to which | can
lelther lend my sanction nor my vote"
This is most foil and complete vind.
,atlon of the policy of The administration
md of freedom. No Northern Sympa-
hizers with the traitors can meet the facts
iated by Stephens.