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The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-09-15
who Imposes Ihc Taxes and w lao
Pays Them?

We learn from the Meridian Mercury,
by a report Of the grand jury of Lauder
dale county, that the Assessor and Col
lector's book show that there are fourteen
hundred delinquent taxpayers in that
county. They belong to the Republican
party, and are the class that elected
Aaron Moore (African) and his white Re
publican associate, to the Legislature. -
The same class compose four hundred and
ninety-nine out Of every five hundred
Republican voters in the State; and they
are the instruments through whom Ames
elected himself and Revels to the United
States Senate, and installed Alcorn and
his Mongrel Legislature. They have
been the agents, therefore, of the oppressive
tax laws which the plunderers have i'm
posed upon the people and Of the amalga-
nation legislation which is designed TO
degrade and corrupt the morals ofsoeietv.
Lauderdale county Is not an exception
to the rest. The men who were put in
office by the military usurpers have taken
especial care TO enforce the severest pen
alties of the law against the whites for the
non-payment of taxes, and have connived
at the deIinquencies of the blacks.
Take the county of Kinds as another
illustration. On the 10Th of June last,
the Kinds County Gazette. which is GER
tainly an unprecedented witness, so far as
the Republican officials are concerned,
made the following statement:
We understand that a less number than NJ
ty-tir0 of the eighteen thousand colored pop
ulation of Kinds have thus far in 1870. paid
any portion of the State or county taxes
Raymond Gazette June 18th.
This statement was drawn from the
Gazette by an announcement in the
Vicksburg Herald that ''of the six thous-
and five hundred colored voters in
" Warren county, but fifty-two had paid
q their State taxes.
When the Legislature meets full ex-
hibit should be made of the operation of
the tax laws, and of the collections which
have been made under them. The Audi
tors books will reveal all the facts, if the
Republican sherifs have done their duty.
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From the Columbus Democl
The state University.

Whenever the Black Republican party
obtains power, whether inState or Nation
al governments, il inaugurates a system
Of stupendous robbery, by increasing
taxes, multiplying offices, increasing the
salaries of ofice-holders, and by all other
corrupt and high-handed means. x
The institutions Of learning in the
Southern States under the direction of
State authority, have felt the blightinp
course of the presence and greed Of these
vandals. In North Carolina. that noble
college at Chapel Hill, which, under
Democratic rule, was one of the most pop-
ular and efficient in the country, is now
but wreck; its chairs filed by adven-
turers, and its doors opened to negroes
unfit TO appreciate and enjoy its advanta-
ges, while the white youths of the State
and of the South no longer flock to its
classes. The condition of the University
OF Alabama is doubtless familiar to all. -
No white students of any respectability
are to be found within its walls, and the
carpet-bag Faculty have little duties 10
perform except to draw their salaries.
In this State, it would seem as If our
University was destined to similar fate.
The members of the Board of Trustees
who possessed the confidence of our peo-
pie, have been superseded by men either
strangers to us or opposed to our political
sentiments, and who have been in no wise
identified with the interests of the Uni
versity. The new Board was elected for
political purposes, and no one of intelli-
gence viii suppose for moment that the
University under their administration
will be sustained by the people of the
State. X x x
These are startling facts. They not
only presage the ruin of our noble Uni
versity, at least while under Black Re
publican domination, but indicate that
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The enumeration of nineteen counties
in the Southern District of Mississippi
has been completed, and the returns In
the MarshaTs Office to which we have
had 'access, through the courtesy of COL
Peyton, assisted by his deputy, Mr.. w.
T.fDeason, show the following aggregate
of each county. The assessors having
failed, with few exceptions, to recaPitu-
late the whites and blacks separately, we
shall have to await the official footing up
in the Census Department at Washington.
The first column shows the population in
1S60-the second, the population Of
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-09-15

