The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-10-12
on the faith and credit of all the property OF
the people of this Commonwealth, to an
amount the recital of which seems fabulous.

bonds 6.2O. Observation-Disclosures. ,000, 900
By estimated loss to State by same act,
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bonds 20. - 900 900
bonds 10. - . 900 900
.. 500 900
BY act Legislature, 27th March, 1869, ,,o ~,
bonds GO. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. ...... ZouVVo
Aggregate. SO, ,325, 900
The language of several of these acts is that
these bonds 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 be 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. Pledging your property and your
labor to be 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 And see before you, under those
pledges, if you acquiesce in them. and
others like them, your doom, and that of
your posterity and country. Why are these
bonds 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 ex-
penses of the negotiations are to be paid out
of our treasury, and the proceeds are to be
taxed by another State because the Governors
agency is there, and his financial agent or
himself have but to clutch, them and appear
here no more But 1t is repudation-it Is a
blow at the Blue Ridge Railroad to make these
objections. Repudiate what we never agreed
to? Away with the Blue Ridge or any other
railroad or other bond thus obtained. There is
''nor life nor hope" it. Now, the Governors
secretary gets s2OOO though $500 was consid-
cred wantonly eXtravagant, and the Legisla-
ture OF '6S and go appropriated to themselves,
for per diem and mileage, s27O,OOO (and many
pickings added, ,)-sl3O,OOO at the extra and
$4,000 at the regular session, or about seven
fold more now than then.
The present government Of the omnipotent
usurper has ordered the collection of about
$l,250, 600 in round numbers, though the ap-
preparation act Of his Legislature limits the
amount to be assessed and collected" to-
$1,000, 600. But the Governor and Auditor and
Comptroller and Treasurer being the supreme
rulers, and perhaps more supremely enlight-
ened in their own interests, 1t is supposed gave
the order for that little additional, near aquar-
ter million. There is another part of the ap-
preparation act Of 1869 which provides that
all taxes shall be paid in the following kind of
funds. viz: The bills receivable Of the State,
United States currency, national bank notes,
gold and silver coin. Bills receivable were
good enough for the State and the people, but
not for the members themselves. All, is this
so ? Turn to page III, No. SO, Section G, and
read If members of the Legislature are paid
in bills receivable of this State, it shall beat
the current rates of exchange" Again. turn
TO acts Legislature, special session 1868, page
lO5, No. 50, Section 2, and read They shall be
paid in bills receivable to the value of United
States currency at current rates Of exchange,
such rate to be fixed by the Treasurer of the
State-who, It's said, kept little brokers'
office, probably on joint account, and dealt out
greenbacks from the treasury for bills receiv-
able and exchange added-the bills being
equivalent to greenbacks in his credit account.
The owners Of the land and the tilers OF 1t
are the main victims of the emboTdened usur-
pations and daring frauds which ravage our
country. They are the power of this State and
of these United States. They have the virtu-
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. see
near million and quarter of their taxes,
near nine millions Of their credit and bonds,
now in the hands of these INSCRIPTIONS usurp-
ers? Do they not see the Winchester rifles
purchased with their own money loaded and
in the hands of myrmidons and marauders
Do they not see Scott and Parker, Neagle 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, 10
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 the State. These enor-
mites are pcrpetrated on them without their
knowledge or consent, and no principle oi law,
human or divine, will bind or sanction their
| obedience to them. The Anderson lntelgen-
Ger advises you to gain control of the State
government; the Winnsboro Times, the York
vile Enquirer, the Abbevlle Press, all agree,
and the latter says: 1'Let us strike at the root
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
Northmen? WHAT'S the root of all the evils
these presses SO fear TO seize? 1t Is what your
tyrants have not feared to seize and hold
your money and your bonds. Money lis the
root of all evil;"-it is power; yield 1t, and you
Weld ALL It controls the ballot, the cartridge,
the services, the lives Of q majority of man
kind. 1t enthrones monarchs and despots, and
enslavcs the masses of the people, who toll for
it and produce it. The bonds manufactured by
the Legislature are, some of them, not yet ne
gotiated; others may not have been: none of
them are ours, or for our benefit. Why. then,