The democrat. [volume] (Weston, W. Va.) 1868-1874, 1869-05-03
IMPORTANT TO TAX PAYERS,

State are leaving for the West, liardly
rise Of the waters ever come in the
Great aud Little X nowha rive S, bu
numerous families are seen floating down
stream to find home where taxation is
less burdcnsomc, soil more susceptible OF!
cultivation, and the political atmosphere
frcor and purcr than the country they are
forever abandoning, Why is this? Land
owners and tax payers of West Virginia.
| It is high time that your eyes were opened
to the interest of your State,
Your oppressive and discriminating
laws together with excessive taxation are
driving from the State the very class OF
people we should by all means retain,
The Young, hale and healthy men, who
we're born and raised among you, ire
spectivc of party, are going where all are
free, equal, and willing to labor on .
common footing, The great bug-bear OF
ebol has ceased to cngendcr that feeling
between farmers sons that it did in days
gone-hye. Peace has been restored to
i n distracted nation, and VIC find the
strongest attachment aud friendship ex'
is,ing between youngsters who so often
have played. sang. and visited together
in their youthful days. You have been
warned time and again by Democratic
speakers on the hastings, that at some
time patience would cease to be a virtue
and you would drive hundreds of citizens
from your State. To this the politicians
booted with contempt, and even our pres
cnt Governor, in a speech made by him
two years or more ago. at Arnoldsburg, in
Calhoun county, told the people that
"ho had heard the threat from tho rebels
ever since the war ended. and he had
watched zcnlously to see some Of them
passing down the Little Kanawha river,
that he had impaticnty awaited to assist
them across the Ohio river, and he had
not seen any that thought of going" BY
ltrickcry. cl,icancry, and such logic MS
above, the plain, honest people of the
country have been deceived, and bclicv-
ing as they did; that the love for Old
Virginia or hcr offspring, West Virginia,
would induce those whom they were in
aic,ing more 'hardships upon than ever
4 Ireland or Scotland suffered from England,
would sooner lie still and await better
and happier time than fly from the present
ills which they were enduring. In this
they have been most cgregiously mistaken
for all true Virginians have been tnugh
10 revere and love the flag Of their STATE
and look with contempt upon those Uh'
would tyrauizc or tramplc upon faller
foe u '
Every citizen who leaves the State
makes the burden but the harder upoi
those who remain Why is it real estate
has DEPRECATED to such an extent in pric
in the last three years? Simply becaus
The ,illcrs Of the soil arc diminishing, AM
less lands are being cultivated. Emisrant
are told il they settle in oul midst and en-
terrain Democratic views that they will b
prescribed and deprived Of the rights o
} the ballot.bcx. Old settlers, who wer
-combatants during The war, have bccl
disfranchiscd for opinions sake, and doe
1t seem reasonable that they would pur
chase wild land on Which 10 settle thei
children, or feel any interes. in the welfar
Of the State that has deprived them Q
the rights of frecn,en? Many Of you as
the question, why such depreciation il
tho value of real estate, without for
moment stopping to think.
!. The oppressive and burdcnsome law
, passed by your representatives at Wheel
ing, were intended for rebels; and it'll
did you think that tho burdens which yo
imposed on them would sooner or late
recoil with greater force upon yourselves
But few years ago your real estate OK
! ccedcd two folds your Liabilities. wien
, to-day it was exposed to public auction
! would not pay half Of your debts. Why
Because capitalists prefer seeking inves,
! ments where it is probable the rents an
' profits or the interest will pny the tn
> and six per cent on tile amount invested
Is there fnrmin Lewis county, | ask ye
, in all canlor, that will pay six per cen
! AID keep down The taxes? If so. III
owner is lucky man and more fortunat
than nine tcntlls Of his fellow citizens
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