Sometimes our neighbor Of the Pilot,
who has the veIvetly tread Of the cat, and
also its claws, complains of the hard
words employed by Conservative writers
to describe the conduct of the Radical of
icials by whom the Southern people
have been plundered and bedeyiIled out
Of all endurance since the Republican
party tore down their State governments
and substituted on their ruin the present
mongrel establishments. But must ad-
nit that the misdeeds of these officials
have abundantIy justified the language
of which it complains. Take the case of
Louisiana for example and it is fair
representation of the whole. Here is what
the Pilot itself says in speaking Of the
profigacy and corruption of the Radical
authorities Of that State:
.sNone have more reason to regret the
conduct of our neighbors and party breth-
rem. than we of Mississippi, and we might,
too. feel sOreiy their defeat and the triumph
of the Democracy. But we say emphatical-
w and with the best motives for the contin-
/ =
southern State, that rather than witness an
other two years Of prohigacy and crime in
Louisiana, we would hail with gladnes5 the
| triumph ofany party that would bring re-
lief, and inftIse into the government conf
dence, economy. and an impartial execution
of wholesome laws
In the same connection, the Pilot says
/ that if Gov. Yarmouth does not correct
the abuses of which il complains he de-
serves defeat, and that if the Radicals
| ever make a similar record in Mississippi
they too will observe expulsion from
power"
w. H. Smith, the Radical Governor
of Alabama. in a letter dated, NIarch 18th,
1870, referring to the earPet-bag Con
gressmen from that State, says:
| Il am still, If such thing could be pos
| sible more and more convinced of what |
! told Won. when | saw Won last. Our whole
| set Of Representatives in Congress except
dIaughey are set Of dnlFiactlfed sc0URdretS
| having no regard for the interests of the
| State, or the people thereof
On the subject of Southern politics,
the New York Standard Republican,
says:
/ Mr.. Forncv would have rs believe that
| the recent Radical defeats in the SOuth are
! altogether due to a system OF terrorism and
| outrage, but in this we think he makes a
mistake. That wrong and violence has
/ been done there. is no doubt true, but rs a
| general thing, the standard bearers Of Re
| publicanism have been very Objectionable
| to large number of the people, and until
| the Republican party corrects some of its
/ blunders in this respect we see little hope
| for RepublicaRism in that section.
But Greedy of the well known Tribune
does not put so fine point upon it. He
says:
1--WE hope for the success of Southern Re-
| publicanism, but it must be purged OF Re-
! publican ScOlntdreis."
\ cotemporary asks what would be left
of the Radical party in the South after
such a purgation A spot of grease. a
bunch of wool. An execrable odor.
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The Enormous Increase Of Taxa
ton.
From Ne Lind County Gazett

From the Kinds County Gazette.
/ Our A ssessor and his assistants are now
actively at work at all parts of the county
making the assessment OF 1870, as required
| by law Those citizens who been assess
ed seem to be amazed at the number of
questions asked them, and are quite rs
much surprised when they come to figure
up the amount of the tax they will be re-
/ quired to pay next winter, and each sue
ceeding winter, 50 long as the present rev
/ enue law stands.
Heretofore the State tax of Kinds
county has amounted to about $40, 600
/ We are informed by parties who have
| examined the figures and claim to know
all about the subject, that under the pres
ent assessment, notwithstanding the very
great depreciation in the value of proper
/ ty, the State tac Of tbs county ,rW re,g
nearly reach the enormous sum Of t,co hiut-
dred thousand dollars per G9laL Now
if our Board of Supervisors should assess
the same per cent. ''for county purpo-
ses" this year on the State tax, that the
Police Court levied last year, what will
be the State and county tax next winter?
The figures are so large, we decline to
state them. The reader may figure it out
for himself
The cause of this enormous and UMPIRE
cedented rate Of State taxation we regard
as twO-fold. The chief movers in Its favor
IN the Legislature, were undoubtedly the
meanest anSmost dishonest, but shrewd-
est wing of the Radical party, And their
| assuredly was, to raise taxation to such a
standard, as not only to enable dishonest
otfice-holders to plumber the people but
TO render it impossible for the landhold-
ers to pay, and thus necessitate the APP
pearance on the block of vast bodies of
land, which Will be be bought by these
legislators themselves, and their agents,
at the taxes for single year. The other
cause of this excessive taxation, resulted
from the ignorance of the great body of
the members of the present Legislature.
There were doubtless many well
disposed men in the Legislature
honest men even of the Rad
cal party-but having been ostlers, and
BARRIERS, and waiting boys, and boot
blacks, all their lives, it could not be ex-
pected that they could legislate intelli-
gently, or could hold hand with the
dishonest white men who held them as
clay in their hands
When the people of Mississippi can
succeed in keeping very depraved and
dishonest men out of their Legislature,
and In defeating ignorance and impudencs
when it offers for Legislative honors, we
may expect repeal of this excessive tax
alton, but not until then. But, how we
are to hold out until this change can be
afiected-ah, there's the rub!
We suggest that when the Legislature
meets next winter, it either make impor-
tant changes in its revenue law, or change
its name thus: can Act to confiscate
the property of the people of Mississippi"
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We are amazed at the proposition of
the parties who are opposed to a free
bridge, and in favor of appropriating the
bridge tax for the benefit of Big Black,
Bakers Greek, &c, &c.-that the citizens
who are so unfortunate as to own no real
estate in the corporation shall not vote on
the bridge question. No class of persons
are more interested in the prosperity of
the town-in its business advancement
and in cheap supplies-than the citizens
whom it is proposed to deny the right TO
be heard Let us have a fair election and
a full vote. No monopoly, No class
privilege.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-09-15

