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much more easily convertible into money than any
other species of property in this State.
If then Mr.. Speaker, the principle of taxation
ad valorena is correct if it be correct in its appca
ton to every other species Of property if slaves
are property if species of property as such IS
not entitled to superior advantages another if
slaves are acquired and disposed of like other prop
erty if the owners of one species of property are
not entitled to greater privileges than the owners
of every other species of property; if we have a
right to invest money IN whatever kind OF prop
erty we choose, and choose to invest it in other
property than slaves because we may think it will
pay us better if slave property requires, and re-
ceives more protection under the laws Of the State
than any other kind of property if it is profa-
ble as any other kind Of property, and if it is
easily convertible into money than any other kind
of property, can any good and sufficient reason
be given why slaves should not be taxed ad ualorem
as we'll as any other kind Of property?
The fifth objection to altering the constitution is,
that young negroes ought not to be taxed because
they cannot make a support and are Improbable
Well, Mr.. Speaker, if this objection furnishes an
argument against the passage Of this BILL it furnishes
much stronger argument against the present sys
tenn of revenue, for it involves the principle of tax
alton profits alone; and if no property ought tt
be taxed which does not yield an annual profit tt
its owner it must be conceded that present rev
enue law is based upon an erroneous and unjus
principle and the sooner We abandon it the better
But if young negroes ought not to be taxed becaus
they cannot make support and are improbable
will not the same objection apply with equal fore
to forest waste, oldfelds and WORKOUT lands, un
tenanted houses, and all other Improbable proper
| ty? If therefore, young negroes ought not to b
taxed because they yield no annual profit in cash
their owners, why do you tax uncultivated lands
untenanted houses, vehicles, silver plate, jewelr
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very little It any discussion, either before the
vention at the convention or prior to the ratifca-
ton of the amended constitution, so far as 1 have
been able to learn from the debates and journals of
the convention, or the newspapers Of that day.
The amended constitution was submitted to the
people of the State and they ratified the action of
the convention, without the matter being discussed
or brought to their notice, and without detecting
the fact that they were forging fetter for them
selves and their children. In view of these facts
the great body of the people of the State have a
right to insist that this restriction shall be removed
and the discrimination against nineteen-twentieths
and in favor of one-twentieth of them shall be
stricken down. and to demand that equality to which
they entitled under the fundamental principles
of the government and which they enioyed under
the constitution prior to 1885. I have nothing to
say against the members of the convention of 1885,
shall impute to them no improper motive The
financial condition of the State was SUCH that the
restriction wrought no very great hardship upon
any at that time far as the question Of taxa
ton was involved and hence there was nothing said
to stimulate investigation excite opposition either
in the convention or in the public mind. But
cannot so readily satisfactorily account for the
abandonment of the great principle of republican
equality involved in this restriction, and which is
an indispensable element in the government of
free and Independent people. But the financial con-
dtion of the State is very different from what
it was in 1885 Then we owed no public debt and
paid but little tax Now we owe a large and accu-
muating public debt, and the taxes are not only
onerous but still increasing. What was then regarded
matter of indifference, is now matter of grave
Importance. When all are suffering, it is proper
and necessary that each one should bear his lust
proportion Is it. therefore, either generous or just
that those who have enjoyed the benefit Of this Dis
elimination, this partial immunity from taxation
for SO many years. should insist upon it in perpe-
tulty? But if those who have enjoyed not only
this partial immunity from taxation bot derived the
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property-the inevitable result of which will be-
the alienation of non-slaveholders from it. and the
engendering Of prejudice in their minds against it.
But Mr.. Speaker, if slave-owners would consult
their real interest or yield to the impulses of gen.
