The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-10-12

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BY net legislature, 18TH september; isds, .00'0
uy ss,matsd loss to State by same act. iO00'O00
bonds go ........ loOo, 600
bonds 40. 900, 600
bonds 100; ,ooo,o 900
by act Legislature a1iG March, 1862 '00'000
bonds o2o. ....................... ...... 100000
| ASBTcgute. .......................Sq Sq,325, 600
IT. language of several of these acts Is that
thes 'nls shall be negotiated at the highest
market price by the financial agent of the State,
approved by the Governor, In the City of New
| York, &C.; and that an annual tax, In addition
to all other taxes, shall bc levied upon the
property of the State to pay interest from the
date of negotiations. &c. No,o, behold In the
hands of stranger and usurper your credit,
your bonds. Plcdglng your property and your
labor to>bc taxed for millions of principal and
many millions of interest and usury, without
your knowledge, without your consent, not by
yourselves, not by your representatives and
reflect, that every hour that you labor for
another against your will is an hour of
slavery. Aud sec before you, under those
pledges, If you acqulcscc in them, and
others like them, your doom, and that of
your postcrity and country. Why arc these
29nds Issued? Why put IN the hands of
distant strangers, where the State has no Sc
curity, no check, and there is no minimum
limit placed upon their sale, and all the cx-
pcnscs of the negotiations are TO DO paid out
OF our treasury, and the proceeds are to be
taxed by another State bccausethc Governors
agency Is there. and his financial agent or
hipself have but to clutch them and appear
| N N n,,f te
blow at the Blue Ridge Railroad TO make these
objections. Repudiatc what we never agreed
to? Away with the Blue Ridge or any other
railroad or other bond thus obtained. There IL
"nor life nor hope" init. Now, the Governors
secretary gets $4,000, though $500 was consd-
cred wantonly extravagant, and the LegIsla-
ture OF 'Gs and G9 appropriated to themselves,
for per diem and mileage, s27O, 600, (and many
pickings added d,)-sl3O,oOO at the cxtra and
$4,000 ut tho regular session, or about seven
fold more now than then. =
| The present government OF the omnipotcnt
usurpcr has ordered tho collection of about
l,25o,ooo In round numbers, though tile ap-
preparation net of, his Legislature limits the
amount to be "asscsscd and collected to
81, 100000. But the Governor and Auditor and
Comptroller and Treasurer being the supreme
rulers, and perhaps more suprcmcly enght-
ened In their own interests, 1t is supposed gave
thc order for that little additional, near quar-
ter million. There Is another part Of the ap-
preparation act Of lsGS'D which provides that
all taxes shall be paid inthe following kind of
funds, viz. The bills receivable OF the Stale,
United States currency, national bank notes,
gold and silver coin. Bills receivable were
good enough for the State and the people, but
not for tho members themselves All, Is this
so? Turn TO page Ill, No. SO, Section 6, and
read II members OF the Legislature are paid
In "bills receivable of this State, it shall be ut
the current rates of exchange" Again, turn
to acts Legislature, special session 1868, page
| los, No. 81, Section 2, and read They shall be
paid In bills receivable to the value OF United
States currency mt current rates OF exchange
such rate to be fixed by tie Treasurer Of the
State-.who, Ills said, kept q little brokers'
Office, probably on joint account, and dealt out
grcenbacks from the treasury for bills rccciv-
able and exchange added-the bills being
| equivalent to greenbacks in Ills credit account
| The owners of the land and the tillers of Il
are the main victims of the emboldened usr-
patlons and daring frauds which ravagc our
country. They are the power of this State and
Of these United States. They have the vlrtu-
Gus, honest, noble, generous purpose to restore
the constitution and laws of the whole coun-
try; but they must be up, combine, and do 1t
speedily. Do they not, will they not, sec
near million and o quarter OF their taxes.
near nine millions Of their credit and bonds
now In the hands of these unscrupllOus usurp-
ers Do they not see the Winchester rifles
purchased with their own money loaded and
In the hands of myrmldens and marauders
Do they not gee Scott aid Parker. Neaglc and
Tomlinson, and Corbin and Hubbard chuck
ling over their apathy and supineness, and
then yielding up their earnings, and their credit
and their bonds, and their remaining posses
sions,and their future hopes, and the just claims
OF their children and children's children, TO
aggression, to fraud, and forgery? The people
| OF South Carolina who own the lands and work
| them, the laborers and producers of the State,
| white and colored, are tho State These enor-
mites are perpetrated on them without their
knowledge or consent, and no principle Of law,
| human or divine, Will bind or sanction their
obedience to them. Tho Anderson Intelhgen-
| Ger advises you to gain control Of the State
| government; tho Winnsboro Times, the York
Vile Enquirer, the Abbeville Press, Oil agree,
and the latter says: "Let us strike at the root
1 reform the goVernment-and we release our
\ selves Of our oppressors." How can we get
control, reform or strike at the root, when the
purse and the sword are in the hands of the
4 Northmenf WHAT'S the root of all the evils
4 these presses 30 fear to seizea 1t is what your
tyrants have not feared to seize and hold
your money and your bonds. Money ais the
root of all evilf"-it Is power; yield 1t, and you
yield all. 1t controls tho ballot, the cartridge,
the services, the lives Of majority of man
Kind. It Itenthrones monarchs and despots, and
enslaves the masses Of the people, who toll for
1t and produce It, The bonds manufactured by
the Legislature are, some Of them, net yet ne
gotiated; others may not have been mono Of
them nre ours, or for our benefit Why, then,
not give notice at once that they are frauds.