El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-07-18

Lar
nam. nave devoted some time to
! writing history.
Editor FL Paso Herald:
I A friend handed to me yesterday
| a copy Of your paper in which there
i is an article by Frederic J. HaSkin
| discussing the cause of the Democra-
| tic split in 1860; and Is 1 cannot agree
| with the writer, l ask space to set
| before your readers some of the his
tOrical evidence which has never found
its way into many books or news
papers. and which lays bare the real
significance Of the wrangle over
slavery"
The Congress of the Confederation.
In 1897 the congress of the Confed-
, Grafton, only eight states being rep
resented, violated the articles OF con-
federation (Which required the pres
sence of the representatives of at least
nine states) by selling to some New
England gentlemen and one New
] Yorker 100000 acres of the public
land in Ohio, and accepted in payment
SS,5O0,0 600 of war bonds for which
| these spectators had paid only S437,-
| 500. In other words, these gentle
men purchased tract of land about
( the size of continental New Jersey,
! for which they paid less than nine
/ cents per acre.
! The First Congress- of the 'E3IOre Per-
feet UniOn.'
As soon as the first congress of the
more perfect union" got ready for busi-
I ness the New England members, as
we are told in the journal" of
: William NL4ay, one of Pennsylvania s
| first senator's. began to lay plans for
enriching their section at the expense
| of the others; and after studying their
methods during the two first sessions
| of the congress. Maclay says For
my knowledge or the Eastern char
nraMa awm~ 10 H. -aw-~~ ii
conclusion, that they will cabal
against and endeavOr to subvert any
government which they have not the
management Of"
Some of Their Notable Achievements.
1. In spite of the protests OF
SouthernerS, including Hugh Will
hanson, of North Carolina, and VIM.
B. Giles. of Virginia, laws were pass
ed to grant to New England shippers
a monopoly of the cOastwise com
merce and partial monopoly of the
foreign commerce of these states, one
result, even as early as 1914, being
thus commented on in The Olive
Branch, a work written by Mathew
Carey, of Philadelphia: The naked
fact is that the demagogs Of the
eastern states, not satisfied with de-
irving all the benefits from the south
ern states that they would from so
many wealthy colonies-with making
princely fortunes by supplying them
with their own manufactures and the
East and West Indies to an enormous
amount and at an immense profit
uniformly treated them with outrage,
insult and injury"
2 In spite OF the same protests
shipbuilders in the United States were
granted an absolute monopoly of the
ship market. so that no business man
in the southern states could purchase
a foreign ship, even if the price was
only one-half of the New England
price.
5. During the debate on the first
proposed tariff act (17S9) Fisher
Ames, OF Massachusetts, said; The
commerce of America, particularly the
southern parts, has by the force Of
habit and English connections been
setting strong on the British coast.
It requires the aid Of the general gov
eminent to divert ii to a more
natural course" (place it under the
control of New England shippers).
ITO procure this political good, some
force is necessary. And the force"
was applied.
+ BY methods which were con-
demned by Maclay. Madison and others, |
S64,00O,000 in new federal bonds were
voted to New England and Philadel-
ph1a spectators who had bought up |
at One-eighth of their face value |
s43. 1000 900 of Continental money and |
S21,000,0OO of state Certificates"
Thus these spectators managed to !
force on the people Of those states !
a debt of 5000, 600 for which the
spectators had performed no service: /
and Maclay asserts that several of /
the lucky spectators were members
of congress, adding this: 4 verify 1
believe the sun never shone on |
more abandoned composition of polit-
ical character"
5: In this first congress New Eng
land members. as .Maclay asserts, sue
ceeded by methods which were consid-
cred discreditable by honorable mem
bers Including Maclay) in having 1
black quart bottles for the rum trade
placed on the free list, rum being
the principle article exchanged in At
RIGA for slaves (as Moore tells US in
his Notes on the History of Slavery
the imposition of any import tax on
painters cOlors, copper plates for
cotton goods. all dyeing ma
terials, glue, hides and skins, sheet
iron, lead in bars, white lead, red lead,
sail cloth, sea stores in ships. seiles, |
wooden socks and stockings, tin, iron
and steel wire, and raw wool; and az
ter a struggle in which vice president |
John Adams took an active and, as
Maclay thought, diScreditable part,
they succeeded in having the commit
tees proposed six cents per gallon on
molasses reduced to two and one-halt
cents. SENATE Report No. II. Forty
eighth Congress, first session. p. 124). I
s. In this first congress began the
bounty system which by 1869, accord
ing to KettelIs Southern Wealth and
Northern Profits mad enabled New
England's codfishermen to draw from
the federal treasury thirteen million
Of dollars, much of it by fraudulent
claims, as president Jackson declared
in his message of December Z, 1880;
and Kettell says: This bounty Is paid
put of the national treasury into
which it is collected from the southern
of imported goods"
:. In 1892, while the congress was
a bill to change this
bounty from barrels and quintals Of
fish to the tonnage of fishing yes
sells, Hugh Williamson, of North Car
olina, addressing the house in Opposi-
lion to the bounty. said: Il wish that |
ny constituents may know whether |
hey are to put any confidence in that |
,aper called the Constitution.
1nless the southern states are protect
ID by the Constitution, their valuable
taple and their visionary wealth must
occasion their destruction"
S. Northern SPECTATORS in RevOlu-
iOnary war paper money who had not
shared in the siXty-four million of |
dollars deal were permitted by con-
sresS to subscribe for $4,000, 900 of
stock in Robert Morris's bank which
low became the Bank of the United
states, and pay for il with depreci-
ited Revolutionary war money, thus I
.nabling the stockholders to draw out !
# the Golfers of other people I
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