Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1868-07-17
TAXATION wITAOUT REPRESENTA-.

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TAXATION WITaOUT REPRESENTA-
TEON.
q" Your ancestors did, hO1UeUer, n
Een0th oDea their eyes to the III huS5Gndr}
of injustice. They found that the tyranny
of q free people could, Of all tyTGnaies
the least be endured; and that ld1CS mad,
against q ICbOJs nation acre not the mos
efectUGI methods for securing its O6edt
eTlce. BURKE.
The power Of taxation is one that may
be used to punish, TO harass and to i'm
poverish; and it has been used for al
these purposes, against the Southern
States, by the Congress OF the United
States. The cotton tax, than which ID
more onerous, upjustifable, unfair, un'
equal and unconstitutional one ever was
levied, was a measure of revenge by rob
berry, and punishment by spoliation; 6
measure to harsss and vex, to plumber
and impoverisb. 1t admirably effected
the purposes Of its authors, and the graf.
ifieation Of hate was the more pleasant
because it was profitable.
1t would be shameless indecency fol
any man to pretend thst the great mass
of the white people Of the reconstructed
Outhern States are in any ju ct sense
represented in Congress. They would
prefer to be uurepresented altogether, to
being misrepresented by those whom
they are compelled to vote for, or not tC
vote at all. So far from being repre-
scented by those who, claiming TO repre-
sent these States, roost ike vultures il
the two Houses of Congress sunkeu
into deserved disrePute, the great major
lily of the white men OF the South are
legislsted against by these intruders, and
can expect nothing but hate and hostility
at their hands.
Ia the twenty-seveuth year of Henry
the Eighth, before which time an Egg
lishman travelling in Wales could not
go six yards from the high road without
being murdered, it was discovered by the
EOglish Parliament, that by an eternal
law, Providence had decreed vexation 10
violence, and poverty 10 Espine." In
that year all the rights and priv
leges of English subjects were Civ
en- to the Welsh, a political Or
der was established, the military
power gave way to the civil, and
the marches were turned into counties.
but" says Burke, that a nation
should have right to English liberties
and yet no share st all in the fU1ddH3e1l-
tai security Of those liberties, the grant Of
their own property, seemed a thing SO
incOngrUous, that eight years after, that
is, in the thirty fifth year Of that reign,
8 complete and not ill-proportioned rep.
resentRtion by counties and bOroughs,
was bestowed upon Wales, by act Of Par
lament. From that moment, as by a
charm, the tumults subsidized; obedience
was restored peace, order and civiliza-
ton followed in the train of liberty"
In the same year, the County Palatine
Of Chester petitioned for representation
by Knights and Burgesses, within the
High Court Of Parliament, for want
whereof, they said, they had hitherto
sustained manifold disherisons, losses
and damages, as we'll in their lands, goods
and bodies, as in the good, civil and po-
little governance and maintenance of the
commonwealth OF their said country -
and had "been Oftentimes touched and
grieved with acts and statutes made
within the said Court as well derogstory
unto the most ancient jurisdictions, lib
critics and privileges of your said county
Palatine, as prejudiciaI unto the COM
monwealth, quietness, rest and peace Of
your Grace's most bounden subjects in
habiting within the same"
Parliament says Burke, "took the
petition of grievance, all rugged as it
was, without softenirg or temperament,
unpurged Of the original bitterness and
indignation Of complaint; they made it
the very preamble to their act of redress.
and consecrated its principle to ali ages
In the sanctuary OF legislation"
The Congress Of the United States re.
ceives Arkansas back into the Union.
under a Constitution saturated, reeking.
dripping with fraud, and which disfran-
CAlloch CNCA1 Llhu " no FOLBu HK&ln7f II .
that is TO say, tbTee-fourths, at least. of
the white men of the State.
And these people, thus disfrapcbised.
it claims the right to tax at its pleasure,
and without limit TO its discretion. bv
the votes of men who cit as Senators
and Representatives against the will of
three-iOurths Of the white men OF the
State, elected by the other fourth and
the emsDcipsted negroes. 1t gives them
no manner Of protection. IL virtually
outlaws them, and puts it in the power Of
the negroes and their white allies TO out
law them actually. The revenue It reaps
will be like the obedience it will reap.
" Whatever is got by acts Of absolute
power ill-obeyed, because odious, or by
contract ill-kept, because constrained,
will be narrow, feeble, uncertain and pre-
cAriOus. Ease would retract vows made
10 pain, as violent and void
The North can have but one hold on
the South. If it adheres TO RadicaIIsn
it can never have that; for it is "in the
close affection that grows from common
names, from kindred blood, from similar
privileges and equal protection" When
Government no longer gives protection
or guarantees rights to part of the ueo.
pie, IL is neither entitled TO nor will have
their generous allegiance: 1.-The cement
IL gone, the cohesion is loosened, and
everything hsstens to decay and dissoiu-
tion.o
We do not pretend that every man
who has not the right 10 vote in a State.
has therefore the right to demand the
application of the maxim that Taxation
without representation is tyranny Il
applies, strictly speaking, only to com
TilInities that are taxed by bodies in
which they are not represented. II q
State, by means of property qualiica
ton or otherW Use, excludes part OF
its citizens from the class Of vo-
tiers, these. cannot complain that
they are taxed without being rer-
resented, any more than women and
minors can. IL has never been con-
adhered that person who had not the
right to vote, was not represented In the