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outhern colonies on the plea that it was a case of principle. They wanted to throw off a trilling tax, and to liberate their shipping and manufacturing interests from the crossing yoke of British monopoly. The fight on their part was for a selfish end, on ours, for an abstract principle, in which we had but little pecuniary interest. We went with them into the war. We generously sent our troops to their aid and helped them fight all their battles, from Boston, round by Quebec, Saratoga, Bennington, Long Island, Princeton, Trenton, Monmouth, to Germantown and Brandywine. When we had helped them break the enemy's power at the North, and he sought to crush the military power of America, in its sents in the Southern colonies, the selfish Yankees doggedly staid at home, and we had to fight all our battles alone. When we had penned up and caught the enemy at Yorktown, they sent a regiment, which on the way to that place, to reap at a cheap expense of patriotism, some of the glory of th