Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Union, Past and Future: How It Works, and How to Save It
In return for this surrender of her rights, the South inserted into the Consti tution two stipulations in her own favor. The first provided that direct taxes should be apportioned amongst the states in the ratio of their representation. According to this provision, we ought now to pay a little more than one-third of the taxes; we actually pay under the present system over three-fourths. The amount levied from customs since the foundation of the Government has been about 1047 millions of dollars; and had these duties been paid in the ratio which the Constitution indicates as just and proper, the South would have paid 442, and the North 605. But, as we shall see hereafter, the slave States have really paid 798 millions, and the free States only 249. Therefore the South has gained nothing by this stipulation in return for her loss of repte scutation.
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