Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1871-01-20
Grand Assumption Court.


The Grand Assumption Court at Mil
wausee. presided over by Judge Miller,
pampered fossil of the old slave power, has
rendered very important decision, or
rather decided to make its glory known
without a decision, in reference to collec-
ting taxes under the laws Of the State of
w Wisconsin,.
! The unmeritorious Genius of that court
has worshiped so long and SO ardently at
the throne of despotism, and licked the
heel of tyranny with such avidity, that
when he attempts to rise it is with chain
inone hand and scourge in the other. He is
now, under the inspiration Of Mamnion or
some other unholy incentive, cruelty APP
plying the whip and spur, the scourge and
chain to the people Of Iowa county, in or
der to make them cringe to. his arbitrary
mandates and throw off their manhood,
and like paltry mendicants give up soul
and body, pride and purse, and beg ignc-
miniously for life and bread at his hands.
What man among US, however wealthy,
can endure, year after year., to have his
granaries and folds ravaged and allfhis
hard weary toll converted into champagne
and oyster suppers for q set of voracious
cormorants, encouraged by puerle officer
of o government that has pledged its exist
ence to save him harmless in all his sacred
rights and franchises?
What man among the people butregards
with the utmost contempt those who have
spent weeks and months, and employed
every device of intrigue and chicanery tc
wash the very spirit Of life out of this
county, and blight al, its future prospects
even beyo nd the limits that mark out oul
own narrow lives, and entail upon the ris
ing generation load;of debt and encum
brance on their property thatrwill render
it worthless, and send them begging with
portmonies filled with clouded and vague
titles Of their Inheritance And not salts
fed yet, as some strange demon who
gathers strength from the wreck he leaves
behind, sells his soul for mess of pottage
and afterwards undertakes to4ace the peo
pie and tell them they have been greatly
benefited by this disaster, and they should
submit and pay for it'wiHingiy !.
What are the farmers, mechanics, and
merchants;s ard all other classes prepared
to do in this crisis judge Miller has no
more authority to order this inbuman rail
road tax incorporated into the amount OF
other county and town taxes, than he has
to order our portion ofs the State tax paid
over directly into his court The laws OF
| Wisconsin provide how our taxes shall be
levied, and not Judge Miller.
r No man can afford to pay this tax unless
he has very large surplus each year as
an income, and this being true, he would
only be able to end the year as he began
it, having made no advance W hateyer; but
if he have no surplus out Of which to pay
the tax, twill be drain on his capital
fund, and he will be left, not advancing,
not coming out even, but falling behind
each year, until poverty, pressed forward
in all its grim and relentless attitudes,
stare him sternly. in the face. 1t is no
better, no nobler, to be Impoverished in
yielding peaceaby-to violent wrong lhan
it is to be made SO in resisting. such an
outrage.
! If the innocent and unsuspecting were
once luled to sleep by an enchanting song
of prosperity, they have now a right to
throw off the spell and awake in their
might and drive from their beds the dark
spectre Of adversely aid thfyaci'J do 1t.