Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1885-10-30

There is always in the life of every man
time when duty appeals to his intelli-
gence and his conscience with peculiar
and consuming force to do, or to refrain
from doing some act or deed. There oc-
ours in the life Of nearly every peace low
ing and law abiding citizen a time when
he feels that a stern duty to himself. bis
fellow men and the community in which
he lives impels him to lay aside all pri-
vate pursuits, to forget all personal inter-
es's and concerns and to devote himself
without reserve and without fear to the
deliyerance Of the people from existing
or impending public evils.
Such an emergency now confronts every
citizen of Charles county. This commun-
ity is to day grcaning under the burdens
of misgovernment and excessive taxation
The conduct of the local affairs has been
assumed by set of men who recognize
10 responsibility to the intelligence aud
the responsibility Of tue community. The
tax eaters have, through fraud upon the
ignorant and credulous colored voters
seized the purse strings of the treasury,
and assumed the functions of the tax
maker and the tax ga.herer, while they
burl their defiance at the ax-payer, disre-
garding his protests and needing not bis
complaints.
The people of this comfy have endur-
ed this state of affairs long and patiently
with meekness and submission that i'll
becomes freemen and which is inconsist-
ent with public liberty. Things have gone
on from bad to worse until now the accu-
mulating liabilities Of the county are
driving up the rate of local taxation at
rapid and dangerous rate. Notwith-
standing the high and excessive taxation
which has been annually levied upon the
people, the liabilities of the county are
steadily accommodating and the people are
threatened with wholesale bankruptcy.
Recognizing this dangerous state of af-
fairs, which threatens public calamity,
our best citizens have sacrificed their pri-
vate inclinations to the public good and
assumed the standards of the people in the
contest with the bad elements by which
they have been enslaved. Our standard
bearers have gone bravsly among the peo-
pie admonishing them with eloquence and
with truth of the evils by which they are
beset and the dangers which are impend-
ing. Every member of the Democratic
ticket has acted his part bravely and well
and the result is now left to the people.
Duty, therefore, plain, imperative, un-
avoidable duty, commands every man that
loves his native county to hold up the
hands of our standard bearers and support
them with an united front in breaking
down the bad local domination. Every
true citizen of Charles county that loves
his home and his Preside, that respects
honesty and appreciates economy in gov
eminent, regardless of what may be his
political convictions, will vote for the
Democratic legislative and county ticket
on next Tuesday and relieve the people
from the degradation Of taxation without
representation and the oppression of ex-
travagance and corruption.
Let US rally around the old flag once a.
gain, fellow Democrats let US rally all "a
long the line, and our word for it the vic
tory will be ours. The fight is Already
won if every man does his duty on next
Tuesday. Let no one fail.