The Alleghanian. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1859-1865, 1864-10-06

ton of slavery, have they not yielded to
our demands and given US Louisiana,
Florida and Texas, out Of which four
States have been carved, and ample terri
tory for four more to be added In due
time, if you by this unwise and impolitic
act do not destroy this hope, and perhaps
by it lose all, and have your last slave
wrenched from you by stern military rule,
as South America and Mexico had; or
by the vindictive decree of universal
emancipation which may reasonably be
expected to follow?
But again, gentlemen, what have we to
gain by this proposed change Of our rela-
tion to the general government We
have always had the control, and can yet,
if we remain in it, and are united as we
have been. We have had majority of
the Presidents chosen from the South, as
well as the control and management of
those chosen from the North. We have
had sixty years of Southern Presidents to
their twenty four, thus controlling the
Executive Department. So of the Judges
Of the Supreme Court: we have had eigh-
teen from the South, and but eleven from
the North although nearly four -ffths of
| the judicial business has arisen in the free
States, yet a majority of the Court has al
ways been from the South. This we have
required SO as to guard against any inter
probation of The constitution unfavorable
| to us.
| In like manner we have been equally
watchful to guard our interests iE the leg
islatiye branch of government. In choo-
sing the presiding officer pro- tenn of
the State, we have had twenty-four and
they eleven. While the majority of the
representatives., from their greater popu-
| lation, has always been from the North
yet we have generally secured the Speaker,
because he, to a great extent, shapes and
controls the legislation of the couatry-
Nor had we less control in every depart
ment of the general government Attor-
ney Generals we had fourteen, while the
North mad but FIVE. Foreign ministers
we had eighty-six, and they but forty four
| While three-fourths Of the business which
demands diplomatic agents from abroad is
clearly from the North, from their greater
commercial interests, yet we have had the
| principal embassies, SO as to secure the
worlds markets for our cotton, tobacco
and sugar, on the best possible terms. We
have had vast majority of the higher
offices of the army and navy, while larger
portion of the soldiers aud sailors were
drawn from the North. Equally so of
clerks, auditors and eomptrollers filling
the Executive department; the records
show that, for the last fifty years, of the
| three thousand thus employed we have
had more than two-thirds, 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 a great and
vital interest-that Of revenue, or means
of supporting the government. From Of
fetal documents We learn that fraction
over three-fourths of the revenue collected
for the support Of the 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 mat
ters stand in that department. | mean
the mail and post office privileges we en-
| joy under the general government as it
has been for years past The expense for
| the transportation Of the mail In the free
| Ct'ieSS was, ~ thO iCp pun Va tHS OSlihdS-
er-General for 1860, little over $13,-
| 100000, while the income was S19,000,-
600. But in the slave States the trans
portation of the mail was S14,716,000,
while the revenue was only $4,000, ,265,
leaving deficit of S6,715,735, to be
! supplied by the North for our accommo-
dation, and without which we must have
been entirely cut off from this most es-
sential branch of the government
/ Leaving out of view, for the present
the countless millions OF dollars you must
expend in war with the North, there
will be thousands and tens of thousands
of your sons and brothers slain In battle
and offered up as sacrifices upon the altar
of ambition-and for what we ask again
1t is for the overthrow of the american
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 hu-
manity. Aud as such, L must declare
here, as | have often done before, and
which has been repeated by the greatest
and wisest statesmen and patriots OF this
and other lands, that it is the best and
freest government-the most equal in its
righis-the most just in its decisions
the most leuient in its punishments-the
most inspiring in Its measures to elevate
the race of man-that the sun in heaven
ever shone upon.