Can anything excel the impudence of
the charge of the Radicals that the fatal
injury which the University has sustain
ed and its loss of public confidence are due
to the Conservative press? According to
their reasoning the wrong was not ia the
introduction Of notorious carpet-baggers
and political prostitutes into the Board Of
Trustees in place Of the old and honored
citizens Of the State who have been the
firm friends of the University, but in the
publication of the outrage and their pro
test against it in the name of the people
of the State by their organs.
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GseOr2ia.

ATLANTA, GA, Sept. S.-Thc Constitution
this afternoon, publishes a letter from Lin
ton Stephens. accepting the chairmanship
OF the State Democratic Executive Commit
tee. He thinks the candidates for Congress
ought to be selected without reference to
their eligibility; that question ought to be
settled by Congress. lie also thinks that
the members of the Legislature should be
elected from those disqualified by Congress
ional enactments.
The Democracy repudiat6 the position
taken by Linton Stephens, iavoring the run
ming of an ineligible candidate fer Con-
gress.
In the House OF Representatives to-day,
the Senate savannah municipal was ia
ken up. A point of order was made that il
could not be entertained. the House having
indefinitely postponed similar bill. The
temporary Speaker ruled that the point was
well taken. The House became riotOus.-
Twenty colored p'emberS were Oh the floor
at the same time. The excited members
called for the reading of the riot act. 9th
ers called for order Turner (colored) said
the action of the colored members was dis
graceful.
Upon the calling of the yeas and nays
two-thirds of the Republicans left the House
consequently there was no quorum left, and
the House adjourned till this afternoon.
In the afternoon session the ruling of the
Speaker was sustained by three majority.
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HoN. L. Q. c. LAMAR We learn
from the Winona Democrat. that this dis
tinguished gentlemen has consented to de
liver the annual address on the occasion of
the Fair in that town on the 1st ofNovem-
Der. The Democrat observes truly,
that his fame as an orator and profound
thinker will add to the greatly to the at
fractions of the occasion.
BY the way, we are gratifed to learn,
that he has reconsidered his determination
to accept the professorship rendered him
IL the Georgia College.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-09-15

THE CoTToN MARKET.-The follow
ing are the quotations Of the New Orleans
market:
Low Ordinary at 10 a lie, Ordinary at
12@t3c.. Good Ordinary at 55A@l5l &c,
Low Middling at l7l6@1215, NHddling-@
lSc., and Strict Middling at lSla@1S14c.
These quotations furnish the best argu-
ment we can make in favor Of careful
handling in preparing the staple for
market.
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Vermont.
DEMOCRATIC GAINS.

