Evansville daily journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1863-1866, 1863-10-21

the House, we have had twenty-three,
and they twelve While the majority OF
the Representatives, from their greater
population, have always been from the
North, yet we have so generally secured
the Speaker, because he, to a great ex-
tent, shapes and CONTROLS the legislation
of the country. Nor have we had less
control in every other department of the
General Government. Attorney Gener-
ais 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 the Free
States, from their great commercial in
terests, yet we have had the principal
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 officers of
both army and navy, while a larger pro-
portion of the soldiers and sailors were
drawn from the North. Equally so of
Clerks, Auditors, Comptrollers filing the
Executive department, the records show
for the last fifty years that of the three
thousand thus employed, we have had
more than two-thirds of the same, while
we have but one-third of the white popu-
lation of the Republic.
Again, look at another item, and one,
be assured, in which we have a great
and vital interest; it is that of revenue,
or means of supporting government.
From official documents, we learn that
fraction over three-fourths ofthe revenue
collected for the support of the govern
ment has uniformly been raised from the
North. tt..
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. |
mean the mail and Post-office privileges
that we enjoy under the general govern
ment 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 Post Master General for the year
1860, little over Sl3. 900, 600, while the
income was SIS, 100000. But in the
Slave States the transportation of the
mail was $l4, 726, 900, while the revenue
from the same was $S,001 ,026, leaving
deficit of Sc, lis, 1856, to be supplied by
the North, for our accommodation, and
without it we must have been entirely
cut off from this most essential branch of
government
Leaving out of view, for the present
the countless millions of dollars you must
expend in war with the North; with
tens of thousands of your sons and BROTH
ers slain in battle, and offered up as sac
rifices upon the altar of your ambition.
and for what, we again ask? Is it for
the overthrow of the American govern
ment established by our common an
cestry, cementsd and built up by their
sweat and blood, and founded on the
broad principles of Right, Justice and
Huna0nityf And, as such, | must de-
clare here, as. / have often done before,
and which has been repeated by the
greatest and wisest statesmen and ipatri- /
DTS in this and otherslahas, that ii zsi
The best and freest goUernmeat-the most
equal in ats rigAts-the most Just in its
1ecisions-the most lc1aient In ats meas
eres, and the most inspiring IN ats priis-
'iptes to elevate the race of men, that
The sun of hedren euer shOne anon.
Now, for you to attempt to overthrow
such a government as thi under which |
we have lived for more than three-quar-
.ers of a century-in which we have
gained our wealth, our standing as ma
ion, our domestic safety while the ele-
nents of peril are around US, with peace
and tranquility accompanied with un-
bounded prosperity and rights unassailed |
lis the hight of madness, folly and wick
edness, to which can neither lend my
sanction nor nv vote