It is a question whether there was not a higher obligation upon the States to have been more generous in their support of the Confederate soldiers and of the widows and orphans of the war. many of whom have suffered. even if it necessitated being less bountiful to the negro� In addition. the government of the negro has been more costly than that of the white man. In Virginia. where the whites largely outnumber the negroes. there are now in the penitentiary of that State. according to a statement in an editorial of the Warrenton Virginian of January 9. 1902. 889 negro men to 173 white men. The turning loose at the close of the war of the many millions of negro labor throughout the South acted almost as a complete barrier to the immigration to that section of white labor from European countries. These immigrants did not wish to compete with such labor. and as a consequence were forced to the North and West to aid materially in building up those great Commonwealths. It is not putting it too strongly to state that if the Federal Government had been as generous in its treatment of the Southern States as the Southern soldiershave been in the education and care of the negro. the discriminations against the Confederate soldier would long since have ceased to exist. Besides these obligations and burdens which they have had to assume and meet at home. the Southern States have had to pay immense revenues to the National Government as special taxes on liquors. tobacco. and other products. and while citizens in the States of Ohio.
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