Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1871-10-05
STIEN NDCAT@ HERALD AND ADV IEI2I7

under strong escorts of United States
troops" their families unprogidcd for and
thir crops left exposed. and in default of
heavy bail are crowded in TO noisome and
filthy jails where they have to endure the
pangs of thirst and hunger, or are bailed
to appear for trial at distaLt court.
where the Judge informs the grand jury
that "these laws Cypress nobody. They
are intended neither to disturb nor affect
any person who is not an enemy to the
peace and quiet of the State, and who is
not himself lawless."
Turning to the internal condition of our
own beloved State, we see much to excite
our gratitude and inspire us with hope
The laws of our own making are purely
adm in istered and faithfully executed her
public revenues are honestly applied, and
quiet nd order reign throughout her bor-
ders. Yet it cannot be den led that taxa
ton presses with heavy weight upon our
impoverished people. These offering
thus entailed is apt to engender popular
discon tent, and no arts will be omitted by
false aud INSCRIPTIONS adversary to
foment and increase it. The funding bill
is made point of attack. BY public
resolution, these Radicals sincerely de-
plore the unjust and oppressive legislation
and earnestly enjoin upon all good citi-
Gems the necessity of supporting such
mvu fur the next Legislature as will
labor for the welfare OF the white people,
irrespective of class" But if censure be
due :or this mode of attempting to re,
suscitate the public credit, on whose
shoulders should it fall. The Journal of
the House of Delegates shows that of the
100 votes cast on the passage of the bill,
only thirty-seven Conservative members
voted for it, VIII lie forty-two voted against
it, and that Of the forty-two Radical votes
cast every vote was for the bill, and not
one against it. The Senate Journal
shows sixteen Conservative votes for the
bill and nine against it, and nine Radical
votes for it and one against it, while in
the two IIonses fifty one Conservative
votes out of a total of ninety-Gve voted
against it, every Radical vote, to-wit, fifty
one, was cast in its favor, except that of
the colored Senator from Cumberland,
who stood out from his party and. voted
against it. 1t is thus clear that the Rad
ical party in the Legislature had it in
their power to pass or reject the bill, and
that they chose TO pass it. Again, one.
fifth of the Eet revenue of the State, in
Guiding the whole capitation tax amount
ing, in the aggregate, to nearly $500. 600
is by the act of the LIST session, set aside
for free school purposes. 1t is the black
Radical population whose condition is
supposed to necessitate this expenditure,
to detray which they contribute almost
nothing. Add to this the local taxes for
public schools. and school officers aud
teachers, school houses and school books,
made free will ofeping, in a time of
great public distress, to elevate and ed
ucate not only white but black children,
who would alsosbe destitute ofthe necessa-
ry means, and it will be apparent how
much this complaint of class Legislation
becomes the source from which it proceeds.
But another pressure upon our recources
is too sensibIy felt to be omitted in this
connection. Township treasurers super
visors. clerks, assessors, collectors, CON-
missioners of roads aud others, Gin addi-
ton 10 the county officers formerly held
to be all sfficient.) accumulate a load of
local expense which a Radical Constltu-
ton renders necessary, to say nothing Of
the expense and intolera;e annoyance of
electing them all. We have no general
statistics on the subject, but simple sum
in arithmetic applied to single county
OF city, and then extended to all the co an
ties of the State, would futher demon
strae the weight under which the State
is staggering.
But no matter what there mar be that
is painful and burdensome in our situa-
ton would it not be intensified thous-
and fold should we suffer orr State to
sink under carpet bag and negro rule ?
Look at the State subjected to that most
unbearable evil that ever was forced on
refined and civilized people. The soul is
sick with every days report of fraud
and wrong which comes to us from their
unhappy borders. Even in the matter
of State taxation (by no means the most
grinding oppression they suffer- the fol-
lowing statement, compiled from reliable
sources, will show that the carpet-bag
and negro governments who rule them
have in three years piled up a debt Of
several handred millions on people whose
ability to pay taxes has been diminished
over half by the war: