The Oxford intelligencer. (Oxford, Miss.) 1860-18??, 1861-03-20

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There are many '"stbmissiof :" Journals
lpublishedi ID nou-seceling slave States, thathaye
"a considerable circalation among the people of
the Confcderacyss Without a solitary exception,
so FAR as our observation has extended--and we
have recently seen good many Of them-those
journals, seem 70 have eonspircd to misrepresent
the action Of the seeding States in regard 70 the
increased taxation incident to the secession
movement, There Is no end to the shameless
falschoods that are industriously circulated on
this point tits represented that our people
are so oppressed by the enormous taxes impos-
ed by our Convention, that they are ready to
rise in rebellion and refuse to pay them. These
lying gentry have two specific objects, in view.
They desire, hrst TO brighten thoseof their own
people who are disposed to flvor secession, by
pcrsuadng them that secession, elsewhere, has
resulted in the most disastrous consequences
They also desire, secondly, to create dissatsfac-
ton among our people, by asserting that their
I taxes have been so largely increased that the
burthen Is intolerable 50" Now mark how plain
a tale shall put them down. na r. nj ~ hr
| Tie great bulk of the taxes in Mississippi is
derived from lands and slaves. Prior to the pass
age Of the ordinance Of secession, the State tax
upon lands was twenty cents upon every one
hundred dollars of their value, and there was a
specific tax Of seventy, five cents upon each slave
under the age Of sixty years, To meet the exr
pepses consequent upon the secession Of Missis-
.sipp from the Union, the Convention increased
the State tax fifty per cent, so that the land
owner now pays thirty cents instead of twenty,
upon each sfOo in value OF his lands, and the
slave owner pays 81 II l-2, instead offs cents,
as formerly, upon each slave under the age Of
sixty years. Secession, therefore, costs the land
owner just oae dime upon 500 worth Of land,
while il costs the slave owner precisely hree
6its upon eachislavei And this, is the full ex.
tent Of the gricvous taxation" about which
such .huliabaloo has been raised by the patriot
c editors who are so anxious that their people
shall submit to Lincoln, and that we shall go
and do likewise" These arethe fun dimensions
of that molc.hill which has been magnifed into
an oycrshadowing mountain. '' n 'UH. '..
The county taxes remain as they were, unaf-
fected by the ordinance increasing the state tax.
The same remark is also applicable TO corpora
ton taxes. in the towns and cities Of the State.
Our people are not the asses they are supposed
to be by the advocates of Black Rcpublicanisp,
They know, when they come to look at their
tax receipts that it is not right to charge the
entire amount to secession, and that secession
is only chargcablc with the trifns difference
between the taxes of 1860 and those Of 1851
They know, moreover, that secession found
Mississippi without arms, and otherwise unpro-
vided for defence and they very chcerfully pay
the moderate additional tax that is required in
order that the State may be fully prepared, if
the occasion shall arise to vindieate her rights
and honor by the sword The patriotism of
Missssppians is not to be gagged by dimes and
~" Af .ftfHA' ~ t" VIZ