Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1866-01-30
sHEPnEREsTOWN CORRESPONDENCE.

The Ignorance anil Mcompctcncy fHosc ii,
p0rc" Sh"'riy MeDtSciccs G0C Bore
TiGH'S W~*SctJ"-IE;S Omissions and His
IdeI;ctjrcmcSS-NisJ urisliciion orcr this
CuuntY.
SmErHERDsTOwN, VA, Jan. %. 1866.
The Board Of Supervisors have published
some eighteen or twenty orders recently. re-
l,eyiuy certain parties therein mined from
payment # taxes on lands wrongly and out
r"%coua!y assessed. This is but Justice. vet
1t sho"s only too plainly that the officers
making the assessments were either totally
unit iUr the pOsition or else the assessments
were Pm1IsD%ciy made wrong through a vim
dictivc feeling to the owners of property as
ScsScd. In either case, the wrong OF out
ragged people call loudly for relief from
the t""'{"ye and burthens they now en-
dure.
Governor Foreman has spokeo and le
hides not his bitter feelings from these whom
he calls = liza! contents" in Jefferson. because
they tOrsooth, knowing and believing that
they have been illegally and uniustlv an
n"%ed I" his State, choose to test the legality
OF the acts which claimed to impose such
disabilities upon honest mon. But he is ST
lent rs to the reason for his organizing his
government in this county, and as to his au
thOrlty Tor 50 doing, but says he sought the
law t. put down the open, manly proceed
in9s Of high minded men to secure them ms
tice and honest living, which he calls
''sedition,' but he could find no remedy and
could not prevent any opposition to TIE exc
cutiUn OF the laws OF West Virginia authority
whatever for organizing a West Eirginia 90
Nernment here OF exercising jurisdiction over
Us, until Congress had sanctioned the nro
posed transfer, and that all civil and judicial
proceeding under his authority here. are null
and void, unless the legislature shall kcreaf.
ter pass an act lega!izing them lie dis
poses OF the . main argument in supnort Of
" est Virginia by its friends here. bv SAVING,
that the legislature will at once proceed to
pay West Nirgiuia's prop>r!ioa OF the Vir-
glnla dett contracted before the war. The
friends OF West Virginia in this county
openly declared that the State would ,,euw-
dt"fc the old State debt. though the Davment
OF her share was enc Of the conditions unon
which West Virginia was formed into State
Opon this assertion they argued that the
taxes would be much lighter in West Viz
ginia than in Virginia. but the very onnosite
Is trrle. The taxes in this portion. ut Ieost
OF " est Virginia, are nearly double VIII
they are now in Virginia with all her Iosso.
and expenses Ct recognizing the State on,
vernmcnt.
he AdJutant Generals Report saws West
Virginia furnished $1,000 soldiers to tho
mon army, but it does not tell that manV
ct those came from other States as Mass,
chusett's quota did.
a Pern<ai OF the Governors message can
not ta'i TO impress any one with feelings of
regret that so much vindictiyenesa onJ 49,
kind feelings should be manifested tnt-,r III
o 'noxe %h &c. are honestly and upon principle
opposed TO his radical sentiments He takes
not one jot from the odious test oath hut ~,
commends additions 10 it and the nass,oo of
a Registration Law, and if We are to reIn,;y,
IN his dominions we might with truth and in
pain, cry out in the vulgar translation IS
Firginia's noble motto, Sic Semper Tyrannis
t"Ae your foot cf' my neck.
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