Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1882-03-02

is in the latter section
For purposes of rivers and har-
bors, canals, roads, railroads, and
other internal improvements within
the Northern States the government
has expended S59,6e1,011, while
in the Southern States for similar
purposes it has expended S22 ,259,-
473 Of bonds OF the government
to aid in building northern railroads
there have been issued $7S,926,-
1872. while none have been issued
in aid of any railroad running
through the Southern States. This
makes grand total of money ard
bonds expended by the government
for the development and protection
ot the Northern States of $685.
362, ,26O, against S94,S14,379 ex-
pended in the Southern States, and
a grano total OF the public lands of
246, ,449, 1926 acres expended for the
benefit Of the Northern States, and
2S,319,797 acres expended for the
benefit of tho Southern States. This
does not take into account at all
the fishing bountics and other
drawbacks on taxation of which the
North received the exclusive benc-
fit. When to all this ia added the
fact that more than seven-tenths
of the emoluments of public office
have for twenty years past been
enjoyed by the Northorn people ;
that fifty millions in pensions are
annually paid there. together with
almost the whole CT the interest of
the public debt, there can be little
wonder that the Northern section
Of the Union keeps ahead of the
Southern. Is it to be wondered at
that we who feel these inequalities
SO keenly become little restive
under the gibes upon our ignorance
and want of thrift, so-aalled that
we refuse to fold our hands and
submit to it all with the meekness
Of an Egyptian fcllah Are we tc
blame, Go you think, for endeavor-
ing to let the world know the truth
that one section of the Union, hav-
ing the physical power to do SO.
absorbs the public property of both,
and scizes to itself with rapacious
greed all the emolnmcn.s and rich
es OF the republic +?
But 1t may be said with regard
to the public money-it cannot be
said of the public domaiu--that as
the North pays most OF it into the
treasury it is but right that it should
receive most. This is only an APP
parent, not real state Of facts. 1t
wonld be poor compliment to the
craftsmanship Of the North to say.
while it was successful in absorbing
the public property by the direct
and brutal force Of numbers, it was
incapable of that ingenious legisla-
ton which insidiouslv bieeds tc
death one class or section for the
benefit of another. No better
scheme for this purpose, nor one
more plausible and absolutely false
in l,s pretenses, was ever devised
than the existing tariff on torelgr
imports, the burdens of which fall
most heavily on the agricultural
people OF the South. OF all the
unjust and unequal legislation evel
enacted by Congress this IS tho
most unjust and unequal of all
the causes which have operated tt
prevent the material progress of the
South and 20 keep the people poor
this tariff for protection, so-called
is, and has been most potenr.
think the following propositions
are correct and can be maintained
1. Money levied upon the peo-
pie for the support OF the govern
ment is taxation.
Q. Money loviod upon the peo-
pie for the support Of governmen
in proportion to the ability Of eac
citizen TO pay, is just taxation.
3. Money levied on each citize
for the support of government j
proportion to his ability to pay, i
such manner as to put most none
into the treasury and with least di
rect and indirect waste, is bot
4 Just and aoise taxation.
! 4. Money levied on the people
not tor the support of government
, but for the benefit of particula
class Of men at the expense of ali
other is not taxation, but robbery.
!, These are the propositions that
propose to maintain-in the few re
; marks which shall submit to I'll
l Senate.
: | wart to say, sir, that in M
: opinion prohibitory protection, 1
e iteis called, is the legislation
I. Dick Turpin and of Sixteen Strin
), Jack, levied ip the halls Of Cor
), gress instead of upon Black Heat
!, Common. There is more Of civi
n izatiop in the one than in the othe
6 but there is less of manhood. I'll