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Add this up and see what t amounts to, if the imagination can conceive of sum SO vast Yet this amount, immense as t Is, does not express half the wealth which the people of these States have brought into the Union. Besides feeding from lheir overflow inging granares several ot their sister States, they supply commerce with It's staples, and the nation with its chief sources of wealth. These are the people and the States that pro duce the cotton and the corn, the cattle and hemp, the sugar and tobacco which, enter ing into the channels of trade. gives to Amer ican commerce is wings, and 10 Uncle Sam himself greatness and renown among mara time nations Composing sea and land in search of markets for your surplus produce, your factors exchange il abroal for at least two thirds of the merchandise which brings into the custom-house for general purposes an annual revenue of not less than ~30,000,- 900. Besides all this, your industry has at tached value to the soil itself, which for national purposes Is above price.

 The taxable property in the State of Ken lucky is officially stated al 272 millions cf dollars. This take il is exclusive of the moneyed capital of joint stock associations, of the trading capital of merchants, of goods and chattels, and of much stuff of various kinds; for there is, believe, no State thal taxes ecery thing. Let us, therefore, suppose that the ualaxed property in Kentucky a. mounts to S20,000,000 more, making in all, S292, 100000 as the value of every thing in the State. This would give $5375 as the ay- craze value of the property ofcach individual in that State. Assuming this average for the other States, the S,000,000 of people inhshit- ing them will be found possessed of $3,000,- 100000 worth of property, which their ia thers gave the General Government the right to tax in all time to con e, and according 10 its necessity. provided il would dig this ca nal or, in the terms of the indentEre, .>Pro- vide for the general welfare and common delenee.n What therefore is the Sl,461,- 100000 already put into the public treasury by you, in comparison to the right to tax this property and its increase, and 10 raise revenue from you and your poslerty foreyera

 Such is the indebtedness of the General Government to you.

 Let us have the per contra.

 Official statements show that

 since the war of l9l2-

 for it Is not necessary to

 go farther than 30 years

 --there have been ex- .s pended by the General

 Government, exclusive of

 national debt and trust

 funds, about S600,000.00O co Of which there have been