The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1871-11-30
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are excavated by the several chartered
companies. and to certify and to collect
the royalty due upon the same.

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the royalty due upon the same.
Wi4ov 14u IruFNsns. p,nnios .ilA; - a
recommend that all pers0ns epgaged
in the sale of liquors, and all merchants,
factors, lawyers and physicians, be re-
quired to take out State license. A tax
should be levied on all premiums re-
ceived BY insurance companies.
All the most important railroad comi'
panies in this State pay no taxes upon
their property. I earnestly recommend
that tax be- levied on every, railroad
company in the State. for every passen-,,
ger and every ton Of freight transported.
O.DEnINQURNT TAX BALES. tirau
To'enforce the more prompt pay yment
Of the taxes. and tQ, check the growth of
the present enormous 'sffsaT iis:, 7 re-
commend that the Law be go amended
that real and personal property, snbjeSt
to taxation, shall be sold at public sale,
by the County Treasurers, within thirty
days utter the. same shall have become
delinquent under the tax levy-the per,
sonai property to1 be first exhausted, if
necessary. to satisfy the tag, before sale;
is'made of the realty-and that bonds
OF the State be taken in payment at par
TOR all real estate purchased at delipr
quent land sales. I further recommend
that the several County Treasurers shall
De authorized and required to give absoi
Lutte titles to all real estate and personal
property so sold, within sixty days after
the date OF such sale; that the State shall
warrant and defend such titles, and they
shall be held and taken by oil courM ID
the State as titles in fee simple: and that,
in all legal proceedings, the said courts
shall be concluded by said titles as to all
matters tonohing any irregularity that
may have b5en had in connection with
snchH shles, and which may he alleged
against the validity Of tile said titles.
This provision. us to time OF sale and re.
demption, not to apply to the property
OF minors and persons who are non com.
pos n1ertfs, or confined in publi5 prisons!
would also urge that the provision of
law requiring County Auditors to pur-
chase lands for the State, at delinquent
land sales, be repealed, and that all su6h
lands, heretofore purchased by the
State be sold without delay, subject to
the claims Of those who may hold any of
such lands under the State lease, as pro-
vided by law, should there be any such
unexpired leases ut the time of sale.i az
AS an evidence of the need Of addi-
tional legislation to enable the State TO
realize the delinquent taxes, I mention
the fact that tho amounts due on the
arrear lists, for the years 1868, 1859 and
1870. aggregate 81. 1877, ,4S3. a75Fi ~"
SALE OF STATE LANDS.
further recommend that the lands
purchased by the Land Commission. and
oil other lnnds owned by the State. .be
sub-divided into suitable areas, and sold
ut an enrly period, ut n rate per acre to
be liked by law, according to classifica
tion, and that bonds of the State be
taken in payment, at par, for oil such
lands. The State lands are now estimat
ed to be worth $1,000, 900, minimum
valuation. 1l r.,'.7 !,
ttj sal THE KU KLUX. .t
The existing intervention of the mill
tary power of the United States, for the
suppression of domestic violencep in
the State, demands that should review
ths causes that have made the interven
ton necessary. perform this dut,
with deep sense of humiliation. as NJ
American citizen, and with profound re-
gret as the Chief Magistrate of Soutl
Carolina. It had long been the boasteo
our political system, founded, .as it is
upon the expressed will of the people
that the peaceful agencies Of the Law
were alone sufficient for the protectio,
OF life and property. When, therefore
1t becomes necessary for the civil au
thoritles to invoke the aid of the mill
tary, for the protection of the Citizen il
the exercise of his vested rights, it is
declaration to the world TINT within th
limits of the State crime triumpts .ovo
law. That suoh is the fact, is justly du
to no act of the present State Govern
ment. 1t has assailed no private right
and committed no public wrong, and al
ways remembering that it was establish
ed to advance the interests of the Who'll
people. it cannot, with justice, b
charged with ever having wantonly in
]ured citizen, either in his person o
estate. .t
The members of the Constitutions
Convention of 1868, with remarkabl
unanimity. excluded from the new con
stitution every proscriptSve feature, and
by its provisions, no citizen was dis
franohised, and every GLASS of person
and property WAS guaranteed the euus
protection Of the laws. The administro
ton elected under that constitution en-
deavored faithfully to reflect the gene
rous spirit of its trainers. Impelled b
my own personal sentiments, no less tha
byi what 1 deem wise, public policy,
saw In the men who had rebelled agains
the National Government, only the citi
zens OF my country, who, if they ha
done much wrong, had also, as oonse
quenoe, endured much suffering, and
sought TO win them back to bette
feeling, that all GLASSES of ouri citizen
might dwell together as brethren, unde
the shelter of common mansion. an
that the united efforts of the Who'll
might be directed to lifting the State u
from the universal prostration oaused b
the wanton acts of part.
Actuated by these motives, and as
testimony that, the new administratio
was neither partisan nor vindiotive. i
my first message to the General Assem-
bly,. II used tha folio c< La =, .x.,ae.s -, ID,