What they are fighting for.
Mr. Hunter made a speech in Congress about a year ago, in which he estimated the annual exports of slave States at two hundred millions of dollars; freights paid to Northern vessels on these exports, fourteen millions; freights paid to Northern vessals on return cargoes, seven millions; freights paid same in the coasting trade, twenty millions; manufactures by the
North consumed by the
South annually, four hundred and Eighty millions of Dollars!
He then shows that--
‘"At a moderate estimate, between three and four millions of the people of the
Northeastern States owe their subsistence entirely to the commerce of the
South, but for whith.
they would be compelled to starve or emigrate.
He shows also that several millions of the inhabitants of the
North western States are also supported by the market for their products afforded by the
South, and that the money paid by the
Northeastern States for the products of the
North western States is obtained mainly from the
South; and he thus shows that a large portion of the population of the
Northeastern and Northwestern States is sustained by slave labor.
Mr. Hunter then proceeds to show that the operation of protective tariffs, and even tariffs for revenue, have thrown the burden of the
Government unequally upon the agricultural States of the
South, who, being the chief consumers of the protected articles, have paid the increased price into the pockets of the
Northern producers."’
It is to compel us to continue this tribute to the end of time that the
North pours down its hordes.
What madness!
If it could conquer the
South, it would only cut open the goose that had laid the golden eggs — not compel it to lay any more.
