Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-10-07

pArt oil Gov. Browns speech. Inc next
day the papers noticed it, and said Gov
Brown was joking They are all great
jokers those Democrats. (LaugHterl. If on
the 18th day of January, 1867, | had gone
TO Washington and got down on my
knees to Mr.. johnson and asked him to
pardon me and not only keep me from the
penltentary, but save my neck from the
halter, | would be little moro modest
in talking about pardoning other people
thun is Gov. John g. Brown daughter and
applausc,) wouldn't you Undressing
Judge Porter don't wonder that people
who stand on this platform cry Civil
Rights fourteen ports and no collections,
etc.
TAXATtoN-TugN ASD NOW.
My competitor says his party is not in
favor of increasing tho public taxation |
should think not He tellsus about the
Radicals having wrung, | don't know how
many billions from the l4borng mcn and
the Changers. Let us see what our ovcol>
lent Democratic friends, under John G.
Browns Administration have done.
When these miserable Radical.
the tax at 2j cents on the 500 worth Of
taxable property. Don't you remember
how, in 1867, they went up and down, yell
ing and screaming about taNes2 Don {
YOU remember how my competitors rripn
Etheridge told about being crushed to the
earth under % cents taxes? But when my
competitors folks got into power they made
great improvements ut once They paSsc (
law on the 2jth of February, 1870, taking
off the tax on merchants and reducing the
tax from % cents to 20 cents
Now that looked we|l--thut looked hope
fal, and the people said They are real Y
going in the right direction" There was
AN election that fall, and you recollccl this
excellent man, John G. Brown, was a can
didste against Mr.. Whencr. You lemcmber
how he held up this law and said 81 see how
we have reduced your taxes This is re.
form lol look at US and see what excellent,
peuceable, good folks we ARE. Laughter !
Well, the people said IF these men have
found a way of getting along without tax
ing US; we i try Them and SO they elect
cd John c. Brown Governor by some 81,
900 majority,
While this was going on these same
Democratic papers were denouncing bonds,
especially the Brownlow bonds, and all
Radical bonds. They were never going to
pay them-never, no never. As to other
bonds owing by the State, they said It's
no use, we cant pay them, and we might
ms well give it up Tho effect was, the
Tennessee bonds were quoted in the market
at 80 cents on the dollar. OF course, peo-
pie VINO chose to do so, could 90 out and
buy bonds, and if our fpresights were ms
good as our 'hindsights,' we would all be
better off, Laughter However man
could go out ut that time and get hun
dred dollar bond for every thirty dollar-
he invested, or thousand dollar bond for
every three hundred dollars he invested
John Q. Brown was elected Governor by
nm immense majority, and our Democratic
friends came back in tn next legislature
and on the 10 of January, 1871, thev.raised
your taxes 1T one slap from 20 to 60 cents
on the 500. What was the etfect2 The
newspapers began losing another tune
The grand old Volunteer State-grand in
her precious memories. She must never
repudiate. We must not stop to ask how
these debts were created, but we must pay
them every dollar of them. What wa.
the ediect2 Our bonds went up, 40. unit
| they were quoted at nearly par. Then We
| who had bought bonds went out and SOLD
and made great gains But there wa
| to be another election in 1872, and oui
Democratic friends said, We must looA
/ out These miserable Radicals will b.
Watching US and we must drop back So
| on the 18th Of December, 1871, the rate o
taxation was dropped down to forty cents
THE ASSESSMENT LAW.
When our Democratic Legislature cam
/ together again in January u, they passc,
a law commonly called the assessment law
/ Did any of you ever hear, or read Of tina
| law Laughter. ] don't think my com
petitor ever did, or he would certainly huv
referred to it in his platform He wen
gallopinS on, telling us what some dauukel
darkey had done, or said somewhere, o
somewhere else, but forgot to say anything
about this assessment law which wa
passed March 18th Of last year. Tina
is law as is a law Did any Of you eve
have one Of these things thrust at you
lholding up a printed assessment blank
If this is not enough to give Il man tn
nightmare | don't know what is lLaugh
teri. Now this is Tennessee
This is not Congress, nor your misorabl
Civil Rights business, This is Tennessee
Democratic Tennessee.
Here's lstOf en-: Horses and mule
and pianos, and other musical instru
ments, kitchen furnilure-here old woman
hunt up your pots and pans, wagons, car
rages and other vehicles Of pleasure, o
prolt-I wonder if that includes wheel
barrowS tLaughter). Books in the Ii
braTy; Come old woman. count you
books beginning with the Bible and end
ing with the 'hime' book. And pictures
Tommy got ,nat little print your Sunda
. school teacher gave you last Sur
day rs reward Of merit
! You must make this list OF
. straight, because if you fail to make itmeJ
properly, you will be charged 80 per cen
additional Ifyou fail 10 make out the lf
at all, you are charged 2jper cent Soyo
see it would be cheaper TO neglect maxim
no out at all. II you don't pay the amour
II your assessment at the end of six moutt
you have 10 per cent added; if not at IN
end of the year y per cent. more, maxim
! % per cent in all.
Times are hard, and you are not able I
pay. Then the tax collector gets writ
possession from the sheriff and takes posse
sion OF your farm, turning you out. Yo
/ 60 out-wth your family sick, possibly
: but 60 out you must. The tax collect,
! comes in ana takes your growing crops
! you are finally able to scrape up the amour
due, he can take principal and interest, G
. he can take the principal, and hold III
, crops for the interest My competitor Say
he and his party are not willing to max
the thing any worse. Thank God "
have touched bottom at last then.
And what is their answer TO all thi-
, Civil rights NEGRO equality" ct
, Laughter
STATE DEBT.
, Gov. john O. Brown, I'm his .uaugur
/ address, said the State deb. had been
P creased from the sum of Sl&OlJlOJ To ta
! | Of EtLOD0OOO by the Radicals