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Show 256 rrnm MTflSO URI Q UJCSTTON. sentation, I shn.ll then he able to take the mask from all their pretended rca. ons and exeuscs, and show this unpan1onnJ.>le attack, this monster, in its true an<l uncovered hi dcot1sncss. L ong before our pre ·cut public di stres. cs had convinced evrn the most ignora,nt and uninformed poli tician of the truth of the maxim I am about to menti on, all the well-in, formed statesmen of our Union knew that the only true modo for a large agricnltural and commercial country to flourish was, never to import more than they can pay for by the export of their own 11ativc products ; that., if they do, they will be snrc to plunge themselves into the distrc.·sing and disgraceful situation this country is iu at present. If, then, this great political truth or maxim, or call it what you please, is most nnqucslionablc, let us uow sec who . upports this government; who rai cs your n.rmie. , eqnips your navies, pays your public debt, enables yon to creeL forts, arsenals, and dock-yards. Who nerves the arm of this govCl'nrnent, and enables you to lif'L it for the protection, tho honor, and extension of our belovccl republic into regions where none but brutes and savages hn.vc before roamed? Who arc your real sinews in war, and tl1c b sl-I had almost said, nearly the only-sinews and :ourccs of your commerce in peace ? I will pre. cntly tell you. lf, as no doubt, yon will in future confine yonr imports to the amount of your cxporLs of nn Live products, and all your revenue is to be, as it is now, rai ·c<l by taxes or duties on your imports, I ask you who pays the expense, and who, in fact, enables you to go on wiLh your government at all, and prevents its wheel.· from stoppinrr? I \vill show you by the paper which I hold in my htw<l. rrhis, si r, is your Secretary of the Treasury'.' r t'port, mncl a few ·weeks ago, by which it appear that all the exports of na tive products, from Maine to PenH. ylvania in clu siv , fot· the last year, amounted to only about eighteen millions of dollars ; while those among the slavclwlcling SLates, to the southward of 1'1fli: MTfiSOlTHl QUE.''l'ION Pennsylvania, amounted to thirty-two million" or· 11 L • q 11 1crea outs thereby enahl1n g themselves, or ncqttirin1nr the ri g· 1I t t . ' 1 0 UTI-port do.nblc ns much as the others, ~uHl furni shino- the trea-sury wrth double the amount the Nortltc1·11 ,.., l E nllC ~a:lcrn Stn t 'S d~. A ncl here let me usk, from whcnee <1o these ex-por. t s anse? By whose l1ands arc they m': .ule? I answer cnl rrcly hy the slaves,· and yet thes• e v,".l tJ.''. "ul c 1·1 1 1l n lJ'J la nts ' withont whom your very gover nm nt could 11 0 t go on, an·u,; the labor of two Ol' three of whom in the Soutllel' sj l . • 11 ~a es IS more valunble tort than the labor of five of ~] 1 •• · 11• • 1 l · 1 • l " I 11 W ) I ~[liltS 111 the Eastern Stn.tcs, the States ownirw " tl <l · . . . . o " possessr n g them a1c .dcnlCd a reprc. cnlatron but for thrre-fifth. 011 this f.l oor, . wlnlc the whole of the eoml)'L'I"."l i.V""'l.v, 11 11 proc1u c 1·, ,.e mhabrlant: of the N orLhcrn ancl Paste1·n SLn( f II • • , • • • • . ~ ' .. CR nrc 11 y IerH esentcd hctc. Is rL .Ju ,·t-IH tins qual? And yet they have the mo<l sty to complain of the l'C})rcser1'"t. • • l,u lOll, as 1111- JliSt and unequal ; tuld thaL they hare noj 111e 1• 't 1 11 11 c ur·n mac o them they exp~cted, by taxing 1ltc Rlaves, nnd making them bca.r .a proporL10n of the public bnrdens. • omc ''Titrrs 011 polttrcnl rconomy nrc of opinion that the n'JH'C'H<'ntation of a Slate 01 ~ght alwt~ys to be equally foundr<l o11 populnlion and taxation. It 1s my duty to believe tltnt the ·c arc the ~rue cri Lcrions;. for my own Slate (Sonth Cnrolina) having, 111 bet· llou c of Representatives, l 24 m mber" , G2 of them arc apportioned hy the white populatio n, and G2 on taxation ; thus rcpre 'Cnting the contribu tio ns of our citizens in every way, whcthet· arising from services or taxes. Before I proceed to the other parls of th is question, I have thus ~ndc.avo rcd to give a new view of the subject of rcpr·cscntat10n In the II on. c ; to show how mnch more the IDa tern and Northern Lates arc represented than the Southern and '\V estern ; how I it Llc right the former ha vc to complain, and how unreasonable it i , that wh ile to contin ue the balance of representation in the Senate we con sen L to o-ive d . ' b a m1ssion to Maine, to mnkc up for Miseouri, they most 17 |