The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-01-09
HoIaing abe mirror Up 10 Nature.

Holding uhe Mirror Up TO Nature.
Mississippi is following 1.-THE footsteps
of South Carolina. Her taxes have
been enormous since the commencement
of the Carpet-Bag-Scallawag era At
that time, she was comparatively out of
debt. Her outstanding warrants OIL the
Treasury did not exceed S225, 900. If
the State government had been economi-
cally administered, this sum would have
been cancelled and every dollar of war
rants would have been paid by the
Treasurer on demand at one-fourth the
present rate of taxation. As it is, the
State Indebtedness for ordinary expendi-
lures cannot be less than 81, 900, 900. 1t
is more likely to exceed that sum.
At the last session of the Legislature
the Conservatives succeeded in procuring
the passage OF bills reducing salaries and
curtailing expenditures. If the acting
Governor had signed these bills, it is es-
timated that s225,O would have been
saved to the taxpayers, and nobody but
the Treasury cormorants would have
been iRcommoded. As it is, the burden
will fall upon the already overtaxed labor
and capital of the State.
The laws in force for the collection of
taxes are of the most rigorous and bar
barous character. The time honored
privilege of redemption is taken from
the citizen and he must satisfy the in
exorable demands of the collector or
suffer the penalty of confscation. In
this way, We apprehend many estates
which would be valuable but for the
burden laid upon them by the blood-suck-
ers, will be sacrificed.
We predict that when the Legislature
meets, Notwithstanding the excessive
taxes and the grinding exactions of the
law devised for their collection by the
descendants of the daughters of the
horse-leech who are in control of our
State government, it will be informed
that expenditures have exceeded receipts
| and that the screw must have another
turn on the unfortunate victims of carpet
bag and scallawag rascality and rapacity.
If this condition of affairs in Missis-
sippi is to last, her doom may be read in
the fate which has overtaken South Ca
rolIna. 1t has often been depicted in
our columns hut not more graphically
than in the inaugural of the recently
elected scallawag Governor who obtained
his nomination by bribery. Hear him
THE SEALS OF THE PEsTILENCE.
The face of immigrants is turned away
| from our State, and capital, which sets
labor in motion, and creates the manufac-
lures which contribute to the com tort and
the elevation of man. shrinks back from us.
as If the seals of pestilence were broken.
and its vials emptied out upon this beauti-
ful land OF ours. Hence. nearly three
fOurthS of our vast territorial area. embra-
cling not less than $4,000 square miles, lie
fallow to-day.
And in a special message on the fnan-
ces of the State, he says:
THERE Is NC MONEY
in the Treasury with which to meet either
the current expenses of the State Govern
ueDL or lis large ana outstanding liabilities.
The necessities of the several charitable,
educational and penal institutions which
have been so urgent for many months past
still remain unsatistied.
All this has happened, under a system
Of taxation as vexatious and exacting as
that which unfortunate Mississippi is
now suffering. Besides, public debt has
been incurred by the role of bonds to the
amount of $4,000, 900 of do!lars-for
the expenditure of which there is nothing
whatever to show. The commonwealth
is prey to the vultures who are feeding on
its yitals, and it is plunged into an abyss
of debt and barbarism from which moth
ing short of revolution can rescue it.
The following extracts from the letter
of a correspondent of the New York
Herald will further Illustrate the condi-
ton of that unfortunate people:
SPECTACLE FOR GODS AND MEN
The Legislature of South Carolina is a
spectacle for gods and men. 1t is corrupt
Albany in the palmiest days of Tweed. as
motley as a street riot, and it is getting no
better very fast South Carolina has about
carpet bagging been of any honest enter
prise the state would have eXerted itself
for communication with the West across
the AlleghanieS.
ONE OF THE VULTURES.
\ man who is generally charged with
manipulating bonds in South Carolina is
Maggie, a South Carolinian, who was thought
to have aInassed between two millions and
three million of dollars, or fully as much as
Governor Scott.
DECREASE Of POPULATION AND PRODUCTION
In all South Carolina there are only 5000
foreigners out of FOG 900 people. The pop
ulation has not increased since 1860: there
are 215,000 less cattle, q 600 less horses the
wool has declined to the amount of 270. 900
pounds. The bonds are quoted at thirty
cents or less, and the cotton Weld is bnt
100000 bales. 1t is the opinion of some peo-
pie that South Carolina will become wholly
negro. and that the new generation of whites
will decamp from the State and 90 where
they can have an equal vote in the govern
ment.
CORRUPTION RAMPANT.
1t is amazing that man can have the |
face to sit in the United States Senate under
the condition in which Patterson will 90 |
used ut this election even to the extent of |
taking receipts for the brides. so that if the |
Senator elect should be indicted he could |
threaten with these receipts the members |
who had taken brides. r
Mississippians read your doom; or
form your resolve to rid yourselves of
carpet-bag rule and avert it.