Dallas herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1849-1873, 1871-09-09
REpoRToE THE COMMITTEE.

Having assembled in mass meeting for
the purpose Of appointing delegates to the
State Tax Payers Convention, to meet in
Austin on the 22d of September, inst.
We the voters and Taxpayers of Dallas
county, deeply impressed with the unnec-
essary and enormous amount Of taxation
now demanded Of the people, and the NAL
administration of the State government in
shndry important particulars, take this
methJl of setting forth our grievances, and
our views of the mode and measure of re-
dress. In doing SO, we declare, as honora-
bic and free man, in the most solemn man
ncr, not only our willingness, but our earn.
est desire to live at peace as law abiding
citizens; to sustain the constitutions of tho
United States, and of the State of Texas,
and all laws passed in accordance with
and to carry out their provisions, so long
as such laws remain legally in force and
that we sincerely desire to see removed all
barriers to q full re.establishment of that
harmony, freedom and civil law sutrema.
cy which existed among our people In for
iner times; and we believe such 10 be the
feelings and Sentiments OF the great mass
Of our fellow .citifens Throughout the State
Of Texas. Such being the facts, we are OPP
posed to tho buF:bens imposed upon rs in
tar!ous ways by several enactments of the
existing State Legislature, and others by
the Governor Of the State. Their hardship
is the more grievous from the fact that the
people Of Texas, after bearing the burthens
and the Affections Of four years desola-
ting war, and submitting in good faith to
the conquering government Of tile United
Ststes-a faith which has now been main
tanned unbroken for six-and-a half years
were governed for five years by military
power, and that, when the present Gov
ernor and Legislature were elected, large
number of the taxpayers and most worthy
citizens of the State were disfranchised and
denied voice in the selection of men TO
make and to execute the laws by which
they were 10 be governed aud taxed. Be-
yond this, we have, for thirty-fse years,
had frontier of eight hundred miles ex-
posed TO merciless savage tribes aud dis
ordered, half-oiviliEed Mexican Dor fer
population; and now, to crown our ills,
We are depressed by an unusual failure in
CROPS, at the moment the tax gatherer de-
mands an increase Of contributions wholly
without nrecedent in the ievsniful history
Of ihis. leng-strnegling. Slate
Among the items 81 taxation TO which
W are opposed and against which We, as
tax-paying and lav-sbiding citizens, do
moss ssiesinly protest. are
! lst All Appropriations aud erpsndi-
lures fer the Organisation and maintain
tanning the State Police, the Stale Guari
and the Reserved Militia. as wholly m
necessary 70 the enforcement Of the laEs,
Or the peaes and quiet Of the STATE; but.
on the contrary rs far more fruitful in
wrong than N GOOD results
ID The increase Il the nunbsr Of Dis
lrict Judges and District Attorneys. from I
% Il g. asa useless hu-fhsh wholly IN
necessary % che foil atd fair a1minisirn-
iipn = justice IN tie Stare.
3D. The saisr ies.snd ICES psid 10 Regis I
rnrs sul uapagers q eleciiens. taf m ]
Enorn il The hisiorV Ct TEXAS, unfi the
resent erernustf cAue into porsr, the j