FOOTNOTES:
[48] Γιγνονται μεν ουν αἱ στασεις οὑ περι μικρων αλλ' εκ μικρων, οτασιαζουσι δε περι μεγαλων.—Aristotle's Polit., Lib. V. Chap. 4, § 1.
[49] William Lloyd Garrison.
[50] The following table shows the facts of the case:—
| Cost of post-office in slave States for the year ending July 1st, 1847, | $1,318,541 |
| Receipts from post-office, | 624,380 |
| Cost of post-office in free States for the year ending July 1st, 1847, | $1,038,219 |
| Receipts from post-office, | 1,459,631 |
So the Southern post-office cost the nation $694,161, and the Northern post-office paid the nation $421,412, making a difference of $1,115,573 against the South.
[51] Mr. John P. Hale.
[52] Hon. Daniel Webster.
[53] The following extract, from the Charleston Mercury, shows the feeling of the South. "Pursuant to a call, a meeting of the citizens of Orangeburg District was held to-day, 6th November, in the court-house, which was well filled on the occasion.... Gen. D. F. Jamison then rose, and moved the appointment of a committee of twenty-five, to take into consideration the continued agitation by Congress of the question of slavery;... the committee, through their chairman, Gen. Jamison, made the following report:—
"The time has arrived when the slaveholding States of the confederacy must take decided action upon the continued attacks of the North against their domestic institutions, or submit in silence to that humiliating position in the opinions of mankind, that longer acquiescence must inevitably reduce them to.... The agitation of the subject of slavery commenced in the fanatical murmurings of a few scattered abolitionists, to whom it was a long time confined; but now it has swelled into a torrent of popular opinion at the North; it has invaded the fireside and the church, the press and the halls of legislation; it has seized upon the deliberations of Congress, and at this moment is sapping the foundations, and about to overthrow the fairest political structure that the ingenuity of man has ever devised.