The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-09-16


and does protect New England
ship building interests. Any thing
which looks to free trade in ships
is opposed by it.
The National Banks have great
and valuable privileges in being
paid by the Government an exOr6l-
uaut rate tor furnishing Il currency
which the Government could give
as Tor nothing Two tiiths OF that
circulation is afforded by The three
millions of people who live IN New
England. The other thirty seYeT
millions of inhstiIanus pay them II
vast tribute. Perhaps nothing bet
ter shows the discrimination made
rn favor Of New England in irgisla
ton than Ihat the sat, which IL
used mpackiug their fish, comes To
them tree of duty But in the West
,ho beet, pork and butter packers
nave to pay about l55 cents upon
every duIiar's worth OF suit which
they consume Tor that purpose. In
every respect they obtain the III
vantage over us, aud over the Other
sections OF The Union. The late
civil war to Il great extent was
brought on by The New England
States, which had imbIbcd strong
prtjudices against the South, anu
whose ntern.eddliug with that sec
ulUn in regard To slavery al last
drove il 20 secession. Nov look and
sec what they did IN tile war, and
what they t paid for it. The
figures arc all from offirIal sources {:
RKcGmExrs AND BArrALIoSs FURNISHED.
Massachusetts, IS
New York, 2,5
Pennsylvania, 22S
Ohio, 24O
By a report made by :he apthOrI-
" OF the Third Auditor OF the Treas
my, the amounts paid those States
for war expenditures We're as lol-
lows:
Massachusetts, s3.4S7.863
New York, 1890, 1872
Pennsylvania, 1904. o79
OHIO, 2,576,62O
But TO bn more specific, while ONO
furnished l62 more regiments than
Massachusetts, on tie plea OF War
expenditures she drew from the
Treasury Ss11,243 more than Ohio
NUW docs any one suppose that
that was fairIy-h0ncStIy done?-
Yet it has been acquIcsced in by cur
Republican friends. SO great is their
CAPACITY 10 ch, at thaL for their *
ertions IN the van OF 1872, princi-
paliy exercised IN favor of Great
Britain, the Massachusetts people
have been paid three times. Here
are the figures:
In 1880 Massachusetts was paid
in iuli. $i30,47s 26
In lS59 Massachusetts, was sgain
pdfd ia Iull, 221 .lG6 As
In 1870 Massachusetts was for
the third time paid in full, 67S,362 AZ
Total of claim three times paid $l,c56,2o1 Is
How many more TIMES They viii
he paid off We can not say. They
ought next to apply to Great Brit
ain, Tor, as We have said, they were
Tor her in that fight much stronger
than they were lUr their own cUun-
Try
We have already SAID that Ohio
was not worth, by EearIy 100000.
coo, as he little State of MasSachu-
But it docs not follow by any
mean that the lakes paid by the
IN Internal revenue are ;s
much. Un the contrary. we IN Ohio
paid last year SIC 0G0, 1850. while all
New England only vas called upon
Tor less than SIS, geo 900. MuSsarhu-
sctls paying hut $1,000 000, $1,000,
900 less than Ohio All tins proves
that the Government lis run in lie
half OF New England, and that while
she has but On~e-lhIrtcenIh part OF
tie population, her Republican
TRENDS in other States manage to
secure her these enormous dIScrim
nations for her industry. Thanks
10 them. New England has the
Speaker of the House and the Sec
rotary of the Treasury, with ii a
pet Dagger as Attorney Gcneral.--
She has the CIairmanship OF the
Committee on Foreign Affairs in the
Senate, as well as that on Military
Affairs. In the House her Speaker
has given her control of foreign: af-
fairs and appropriations, and in all
positions has selected her friends
from other States. The four primer,
pal Ministers abroad Motley 10 Eng
land, WasEburne to France. BAN
croft to Prussia. and Marsh 10 Italy.
arc her sons. A host OF caIpet>hag-
gers from her SOIL pretend 20 reps
resent the Southern States IN Con-
gress. Is il not about time thai, by
change of pJlIcy the other States
asserted their rights and remanGed
New England TO her proper place
in the Confcdcracy?-C Cincinnati En-
qutTcr.
Ep,D ma. anzEE