The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-04-30

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She lies PROSTATE and Bleeding
Under Radical Oppression.
Shall Tennessee fall into the
Hands of these COrmOraDts?
Below we give a few facts and figures
with regard to the condition OF South
Carolina, taken from paper carefully
prepared for the New York Observer,
and editorially endorsed by that paper
as being reliable, as follows:
GIt IS a candid, careful, graphic, truth
full and astounding statement OF the
condition of things in South Carolina.
IL is prepared by one who has gone from
the North to reside in the South, and
has there studied the facts until he
knows them thoroughly. There is no
intelligent patriot in the United States
who doubts the necessity of applying
some remedy to the state of things ex-
isting there at this moment,
That the tax-paying citizens OF south
Carolina should ask the interpOsitiOn Of
the Federal government is not strange,
when the facts are known"
We invite Tennesseans to read these
astounding facts and see what radical
ism will do for people when it once gets
them in its power. Need we say more9
VIII not every sane man see the neces-
sity OF organization and concert OF ae-
ton? Read and see what we will come
20 If radicalism gets the ascendeney
through our divisions:
! From the n. Y. ObserveT.l
The fact that out Of the 125 members
of the lower branch of the Legislature
80 are coiored, and that three-fOurths OF
the Senate are colOred, Is not the ground
of complaint; but that 70 of the 80 can
neither read nor write, and that few OF
either branch possessed taxable property
when elected.
The presence at Washington of South
Cardinals representative citizens to Pc
tition the President and Congress, inau-
gurates new era in the history of the
United States. As the last hope of OPP
| pressed States, the Constitution, guar
anteeing to each ga republican form OF
government" tacitly at least permits an
appeal to the general government. This
necessity has now occurred. Only last
month Massachusetts refused to repeal
the education aud property-holding
qualifications of the suffrage laws. In
i
essentials for the preservation Of the
/ State.
Look at the financial condition. 1
can be stated I'm few words and figures
but the deplOrable consequences Il
: every interest, secular and sacred, can
not be portrayed. The taxable valua'
ton of the State of South Carolina be-
: fore the war was nearly $500, 100000
! and the tax levy was about $500, 600
By the ravages of war and emancipa
tion these values have been reduced Il
D $l75, 000, 900, while the annual tax as
= sessment is 81, 500, 900. Here is at one
j the graVamen of all complaint. Sun
t up all our grievances and the total ma.
! be thus stated: The impOverishe'
? people of South Carolina are made q
!. pay twenty times the amount of take
2 they were required to pay in their day
!, of prosperity. The mOdus operdHdi
n this: The assessors of taxes are requiT
r ed to raise a stipulated amount, whic
t the Legislature dare not raise by direC
It impOst. They are accordingly instrue
Q ted to appraise property above its value
: For example, In Legare ST.. Charleston
y is comfortable residence which wa
: never valued by the owner previous
b the war, above $4,000. It was assesse
e for taxes last year at $50, 600. 1t ha
since been sold for $1,000. AnOthe
/, house for which $1,000 was asked b
s the agent, was assessed at $4,2OO.
/, has been sole for $4,000. The heirs {
e another estate valued at 81 600, and late
|. ly sold for $500, pstitiOned to hav
Q the assessment reduced from 81, 900. In
stead. however, the assessors raised 1t
$500. From every portion of the Stat
j., the same report is rife. Sorrow an
u suffering are widespread. The educ'
" un,
i necessaries, the maintenance of OF
( churches, are all affected; all amount
Il which can be- wrung from the peOp
are sent to Columbia nomipally to
J. cast into the Treasury, for disbursement
!. in the public interest. Actually, how
II ever, vast sums are SquandeFed undo
,, the name of "claims," and but sma
y amounts of original appropriations eve
. reach the schools, charitable institl
- tiOns and public improvements for whiC
they were intended. The endurance
- our unpaid public school teachers is sui
= line.
n Nor is there any remedy. Formerly
= prohibition from collecting a dispute
assessment was permitted; now, nov
! ever, the law compels payment In ever
y case. Subsequently the claim for r
~ funding the excess may be cOnsidere
But IL Is seldom that rebate is granite
and the surplus refunded. 1t is the
two facts added to excessive rate of tax
= ton, oUer-assessment, and dental Of r
y dress, that are our grievances.
u 1t was stated at the late Taxpayer
Convention that in six years the bOndt
70 debt of the State has been tFebled, wi
ne floating debt and unaeknOwledg'
\ bends to an underlined extent. That Il
annual legislative expenses previous
the war were $4,000; whereas the
are now upwards of $500, 600. The st
10 tiOnery bill of the Legislature before Il
= war was $500; it is now sic, 600. FOrme
x the cost of the public printing was s.
600; 1t is now $3.50, 700, and the contra
tors, clerks of the respective house
"a have purchased sumptuous estates
h. Charleston, The average total expens
ar of the State Government previous
1860 were 100000. For the curre
year the appropriations for the san
ly purposes aggregate 81 ,OS2, 240.
t0 Real estate is consequently depreclatt
~ throughout the entire State. A GENT
. man Informed me a few days since, tn
his plantation valued at $4,000 had r
a Gently been sold for SIC, 600. A mansiC
n which originally cost $4,000, brOugl
10 a few weeks since 81, 500. Induced I
similar figures q party of Northern ca
italists sent an Intelligent gentleman
m aged, to make large purchases.
found property at tempting prices, hl
the above facts regarding assessment
+, with State tax of IL mills, and a eli
"a tax of Ia (this year, 1874, 215 mill
S. soon convinced him of the inexpedienC
of any purchases.
m
+ A selfih rich man is worth no moi
to a community, than a iOafer. He Is
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