Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1860-01-18

be levied on every white male inhabitant VINO mas
attained the age of twenty-one years; ana one
equal moiety of the capitation tax upon wnlte per
sons shall be applied to the purposes OF educatlon
in primary and free schools; but nothing herein
contained shall prevent exemptions oil taxaole Pois
| in cases of bodily infirmity.
"25. The general assembly may levy a tax on IN
comes salaries and licenses; but no tax shall be
| levied on property from which any income SO taxed
is derived or on the capital invested in the trade or
business in respect to which the license SO taxed is
| issued"
All property except slaves under the above proSl-
| sions is taxed according to ats rdtue IH SEaeeS
Orer tccLre are taxed much three hundred uoi-
| lars worth of land is This amount IN lSoO-ol,
the date Of the adoption of their constitution, was
not far from being the average value oil slaves over
| II and for that reason, no doubt was fixed upon
South CdroIind.-The constitution of this State
contains no provision in regard to taxaton leaving
it to the wisdom of their legislatures to adopt that
system most agreeable to the people.
Georgia.-There is no prohibition upon the legs-
ature in this State as to taxation. The revenue
system of Georgia is said by some to be the most
equitable and just of any South 1t will be noticed
hereafter.
In Georgia and South, Carolina there is no consti-
tutional discrimination in favor of slave property
Are the Ne,cs and Press of the opinion that those
States are shy on the subject of slavery? Or, that
because slave property is not so conStltutOnally
protected the free soilers will take advantage OF
that great oversight?
Rentucky-There is nothing in the constitution
of this State prescribing the mode of taxation Her
legislature can tax slaves as property
"Nissouri-The Declaration Of Rights declares:
That all property subject to taxation in this State
shall be taxed in proportion to its value. Ihere Is
no other article relating to taxation
Tennessee. provision in the constitution of
this State in regard to taxation is in the following
words to wit:
"All lands liable to taxation held by deed, grant
or entry town lots, bank stock, slaves between the
ages of twelve and fifty years, and such other prop
erty the legislature may from time to time deem
expedient, shall be taxable. AL property shall be
taxed according to its raluc that value to be ascer-
tanned in such manner as the legislature shall dI-
rect so that the same shall be equal and uniform
throughout the State. No ono species Of property
from tchich tie may he collected shsH be tared
higher than 0Hy other species Of property 81 equal
raLue. But the legislature shall have power to tax
merchants, pedlers, and privileges in such manner
they may from time to time direct. y tax on
white polls shall be laid in such manner and of
such amount may be prescribed by law
1.-The General Assembly shall have power to
thorze the several counties and incorporated towns
in this State, to impose taxes for county and corpo
ration purposes respectively, in such manner as
shall be prescribed by law; dRd all property shall
be tdred according to its rdlue upon the principles
established in regard to State taxation" (7He
italics are mine)
Tennessee with the above Just and equitable dd
rGlOrem principle in her constitution, has not only
retained her slaves but their increase has been
100 per cent greater than with us; and she is now
of the most prosperous States in the cOnfedera
cy. The institution itself is more popular in Ten
neSSee than it is in North Carolina if to be-
leve the figures of the last census. In 1850 there
were in that State So SGt persons owning 239,459
slaves. With us there were 2S, 303 persons owning
2SS, 54S slaves. Yet told that its existence
with us depends upon constitutional diScrimina
ton in its favor-that as they are taxed as
property, it will drive them from the State Such
assertions are not supported by any kind Of reason
ing, nor by experience nor by common sense; not
even by the novel principles Of the peculiar polit
cal economy advanced by the Salisbury Btnncr.
Owing to the length Of this communication, a no.
tice of the Constitutions Of those slave-holding
States not above alluded to, is deferred to your
issue. \ NATIVE.
Raleigh, Jan. 16, 1860.