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


the West Indies" And, if this is not
satisfactory, all doubt must vanish
when we find this statement in Pres
ident LincOln's message of December
5, 1861: Five vessels being fitted out
Tor The slave trade have been seized
and condemned. One
captain, taken with a cargo Of Afri1
cans on his vessel, has been con-
victed."
Sectional Injustice in the Congress OF
the Confederation. ;.
Soon after Virginia ceded her
northwest Territory to the United
states plans were adopted by 284
New England officers of the Cont
mental line to purchase a body Of the
land, and pay for it with the worth
less Continental and State paper
money. After sending representatives
to the Congress. for a number of
years, to plead their cause, they were
fortunate enough to enter into a part
nership with a wealthy New Yorker,
and secure his corporations; and
finally they succeeded in purchasing
from the Congress-, only eight States
being represented, five millions Of
acres of Ohio land, and paying for it,
as Hildreth declares, only eight or
nine cents per acre"
Sectional Injustice in the More Per-
e Union"
AS soon as the new Congress got
ready for business the New England
members began to lay plans for en-
rlching their section at the expense
Of the others; and to give the reader
some insight into their methods, l
quote an opinion of William Maclay,
n Of Pennsylvania's first Senators,
which is found in his Journal: "For
my knowledge Of the Eastern char
acter warrants me in drawing this
conclusion, that they will cabal
against and endeavOr to subyert any
government which they have not the
management Of, and to this it is
worth while to add that after the
committee Of the Continental Con
gress had agreed upon a plan OF
Cnion-the Articles of Confederation
Edward Rutledge, of South Caro-
lima, q member of it, said that if the
plan proposed should be adopted
5 nothing less than ruin to some colo
MES would be the consequence
l that they would be subject to The
!, government of the eastern prov
%inces,' and hat he dreaded theil
low cunning and those leveling prin
l ciples which men without character
and without fortune in general pos
seSSP'-(BancrOft, Vol. IN, D. SD
Sonle of Their Notable Achievements
5 /. During the debate on the frs
, tariff act 17S9) Fisher Ames, o
e chusetts, said: The cominerc'
of America. particularly the Southern
parts, has by the force Of habit ant
q English connections, been settin!
: strong on the British coast. It re
c quires the aid Of the general govern
ment to divert it to a more natura
course" (place it under the contro
of New England shippers). "To pro
= cure this political good some force i
"a =, n r. re-, ~, =, A-3 fIo c>rno -ya - ~
piled.
! 2. In spite Of the protests Of Hug
- Williamson, William B.. Giles an
- other Southerners, laws We're passe
> in the first Congress Of the NOR
perfect Union" to bestow upon NeN
England shippers a monopoly of GU
c~oast-wise. and a partia
monopoly of our foreign commerce
one result, even as early as 1914, be
ing thus commented on in the "Oliv
= Branch a work written by Mathe'
Carey, of Philadelphia: The make
fact is that the demagogues of tn
49, Eastern States, not satisfied with de
irving all the benefits from the South
ern States that they would from S
many wealthy colonies-with maxim
- princely fortunes by supplying the1
~ with their own manufactures and Pre-
-, auctions of the East and West Indie
~ to an enormous amount and at an III
= mense proft-unifornly treated thel
- with outrage, insult and injury
e And if the reader thu
h there has been any abatement of tn
avarice of the pets of the Govern
% ment, let him read what the Spring
~ field (Alass.) Republican said
l. March, 1900, during our trouble
in with Spain: Some of the ship owner
N have been making a very handsom
,y thing out of the Governments in
a perial transport service. 1t appea
from a statement SubInitte
IA to Congress last week by SecretaI
"a Root that the Government has pal
lie in two years for the mere use
N some of the transports sums create
ia than their assessed valuation. Th,
he the owners Of the transport Senate
4. valued at $500 900, have receive
IA within two years $534,375 for the u!