Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-01-13
MISSISSIPPI.
Holding the Mirror up TO Nature-The
Doom that Awaits Indifference.
Mississippi Following in the Footsteps Of
South Carolina.

South Carolina.
Crushing and Grinding Taxation, an
Yet no Money in the Treasury.
From the Jackson Clarlon.l
Mississippi is following in the foot
steps of South Carolina. Her take
have been enormous since the com
/ mencement of the Carpetbag Scala
wag era. At that time she was com
! paTatively out of debt. Her outstand
/ ing warrants on the Treasury did no
| exceed two hundred and twenty-five
! thousand dollars. II the State govern
meut had been economically admins
/ tered, this sum would have been can
celed and every dollar of warrant
would have been paid by the Treasure
on demand at one-fOurth the pTesen
rate of taxation. As it is. the State in
debtedness for ordinary expenditure
cannot be less than two million dollars
1t is more likely TO exceed that sum.
AT the last session Of the Legislator;
the Conservatives succeeded in procur
ing the passage Of bills reducing salaries
and curJailing expenditures. If the
acting Governor had signed these bills
il is estimated that two hundred anl
twenty-five thousand dollars would have
been saved TO the taxpayers, and no.
body but the Treasury cormOrants would
have been incommOded. As il is, the
burden viii fall upon the already over
taxed 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
suckers, viii be sacrificed.
We predict when the Legislature
meets, notwithstanding the excessive
taxes and the grinding exactiOns of the
law devised for their collections by the
descendants Of the daughters of the
hOrse-leech who are in the control of our
State government, it will be informed
that expenditures have exceeded re-
ceipts, and that the screw must have an
other turn on the unfortunate victims of
carpetbag and scallawag rascality and
rapacity.
If this condition of affairs in Missis-
sippi is 10 last, her doom may be read in
the fate which has overtaken South
Carolina. 1t has often been depicted in
our columns but not more graphically
than in the inaugural of the recently
elected scalawag sGovernor who OBJ
tanned his nomination by bribery. Hear
him:
THE SEALS or THE PEsTILENCE.
The face of immigrants is turned
away from our State, and capital.
which sets labor in motion, and creates
the manufactures which contribute to
the comfort and the elevation of man,
shrinks back from US, as if the seals of
pestilence were UrUKen, and its viaIs
out upon this beautiful land of
ours. Hence, nearly three fourths of
our vast territorial area, embracing not
less than thirty-siX thousand square
miles, lie fallow to-day.
And in a special message on the fin
ances Of the State, he says:
THERE IS NO MONEY
in the Treasury with which to meet
either the current expenses of the State
ing liabilities. The necessities of the
several charitable, educational and pen
al institutions which have been so urg-
snt for many months past still remain
All this happened under a sytem of
taxation as veXatiOus and eXacting as
hat which unfortunate Mississippi is
now suffering. Besides, public debt has
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he amount of twenty-five million of
iollaTs-fOr the expenditure Of which
here is nothing whatever to show. The
is a prey TO the vultuTes
who are feeding on its vitals, and it is
plunged into an abyss of debt and bar
larism from which nothing short of
revolution can rescue il.
The following extracts from the letter
Df correspondent of the New York
Herald will further illustrate the condi-
lion Of that unfortunate people:
A SPECTACLE FOR GODS AND MEN.
The Legislature of South Carolina is
4 spectacle for gods and men. 1t is as
corrupt as Albany in the palmiest days
If Tweed, as motley as a street riot, and
{ is getting no better" very fast. |
south Carolina has about eleven hun
ired miles Of railroad, and had carpet
Jagging been of any honest enterprise
he State would have eXerted itself for
with the West across
he Alleghanies.
ONE OF THE VULTURES.
A man who is generally charged with
bonds in South Carolina
8 Nagle, a South Garolinian, who was
hought to have amassed between two
Millions and three millions Of dollars, !
u fully as much as Governor Scott.
DECREASE OF POPULATION AND PRO- |
DUCTION.
In all South Carolina there are only |
light thousand foreigners out Of seven |
hundred and six thousand people. The |
population has not increased since 1850. /
here are two hundred and fifteen thou |
and less cattle, tWenty-seYen thousand |
ess horses; the wool has declined 10 the 4
.mOuntOf TWO hundred and ndseventythou-
and pounds. The bonds are quoted at /
hirty cents or less, and the cotton yield |
5 bat two hundred and thirty thousand
lales. IL is the opinion of some people |
hat South Carolina will become wholly /
legro, and that the new generation OIL
whites viii decamp from the State and
o where they can have an equal vote
q the Government.
CORRUPTION RAMPANT.
1t is amazing that man can have the
ace to sit in the United States Senate
nder the condition in which Patterson
viii 60 there. Bribery is alleged TO
ave been used at this election even TO
be extent of taking receipts for the
Tibes, so that If the SenatOr-elect
hould be indicted he could threaten
nth these receipts the members who
ad taken bribes
Mississippians, read your doom; or
1rm your resolve to rid yourselves Of
arpetbag rule, and avert it.
Another phase Of the case in which
liss Carlotta +. ShOtwell charged Geo.
!. Everett with ahstracting valuable
0nds and papers from her trunk in
hicago was developed to-day. 1t ap-
eals that the bonds were sent to Frank
V. Brooks, President of the Seal Lock
Of this city. Miss ShOtWell
applied for a warrant for the
rrest Of Brooks, which was granted.
he bonds We're not found with him.
appears that he delivered them
few days since TO Superintendent {
elso, saying he was requested to do so
Y some unknown party. Besides the !
inds Miss Shotwell lost a number Of &
iiuaDle papers, and these have not yet