The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-02-06


sam adams and Miss .4b5ie ~. smith.
Mr.. Robert &. Winthrop and Mr. Josiah
Quincy, two OF the most eminent citizens OF
Boston, eloquently extolled al the Centennial
meeting IN Faneuil Hall the men Of hundred
years ago who threw the tea overheard, and
led the American Revolution to the cry, Tax
alton without representation Is tyranny
They justly praised Sam Adams, and we all cry
amen. We invite the attention OF the dlstin-
gulshed gentlemen to Sam Adams redtCiruS-
Sam Adams in the person OF Miss Abby H.
smith, of Glastonbury, Connecticut. Miss
Smith and her sister own farm in that town.
They are honest, Industrious, useful citizens,
but they have been oppressed exactly as sam
Adams was. King George and his ministers
and his redcoats have also re-appeared in
Glastonbury In the form OF the town-meeting
and the town-constabe. Miss smith. like Sam
Adams, has protested. She has appeared be-
fore the town-meeting, and stated that the
owners Of part Of the property in the town
tax the owners Of the other part without con-
sulting them, and enforce their will. 1t Is not
denied, she said that she and her sister man
age their property as well as their neighbors
80 far as the laws permit. Is 1t more just or
right she asks, 20 take woman's property
without her consent than mans without his
consent Taxation without representation Is
tyranny, exclaims Miss Smith. sam Adams
says amen. What do the eloquent Mr.. Win
throp and Mr.. Quincy say
King George Is as contemptuous at Glasten-
bury as he used TO be at Windsor and at st.
Jamess. On the LIST of January he sent Gen.
Gage, in the form OF the collector, TO sell Miss
Smiths property to pay the taxes which had
been laid upon 1t without any voice having been
allowed to her. She asked that he would be-
gin by selling the part OF the farm that was
farthest from the house. Gen. Gage replied
that he must first take personal property, &C
cordlng to law. lie therefore took seven OF
the eight Attorney cows belonging 10 Miss
Smith and her sister. They pleaded hard Tor
respite until they could petition to be allowed
to own their land as men owned theirs Noi
was delay unprecedented, tor the town had
waited for its taxes from a factory company
for several years. There was no risk IN wait
ing, but the collector would not listen. There
are g, QUO due the town for taxes" SAID Miss
Smith, from voters who are released by pay.
ing twelve per cent. interest. Give us the
same indulgence" 3ut the collector answe re-
by taking seven Attorney cows, and on th,
eighth day afterward the best four Of then
we're sold below their value to pay the tax anC
expenses. Miss Smith ends her letter. il
which these facts are stated, by saying, "a
, the town now manage our property we mus
soon be forced 10 the poor-house, and none al
better acquainted with its inmates"
This story has excited much attention il
New England. The Boston Advertiser remind
/ the authorities OF Glastonbury that their con
duct will De carefully watched, The Provi
dence Journal advises every paper that com
! ments upon the subject to send marked cop.
to the officers of the town. And the Spring
I field Republican says that such a protest
worth great many conventions and docu
l ments. The common reply will be, Let tn
foolish women pay their taxes, and then the
can milk their COWS in peace. DR.. sam Johnso
3 said the same thing 10 Sam Adams, in littl
:, pamphlet called Toration no Tyranny. Blu
Sam Adams was nc @Sonverted, and the colon
: les were not converted, and MIR. Winthrop an
: Mr.. Quincy and all the rest of us applaud ther
|, for resisting the collector, and undertaking
Z long and doubtful and wasting war rather tina
: submit to pay taxes upon their property wh.c
they had had no voice in levyIng. But if Sal
Z Adams and George Washington would not sui
G NIT to this kind Of taxation hundred year
. ago, why should MISS Abby Smith and her sis
ter submit now? Ii it was tyranny then, is
It less tyranny now' II the Misses Smith ar
: competent to own property in fee, and to mar
e age it at their pleasure can they be logical
o considered incompetent to express an opinio
; upon the taxes which may be laid upon it
Does taxation without representation cease [
o be tyranny, and become justice, when the ia,
It ed property-owner is a woman? This Is IL
= question to which good-natured laugh at Mi.
II Anthony does not seem to be an entirely sati
n factory answer.