The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1871-11-29

carried out, will secure the payment of taxes
on classes Of property hitherto practically e2-
empt from taxation, and tend 10 utilize all le-
gllimate sources of State revenue. The bulk
| OF the cotton and rice Is shipped from the
| State or sent to market, in the interregnum
between the annual assessment OF taxes, and
| is thus practically exempted from taxation,
contributing but q small share to the amount
of revenue derived from the tax on personal
property. tax on these important and Valu-
| BILE products, such as they may reasonaoly
bear without checking production, anu, az ac,
| for, and the necessary measures enacteo " iu'
sure its collection with certainty.
The Phospnats Deposits.
This vast natural source Of revenue has not
| vet heen utilized, but a comparatively small
| TTevenne having thus far been derived from IL
bv the State. I recommend that some proper
officer be designated by law whose duty II
shall be, by actual inspection and measure.
ment. TO- ascertain the number OF tons OF
nhosphate belonging to the State, that are ex-
ccayated by the several chartered companies,
and to certify and to collect the royalty due
| upon the same.
recommend that all persons engaged in
the sale OF liquors. and all merchants, factors,
lawyers and physicians be required to take out
State license.
1nsuranc C0mpanless
A tax should be levied on all premiums re-
celved by insurance companies.
Tax ON Railroad Tonnage.
All the most important railroad companies
In this State pay no taxes upon their properly.
I earnestly recommend that tax be levied on
every railroad company In the State tor every
passenger and every ton OF relgn1 trans'
ported.
To enforce the more prompt payment OF the
taxes, and to check the growth OF the present
enormous arrear list, recommend that tne
law be so amended that real ana personal
property, subject to taxation, shall De SOLO at
bubble sale, by the county treasurers, within
thirty days after the same shali nave become
DELINQUENT under the tax levy-the personal
property to be first exhausted, II necessary, 70
satisfy the tx, before sale is made OF the re-
alty-and thct bonds Of the State be taken IN
payment at par for all real estate purchased at
delinquent land sales. / further recommend
that the several county treasurers shall oe ao-
thorized aud required to give absolute titles 70
ali real estate and personal property so sold,
within sixty days after the date OF sucn sale;
that the State shall warrant and defend such
titles, and they shall be held and taken by all
courts in the States as titles In fee simple; and
that, In all legal proceedings, the said courts
shall be concluded by said titles as 10 all mat
been had in connection with such sales, and
which may be alleged against the validity OF
the said titles. This provision, as to time OF
sale and redemption, not to apply to the prop
erty of minors and persons who are non compos
nentis, or confined In public prisons.
would also urge that the provision OF law
requiring county auditors to purchase lanos
for the State, at delinquent land sales, be re-
pealed, and that all such 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
provided by law, should there by any such un-
expired leases at the time OF SALE
Amount OF Taxes In Arrsar.
Asan evidence of the need of additional legis-
lation to enable the State to realize the delin-
ouent taxes, mention the facts that the
amounts. due on the arrear lists, for the years
1868, 1863 and 1870, aggregate one million one
hundred and thirty-sevsn thousand four. hun
dred and thirty-three isl, ,lS7 ,433) dollars.
Sale OF State Lands.
further recommend that the lands pur-
chased by the land commission, and all other
lands owned BY the State, be subdivided Into
suitable areas, and sold at an early period, at
rate per acre to be fixed by law, according 10
classification, and that bonds OF the State be
taken In payment, at par, for all such lands.
The State lands are now estimated to- be
worth one million q, ,ooO. .OOO) dollars, at min
imum valuation.
The Ku-Klux.
The existing intervention. of the military
power of the United States, for the suppress
sion of domestic violence" In the State, de-
mands that should review the causes that
have made that Intervention necessary.
perform this duty with deep sense of humilia-
ton as an American citizen; aud win w pro pro,
Carolina. 1t had long been the boast of our
political system, founded as IL Is upon the ex.
pressed will of the people, that the peaceful
agencies of the aw were alone sufficient for
the protection of life and property. When,
therefore, 1t becomes necessary tor the civil
authorities to invoke the aid OF the military,
for the protection OF the citizen IN me exercise
of his vested rights, 1t Is q declaration to the
world that, within the limits of the State,
crime triumphs over law. That such Is the
fact Is Justly due to no act Of the present State
Government 1t has assailed no private right,
and committed no public wrong, and always
remembering that 1t was establishes TO ad.
vance the Interests OF the whole people, 1t
cannot, with justice. be charged with ever
having wantonly injured citizen either in
his person or estate.
TIE members of the Constitutional Conven-
tion OF 1868, with remarkable unanimiiy, ex.
cluded from the new constitution every pro-
scriptive feature, and by Its provisions no citl-
zen was disfranchised, and every class OF per.
sons and property was guaranteed The equal
protection of the laws. The administration
elected under that constitution endeavored
faithfully to reflect the generous spirit OF its
trainers. Impelled by my own personal sentl-
ments, no less than by what deemed wlse
public policy, saw in the men who had re-
belled against the National Government only
the citizens OF my country, who, II they had
done much wrong, had also, as consequence,
endured much suffering. and sought to win
them back to better feeling, that all classes
of our citizens might dwell together as breth-
rem, under the shelter OF common mansion,
and that the united efforts OF the whole might
be directed to lifting the State up from the
universal prostration caused by the wanton
acts OF a part.
Actuated by these motives, and as testimo
nv that the new administration was neither
partisan nor vindictive, in my first message to
the Generally Assembly used the following
language on the subject Of political disabili-
| ties:
81 wCuld earnestly Recommend that your hon
oraole body WILL at an early period, m-morialize
Congress to relieve every citizen Of south Caroli
ma from all political disabilities. 81 make this
recommendation the more readily from the fact
| this State who have committed infamous onences
against the laws Of war"
trThe statute Of disfrauchis ement was; doubt.
less wise and proper at the earlier stage OF recon
struction and Justly marked the nations abhor-
renee OF those who, having been the trusted
leaders II the people, had led them into rebellion
against the benign government OF their county.
Yet the continuance or such disfranchisement
would be an anomaly under our Republicas :
,r,tau, hooad NON ,i0rrrine universal snf.