Litchfield enquirer., 1874-01-15

The Misses Smith of Glastonbury, who recently apealed. without success, to a town meeting, against an exorbitant tax as we'll as against the injustice of taxation without representation, have had their property levied on by the collector. The following letter to the Springfield Repub- ican and the editorial comment thereon tells the whole story:
 GLASTONBURY, Jan. 3, 1874.
 The collector called again New Years day, and will give you the result. We told him we were glad to see him-more so, We thought, than any of the women; for he was sensible man and could see into the injustice of his business, more than half the towns officers. We had no idea, then, that he had brought an at- tachment with him to execute it that very day, for he had always before told us we might let the tax be, as long as we pleased, by paying 12 per cent interest. But now, he said, the law must be execut ed, and, as he must take personal proper ty first, our COWS would be driven away at once unless his bill was settled. This came suddenly upon us, and we told him we were very sorry; moro sorry for MT. K. and his family, who lived in our cottage, than for ouselves, for we could do better without the milk than they could. We have fine lot of Alder neys that my sister had raised, every one, for amusement, and cared for, and was much attached to them We pleaded hard for respite till we could speak again before the town. We wanted to petition the men, we said, to let us own our land as they owned theirs, and then we would willingly pay our taxes; and how much better it would be to have the money. paid freely than to have all this trouble about it! The town had waited on factory company in the north part of the place for their taxes for years, till the company failed, and then they lost seyer- al thousand dollars by it. We had our share of this money to pay; larger share, as 1t appeared by his books, than any other of the inhabitants, and there was no risk in waiting for us to pay. But they were men, and we were women. ~ ''Now," said we, "Mr. A., you would not be willing personally to take wo- mans property because she cannot vote to defend it; no other man iIi town would; though you will agree together to do it. But numbers can never make it right; no reckoning can prove it." My sister vent into the yard to entreat him to leave two of the COWS together (there were eight of them1 that one might not be left alone. But she could not prevail, and the little thing, the poor mans portion. has cried ever since. He took seven, for he said COWS were low and he wanted enough The tax now is only $101.59 The next tax comes in March.
 The COWS were taken to a neighbors', some little distance, and my sister felt very bad all night, thinking how they might fare and requested MT. K., early in the morning, to see to them, for he un- derstands how to manage them better than any one. ever before. The neigh Dor said nothing could exceed the trouble they had to get them into his yard (for it seems they resisted every way they could) and he would never had it done had he known the circumstances, or that they were to stay over night He could do nothing with them, and requested Mir. K. to milk them for him. These COWS will sometimes be very contrary, when nobody can manage them but my sister. She will call them all by their names, and as soon as they hear, they will come to her on the gallop. They will follow be- hind her in single file, and she can lead them where she chooses. When we have had new tenant they would never, at first, let him come near them, and she has been obliged to stand at their head whore they could see her. every day when he milked, for ever so long.
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