The daily clarion. [volume] (Meridian, Miss.) 1863-1866, 1866-03-06

regular occupations are always taxed more
heavily than regular and extended ones.
PeddIcrs, ice-cream vendors, &c. pay more
in proportion to their pecuniary gains than
others. Vay, is one of the secrets OF legs
lation | cannot tell you. Avis" claims
that drays, wagons, hacks, &c, are taxed
in this city of Jackson simply because they
are driven by and owned by. negroes. There
may be a fer owned by negroes-but the
large majority are owned by WHITE men
and many of them are drircR by white men
The pol tax of which avis" complains Is
levied on ell, white and black. Has he no
word of sympathy for the poor wh.e The /
legislature taxed all barber shops so. be /
cause the one in Jackson is owned by ne /
oro. does il follow that the tax was specially /
directed agaiust him One of the BARRIERS /
tells me he pays 800 per month rent for |
! his s!!op. Is this because he is n negro l /
opne not The white people of Mississippi, |
/ already oycrtaAed by State, county and
town authorities, are compelled to pay a /
/ heavy tax to the [. 5. Government and for
! 1861 In many instances back taxes on
lands for three or four years are being col
lected by L. s. officials. Cannot some OF
your readers think that we white folks are
pretty bad off and that there is somebody
else suffering besides the negro Not a word
does Avis" say for Us Why His pre-
/ ju7ic,8 haven't been removed yet. As an eY
I idence of latent hostility he Instances the
robbery Of mnles il Yazo0 County, the pur-
/ suit, and the killing of the puIsuers,
who had served IL the Confederate Amy
After it is all over, avis" finds out that the
robbers thought they were stealing from
and killing Yankee officers and soldiers
Mr.. Editor, it is trying to calmly answer
such uubHshing assertions. y band OF rob
beers committed, the other day, IN Warren
county, a robbery upon a Northern mans
place. \ newspaper here denounced them
aud their crime and called upon the people
to arrest them. Those were Northern men
who had been robbed. Every day robbeTies
are committed upon Southern mems places.
Nobody denounceS the rObbefs, simply be
cause they were Southern men who suffered.
In the very county where Avis" complains OF
the existence of the committee OF murder
ers and robbers who arrested and maltreated
Union men, the citizens turned out, pursued
and arrested them, and hung aCrsn Of them.
Why could not Avis " mention this! l
have 10 doubt but that in this State bad
, men have their haunts and commit their
outragcs. have no doubt but that there
: arc one or two gangs who take peculiar de-
light in preying upon Il Northern planter
The members Of these gangs would cut each
others throats in Il quarrel Is it fair to say
that eli our people are as lawleSS as they =
Efforts are now being made to arrest and eX-
ecute, OF run out of the State, these bands of
lawless men. SO far as avis" PERSONAL
i, ties go, I can only say that it is unfair to
hold up single instances of personal quarrels
as evidencug the feeling of entire communi-
ties AVIS doesn't like the idea of NSSis
=. sippi raisinga monument tn pcrpotuato the
- memory OF her sons who fell in the late strug
Gle, bat is evidently OF the opinion that they
:; should remain unwept, unhonorcd and
unsung" None of the feelings Of conSangni
unity, of community OF interest, Of principle
or a single shade of sympathy animatcs hi
breast But, sir, these men fought side by
side with lis; shared the dangers of battle
. fields, and the tolls, and privations and sui
:. ferings of camp life and the march. BE
shall we, their surviving comrades, say t.
the world that their memory was laid IN TIL
same graves i'll which we placed their morta
remains? Shall we be compelled to say tina
in each household that has lost one of it
bright ornaments, no memory OF the love
one haIlows the breasts Of the surviyin
members! Shall their memories be hate
and q curse he breathed upon thei
actions! Forbid it! The memories {
-, their character and their deeds we have
~, right to cherish and to pcrpctuate, and W
will do it, Calamity in all ages has bee
held I'D as deserving of historical MOTTO
:. Devotion to Il cause honestly cSpoused IN
- matter how much the cause is condemned
=. is an clement of character which has in a
~. ages awakened the poets zeal and brightene
=, the painters fancy. Such feelings the h
man heart ,ciU entertain. II not permittt
- to be openly expressed. they will, like II
ivy to the oak, but cling closer and closer
the affections, the more you trample up'
-, them.
You may break, You may rmin the vase II You vi
is Bat the scent of the roses will hang round 1t st
IFS Monuments are raised all over the Nor
it by towns, cities and States, and even oh t
it soil of the sunny South the gOvernme
I'D proposes to erect monuments to perpetual
lad the memories aud the deeds of the Uni'
,es' soldiers We raise no objection to this. '
as, ask you and the people of the North if it
at not natural that orr dead who fell in Z
the cause, are not equally dear to US! W.
,ar- they not equally brave and faithful and g
be- erous, with your dead? Raise your MOI
ave mcntS, perpctuate the memories of "
MS dead, chronicle their deeds in story a
'ay- song. Bat give the same privilege
i've wards orr dead. In reference to the coul
ich of Jones which Avis" speaks of with all
ort- poetic fervor of Il vivid imagination, h;
act. this To say The leader of the gang who
4 to represented rs strong Union men, was, bef
is | the war, sccessionist--a roF man. WI
.yit the time came for demonstrating his de
tate ton to "A cause he had espoused, lac deser
ows it. and, allying to his side base and c
AXE ardly set OF scoundreis, he made war u
ack- women and children and inoftensive
we'd men. Cowardice induced their desertiol
ticcr a cause which they had not bravery to
e DO feud and murder and robbery We're the
noot jectS that bound them together in sue
the formidable band No less than eight pc;
han able citizens of the county were murde
Hess by them in cold blood. \ force, during
Iant war was sent there to suppress them an'
an break them mp. 1t was this force that t
lged resisted-in the name OF the Union !
hich but to escape the lnerited fate of all 5
his outlaws. This band was composed of III
who who had never lived i'll Jones county be
say, the war They gathered there because
ms ot thought it was safe place for then
have commit their outrages with impunity
Z as sylvan dells" they occupied We're the c
y cor and rocks which hid them in the day
be to and from which they issued at night on
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