Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1863-04-17

ployed, we have had more than two-thirds oi
the same, while we have but one-third of the
white population of the Republic. yJ "a
Again, look at another item, and one, be
assured, in which we have great and vital
interest; it is that of revenue, or means OF
supporting government. From official docu-
ments. we learn that . fraction over three
fourths of the revenue collected for the sup
port of government has uniformly been raised
from the North. ,sa% rmAo gs,Ss5es.. j.
Pause now while you can, gentlemen, and
contemplate carefully and candidly these i'm
portant items. Look at another necessary
branch of government, and learn from stern
statistical facts how matters stand in that de-
partment. mean the mail and Post Office
privileges that we now enjoy under the gen.
eral government as it has been for years past
The expense for the transportation OF the mail
in the Free States was, by the report of the
Postmaster General for the year 1860, little
over SIS, ZOO, 900, while the income was $l9,-
600, 900. But in the Slave States the trans
portation of the mail was $l4,7l6,O 900, while
the revenue from the same was $8,0Ol ,O26,
leaving deficit Of $6,115,735, to be supplied
by the North for our accommodation, and
without it we must have been entirely cut of
from this most essential branch Of govern.
ment
Leaving out of view, for the present, the
countless millions of dollars you must expend
in a war with the North; with tens of thou
sands of your sons and brothers slain in bat
tie, and offered up as sacrifices upon the altar
of your ambitlon,-and for what, we ask
again? Is it for the overthrow of the Ameri-
can government, established by our common
ancestry, cemented and built up by their
sweat and blood, and founded on the broad
principles of Right, Justice and Humanity
And, as such, must declare here, as | have
often done before, and which has been re-
peated by the greatest and wisest OF states
men and patriots in this and other lands,
that It is the best and Jreest governmsnt-the
most equal in its rights-tAe most just in its
deeisions-the most leniens in its measures,
and tho most inspiring in sts principles to
elevate the race Of men, that the swn Of hea0-
en- eusr shons upon. 81. ga.s 4.
Now, for you to attempt to overthrow such
a government as this, under which we have
lived for more than three-quarters of q centu-
ry-in which we have gained our wealth, our
standing as nation, our domestic safety
while the elements of peril are around us,
with peace and tranquility accompanied with
unbounded prosperity and rights unassailed
is the height Of madness, folly and wicked
ness, to which can neither lend my sane
lion nor my vote" s-aa.e.. ,-.-r.
This is full vindication of the Abolition
sts, the Republicans, and friends of freedom
n the North. No Democratic traitor among
Is dares to meet the facts stated by Stephens.
The extract is proof that the South is the
lggressor, and the North is acting in self
the way that England and all
europe and America declare to be. right. 1t
vas after making this speech in that Conven-
ion, that Stephens was bought up by the
kidnapping traitors by an offer Of the Vice.
Presidency of the Confederacy of Corsairs.