, 1863-09-19

ulatiOn, have always been from the North,
yet we have so generally secured the Speak
er, because he, to great extent shapes and
controls the legislation of the country
Nor have we had less control in every 9TH
er department of the general government,
Attorney-Generals we have had IA, while
the North have had but 5. Foreign Min
isters we had Sc, and they but 81. While
three-forths Of the business which demands
diplomatic agents abroad is clearly from the
Free States, from their greater CONNER
call interests, yet we have had the princi-
pal embassies so as to secure the world mar
kets for our cotton, tobacco and sugar on
the best possible terms. We have had a
vast majority Of the higher offices of both
army and navy, while larger proportion
of the soldiers and sailors were drawn from
the North. Equally so ofClerks, Auditors
and COmptrollers filling TIE 2xscutive de-
partment; the records shsw for the last
so years that of the 5000 thus employed, /,
we have had more than two-thirds of the
same, while we have but one-third Of the
white population of the Republic.
Again look at another item, and one, be
assured, in which we have great and vi
tai interest it is that Of revenue, or means
of supporting government. From official
documents, we learn that a fraction over
three-fourths of the revenue collected for
the support of government has uniformly
been raised from the North,
Pause now while you can, gentlemen,
and contemplate carefully and candidly
these important items. Look at another
necessary branch of government, and learn
from stern statistical facts how matters
stand in that department. I mean the
mail and Post Office privileges that we now
enjoy under the general government as it
has been for years past. The expense
for the anspor tation of the mail in the
Free States was, by the report of the Post
master General for the year 1860 a little
over $13 100000, while the income was
$19,000,000. But in the Slave States the
ransportation of the mail was $14,716,OOO,
while the revenue from same was $8,000,-
026, leaving a deficit Of 6,1l5,735, to be
supplied by the North for our accommoda.
ton, and without which we must have been
entirely cut off from this most essential
branch of the government.
Leaving out of view, for the present, the
countless millions of dollars you must ex-
pend in a war with the North with the
thousands and tens of thousands of your
sons and brothers slain in battle, and offer
ed up as sacrifices upon the altar of ambi-
tion,-and for what, we ask again? Is it
for the overthrow ofthe American govern
ment, established by our ancestry, cemen-
ted and built up by their sweat and blood
and founded on the broad principles of
Right, Justice and Humanity ? And, as
such, 1 must declare here, as l have often
done before, and which has been repeated
by the greatest and wisest ofstatesman and
patriots in this an other lands, that 1t as the
best and freest gouernmleut- most equal
IN its rights--the mostjust in as decisions
the most lenieat IN its measures, and the
most inspiring IN ats qrjnciples TO elevate
the race Of man, that the sun in heaUen eUer
shone upon,
Now, for you to attempt to overthrow
such government as this, under which we
have lived for more than three quarters of
a century-in which we have gained our
wealth our standing as a nation; our do
mestic safety while the elements of peril are
around us, with peace and tranquility ac-
companied with unbounded prosperity and
rights unassalled-is the height ofmadness
folly and wickedness, to which l can neither
lend my sanction nor my vote.'