The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1873-12-10
Collecting Taxes Under Kellogg,

lie Is worth while to show, for the ed.
fhcation OF those who think the South.
e'n people FESTIVE without cause, what
SORT OF taxes are collected Just now ia
louisiana, and under what sort of laws
Kellogg sends forth his steamboats,. his
Gatlln guns, and lis armed metronoli.
tans to enforce their prompt payment
The New Orleans Times of the 10Th
has an article showing that piece Of
property worth $4,000 in 1850. but
which now wonld not fetch more than
S2,oO0, was assessed in that year $50
TOR State taxes, bnt now has to nav
Si0O. This tax Of 500 on a value OF
$500, equal to 4 per cent, is collect
pa by force of arms by an usurpinc
government under the eighth section
OF Act No. AZ, passed by fictitious
legislature on March ID, 1883. This
section provides "tlat the tix-payers
who are now or shall become delin-
quent by the non-payment of taxes on
real estate, as provided in this act: and
shall have been so returned to the Au-
ditor of Public Accounts, the Auditor
shall publish in the official journal of
tue parish in which such delinquent re-
sides, or by public notice when tbere is
no official Journal, by three insertions
within ten days, the name, residence
of, and amount due from such delin
quent taxpayer, and such delinquent
taxpayer shall after thirty days, FOR
FELT HIS RIGHT TO BRING SUIT, OR BE
WITNESS FOR OR IN HIS OWN BEHALF
before any justice, parish or district or
State court, and erery court haring juris-
dictiOn iCithin the State shall DENY AND
REFUSE TO ISSUE a ciuil process Of ANY
KIND OR NATURE WHATEVER in lis ovn
name or for has ovn benefit until he shall,
y a resident Of the parish of Orleans.
haze procured from the Audifor Pub
lie accounts, or # q resident of a country
parish from the tar- collector thereof; a
certificate setting forth that alt such
claims for delinquent tares and costs
thereon against said delinquent tar-pay-
ers hare been paid"
In other words, If this twenty fold
tax, laid by bogus legislature for the
support of fraudulent government,
and in possible payment of the interest
upon swindIiug debts, should by any
chance not be paid within thirty days
alter three advertisements in some OBJ
scure paper, or failing that, by hand
bill upon tree or gate-post, the delin-
quent taxpayer is outlGtced. Kellosg's,'
metropolitans may enter into and pos
sess his property. He cannot 60 to
court to eject them. They may cast
him into prison as an absconding debt
or. He cannot extricate himself; he
has no standing whatever in court I'M
iii he "shows his pass" Not only does
the fact of his delinquency deprive him
of his equity Of redemption; it shuts
him out from all appeal against injus-
tice aud tyranny He is reduced be-
low the level of the free negro former
", who could not sue unless he showed
bis "freedom papers," He can only go
into court upon the standing ola stick
ct -leave," and if he should happen
to not have that when thrown into
prison upon civil process he cannot get
out by the habeas corpus even. fla de-
linquent should happen to be delin-
quent through bad or abscondipg
debtor the act cuts him off FROM an
remedy against t hat debtor. If he|
should be nonresident or temporari
" absent he can be sold up without re-
dress. This is the way Kellogg col
lects bis taxes, and this the way Grants
proteges are governing the South MI
Y. World.