The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1864-10-06

W COttCC III 1iiC AlJlCICS, lf1dJ UC
ing inheritence the nature of compact
/ In 1882 the States of South Carolint
attempted to inaugurate the heresy o
secession. At that time Andrew Jack
son occupied the Executive chair Of th,
nation. His views and opinions are fully
and clearly set forth in his proclamation
OF that date, in which, among other truths
he declare that 'the Constitution of the
United States forms government, not {
league and whether it be formed by com
pact between the States or in any charac
ter Is the same. 1t is a government in
which all the people are represented
which operates directly on the people in.
dividually, not upon the States they re-
tanned all the power they did not grant
But each State having expressly parted
with so many powers as to constitute,
ointly with the other States, single ma
ton, cannot, from that period, possess any
righ. to secede, because such secession
does not break league but destroys the
unity of nation and any injury to that
unity is not only abreach which would
result from the contravention Of COM
pact but it is an offence against the whole
Union"
Thus speaks Andrew Jackson in 1882
His action correspond with his words, and
it is fortunate for the nation and for man
kind that General Jackson then occupied
the Executive chair Of the United States.
The views entertained by these statesmen
have been fully endorsed and affirmed on
repeated occasions by the Supreme Court
of the United States l might refer par
ticularly to the opinion of Chief Justice
Marshall on the subject, but l have not
time to do so. The same voice comes to
us from the tombs of Mount Vernon,
Monticello, the Hermitage, and the grave
of Madison. Ashland and bIarshfeld
poured fourth their unsurpassed elo-
9uence in defence of the same vital prin-
ciples, and all the great men of our land,
Of all parties, have at all times, in the Cab
met, in Congress, and on the bench, a.
greed upon this question.
Now, my fellow citizens, our enemies
attempt to dishearten the people by por-
traying to them the magnitude of our ma
tional debt. This debt has been various
ly estimated, but it is now officially de-
clared to be less than two thousand mil
lion Of dollars, and no well-informed man
will calculate greater increase than one
thousand millions per year. But figures
cannot estimate the value of the Union
it is beyond all price. However, for
those who worship the almighty dollar,
and those who are too mean to pay their
taxes if they can escape their payment,
| will occupy your attention for one mo-
ment on this subject. At the end of the
Peninsula war the debt of England was
about five thousand millions of dollars
1t is now little less than four thousand
millions Of dollars Her last war loan in
hat war was sold at fifty three cents on
the dollar, payable in deprecated paper
But not single bond of the United
States is below par, and nearly all COM
nand a premium. The income of our
treasury for the past year, in the very
midst of the war, was near y three hun
lred millions Of dollars. The increase in
he value Of our real and personal prop
,rty from 1870 to 1850 was sixty four per
,ent. from 1850 to 1860 it was one hun
lred and twenty-seyen per cent. The in
,ome of our productive labor for 1860 was
nearly two millions of dollars.
We have rich public lands, and almost
,nough of these alone, at one dollar per
lcre, to pay our debt at the end of tn ewar
Ne have more than 10000 miles of Rail
Dad, finished at cost Of 81 200, ,000, 900.
Fifty thousand vessels of the Republic
yhiten every ocean. The increase in the
onnage on our Western waters in eight
years, was $50 per cent. Our exports of
,rain have reached, in asingle year, $500,
100000. Agriculture gave the nation,
n 1860, 81, 900, 100000; and when our
ertile lands are well cultivated, this sum
will be multiplied hundred fold. Our
erritory is nearly as large as all Europe,
With its forty different empires. The iu-
rease of our population since 1870 has
'een six times greater than that of Eng
and, and ten times greater than that of
france; therefore the burden of our debt
Vill sit but lightly upon a nation whose
lome is continent, whose soil embraces
he product of every land, whose people,
y their industry, thrift and skill, multi
'ly their resources an hundred fold, and /
whose population grows with rapidity
which is without parallel in history. As
said before, it is the purpose of our enc
MES to dishearten the people with rumors !
# our inability to pay the National debt;
'ut they have not examined the question
nd do not wish to examine it; they only |
esire to draw away from their allegiance
he friends of the Union, and induce them
o accept an ignominious peace upon the
erms of dissolution.
But the hour is growing late, my
elbow citizens, and | fiud myself comp
lied to curtail my remarks When the
roud old flag of our fathers shall again
oat in triumph over the walls of Fort
jumpter, and over every inch of territory
elonging to our ancient inheritance and
,hen all the people Of the land shall live