erous patriotism rather than the suggestions Of
blind avarice and step forward and voluntarily sur
render discrimination, the benefits of which they
have enjoyed at the expense of their less favored
neghbors since 1885, the institution of slavery
would be stronger in North Carolina than it has
ever been since the organization of the government
Slave-owners, therefore, should be the most jealous
advocates of the passage of this BILL for as soon as
the restriction is removed from the constitution, and
property is reduced to equality with all the
other property of the State, every man who owns
property of any kind and claims the right to hold
it and the protection of the government over it. be-
comes interested In slaves as property and is bound
by self interest," we'll as the law of the land, to
protect slaves as property under any emergency
which may arise lfthen, the institution of slavery
will be strengthened by making slave-pro con-
tribute to the support Of the government in proper
ton to its value as property and by interesting in
that way every non-slaveholder in its protection;
and if on the other hand it will be weakened
by their owners claiming protection over slaves as
property and insisting on taxing them only as per-
sons, thereby making distinction between slaves
and other property and thus alternating from and pre-
JUDGING against it the entire non-slayeholdng pop
ulation who ask, Mr. Speaker, will prove to be the
best friends the institutions of the South those who
advocate or those who oppose the passage Of the bill
under discussion? I charge no North Carolinian
with being an Abolitionist Black Republican, but
certainly those who insist that slaves shall be taxed
as persons only, and not property, have practical
" admitted the truth Of the Abolition and Black
Republican doctrine that slaves are persons and not
property, and thereby abandoned their strongest
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ie'ehue lor o"@e ana County purposes. For State
purposes, a thousand dollars worth of land is now
taxeu one dollar and tfty cents, while slave worth
one thousand dollars is only taxed fifty cents And
slave mechanic worth two thousand dollars is
taxed no more than an ordinary or intirm field hand
worth only five hundred dollars Interest on mo-
ney loaned is taxed about onefourth of one per
cent, or two dollars and forty cents on each thou
sand dollars Loaned, while the same amount (S1 OOO)
IN OLD carriages or other vehicles is taxed ten dol
iars or one per cent upon their value A thousand
collars employed In merchandise is taxed one-third
OF one per cent? or three dollars thirty three and
third cents, while lawyer physician, officer. over
seer or other person whose salary. fees or wares
amount to one thousand dollars is taxed ten dollars
Whetner ne own any property or not The average
tax upon land throughout the State for State and
county purposes, is forty-three cents on each one
hundred dollars in value, or four dollars and thirty
| cents on each thousand dollars, while the average
lax On saws 1or State and county purposes is only
twenty-four cents on each hundred dollars in valne
or two dollars and forty cents upon each Thousand
uollars; from which it appears that thousand dol
ials invested IN land IS made to pay, under the pre-
sent revenue law, one dollar and ninety cents more
TAX than the Saae amount i,rested in taxable sape
properly. IL is only necessary to institute COM
parlson OF the amount of tax paid by the different
classes OF persons and the different species of pro-
peiy, " uehotfSarate the inequality and injustice
~ .e ~ sg1 mus 1t will be seen, Mr.. Speaker,
tnat our revenue system is not only not based upon
any recognized principle Of political economy, but
any effort mas ever been made to equalize taxa.
ton, even as far as it might be done under the con
sttuton, it has been signal failure; for the pre-
sent law does not even approximate to ANYTHING
like equality or justice
mat our revenue system is a very bad one, mus
be admitted by every candid Senator who has giyer
it the slightest Investigation. If then, the revenu,
system is admitted to be defective, and the law op
crates unequaly and unjustly in the collection o
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Wall Papers! Wall Papers!
ITO MAKE ROOM. FOR SPRING PURCHASES we viii
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city, Papers slow5aS cents pcrroll! nothing superior
elsewhere at cents All other papers proportion
Give us call and We will convince sou that the Corr
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thegS assist the Slaves They have one
5ofsthsrs lending In an arnorys
in Mary land. here tgis s. tuated IBhave not
been able to learn. SOON as everything Isl
ready those Of their number who are in
the Northern States and Canada are to
come b small companies ito their rendez-
Yous WhiehI Is in the mountains in Yir-.
5ginia. They will pass down through
Pcnnsy lyanias and Mary land, and enter Virginia
lat HarpeIsfs Ferry. Brown left the North
about threeIor fonr weeks ago and will arm
thenegroes and strike the blew in a. few weeks
so that lwhateyersis done mnst be done atson
They have large squantity of arms at their
rendezvous, and are probably distributing them
selves. AS L am not full in their confidence
this is all the, information lean give you. 1
dare not5sign my name to this, but trust that
you will not disregard the warning that ac.
count.
BALTIMoRE-S Sometime during yesterday ewes
ming the telegraph line repairer, whilst repair
ing the, line between HarPer's Ferry and Mar
tinsbnrg, was shot at by Capt. Cook himself,
whom herecognised
Z