Louisiana had cost fifteen millions of dollars at a time when that was a vast sum of money.

It had cost five millions of money and the surrender of a province, to purchase Florida, and nearly a hundred millions more to extinguish the Indian title, and make the State habitable for white men.

Texas cost the National Treasury ninety millions of dollars in the war which was precipitated by her annexation, and ten millions more paid to her in 1850, in adjustment of her boundary trouble.

All these States apparently regarded the tie that bound them to the National Government as in no degree mutual, as imposing no duty upon them.

By some mysterious process still unexplained, the more they gained from connection with the National authority, the less was their obligation thereto, the more perfect their right to disregard and destroy the beneficent government which had created them and fostered them.
SOUTHERN GRIEVANCES NOT STATED.
In all the speeches delivered by the senators from the seceding States, there was no presentation of the grievances which, in their own minds, justified secession.