The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-12-01

the Railroad Companies
The Eminent Man. is IN trouble
| he is enraged. He Is actually threaten
ening to do something His bogus cur
rency, all beautifully embellished with
the AIcorn and Musgroye portrait
ures, does not command the con-
fdence of the public. The mer-
chants won't take it for their goods
The farmerssw won't touch il for their cot
ton. And Railroads are not willing to
receive it, because they viii find that it
is dead matter on their hands, when
they, in turn, undertake to pass it off on
their employees. And the Eminent
man. shakes his ambrosial curls omin-
ously at the managers of these corpora
tons. He threatens them significantly.
He insinuates direful things. He sug-
gests the penalty of black-nail If they
persist in refusing to come to terms
Quoth he, 81 seek to bring your pledges"
(what are they'd "to the test of prac-
'tical result, 50 that the application of
THAT test shall be in evidence in time to
guide me in my naa message to the Legis-
''lature as to the relations Of your company
''to the State of Mississippi" DC"
This is beautiful talk for a 'Govern-
ernor," even if he does owe his place to
the corrupt agencies employed by Shout
der-strap, who mad his own axe to grind
when he parcelled out the offices of the
State.
We do not know what will be the ae-
ton of the Railroads We don't think,
however, that they will be frightened in
to measures If it comes TO money
transaction our own impecunious mana
gers will have but little to operate with ;
but it viii not take much to buy up the
whole concern. As to the Railroad Mon
arch (McComb), he is reputed to have
millions at his control; and it is whis
pered does not care for investing twenty,
thirty, forty, and even fifty thousand dol
lars.
The Eminent Man" affects to believe
that the bogus currency is under par in
consequence of the attacks of "avariciou;
and INSCRIPTIONS politicians. And yet
he knows, if he knows anything, that
those Certificates are unworthy of conf
dence, because the law authorizing then
issuance was begotten in the corrupt mo-
tives of the Mongrel lawmakers to roE
the taxpayers, and that they were issued
in violation of the supreme law of the
land. If he wants light On this subject,
let him consult the Acknowledgement
and if he wants an opinion in which the
precise points in this case have been set
tied by the highest judicial authority in
the land, let him turn TO the decision OF
the Supreme Court in the case of Craig
VS.. State of Missouri, 9th Curtis.
1t is absurd to say that the people when
they obtain power will consider them
seves bound by any illegal and fraudulent
transaction as this, entered into by a SCI
of adventures and impostors who are no
in Office by the free and untrammeIed ac
ton of the citizens of the State.
Our objection to the law authorizing
the issuance of these certificates is tina
it further provides for the imposition of &
special tax of $500, 600 on the people il
addition to the quintupled tax which is
now being put into operation. The PEG
pie are amply able TO protect themselve.
from imposition by refusing to receive
the certificates as money; but they are
not able to resist the demands Of the tax
collectors when they come armed with
power to grind the additional contribu
ton out Of them. The Mongrel ruler.
may be assured of one thing, however
that after the year 1871, the collection o.
the tax will be indefinitely postponed
The following is the section to which We
refer:
Sec. IL. Be it further enacted. That in Or
der to provide for The payment of the inte-
rest, and principal at maturity. of the bonds
issued by the authority of this act the Aud
ltor OF Public Accounts shall levy suffi-
ceut special tax. which shall be percent
aga of the ordinary State tax. and shall be
collected and paid into the Treasury. in
United States currency. The first levy OF
said special tax shall be made Ia the year
eighteen hundred and seventy-one. and be
made each succeeding year, until the indebt-
edness caused by the Act shall be discharg-
ed and the whole amount of such special tax
shall be reserved and set aside tor the paw
ment of principal and interest of the bonds.
and at the time and In the manner above
specified, and shall not be used or appropri-
ated for any other purpose whatsoever.
The colored people added thirty-seven
thousand to the voting population of
Maryland, and Notwithstanding they
voted the Radical ticket as class, the
ticket was worse beaten than ever before,
throughout the State. Thereupon, the
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