Cleveland (OH) Herald, “The Yoke of Oppression,” February 1, 1861

Source citation
“The Yoke of Oppression,” Cleveland (OH) Herald, February 1, 1861, p. 2: 1.
Original source
New Orleans (LA) Picayune
Newspaper: Publication
Daily Cleveland Herald
Newspaper: Headline
The Yoke of Oppression
Newspaper: Page(s)
2
Newspaper: Column
1
Type
Newspaper
Date Certainty
Exact
Transcriber
Don Sailer, Dickinson College
Transcription date
The following text is presented here in complete form, as it originally appeared in print. Spelling and typographical errors have been preserved as in the original.

THE YOKE OF OPPRESSION.

The New Orleans Picayune says:

We may fairly assume that secession is resorted to because the people of Louisiana feel the yoke of oppression too grievous to be borne, and, in their opinion, it affords the surest and speediest relief.

The yoke which we suppose the Picayunerefers to is the seven millions per annum paid for the last five years by the people as a tax upon sugar, for the benefit of Louisiana sugar planters. Not a tea-spoon passes from the morning and evening cup to the mouth of a Northern man, women or child, the contents of which is not taxed for the benefit of Louisiana. And besides all this, the United States paid $50,000 to get a supply of sugar cane for Louisiana, when her seed failed.

Such is the yoke that weighs down Louisiana and so she seeks to break this yoke and let the oppressed go free.

Secession
Louisiana
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