The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1868-03-21
Tho Way The Money Goes-Let
Taxation be Resisted.

Among the devices of the Radical party
10 run the State in debt, to tax the people
and give fat Offices 20 members Of that party.
is the " logai indemnify BILL which has he
come law. ItprOvdes for the appointnent
Of Commissioner for the State at n salary IF
eZ,OUO per year, and three Commissioners
Tor each county. These latter are to bear
testimony and adjndicate the claims of
loyal citzena against the United States
lor losses sustained during the war from
the depredations If both the Rebel" and
Federal armies After this te,lior.s rroes.s
mas beep gone through, and it has been as.
certa.ned how much the loval citizens
lost hy being In the track OF the armies.
Con2r@ss Is g be asked 90 make an apnrnrri.
oti"h 20 make these loyal citizens F" whole
III their purses. Win that be the end of the
matieF2 for it is hardly nrnballe
We shall ever find Congress tl.at viii 40
Froprlute Slo,0O0O00 to 20.0OQO00 for the
bcHeut al those no make profession of
i"yaity IN this State. IF Congress does
ho1 paw these claims will not the "Ioyal .
I-eslsiatnre be inportuned to do so at snrna
subsequent session, after the testimony shall
have been taken, and perhaps before the
claim shall be rejected by Congress- Bot
what WAL 1t cost the State If We shall stop
Win heariuR the testimony and adiudicatit z
me Claims that VIII be trumped 40 and Put
IN There are eighty five counties in the
State, and the luw provides for three Com
m:ssI"n"rs in each Of these counties thus
giving empiovmentt0 two hundred and fifty
hVe hungry cormoranta who have been
waiting. and waiting TO fatten upon the car
casS OF the State, hut those pickings have
heretofore been rather me2gre and not very
savory. These men get three dollars per
dav, ana will probably devote three or four
hours OF each working dav to the hearing
81 the testimony IN support Of the claims
that may be presented Their salaries vii
amount 70 S165 per day almost as much as
the present Legislature costs the State 1t
VIII take at least year to adiudicate the
claims Of all 70 no will now discover that they
lost heavily during TIE war, and that their
loyalty during that period was very like the
virtue which Cesar insisted his wife should
possess. We thus see that, including Com
missioners' salaries and the incidental ex-
penses attending their Investigations, the
tax payers of the State viii have to foo: q
bill of about quarter Of Il million of dol
lars, for simply ascertaining how much the
loyal people of Tennessee" lost in cOnse-
quence of "the late unpleasantness." AID
the great body Of the tax payers are men
who werr never expected by the members
OF the legislature to derive one cent from
this act of theirs even should Congress ap-
prollTliIc money suHCiehL 10 paw every ool-
lar Of claims that the Comm ssiOners may
allow. This is simply one Of the many con
trivances through which n Radical Legisla-
turc has sought TO impose gricvJus burdens
upon people who have no utilization in COM
mon with them 1t i a question with the
tax payers of this Slate whether they should
submit to these outrageous impositions De-
privrd of all lot or part in the management
of the affairs Of the State, they should resist
bv every legal means they can command
the payment of these oRerous exsctions.
Let the taxpa ers Of Tennessee but once
determine by a concerted understanding
that they will pay no more taxes, except at
the end Of the law, to support government
in which they have no voice, and we shall
soon see these usurper5 change their tack,
and learn that they have men to deal with
"who know their rights, and 5" dare main
tain them - Union and Dispatch