Addresses Delivered Before the Virginia State Convention Volume 1 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1861 edition. Excerpt: ... the South was so much dead loss to the South--Avas a mere tribute to the North. This cost could hardly have been less than $4,000,000 or $5,000,000. The South is entitled to parol made in her midst, at least onethird of the public expenditures; whereas, according to the best information I can obtain, not more than one-fifth of them is so made. The expenditures last year amounted to over $80,000,000. The difference, therefore, between what the South received and what it was entitled to, was some $10,000,000 or $15,000,000. The expenditures are annual. Here, then, is what is equivalent to a perpetual drain from the South of the difference between one-third and one-fifth of the public expenditures. Then there are the fishing bounties, amounting to $450,000 or $500,000 a year, of which the share paid by the South is at least one-third. Add to all the vast sums spent at the North every year by southern travellers and pleasure-seekers, Mr. Kettel estimates this sum at $50,000,000. And what does the South get in return for this vast sum? Little enough, to be sure. It is plain that the annual drain of wealth from the South to the North in all of these ways, is enormous. But with a separation of the South from the North, it instantly ceases, and turns back upon the South to enrich her manufactures, commerce and agriculture, instead of going to enrich those of her enemy. You, by joining us, will get relief from the part of this drain that flows out of your State: by joining the North, you will be subject to it forever. And I beg you to remember, that this drain will be constantly on the increase--as your consumption of northern goods will be constantly on the increase--to say nothing of tho chances of its enlargement by augmentations of the rate...