Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1878-05-04

propose to remunerate themselves
for all that they lost during the war
by raid upon the treasury to the
amount of thousands of millions.
In anticipation of this mode of con-
Quoting the campaign, some of the
Southern members in the House
have set themselves to the task of
investigating the figures which show
the comparative amounts that have
been asked for by Northern and
Southern States respectively in the
way of appropriations from the pub
lie treasury. We have before us a
good speech to this purpose deliv-
cred in the House on April oath by
Mr.. Money, of Mississippi, from
which we propose to extract a few
figures. First, he gives a compare
tive statement of the sums of money
which have been actually spent by
the Government in the Northern
and Southern States respectively
from the adoption of the Constitu-
ton to June Both, 1873, and it fig
ures out as follows:
Northern and Western States
and ~ 9S8, 22, IL
Southern II S4l y5Sl, 76
giving to the North more than three
times what was given to the South.
But all this fades into insignificance
compared with the list of bills, with
the respective appropriations for
them, introduced into the Forty
fifth Congress by Northern members
for the benefit Of Northern people
and Northern enterprises. The list
he gives would far transcend our
limits, but the whole amount is
worth stating. 1t is 81, 1853, rs, 035.-
Is. Compare with this the South
ern demands. Wequote Mr.. Money
"Even the reckless ineXactness OF
the New York Tribune with its du-
plication of bills brings the aggre-
gate amount asked for by the South
to only 100000" The South
then, demands much less than one
tenth Of the sum asked for by the
| North.
So far Mr.. Money. But let us
look at that great annual game o.
grab that passes every year under
the name of the River and HarbOl
bill. You will see in the bill for the
present year men demanding appro
priatiOns for the improvement o.
little streams in Pennsylvania sc
small and trivial that the members
from that very State don't know
where they are; for Harlem river
in New York, to the amount of mil
lions, a stream of perhaps eight oil
ten miles in length; for rivers, light
houses and harbors in Michigan tt
the amount of millions, and whe1
the claims of the great Mississippi
a vast internal sea, are put for
ward, a universal howl is raised and
Northern members speak of it as
nothing better than a scheme to i'm
prove a few private plantations al
the expense of the sacred treasury
sacred, that is, except when North
ern member asks for a pot of money
for the improvement of Mud creek
or the construction of a harbOr or
HOg-wallOw lake. What is really
| objected to is that the South should
demand anything at all. 1t has be
come the national habit to consider
it the function of the South to pay
and of the North to spend, and
whenever the South suggests any
| expenditure within her borders it is
looked upon as an unheard of thing
an attempt to wrest from the
North the profits of victory and the
usual howl is raised against the in
satiable NAV of Southern claimants
1t will be long before men viii
finally acquiesce in the final equal
ity of the Southern with the North
ern States, though in theory it has
been established years ago; but 'tC
this complexion must we come al
last" and the sooner the fact is
recognized the better for the well.
being of the whole nation.