The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1868-06-19

Total tax school PURPOSES.
Ordinary expenses of government; 6so ooo w
Special appropriations toliterary and ~, =,
es, Sn pubic deSt at per cent
$7,oss, Sol 10
This aggregate does not include the
county levy, Except for school purposes9
or any tax payable to the United States
Government. When these are added, it Il
fairly assumed by those who have exam
ined the subject that the aggregate tax paid
ny the oppressed and impoverished people
of Virginia will not be under nine millions
of dollars! or nearly three per cent. on
the total value of the real and personal pro-
perry of the State.
With tax such as this, how can this
State recover from its prostration? How
can we expect strangers to come amongst
lis, invest their money, and cast their lot
in Virginia? The danger will be that our
own people, unable to bear the burthens
heaped upon them, will be compelled to fly
the country.
If this aboniination of a Constitution
contained any fair principle by which, af-
ter its adoption, the reliable and capable
population, which pay the taxes, could re-;
cover control of the leyying.of them there
might be some hope even should it be forced
upon us. But there is no such principle in
it. 1t is rascally and brutal instrument,
which, under the assumption that the great
body of the whites are "rebels,"' secures
to the hands of negroes and debased white e,
men all the offices and honors of the govern
ment, and therefore the entire admllnlltsttara-
ton Of public affairs. Moreover, by gerry
Wandering the State, and basing the aPpor-
tionment of representation on the 'frst re-
gistration, a majority Of t'oensy-oHs , N tne
Legislature on joint ballot is given 70 the
negroes - 3. ~, !. -.
Here, then, the people Of Virginia see the
prospect should this infamous CONSTITUTION
be fastened upon them. Property will be
placed at the mercy Of paupers; Respecta-
bility, Experience, Capacity, Fidelity, and
Wisdom will be banished from I'LL influence
in the public councils, and the affairs of
State will be brought under the rulefoS In-
competency, Corruption, and Deprayity.
Cursed with the most loathsome misrule,
and burthened beyond their power of en-
durance, the people must sink down, down
in the scale until they reach an ,unimagina-
BILE depth of poverty and misery. Against
this fate the man who will not struggle with
all his might deserves fate no better. =
Is this an affair Of property holders
onlyf Deluded indeed are those who think
so. The poor freedmen who are led blythe
nose by scalawags, carpet-baggers, and the
Freedmen's Bureau, are fatally involved in
the consequences that must flow from the
adoption of the monstrous Constitution
which they have helped to frame. If there
is no prosperity, there is no work-if there
is no work, there is no money-if there is
no money, there is no means to buy food and
clothing. Then, how are they to subsist I
They cannot thrive by warning upon pro-
perty. Destroy the value of property
break up confdence--curtail business and
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occupation, and they will suffer more than
nroperty-holders. They will be WithoutShe
means of living, and will have dried up the
sources Of Charity in having taken from
her the Wherewithal to be charitable, Rob
berry will be the last resource, IN resortinp 4
70 which they will afflict the country indeed,
Out VIII make for themselves q he'll upon
earth W all men, the negro win be most
aeeurssd by that abominable Constitution !:
which fanatics and scoandrels have ,,rs.a
him to frame! ~
Let the people of Virginia look at th,s
terrible instrument in oil it's enormity, and
If they allow to themselves rest until they,
have defeated it. then Virginia must, in
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