The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1868-02-19
Cotton and the Tax on It.

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Cotton and the Tax on It.
Congress has passed bill that al
cotton grown in tho United States after
the year 1867, shall DO exempt from in.
ternal tax, and that cotton imported from
foreign countries, after November /, oi
this year. shoUJe exempt from duty.
The President has signed the. above
mentioned bill, and Of course it is now
| law.
We trust our readers who cultivate
cotton. will not be deceived by this act
OF the most dcceitlnl Congress that ever
disgraced tho United States.
Cotton a0sH DC mseh next Fall hv the
same Congtess that now promises so
much. They lave deceived us of tho
South in nine cases, and they will not
fail to deceive us in The tenth.
Don't trust Congress, reader, don't
trust it. 1t has shown Punic faith in
moro cases than one; and we advise you,
you who are cullivaling the soil, to let
your whole industry this year ho guided
by the prospect OF realizing tho greatest
amount of provisions from your farming
operations.
Do not DO deceived.
The Bill Of Rights, and tho form of Gov
emment Of South Carolina.
The Convention which Radicalism
has put in Charleston, j,ua before it
now the various features of Consti-
tuition, which is desigucd to be the
basis Of Legislation i'll South Carolina.
Tho Preamble to that bill, is al
most idcntically tkr same as that
adopted by Massachusetts, in 1880.
1t is evident that tho Committee in
adopting this Bill, had an eye to that
preamble. It has been proved by
history, that Massachusetts, took great
care to mako the most out of the
slave trade to this country and then,
out of the sale OF her slaves, to make
tho most out Of those who were dispos-
cd to buy them. Tho Puritans run
them to the South, sold them, pocket
cd tho proceeds, and now with more
deceit than language can Depict, they
cry out to the South, "you sinners -
sYou barbarians !"
In tho Declaration of Rights, Sec
tion lst, it will be observed that Thos.
Jofforson's celebrated "DcclaratioH of
INDEPENDENCE is distorted. 1t is
both verbose and pathological. But
as "Grcppo," the funny character in
"Black Crook says, "what's the use2"
=. c. what's the use to object ? Tho
Master will 60, come and do as ho
plcascs, and there is little use to
'blow the horn" of trouble,
Second section is almost the samc as
Section II, Art. TX, Of the Coustitu-
tion of lS65,-only it is not SO gramati-
caUy wordcd. 7H's, could not be OK.
pcctcd, however.
Now thoro is one important histori,.
cal feature connected with the adop.
tion by Conventions of States of Bills
of rights, VIZ: In 1928, there were
ia tho Union twenty -four States. Of
this number, nine adopted such bills.
OF those nine, four wero Southern
States and five werc New England
States.
This is not adduccd as an objection
toa Bill of Rights, but to show that
upon examination the Constitution for
our State, now cmbryotic, is an Off
shoot from the Constitutions of those
States which have over been antirodcs
of South Carolina.
And of course the plain Inference
by every man of reason, is, that what
is now given out to be a Convention of
the representative of our State, is
only an asscmhiage Of outsiders who
have come to do our public affairs up
as Mey think such matter ought to
be carried out.
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