The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1868-05-22
The General Drain Of the South By
:. Taxation and Corruption. s


elected by The xss,s aolsos pay. these when
they are levied 10 pay salaries Of men who
not only are not chosen by the people who
pay them, but who are positively distasteful
or hateful to Them taxation becomes o
grieyoua .burthen, and it's imposition Q
tyranny-harsh, grinding outrageous. y
is OK the very essence OF tyranny, this inn
position Of burthens, this administration Of
government, this disbursement Of moneys
without the consent and against the known
desire and will Of those who bear them.
The Republican principle that which our
forefathers of the Revolution of '76 shed
their sacred blood to estabiish-was that
taxation and representation should go to-
gether--that the tax-payers must direct,
through his representative, the amount of
the tax and the manner of its disburse
ment. If he is not to exercise this right,
he is mere voiceless and helpless subject
to a sovereign of sons sort, aoho, IN fact
o,ons his body, and may dispose of his
qcorldly substance and his life as to hsn
seems best !ss ftsa1 81, La Z u 81 Is
saFe that the! taxes now paid. we're i'm
posed by men selected by the white people
of Virginia and ne can never recognize,
any other as constitutionally empowered to,
govern the State-we are now in this exact
position, and may soon beentirely SO by the
election Of legislature OF negroes and de
graded, dishonest, and traitorous white men,
by constituency VIII. pay no taxes, torule
over us and prescribe what taxes We shall
pay. $500 ii ~: 81 4 CO u. ~ Y. 81,
The public Offices are filled by men not Of
our own selection. They are living upon
lib, and, like leeehes, are sucking our blood,
while vampire bats could not be more abb
horrent to us nor could the vital juices alb,
sorbed by that monstrous creature be sur
rendered with more reluctance, pain, and
disgust than is the money that goes to- pen
sion these unWelcome officials. ss.. zss
From the Governor who has been assigned
us down 10 the Messenger Of the City Coun-,
Gil of Richmond, such is the unwelcome and
obtraded character of the detailed govern
ment Of Virginia such the tyranny of their
imposition upon the tax payers such the
disgust gand ayersitnpef the people, to the
forced extraction Of the money from the
State Treasury to pay their salaries. i
Taxation in this way becomes, indeed, a.
grinding oppression. But look where we
may, we see nothing more encouraging in
the way Of consideration for the will, or de-
sire, or welfare Of the trne people OF Vir-s
ginia-the only people capable Of control
ling her destiny to advantage. The whole
system Of internal impositions by the Fede-
ral Government, and the entire administra as
ton of justice, is . sweeping system OF abb.
sorption and exhaustion 81, the means and
energies Of the Poop We enjoy no bene-
fts. and are subjected to all the bnrthens.
The civil appropriation bill gives us no;
thing for smprogenen nothing for repair
even Of public works. None Of our people
: are chosen for office even West Point is
closed tosour Young stndents. All the home
Offices, all the foreign emissions, all the Of
fees in the army and navy, are filled with.
northern men. All the prominent offices
even in onrsown State are, in the main,
filed with northern men, whose only quail
acation is that they take the iron-clad
oath-sn cath IN which they in fact, swear
that they never hadBny sympathy with the
people whose bread they are eating and
whose property and very lives are put at
their mercy - ~
Look 70 the United States conrts what do
we see Huge engines of corruption, sap
ping the life Of the State. What with.
bribes, trampe dup prosecute ions, and gene
raj picking Of peoples pockets, through
menace and eItortion, the community blesdsi
OF eyery pore; and corrupt attorneys and
scouadrel judges, acting IN COLLISION, gu
their pockets 70 rspletion. IS q s., ST
The bankrupt Law, which has been con-;
verted into villainous naehine, comes in
finely 70 aid the criminal schemes and pur-
poses Of the sordid and dishonest ofieials
who disp9sesef ieurs property and affect, to
dispense justice between men. The assstss
Of bankrupss disappear In the proosss 81 81
litigation being absorbed BY judges, law
yers, and the official printer. The creditors,
Is yet have received in this STATE little erj
nothing, snd the eorninrsnts rho ara de-.
souring rs eo.nplain that shsss Is not.
sneaeh of assets ins the hnndrsds a cases
g as s hsszpenss aff the legal Spsocsssa
Mere. then asa glance Ne have some u idea.
Of the Gevernnsnt sks iIbesty ~ ;,;s
tiee. awarded TO. Virginis by she R,si;es,s
government ,sneeast isutionaily nov aon.5
trolling her and the Union. She il asehsa,
and bled ~ sxery pors :she sic gosssasa;
cornapsly ainst her vim. hy nan si,- =.
straagese Who arc drawing money from
her treasury without The consent 81 her
people Ths Federal Gaysrnmsnt Id i'm,
efsasing tie general pFossratiop by wstl,-s
drsxing every doalas II can from her and
returning nosi'e cent that il can possibly
Withhold. 4 syphan ~ inssfss as IT NsTf, /,
III one reservoir, and 10 drain that into ans) 4
psAaS Ths one fiat j dfsinsd i poo, and