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The Daily Dispatch: January 29, 1861., [Electronic resource], The National Crisis. (search)
ent, upon this trade would give a revenue of $35,000,000 for the support of her political system under a Southern Confederacy. Now, the Southern people have felt too bitterly the burden of a "splendid government," under the Union, to be willing to repeat the expensive folly in a Confederacy of their own. They would eschew the scheme of a complete Federal Government, surrounded with all the costly trappings of imperial power, and content themselves with a mere Federal Agency, such as Patrick Henry and George Mason esteemed sufficient to answer all federal purposes, and such as the Government at Washington was originally designed to be. Such an agency would be as cheap in its administration as simple in its structure; scarcely costing on a peace footing more than five millions a year, and not exceeding more than an average of fifteen millions per annum in long periods embracing all the contingencies in peace and war. But even the latter expenditures would leave $20,000,000 to spare