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 withheld from the south and ille west by the federal power of the monopolists. Because they are thus esteemed at the north, and have been so withheld from the south, arc they therefore of no value to the southern and western people Shall they bear the burdens of taxation and share none of it's benefits Are such considerations to be counted as nothing, in urging the claims of these two sections to adequate defences for their sea coasts Ts 1t nothing that they have been allowed neither part nor lot +, tho great advantages of disbursing the one hun- dred and fifty millions of dollars that have been appropriated from common fund for the navy, nothing of Federal partiality and injustice to complain of, that the labor of the north has been protected, and that, for this protection alone, southern and western in- dustry have been taxed to the amount of un- told millions; Do we see the evidences of fair dealing and of even. handed justice be- tween the north and the south. the cast and the west, when public documents and official returns show us, in figures, that the seaboard, from Norfolk to ;ile St. Johns, has been pro- tected with haibor 'defences at the rate of eleven thousand three hundred dollars for every mile of coast, while two thousand six hundred dollars IS all that the sea mile will average for coast and harbor deicnoes from the "Old N Worth Sate' around to the Sabine Shall southern and western statesmen, in ad- vocating their rights to an equal share of Federal support and pro:ection--to jassf and fair proportion of the local advantages incident to this armed protection, be told that Il is narrow-minded, selfish, and unpatriotic to advance their claims upon the contracted limits of sectional grounds' Be so. Blot them out. Let them be nnsa;d, unread, and forgotten. We will take our stand on higher grounds. We plead our cause from the broad platform of public good; and, with the honor and safety of our country 10 support us in arr gument, We proceed to urge our right to just share in the national defences of the commonwealth. All we claim for the south and the west is demanded alike by the na- tional interests, the necessities, the welfare, and safety of the whole country. And, upor these grounds, we rest our claims.

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