The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1868-11-18


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datio,n1l 5of tbs Government, until it "; was
expelled from power; when it is ,:: ex.
l2plained that although the poor man has
to Day 81 to o6i TIC aGoHv;ssrnmont q tax Of five
cents per per pound H ntdii il II gold On every pound
of & Scaodffes he buys, and an equivalent tax
Ton 'ssyery other necessary Of. life which he
: consumes; the, Northern capitalist who
;. owns his thousands and tens of thousands
,|.of dollars worth Of Government bonds,
Fther prhcipal=sand interest of which MS
payable in .goldfto be;iextorted from the
l.hard earnings of the poor man by direct
I,ands dsindirectata1ation;ei eissnot himself re:
Eeuired to pay farthing sof.taxes to the
GoVernment.1I say thatthese illustrations
! seomedto be elunderstood ,and appreciated
by the most iliterate, and prepared them
Ito put proper estimate ON the honesty
hand sincerity off tbose who pretend that a.
Fthe, Radicalapa lis. the friend, OF. the
4 colorede .Hran, or.the pooriqman of any
class; and it is wellsknown that we are
FALL poor in this country at present l
also. attempted TO. SHOW TO those, who
might chance. to be. a. little obtpse, in per-
tceiving the enormous proportion Of their
hard earnings that they pay'to theFe era
i EGovernmeHt,. in indirect taxes;;how they
Iiwould very soon realize the amount they
would have, to pay, directly, to theHState
Govern fefht, If the enormous system of
taxation and expenditures, inaugurated
l.by the powers that be, 10 persisted in.
That to 7say nothing of the unjustifable
increase of the public debt by millions of
dollars, BY funding the bills Of the Bank
'ofsthe State at.theirpar value, which had
been purchased up, ,at4eight or ten cents
Iton' the dollar, .andea held by Northern
I,spseculators BY the issue Of several other
millions Of bonds to aid certain railroad
companies; by the. expenditure O., nearly
half million by so-called Convention
rand Legislature, ard otherwise, the in
terest. on all Which has to be iaid annu-
ally from. tie. toil and sweat ol the poor
laborer, the:.iordinary Expenses OF the
Estate government, as it is proposed to
| ruin 1t, will amount Annually to- probably
4 ten times tile, sum, we were required to
| pay in the days our highestprosperity:
/ That evenLthe expenses. of collecting the
taxes, under the,system inangurated, will
amount to more annually than the entire
4 expenses. Of the State, governmental at any
time before. the war. That to add TO
| the fsymmetrygand beauty aof, this sys-
tenn, agg have BEEN suddenlyeconverted,
or paper, into a great and prosperous
people. by. the. enactment, almost 4verba:
4 tim ct literdtia. ot the statutes ON the same
subjects of Massachusetts, Vermont, or
l some other New England. State, where
an exceedingly dense population, and
great wealth, excuses, if it does not jus,
J; tify,, SO complex, and expensive a ma
clinery ;.buta which with u.s. with our
sparse population andeextreme poverty,
will give:to almost every foreigner and
NATIVE 1wILte affiliated with that party an
! Office at rate Of compensation Chat will
enable them, in q few years, thus indl-
.rectly 10 confiscate and approprate-to
their owl use, a large proportion of the
Rlittle property: remaining in the State.
That snch, indeed, seems to be the settled
purpose of the existing. State authorities,
as'is evidenced blythe land system they
propose, to establish. A land commission,
consisting Of a number of we'll paid per.
sons, is, to be appointed, whose duty it
will be to :buyiup for. the State all lands
that are sold for taxes, or that can be
purchased otherwise at low rates; ;.and to
enable them, to pay for these lands, it is
4 proposed to issue at the. outset three mil.
lions Of State bonids, which will be put
upon the market and sold for cash at
what they will bring The three millions
being. appropriated another and another
like sum may from time. to time be sub
stithted until the State has reclaimed q
title to its entire territory. q The lands
thusi acquired, are to be divided into forty
or fifty acre lots, and made subject to
pre-emption,7 as the. public lands of the
West; upon the person who enters paying
one.third of the valuation in cash, and
giving bond. and security TO pay the bal.
ance, in, two: or three years. That it is
falsely, and fraudnlently represented to
i the colored man that lie will in this way,
which is neither more nor less than abso.
/ Lutte robbery, be enabled to acquire the
forty acres OF land, which he has long
been led by Rhdical promises to expect;
when it is well known that if the lands
Of the present proprietors are sold Tor
taxes, or by compulsion otherwise, mo ma.
j; tive citizen of the State, white or colored,
| will be able to acquire one foot of them,
but that being iopen to presumption upon
paymentof the value fixed on them, the
tesming population, native and foreign, OF
tho Now England and Northern States,
who are crowded for ebow-room, and
/. where greenbacks arc plenty ''as autumn
leaves in, ValIambrosa, will swarm down
upon us like the locusts of Egypt, and
occupy our entire territory, to the utter
exclusion of our native population, Of all
races and colors. That such is unques-
tionably tho end and aim of the magni6
cent system OF expenditures and taxation