Special TO the New York World.
returns show large Democratic gains in
the State. Woodward. Shaftsburg, Alling-
ton, Sunderland and Stamford elect Demo-
Gratis TO the General Assembly. Gardiner
and Harrlben are elected Senators from this
ben by 500 majority, the latter is Demo-
crat- The county usually gives 1400 Re-
publican majority, Harriben leads both
tickets in this town.
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POLITICAL. NEWS.
sSeIaNs ware.
A nEMoCRATIc NICroRY

DEMOCRATIC VICTORY.
NHMINGroN, Del. Sept. Sat the city
election held here yesterday, the whole
Democratic ticket was elected. William
Bright, for president of the city council. re-
ceiVing over two hundred majority. The
Democrats carry five wards ont of nine
Interested was manifcstcd,as it was the first
election held under the fifteenth amend
ment.
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We observe that the shoe manufactur-
ers, Sampson & Co., at North Adams.
Massachusetts, who imported the original
Chinese into that State, are so well pleas
ed with the experiment that they have
sent an order for seventy-five more of
them.
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1t seems that Judge Campbell has
found especial favor in the eyes Of anoth-
er Radical Board" The Board Of SUI
peryisors Of Madison county have elected
him mot Campbell and CALHooH) their
Attorney. The Board consists Of two
negrocs-two caqot-baggers-and one
Democrat. The Democrat did not vote
Cor Tho Jude.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-09-15

-ela Martin, q darkey who was carpet
bagsed into Alabama by the administra-
ton as post-ofice agent, has announced
his determination TO run on the Republi-
can ticket for Congress.
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the work OF plumber Is 70 be carried on IN
every department of government
From the Central star.
No Neutrality.
The Clarion, III it- attacks upon Tie
Republican Board with a 'lauEec
element" that now rules over our uni
versity, has touched upon very interest
ing topic. One, indeed, which may BE-
answered 10 the lasting injury ol the cause
of true liberty: ie. the bought and paid
for neutrality OF those who have accepted
office At the hand, OF the Radicals Our
Governor has adroilly played the part of
the fox in the fable, and having lost all
political respectability or standing among
the white people OF his State. has, hya
mixture of patriotism and private interest.
prevailed upon several others, who -,ilI
claim 20 be Democrats. and ryiug ,ho
confidence 0f their fellow white to enter
the Radical trap for the sake of an official
bait.
By accepting an office Cd, ihe bands of
Alcorn. these men have conferred upon
those within their jurisdiction. the hwaH.
of the honest administration oi iheir $685.
eral trusts But 90 couulelhaIauca anI
outweigh that, they have given tbc i;IdI-
Gals The credit OF performing 70 praise
worthy act. in the appointment oi meI.
torious officers, and hsyc tIeiily. if Dr..
openly gone over 90 the enemy Tho
Pilot said that no one would hc appointed
unless he was ia fun accord with d..
views of Acorn, and Wc have uo. seen 81
single denial of this statement. j. 81 true.
Silence Is construed a. admission. aside
from the fact thariu The impending -uus
gle there can be no neutrality lie who
Is silent or inactive gives aid and comfort
10 the enemy.
From the West Point Herald.
We know but little OF The condition o.
the University, not having seen amy c1ta
logue, and absolutely nothing as To- Oh,
programme 20 he pursued under the uaW
di-pcnsation. 1t would be 4 source Of
profound modification to the people Oh,
State TO see it grovcline ia the dust Ike Oh,
once proud and noble. but now degraded
University OF Alabama under carpet ha.
and scalawag manipulation.
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The news we publish to-day, is very
important-the new French Republic
recognized by the United States Govern
ment-great rejoicing in Paris-popular
excitement at fever heat-the Prussians
moving resistlessly as tornado on Paris
Cotton down, &c, &c,
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NHaS~aCIIsLSeLI~.
PILLS NoMINATED.

