ntrol in
every other department of the general government.

Attorney-Generals we have had 14, while the North have had but five.
Foreign ministers we have had 86, and they but 54. While three-fourths
of the business which demands diplomatic agents abroad is clearly from
the free States because of their greater commercial interests, we have,
nevertheless, had the principal embassies so as to secure the world's
markets for our cotton, tobacco and sugar, on the best possible terms.
We have had a vast majority of the higher officers of both army and
navy, while a larger proportion of the soldiers and sailors were drawn
from the Northern States. Equally so of clerks, auditors, and
comptrollers, filling the executive department; the records show for the
last 50 years that of the 3,000 thus employed we have had more than
two-thirds, while we have only one-third of the white population of the
Republic.

Again, look at another fact, and one, be assured, in which we have a
great and vital interest; it is that of revenue or means of supporting
government. From official documents we learn that more than
three-fourths of the revenue collected has been raised from the North.
Pause now while you have the opportunity to contemplate carefully and
candidly these important things. Look at another necessary branch of
government, and learn from stern statistical facts how matters stand in
that department, I mean the mail and post-office privileges that we now
enjoy under the General Government, as it has been for years past. The
expense for the transportation of the mail in the free States was by the
report of the postmaster-general for 1860, a little over $13,000,000
while the income was $19,000,000. But in the Slave States the
transportation of the mail was $14,716,000, and the revenue from the
mail only $8,000,265, leaving a deficit of $6,715,735 to be supplied by
the North for our accommodation, and without which we must have been cut
off from this most essential branch of the government.

Leaving out of view for the present the countless millions of dollars
you must expend in a war with the North, with tens of thousands of your
brothers slain in battle, and offered up as sacrifices on the altar of
your ambition--for what, I ask again? Is it for the overthrow of the
American Government, established by our common ancestry, cemented and
built up by their sweat and blood, and founded on the broad principles
of right, justice and humanit