The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1912-03-26

10 force on the p-.nI.. of
tnese states q debt Of Gtty-six millions
OF dollars for which the Spectators
had performed no service. This was &
burden OF more than slA on every
human being in the country. and
Alaclay asserts that several Of the
iuthE spectators were members Of
the congress, adding this: Z verify
belieVe the sun never shone on q
more abandoned position Of pollt-
zeal characters
:. IN his first Congress, as we are
Informed by Aiaclay, the New Eng
land members succeeded, by methods
winch ~Southerners. as Well IS AIaclav.
considered discreditable. III having
black quart bottles for the rum trade
placed on the free list, rum being. as
Moore tells US, the principal article
exchanged in Africa for slaves: and
N preventing the imposition of any
import tax Oh painters ~colorS, copper
plates for sheathing. cotton goods, all
dyelnS materials, glue, hides and
skins, sheet iron, Lead in bars, white
lead, red lead. sail cloth. sea stores
IN ships. SeineS. WOODEN socks and
stockings. tin, iron or steel wire. and
raw wool; and after a discreditable
struggle in which Joh Adams, the
Vice President took a part, they sue
ceeded in having the committees
49, f,h Ai oll
molasses reduced to two and One-half
cents, the mou Massachusetts was
then importing being, according to
Maclas, three million g%allons,' much
of it turne into run for the slave
trade.-tSenate Report No. L, 4Sth
Congress, lst session, p. 124.)
5. In this Congress began the
bounty system which by 1860, accord
ing to kettelFs Southern Wealth and
I Nnrf}yo7-1 praEtc, hoe aroh)ol Wv
E~ngland's cod fishermen to draw out
Of the Federal Treasury thirteen mil
lions Of dollars, much Of it by FRAUD
ulent claims. as President Jackson
charged in his message OF December
Z, 1890; and kettell declared: This
bounty is paid from the national treas
ury into which it is collected from the
Southern Of imported
goods" This bounty, too. was granted
to q people of whom John Jay said
in the Federaiists (NO. NO: With
France and with Great Britain, we are
rivals in these fisheries, and can sup
: ply their markets cheaper than they
, can themselves. Notwithstanding any
efforts to prevent it by bounties or
their own, or duties on foreign fish.
s. Northern holders of the worth
: less Revolutionary war n and Ger
!: tifcates who had not shared in tn
64.000,o00 deal, were permitted L
take $4,000 coo Of stock in Rober
r Morris's bank which now became tn
: Bank Of the United States and pa
r for it with these war bonds, thus en-
ab!ing the stockholders to draw OF
Of the Golfers OF other people =
+. eratuity,' as President Jackson Gale
+ il in his message vetoing the propose
f r~e-cnarter Of this bank, "of man
millions of doi!ars.'
n Z. In 1888 Senator William II
King, Of Alabama, Directing. n a re
g port, TO q proposed distribution anon
the States OF the proceeds Of the sale
Of public lands, said this: "Massa
chusetts n Maine, which are no
selling and enjoying their vacaI
lands in their own right, and ConneC
is ticut, which received a deed for tW
J. millions of acres from the Feders
Government, and sold them for he
h own benefit. are put upon az equs
d footing with Virginia, which cede
d the immense oman which lies in tn
g fork OF the Ohio and the Mississippi
" and Georgia, which ceded territory fC
ir two States"
The bill then before the Congres
failed to pass, but in June, 1886, Wa
2 passed a bill to divide among tn
9 States, in proportion to their repre-
sentation in the House, "oNer twenty
q eight millions Of dollars: as til
le "Statesman's Manual Informs u
= which the sale Of the lands Ia
L brought into the treasury. with i
SO expectation of its being recalled
g s. In the beginning Of the MOI
N perfect Union" the Congress bega
, the pensioning of Revolutionary We
IS Grams, and by 1898 the Northern We
4 Grams mad drawn out Of the FEEDER;
m Treasury a sum equal to s121.39 pe
capita, but those Of the South. il
at Guiding Delaware, had drawn on
lie S49.S0 per capita.-(See Senate Doc
a No. 3o7, Sd Sess. 18th Congo
g. 9. In spite Of the bitter protests
in Senators Richard II. Lee and Villa
Grayson tof N~irginial. Pierce Butt,
rs and Ralph lizard cot South Carolina
he and William Few (of Georgia.
n North Cardinals Senator'S did II,
rs take their seats during this first Sc
ID sion OF the Ennoress-an act X;