The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1913-01-07
secured it's adoption by both HouseS

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According 70 evidence contained III
public documents, Mr.. Benton Oh.
1922 believed that the sugar renheIS
Of New England imported raw
from the West Indies, paid the import
tax on it, then mixed a large quanuty
of Louisiana raw with II, r.
fined the mixture. and then, having
exported the mixture, sold II IN some
foreign country, applied TO the FEEDER
al treasury and received the draw
back they would have been entitled 10
If all the raw sugar had been import
ed. In 1899 tthe tariff tax being p
cents per pound the drawback al
lowed the twenty refinerS
TO s2O,154.37 more thar all import
taxes on sugar for that year-these
refners being all in New England ex-
cept some small ones IN the west
and three in New Orleans"
According to Mr.. Benton, the New
England manufacturers Of rum
much, if not most Of it for the Afri-
can slave trade-mixed cheap "hlS-
key with the molasses during the pro-
cess of Manufacture, exported n
rum. and received the same
thew would have been entitled TO II
none but imported molasses had been
used.
On page 1877 Kettell. having made a
careful and conservative calculation.
gives 2,77O millions of dollars as the
amount which protective tariffs had
directly or indirectly carried from the
South to the North during the seventy
years ending with 1860; and this was
in addition to what the South con-
tributed to the Federal treasury, and
to the vast profits Of the shippers who
enjoyed a monopoly Of u cOast-wise
commerce and a partial monopoly Of
our foreign commerce. And agreeing
with kettell, General Dom Piatt de-
, clares that 1.-The South made, without
saving all'-not some-"that the
North accumulated"
The South's Share of Congressional
, Appropriations.
!, ]. Senate Document 3O7, 3rd Sess,
25th Congress shows that up to 1888
the Revolutionary soldiers OF the
Northern States had received as pen
!, siOns a sum equal to $127.3O per cap
tia, and those Of the Southern States
Gncluding Delaware) had received
. only $49.s9 per capita.
2. From 1889 to 1945 appropria-
I tons for roads. rivers and harbors ir
the Southern States (the Mississippi
g and Ohio included) amounted to 81.
e 757,916, and for like purposes in the
: Northern States they amounted t
$12 ,743,407-nearly five times a!
much.
8 3.Fron 1894 to 1S45 the Southern
members OF "the old thirteen" receiv
ed for internal improvements 1858,
100, while the Northern members re
It ceived $6,32S, O30-nearly ten times a
much.
It a. From 1889 to 1S46 the North re
ceived twice as much as the South 70
coast defense.
II 5. In 1853 there were twenty-five
II lighthouses in the North for ever
n ten in the South.
If 6. Between 1850 and 185, Their
were built eighteen custom houses il
the northern section: not one in tn
southern.
.o Z. Up to 1860. according to the Ere
l. port Of the Public Land Commission
Of 1888, about OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Q
all the donations of the public land!
,e for which, as is we'll known. the Sout
~ paid most Of the purchase money, ha
gone to individuals, corporations, Tel
le ritories M States west of the MissiS
r. sippi river which could be relied o
Id to strengthen the northern section {
lie the Union; and, while at that tim
there were nineteen Northern State
there were only fourteen Souther
Of States. And it may be an appropriat
.ir postscript to the sectional injustie
TX here revealed to inform the reade
that after a Harvard professor ha
SO read the inaugural address Of the la
n Governor AycOck re sent him a lett'
u. cOmplimenting him for the sent
en- ments he found in it. but informe
of him that the people Of New Englar
,s- were not yet prepared to trust IL
.ss purposes and the candOr of the Peep
of the South"
In The Worthless "COntinental' None
lse AS Kettell tells us. the New En-
-e- landers owned the shipping. and e
I'm joyed the slave trade: they carried II
lid valuable agricultural products of Il
,as South to England and other foreis
* countries; n these monOpolist
ms privileges enabled that section
s.. gather in it's Golfers vast quantities
ed Southern and West Indian mon
Of much Of which was sent over t
oh country to enable northern specul
i've tors to gather up bonds and pap
ear money which had been issued by t
ed, States and the Continental Congre
during the Revolution.
r. When, therefore, the first Congrt
a met. these spectators succeeded,
tes methods which were condemned
olic Maclay. Madison and others. In ha