The Feliciana Democrat. (Clinton, La.) 1855-186?, 1857-04-18

day ssince, that he owned . shares in that road
ana that he would take dozen chickens for
his Il shares, and that he could not get them
for his interest in the road; and that the road
would long since have failed but for the indie.
fatigable energy and almost incxhaustiblc re-
sources of its sole proprietor. This is the
other rickcty remains of railroad legislation,
we ART asked to tic TO- Now Sir; think have
shown there is no need of railroad to transport
our surplus productions Instead of railroad
to carry off our productions, we need something
to renoyate many of our quilted hills that we
may'make something to carry to market, not to
burden us with additional taxes in supplying us
with facilities to carry off our produce, when
We have so little to carry, that we are more
troubled in making produce for market than we
are in getting it to market. Sir; we should bear
IN mind that some thousand or fifteen hundred
slaves have left our parish, within the last
twelve months, for the fat lands of Morehousc
and elsewhere, consequently we are more likely
produce less than heretofore, as slaves are the
chief dependence in raising Sugar and Cotton.
l have never heard of planter in East Fclic-
ana, that sustained loss because he did not
have railroad to hurry Off his cotton or Sugar
to New Orleans. No Sir; the great misfortune
has been that we never had enough in many
instances to reach New Orleans in the course
of the whole winter, not that it did not reach
there in few days. Why should We be so
anxious to whirl through the air at the rate Of
thirty or forty miles per hour to tell our mer-
chants that our cotton was cut off by the worms
or the drought, or that our stubble cane had rot
ted out, and that we had nothing to meet their
demands against us? Sir; our merchants will
oh, tNp c,>v -
Our taxes are higher than those of any other
State in the Union and are still getting higher
! know several citizens of this State formerly of
Mississippi who pay four times the amount of
taxes on the same property they did in Missis
sippi. Some leave our State to get rid Of our
taxes Our liabilities are about s 5000, 900,
current disbursements are about S 1,000,0 900.
SO we disburse annuity only two dimes on the
dollar, from one end of the State to the other
are glooming under the most oppressive and
unjust system of taxation known to free PEG
pie, and yet we are urged to cngulph the deeper
and still deeper under constitutions by making
railroads that VIC know will never pay to the
State dollar Sir; pledged myself to the
people of East Feliciana, that if they would
honor me with seat in this Hail. / would
oppose taxation to the utmost of my ability and
Sir; would be ashamed to meet them after
voting, on the first opportunity, to squander
several hundred thousand dollars of their hard
earnings, in reckless schemes gotten up to bcnc.
fit few capitalists who have been lobbying
these schemes through, ever since have had
seat on this floor. Sir; if | have 'erred in
my cause in opposing this railroad, have the
proud consultation of being conscious Of having
discharged my duty
G. IT. JONES.
Monks Corner, La, April 8. 1851.