The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1871-04-06

On account of disturbances two months
ago between the whites and the negro
militia in Union and Lsurens counties,
South Carolina, the President has seen fit
to declare that state to be in ''insurreetion."
The truth is the people are submitting help
lessly and quietly to the terrible wrongs
hesped upon them by the radical carpet
baggers and negroes who have the state in
their clutches. Let Northern men read this
plain, unvarnished tale from official sources,
and say that if they were similarly outraged
they would not feel inclined to get up real
insGrrection:
According to the last report of the Comp
trelier General, the assessed value, for TAXA
ton, of all the real aud personal property
In the state is $lS3, 9l3, 367. And In all
these cslcu AEious II musL DO borne in mind
that 10 South Carolina real and personal
property Is every ~here taxed ct its full
market value, and is 10 many parts OF the
state taxed upon al assessment three and
four times as great IS the actual market
value. The rate OF taxation for state pur-
poses for the fiscal year 1870 Is nine mills
on the dollar. This tax Is now payable,
and is in fact overdue. The tax for the
year 1877 is seven mills on the dollar. This
tax, as the law stood, would have been pay
able in March, 1872, but at the session Just
ended the General Assembly changed the
time of collection, and made the tax OF
1871 payable In November next. The peo-
pie, therefore, are called upon to pay as
state taxes during the current year nine
mills on the dollar for 1870 and seven mills
for 1871. The tax Of nine mill amounts to
: ,641 900, and the tax of seven mills to
81 Isl 900. The people are required to pay
for state taxed between March and Move n
Der Of this year S2,92S, 000-more than
seven times as much as she state taxation
before the war, when the state was pros per-
Our aud the people were rich. But this is
not all. To the state tax must be added
the county taxes for 1870 and 1871, which
are also payable between March and No
vember. The rate county taxes for 1870 is
three mills on the dollar, with an exception
made IN favor Of seven counties which paw
i've mills. The county taxation amounts to
S0l8,OiI. For 1871 the county tax is three
mills, or $549 900. Adding the amounts
together we hud that the tax payers art
called upon to pay this year the following
amounts:
State tax, ls70...... ,....... Ga, ZOO
State tax, LOO. IS oct
unity tax, 1870 6lS,U4
county tax Isl I..." 54g, UOl
IotAl......'.,.... 0y5, O67
And even this amount is exclusive of the
poll tax of one dollar, which adds $500, 00U
TO the general estimate.
The nsgroes pay 10 tax, not even the pol
tax. OnItting from the calculation the
taxes paid by state officials, who steal with
one hand one hundred times as much a.
they pay to the state with the other, we fnd
that the white people of the state are called
upon TO pay, in about nine months, no less
than 81, $50 900, which is more than Il per
cent upon the assessed value of the pro
perty IN the state, and is ten times as much
as the gross amount of taxation before tht
war, when the assessed value of the rea
and personal property in South Carolina
according the United States census IL
1860 was $4S9, 0O0, 900, taken at far les,
than its market price. In other words
while the value of the property of the white
people Of the state is reduced from $4S9,-
900 600 to Sl53, 600, 600, the amount raised
by taxation is increased from $400, 600 Il
$4,250, 900.