The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1865-05-13
TAX SALES A RE.ORGANlzlN0
AGENCY.

The re-establishment Of the authority
Of the Government and the appoistmsnt
Of Federal officers in the civil departments
in South Carolina and other Southern
States will bring the traitors to giief in
moro ways than one. Under = staists Of
the United States there is delinquent tax
due from the rebel States. and tax sales
will take place in few weeks 70 liqui-
date those taxes. The landholders of the
South have no disposition to pay these
taxes and are not in very good coalition
to do 90, il they had the disposition. The
consequence is that the plantations will
go to sale and the purchasers st those
sales will be likely to share the real estate
Of the South with the original owners
These purchasers will be for the moot
part soldiers from the North, and eventu-
ally the lands will pass Into the hands Of
Northern emigrants and the freedmen of
the South. And thus these tax sales will
become one Of the oil pervading inssru-
mentalities for reconstructed Southern So
ciety on it's broad base, the common
people, rather than ON its apex, ths oil |
garchy of slaveholders.
These tax sales will commence in
Charleston in few weeks and We pre-.
sumo they will be inaugurated all over
the rebel States before the close Of the !
summer. They will be likely in the |
long run to strip the slaveholdiug traitors
of their real estate more eff.ctually than
any partial con6scation Law.
~ Edward Bates, the conservative |
attorney for the secesh sympathisers and
Of Missouri, is publishing in |
the St. Louis papers his tedious jsremiads
over the revolutionary tendencies Of the
people of that State, and bewailing the
good old times when he and Gamble and |
the old time aristocracy had things their
own way. He thinks the FIRST convention
which dethroned Claib. Jackson and oos.
stituted : provisional government, Mr..
Bates brother in-law At its head, was oil
right and proper, but that the power Of
the people ceased there, and oil subse-
quent State Conventious 10 Missouri have
been uncalled for and revolutionary. He
says the radical leaders denounced the
provisional government - nuisance, and
Governor Gamble ~ = usurper and .
traitor, and with persistent maigniiy they
prosecuted that brave, good patriot, even
to the grave.
Then, after berating the radicals for
their opposition to the Gamble policy. and
for their Intellectual efforts to get rid Of i,
by appealing TO Washington, the old con
servstive chap pitches into the radical
Generals after the following fashion:
"The faction, however, substantially |
gained ite ends. by pandering 10 the van
ity of such weak commanders ~ Fremont |
and Curtis and Kosecrana. They werel
made to believe that, although they had |
failed to gather laurels and win renown in |
bloody fields, yet that they we're, at leass,
stdtesnsen, and could better govern the
people by orders than the constituted au-
thorities could govern them BY lars"
There is evidently desperate and con- |
certed effort to restore the influence and |
the policy of the cd Gamble dynasty, Of
which Bates was chief, in Missouri akain,
and to put &he ban upon oil that has been |
done 10 Missouri under Republican and
Radical auspices. II oar friends in Mis-
souri, do not keep bright look out they
will be sold out. lock, stock and barrel,
and delivered over 70 the tender mercies
of the reunited Gamble and Price fac
tions.
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