The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1874-12-03
THE TIME FOR ACTION.
TO the Rescue, Frcemen: TO the
Rescue.

'CoME AS THE WAVES COME WHEN NAvIEs ARE
STRANDED,
CONE AS THE WINDS CONE WHEN FORESTS ARE
RENDED."
The argument is exhausted. The hour
for action has come No elaborate logic il
required to convince a people who are
staggering under an insupportable bur
then that the weight is upon their
shoulders. The CHASTITY row of figures
which stares the taxpayer in the face,
and warns him that the process of con-
fscation is going on, is argument enough
to convince him that his wife and chill
dren are to be turned out of doors and
beggared, unless something is done, and
done quickly, to avert the catastrophe.
The farmer who, since January last, has
been toiling in winters cold and sum-
mers' heat-through all the vicissitudes
of the seasons-fnds that the proceeds of
his crop are all gone to pay his current
expenses after the most economical man.
agement, and that there is not pittance
left to satisfy the demand of the tax.
collector, who tells him that his property
is to be distrained or the demand must
be met to the last cent. And he knows
that he has been brought to this direful
extremity by the operation of system
by which the burdens of taxation have
been increased SIXTEEN HUNDRED
PER CENT. since the war left one class
of our people (the whites) wrecked in
their fortunes, and the other class (the
blacks) with nothing whatever on which
to rely for their living but their industry
and muscle.
Since the war, not less than THIRTY
MILLIONS OF DOLLARS have been
expended under pretence of carrying on
our State and county governments, and
what is there to show for all this i'm
mense expenditure There are no pub
lie improvements worth speaking of. The
laws are piled like Pelion on Ossa, a con-
fused mass of contradictions and absurd
ties. The people are poorer to-day than
they were seven years ago, notwithstand-
ing all their sacrifices and hard strug-
CLING with adversely.
Can they be expected to endure these
burthens longer? The wrongs for which
our English ancestry brought the head
of Charles the First Ito the block, are
trivial compared to these we now suffer
Let the people present their grievances
to the Legislature, and ask that they be
redressed. They want reduction of the
present tax laws, and they want relief |
from the pains and penalties which they
will have already incurred on the 18th of
January for their misfortune in not being
able to pay the taxes that have accumu-
lated the present year. Let them assem-
BILE in their primary meetings take
counsel together, and send up to the
Capital on the 4th of January, delega-
tons of honest, earnest men, thoroughly
imbued with the importance of their mis-
sion.
The following are some of the respon-
ses which have been made to the call for
he Convention. Let others that have
1ot spoken, make themselves heard.
There is no time to be lost, and there
will be no excuse for those who consult
heir own ease and stay away from a
work which vitality interests every tax
payer in the State:
from the Chickasaw Messenger.l
In view of the fact that taxes have be-
,ome more onerous than can possibly be
'orne, the undersigned citizens and tax
'ayers of Chickasaw county, with the
rope that some thing can be done to re-
ieve the people of this terrible buden,
arnestly call upon every taxpayer,
White or colored of said county to meet | ,
hem at the Courthouse in the town of
On MONDAY, THE nth DAY OF De-
CEMBER, 1874.
for the purpose of organizing
Taxpayers LEAGUE,
nd electing a delegate to the taxi payers