Year: 1862

spiracy and treason-then is he guilty;
he is condemned out ofhis own mouth;
for the statement is strictly correct


The following is tha portion of his
speech delivered on the 9Th day ofJanuary
to which we refer. We give no garbled
extract-as the Hon. gentleman is in
the habit of quoting Mr. Dawes-but pub
lish in full all he had to say on this par
ticular topic:
As party, the Democracy of the north
west have not been sectional, but have
advocated equality of rights and privil-
eyes to all-and thus far have even con-
ceded that New England and Pennsylva-
MIA might have the revenue policy Of the
United States so adjusted as to give them
an advantage of from twenty to forty per
cent upon their labor, more than could be
given to our labor But we are now be-
ing so crushed, that five and our chill
dren are not to become the ''hewers of
wood and drawers ofwater for the capi-
talists Of New England and Pennsylvania,
re must look TO the Interests Of oar sec
ton; and for the first time in my life
intend to speak as a sectional man.


We are not a manufacturing people,
and can not well become such; our
wealth must come from the cultivation of
the soil, and is of those heavy and bulky
articles that require convenient market
and cheapness of transportation. A for
eign demand will enrich those regions
from which there is convenient and cheap
approach to the ocean, but it cannot
greatly benefit us; our corn and wheat,
hogs and cattle are so weighty and bulky
that before they reach the sea coast much
of their value is lost in the cost of trans
portation.


And this must continue, for railroad
Transportation cannot become cheap
The malign policy of the party in the en-
actment of the tariff of last summer,
which in ordinary times will be prohibit
ory and defeat revenue, and which makes
us buy at high prices and sell at low
prices, and will impair our foreign mar
ket, has heretofore been partially defeat
cd by the short crops in Europe, causing
larger foreign demand for breadstuffs
than we have enjoyed perhaps since
lS47; yet, with an extraordinary foreign
demand for all we have to sell, what is
our condition? Compare the present
with our condition sixteen months since,
and we have the answer. Our hogs were
then worth from four to five dollars per
hundred; they are now worth from two
dollars to two dollars and fiftv cents.-
Our corn and wheat and cattle have
fallen almost in like proportion. And
further to the West | understand the
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that in some localities in Illinois the use
ful and valuable article of corn is used
as the cheapest fuel To estimate our
losses in Indiana for this year is difficult;
but we may assume upon pork the fol
lowing: Upon each hundred pounds 81,
and an average weight of two hundred
and fifty pounds gives loss of So on
each hog Upon one railroad there have
been shipped one hundred thousand head
and assuming that to be one-tenth of the
hogs in the State, the entire stock for
market in the State for this year is one
million, and our losses upon pork five
million dollars 1t is probably safe to
assume an equal loss upon each of the
articles of corn, wheat, and other stock,
making the loss to the agricultural inter-
ests of Indiana twenty million dollars.
| These estimates are not reliable, and are
not given as such, but rather as iHustra-
tions The main fact is that our loss
es are enormous. In the reflective mind
the inquiry arises, why is this so?


1t is not for the want of a foreign de-
mand; we have that in an increased de-
gree; it is not in the scarcity of money
| that is abundant for all the want of our
trade-but the answer is in the fact that
we are cut off from our Southern market.
1t is striking fact in contrast, that the
Eastern States, during the last nine
months, have accumulated more wealth
than during the same period of their his
tory. For the want of the Southern mar
ket the men of Indiana lose nearly one.
half the rewards of their labor Why
that market is of such value to US, is ap-
parent upon moments reflection; the
transportation of our heavy and bulky
products upon the rivers is easy and
cheap-it is the interest of the South
mainly to employ her labor in the pro
duction of rice, sugar, hemp, tobacco and
cotton-(ar articles which we do not pro
duce)-an to depend upon and buy
from us the production of our lands and
labor. To encourage and stimulate the
people of the South in the production Of
their peculiar commodities, that they may
be large buyers from us, has been and
so long as grass grows and water runs, "
will be the true interests of the North.
west; and the political party that would
destroy that market is our greatest foe


Most earnestly, then, do / call upon
the men of Indiana to consider what
President Lincoln seems TO favor, whai
Cameron urges, what the republican
members of Congress, in caucus, have
determined upon, and what bills now
pending in Congress contemplate-thC
freedom of the negroes in the rebel States
in a word, the destruction of Southern
labor, and the ruin, forever, of our rich
trade and the value of our products


Impelled by false philanthropy, Eng
land has made her rich islands luxuri
GUS waste and wilderness, the trade Of
which is worth no more than one of the
Jewels in the Queens crown. Are we
now who have for ourselves and the gen
erations yet to come, such important in.
terest involved, to consent to such q pol
icy towards the great and fertile regions
of the Gulf of Mexico?


The first and highest interest Of the