New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1865-07-19
FROM NORTH CAROLINA.
Direct Taxes in North Cnro'ina-E?orf to
Suspend COllection-The Poor fry
thecrfuliy-she Rich Complain.
From Our Special Correspondent.
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From Our Special Correspondent.
RALEIGH y. C., July 49, 1895.
The collection of the direct tax in North
Carolina is assuming interesting shape to the coun-
try. give You .some facts. The Tax Commissioners
for North Carolina are John Il. French Of OHIO Hiram
Potter ir OF WISCONSIN, and T. H. Sears of Iowa These
gentlemen opened their office in New bern the 18th
Of April 1863 Tor the reception of taxes. There was
remarkable promptncss and even chee1ulucss on tie
part Of the taxpayers in that county (CIa'en)
and now, At the expiration Of the time allowed ior
their payment the for that county are necrly
oil paid in. few who lc!; Newbern upon
occupation of that place and went to
South Carolina. not paid, and their lands, now
reckoned among a. andoned estates may, and
probably Will be sold They opened their next Office
In the town Of Beaufort Cartsret County or he 10th
of June but yet no report has come III from that
county, 1t is believed. however to be favorable. ~
tile Goth of June the office for the Collection Of Taxes
was opened In the City Of Raleigh. with good pros
poets and better than those at Newbern On the
eighth day. June % the receipts eleven hundred
and thirty dollars and ninety 81 100 So
From that there has been falling off in receipts.
some DAYS not even dollar being paid. This is at.
trbuted the open and strenuous efforts which are
making by Gov. Holden and others 10 have
the collection of taxes suspended upon the
ground of the inability Of the propeTty-hoders
TO pay In consequence OF these public efforts and the
impression which las become general, tia, they will
succeed with the Administration al Washington, many
persons who known 10 have money have been heard
TO say I'VE will wait until about the last DAY OF grace
and see if we cannot escape the payment This tax is
part OF the direct tax Of twenty millions Of dollars
which was levied in 1861, and which was epportoned,
as provided by tie Constitution. omong the several
states6e slaves counting Chem only thee Of the
actual population The proportion for this State was
Eve hundred aud seventy thousand hundred and
ninety four and two third doars The loyal States Jet
1t be remembered had all paid their proportion Of hs
tax in lsG2-eyery d,iar Of it. NoItL Carolina now
asks to have the payment Of this tai suspended
one of the States which actively aided 10 pile up this
burden of Public Debt-whe the Loyal States are 70.
quired not Only pay their just proportion bu, also an
Increase in order 20 relieve them.
The North Carolina Standard dey two since, set
forth in long article the ruinous and oppressive
ture Of this tax if the collection is enforced by
the sale of lands in default Of payment
There is no telling where these irdlgcnces claimed
for North Carolina account Of lopaty msy stop aud
it may become matter Of justice 10 other safes Who
10 say the least have taken active part in The
Rebellion than this State 10 have them also let up
account Of the poverty they have brought upon them
selves by their acts Of rebellion. Can We make Gsh
Of one and flesh OF anoihorf By wise and most pa
terna provision Of the act referred Co. bat very few Of
the poorer landowners have any d,ect tax pay at
OIL from the fact that the Government exempts from
taxation every mans Homestead Of the value Of 600
end under Above that SUM, The rate Of taxation is
eight mills on the dollar. oneeighth OF per cent.
farm Of sey 200 acres the average assessed value Of
which would be from three to four dollars per 5000
or ssOO total would be taxed 81 50 or - 10 Deduct
ing the 900 exemption. there would be let 10 be paid
50 cents or 81 40 In nine out Of ten the owners
live Oh their estates which give. them the benefit Of
the exemption.
In the page Of the rsessors' books in which there
are thrtythree names there only nine 10 have 70
psy any tax at all provided they reside their estate
which is usually the case OithrtytAoe other names,
there arc fourteen who wond have 70 pay taxes ranging
fom forty cents TO five dolar4 and only one Whose tax
exceeds twenty dollars, aud be eight Hundred AID
sixteen acres of land
10 say that such q tax law is onerous and iu.
possible Of payment with all tie internal rogenue and
other taxes 70 be imp ID, is 10 Affirm that can
never be paid-and the loyal States may well mske
up their mind 10 shoulder the whole public debt, and
pay all the internal revenue taxes.
glance at the foregoing facts will he conclusive to
every mind that the tax referred 10 is not likely to
affect the poor farmers at all but sill fall chiefly upon
the large landowners, who have been mainly response
BE for tho Complaints oome-not from the moder-
ATE farmers who often say The tax is less than we
expected and who pay cheeriully but large land and
late slaye.owners-tbe aIistocracy Of the iand-who
have been at the bottom Of this Rebellion.
The one quarter cotton tax las been taken off now
there is movement 10 abolish the oonfscaiion laws
petition for the pardon of all Offenders then
request to suspend the collection of national taxes
Now. look out for the proposition to have the
whole Southern war debt assumed y the nation Hail
Columbia and no vote for the negro. Es