The Greenville enterprise. [volume] (Greenville, S.C.) 1870-1873, 1871-04-12

sIl. The fraud and steala9e
which may be practicee in Issuing
these sterling bonds, carnot be
ioreseen or calculated. Four
hnpdred Thousand dollars before
the war paid the whole expenses
OF the State government. This
year taxes to the 5. amount of
$4,000,000 have been levied rby
the Legisiai ure for the same bur.
pcse And The county cont mission.
ers viii have to lcyy 81 ,O0O. 900
more Tor, county expenses. ga .'@'
How can these enor .,,ous taxes ,,ua
DO paid . A poor man in this
county had to sell, the other, day,
his only milch COW, to paw his
taxes. The. tax abooks are closed
for Greenville County, and more
than one-balf of the taxpayers
have been unable TO paw their tax.
es. The poor man told me that
he formerly paid fifty cents taxes
on his land, aud this year he had
to pay S15 on the same land
Another tax is called for IN No
vcmber. Tie last years crop las
been exhausted in paying the
present taxes, and, until another
crop is made, the people are at.
terly unable to pay the taxes call.
cd for in November.
The State bond fraudulcn,Iv
issued 10 fund the State bank bills
which were pursbased up by
Northerns capitalists at ten cents on
the dollar, should be repndiated.
and also the railroad bonds. with
Let tile purcnasers VI these 'pon,Is
beware Of what they are doing. =
There is no moral obligation on
the part of the taxpayers to re.
deem bonds fraudulentIy issued
and stolen.
would urge on the people of
South Carolina to be quiet, and
by all means presei We the peace
OF the State. Tie Radical party
is going down rapidly at tho
North, rs is proven by the New
hampshire election. ANY out.
break at this time, in any of the
Southern States, would be n God
send to that party. II the South.
ern people will only be prudent.
the next Presidential election will
result in the deihronemeht Of Grn.
eral Grant and the election of a
Democrat to the PresIdential
chair. Then ii,c,o will l.. L..rn
for the republic. Those unprinci.
Piled adventurers from tile North,
who have stirred up bad feeling be
tween the colored and white race,
will flee, like criminals from Jus
tice, with their stolen wealth. =,
The scalnwag traitors to race and
country will so' n follow. and he
negroes will live in harmony with
the whites. But If General
Grant can stir up bloody strife
in tie South by senuing his ar.
mics here, he stands a chance of
reelection, by appealing to the
hatred, passion and prejudice of
the North and West. This mill.
tary President says that lie sends
his army here 20 protect tho prop.
cr;y and lives Of loyal citizens,
when it is notorious fact that all
the property which has been dcs-
troycd in South Carolina since the
war, (and it has amounted to mill
lions.) belonged to those whom he
would stigmatize as "disloyaI," )"
distranchised, white Democrats.
Every week and every day We
hear of houses, barns, gin.houses
and stores being destroyed and
robbed by the midnight incendia>
~, whose loyalty General Grant
would not dispute. Hundreds of
these loyal citizens " are now in
tho penitentiary and well protect.
ed. Some few of them may have
been hung BY the neck, by way Of
retaliation for their incendiarism.
But Grants army will prove una
bic to prevent the crime or the
retaliation. B. F. PERRY.
EIGnT TO SIxTEEN.--.Lord Shafts
bury recently stated in a public
meeting In London, that, from per.
sonal observation, lie has ascer.
tanned that Of adult male criminals
OF tlIat city, nearly all had fallen
into course Of crime between the
ages of eight and sixteen years +;
aid that if q young man lives All
honest life up to twenty years of
age, there were forty,nine chances
10 favor Of one against him, ne to
an honorable lite hereafter. This
is fact Of singular importance to
fathers and n,othefa. and. sLove N