National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1879-05-26

North, yet we have so generally secured the
Speaker, because lie, to a great extent controls
the legislation of tho country. Nor have we
had less control in every other department of
tho Government Attorney. Generals we havo
had fourteen, while the North has had but
five. Foreign ministers we have had eighty
six, and they but ffty-four. While three
fourths of the business which demands diplo-
matte agents abroad is clearly from the free
States, from their greater commercial interests,
yet we have had the principal embassies so rs
to secure the world markets for our cotton,
tobacco, and sugar on the best possible terms.
We have had vast majority of the higher
officers of both army and navy, while a larger
proportion of soldiers and sailors were drawn
from the North Equally so of clerks, auditors,
and comptrollers falling the executive de.
partment. The records show for the last fifty
years that of the 5000 thus employed, we
have had more than two.thirds of the same,
while we have had but one.third of the white
population of the Republic.
Again, look at another item, and one, be as.
sured, in which we have n great and vital in.
terest 1t is that OF revenue or means of sup
porting government. From official documents
we learn that fraction over thrce-fourths Of
the revenue collected for the support of Gov.
| ernment has uniformly been raised from the
| North. The expense for the trans.
portation of the mail in the free States was, by
the report of the Postmaster-Genera for the
| year 1860, q little over $l3,00O,000, while tho
income was $l9,00000O. But In tho slave
States the transportation Of tho mail cost
SA7 10000, while the revenue from the same
was ~, ,001 026 leaving deficit Of So, 704 974 to
| be supplied by the North for our accommoda-
ton, and without 1t we must have been en-.
tirely cut off from this most essential branch of
| government.
Do these solemnly admitted and uttered
facts, at period when every Southerner
was seeking to justify the secession and re-
bellion then under consideration, justify
Senator HILL in saying now " the South Sc
"ceded because there was war made upon
what she believed to be her constitutional
"rights?n For more than half century
Just us they dictated and desired Their
ambition was pampcred and they had be-
come arrogant when the people elected
ABRAHAM LINCOLN, and then they became
belligerent and made war upon the Union,
not for the reason that "there was wal
"made upon what she believed to be hel
constitutional rights" but because her am.
bition had been restrained by the declared
will of the people, constitutionally ex'
pressed, and she would not submit to popu.
lar control. The South knew that no con-
sttutional right of hers had been infringed
but her hopes were disappointed and hel
pride was humbled and she made n bloody
war upon the National Union under spirit
of revengeful rebellion. If the South had
not rebeled, slavery might have continued
as an American institution to the present
hour; but when rebellion came, slavery had
to 90, leaving lesson that would be profit
able for Southern study to-day, when 4
"Solid South" in defiance of the Constitu
tion and the laws relating to the rights o
the people, is bringing upon themselves tho
retribution of "Solid North" with its ac-
cumulated and concentrated power.