The weekly North-Carolina standard., 1866-05-23
OFFICE q. s. DISTRICT TAX COMMISSIONERS,
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WILSON. N c., April 90, 1866
Notice is hereby given to the owners of
real estate in the county of Wilson, that the
direct tax laid upon all lands in the United
States. by an act of Congress of August 5,
1861, is now being collected in the State of
North Carolina, in pursuance of an act ap-
proved June 7. 1862. and of an amendment
of said act approved February 6, 1868. and
of further amendment of said act approx
ed March 2, 1865; and notice is further given
that for the reception of said tax upon the
real estate of Wilson County, our Office in
Wilson, in said county, will be open on the
28th day of April, instant, and for sixty days
following at Wilson Hotel.
8 As the laws of the United States exempt
from taxation, Homesteads, to the value of
five hundred dollars, when the owners actu-
ally resided thereon at the date of the fixing
of the tax, such owners and occupants are
notified to appear at our Office, in Wilson.
during said sixty days, and show such fact.
JOHN r.. FRENCH,
HIRAM POTTER, Jr.,
E. II. SEARS,
u s. District Tao Commissioners for NJ C.
The above is simply the coolest piece of
impudence We have ever seen. There can
exist no longer doubt in the minds of the
Southern people that they are expected to
submit to taxation without representation.
We are pledged to support of the Con-
stitution of the United States, and heaven
forbid that we should ever countenance or
counsel disobedience to properly constituted
authority, but sense of duty compels us to
declare that the Southern people should nev-
er submit to this direct tax but at the point
of tae bayonet.
The tax collector may or may not have the
proper credentials, but in no case would we
pay this tax until we had ascertained that it
was right and proper to do so.
The government of the United States
forced us into war from which we emerged
crippled in resources and prostrated financi-
ally. Men wearing the garb of United States
soldiers outraged and murdered our defence
less women and children, stole our property,
destroyed our very means of subsistence, un-
der pretence of prosecuting war for the res
toration of the Union and the supremacy of
the Constitution, and now that government.
the best the world ever saw" calls on US ut
the South to pay direct tax on real estate,
by an act of Congress of August 5th, 1861,
and in pursuance of an act approved June
z, 1859, and of an amendment of said act
approved February 6, 1868, and of a further
amendment of said act approved March Sd,
1865.
The above is from Worth paper, printed
at Wilson, in this State, called the North
Cdrolinian. These are some of the fruits of
the election of Gov. Worth in November
last, and of the course pursued by major
ity in our Legislature. Resistance to the lac
Of the land, at the point Of the bayonet, as open
zy and boldly recommended! What may we
not look for next
Many of the counties have already paid
this land tax. Over six months ago the cit
liens of Wake County paid their quota,
some thirty thousand dollars. They appear
ed to pay it cheerfully. To our knowledge
Judge Sears and his associates have been as
consi crate and as indulgent as possible in
collecting this tax Whittier are we drifting,
when public journal speaks of. paying tax
es under law of the land, only at the point
of the bayonet9