The New era. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1865-1871, 1866-10-11

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rates of State, County and township
Taxation on Real and Personal estate,
! viz:
For State purposes, per Sloo ;,,;, 20 20 et t.
State School Fund per 500 10 "
. Township School Fund. per 500,
may be 81 20 par 500 in Gar
ardstown Township, for example, ~
now, w
81, sc cts.
Capitation Tax on All white and black -,
males over q years, 9Le'
Moreover each Township may es-
tablish a Union OF High School, without
limit as to expense-may erect Town
ship Tablespoonful cemeteries-and es-
tablish schools for colored children.
There are yet the further items OF
State Taxes on Licenses, and Corpo-
ration Taxes also on Licenses, Rents,
&c.:-and an old Parish Tax for 1863,
levied by Court Of t,co justices.
Such is the role of taxation {by achona
imposed p upon community, whose
losses, during the war, were. compared
with the rest of West Virginia, largely
disproportionate. What those losses
were. it would be we'll for Commits
sioner in Chancery to state-as, also,
| what benefit the counties of Berkeley
and Jefferson derive from the bulk OF
the State Taxation, and what proportion
of the entire State Taxes is paid by
| them.
In the old State the highest rate of
State and County Taxation here, in
prosperous times, the debt for the new
Court House having been very heavy,)
was sixty cents ON the hundred dollars
the aggregate amount of the Taxes
being then $4,000. AS will be per-
ceived above, the rate is now $1.56 on
the 500, and the amount of Taxes is
about 100000.
THE real question that underlies all
others, in the struggle between the Con-
servatives and the Jacobins is, shall less
than one-third of the people despotically
govern more than two-thirds? The
Jacobins know that if the public will
were fairly expressed, they would be
found in hopeless minority. Hence
their efforts to prevent that expression
the exclusion of ten States from repre-
sentation in Congress their determi-
nation to prevent, if possible, those
States from having any voice in the
next Presidential election; their efforts
to disfranchise white men and enfran-
chise negroes-the votes of the latter to
be cast under the dictation of the Freed
mans Bureau their assaults upon the
President for adhering to the Consti'
tuition their attempts to render the
plainest and most incontestible rights OF
the States odious; their struggles to con-
centrate all power in the hands Of the
General Government, and to control tina,
Government by fragment of Congress
and hence their threats of another wal
If their schemes OF usurpation be mo-
submitted to by the people. We war;
you of the necessity, the absolute ne
cessity, of defeating at the ballot-bo,
the schemes of these Jacobin plotter
against the peace of the country, ant
the stability and permanency of her in
situations. If you would jeopardiz
your liberties, and Republican govern
ment on this Continent, vote for tn
men who sustain the Jacobin Congress
in it's war upon the President and tn
Constitution. If you want a despoti
instead of Republican form of govern
ment; if you desire anarchy and ruin
, peace and prosperity if you want
see constitutional liberty 60 down ami
the throes of civil strife, then vote
strengthen the hands and increase tt
power for mischief of the Jacobin part.
r and so sure as history repeats itself, s
i sure as we can judge from the lessons
: teaches, will you aid in bringing abo'
q this result.
The President has appointed CAPITA
G. J. Stealey, of Parkersburg, to be A