WORCESTER, Sept. Sat the State Labor
Reform Convention. the following ticket
was nominated: For Governor. Wendell
Philips. of Boston; for Lieutenant Governor
James Chattaway, Of Springfield.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-09-15

The Lexington Advertiser moderate
Radical, , is disposed to indulge in irony in
Its announcements of themilitia appointees.
1t says:
Our worthy Governor has once more dis
played his military sagacity. not again on
the tented field, we are glad to saw. but in
his selection of General officers for our
State militia. The military talent'' of
the appointees is so we'll known to the pub-
lie that it is not at all necessary to devote a
chapter to each of these important public
functionaries, their war record speaks for
itself
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representative TO the legislature passed or
quietly in this city to-day. The Democrats
put 20 ticket in the field, and the Republi-
cans consequently were without opposi-
ton.
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The total population OF Jachsoh Is
4f60; of Canton 2,134; of Brookhaven
1,614.
In Madison county there are 6, 191
whites, as against $500 in 1860; and
15.145 blacks against Is, 122 in 1860.
In Holmes. there are 6,436 whites
against 5,8O6 in 1860; 1921 blacks
against II, 9S5 in 1860.
In the foregoing 10 counties, $50
deaths occurred during the past year.
The number of farms reported at II, III;
and establishments reproductive industry
at 371. Madison county, with her pop
ulation Of 1913 has only $50 farms
Kinds All farms; while Jasper, with
population of 10. 526, reports1 ,S26 farms,
and Scott 1908 farms. Copiah reports
1,543 farms. The highest mortality is
in Kinds (not, however, in proportion to
population reported at AL; the lowest
in Wayne only being reported.
We shall continue these statistics as
we may be able to obtain them.
The Enormous increase OfTaXeS-
An excellent article on this subject is
copied in the present issue from the Kinds
County Gazette 1t is shown that here
tofore under Conservative rule the State
tax Of Kinds county has been about S40,-
600; but that under the operation Of the
law put in force by the Republican rob
bers, this sum will be increased to Trio
Hundred Thousand Dollars, which is
about one-half of what in former times
was required to defray the entire expen-
ses of the State Government.
At the rate of 5000 90 for Kinds coun-
ty alone, an idea may be formed of the
amount which will be collected from the
people of the State at large to be trans
ferred to the pockets Of the INSCRIPTIONS
men who are enriching themselves on the
blood and sweat of the toiling masses.
Honest Indignation can scarcely re-
strain itself TO the bounds Of reason in
contemplating the circumstances connect
ed with the imposition of these burthens
The law was passed under the direction
of a class of aliens who pay no taxes them
selves-mere impecunious adventures
who have no other object but to grow
rich at the expense of the public. Nor
were they elected by the people, large
class of whom were not even permitted to
enjoy the privileges Of an election which
was held by military authority. They
were foisted into office by an Illegal
agency which was not only foreign TO the
laws Of the State, but hostile to her peo-
pie.
The Gazette inquiries vainly for relief
from the depredations of these blood
suckers. Alas, there is none until the
people can deliver themselves from their
grasp in the next election. They had as
well address themselves to rocks and
trees as to send up their petitions to the
hardened, remorseless and arrogant knaves
into whose hands the governm ent of The
State was committ, d against their consent
by the Republican Administration which
yields the sword and purse Of the coun-
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The n. Y. Herald says that Gov. Orr,
of South Carolina, has made q great
mistake in selling out to the Radicals.
1t is mistake peculiarly OrrfM.
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TIE GOODMAN ASSASSINATION. We
copy elsewhere from the Central Star the
particulars of the assassination Of the
brothers Raiiord at Goodman, by an Al
corn Justice of the Rtace God, save the
mark who, no doubt presumed upon
his Official and political relations to the
powers that be. The facts as here recit-
ed show it to have been one of the most
cold-blooded, eowardly and unprovoked
murders on record. The conduct of the
victims not only did not provoke official
interference, but exhibited no sign of re-
sistance to il when offered. We wonder
If Alcorn viii unleash his blood-hounds,
jacobson and Lea, and put them on the
track of this murderer.
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/ am Yours Respectfully.
j. 4. p CANIPPEL

While we emphatically commend the
decision Of Judge Campbell, to decline
the appointment under the circumstances
we dissent from his taste Of considering it
4 compliment"
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a RADICAL FIANCIAL OPERATION
Our readers are referred to the letter
from Copiah, published elsewhere.
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Tnasmuch as Hon. j. A. P. Campbell
was 50 prominent secessionist, why was
he singled out by the Radicals for the re-
moval Of his political disabilities, while In
fuential Union men ike Judge Sharkey
and others, have been kept under the ban
by the party in power