Supplement to the Wilson Advance.
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STOP, SIR.
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Wlr. HlOrtOn, YOU Snail nOt
Collect this Iniquit
ous Tax!
The Democrats' ot North Carolina Have
" Sworn that Not One Dollar of this
Fraudulent Amount Shall
Be Paid.
-THE RADICAL PARTY PUT A
DEBT OF THIRTY MILLION
DOLLARS ON THE PEO
PLE AND COLLECTED
THE INTEREST TO
PAY IT.
A VOTE FOR DOCKERY IS A, VOTE
, TO ENDORSE THE ISSUING OF
THE SPECIAL TAX BONDS.
,A VOTE FOR MORTON MAY BE A
TOTE TO SELL YOURSELF AND
FAMILY OUT OF HOUSE
AND HOME I
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To Par These Taxes Will Require One
Seventh of the Taxable Prop,
erty. id the State.
From the State Chronicle.1
On the reverse side of this snnnlement
. un tne reverse sme or tnis supplement
is a picture portrajing ttle scene that
womu oe wiinesseu in forin Carolina it
Levi P. Morton, the Radical candidate for
vice-rresiaent, wins ins .suit now pending
against the State of North Carolina for
Vice-President, wins his Mik now pending
the payment of the Special Tax bonds
issued by the Radical Legislature. Mor
ton is the owner of these infamous Spe
cial Tax bonds, issued by the carpet bag-
gers, and he is seeking to force us to
th th h th Fed 1 C t
pay em roug e era Courts,
Worse than Shy lock of old he says:
"I crave the penalty an forfeit of my
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even though it costs the heart's best blood
of North Carolinians.
The picture is one that presents in bold not in existence were invalid. This pre- ets of Mr Levi P. Morten and bis associ- ized by proper authotities. It is true that collected with the bayonet. The Chroni
elief what would be the result in North vented the issuing of bonds to some of ates. . . the Democrats all along declared that the rut d.sn"t think so.
Carolina if the Radical party has its way.
They issued these bonds and sold them,
They refused to repudiate them.- They
are their offspring and the parent loves its
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Godforbid- and the Chronicle says it
with all reverence -that the day shall
ever come when the party that issued
these Special Tax bonds in defiance of the
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wishes of the tax payers of the State and
for purposes of personal profit shall be
given control of the State government. If
the Radicals are in power what assurance
have we that a tax will not be levied to
pay the interest on these bonds ? That
would be equivalent to a confiscation of
our property, for North Carolinians are
too poor to give one seventh of all their
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property to rich Mr. Morton, the Radical
candidate for Vice President, who is sucing
the State now to force payment.
A Cape Fear correspondent has asked
the Chronicle the following questions:
1. For what purpose was the special
tax bonds issued?
2. What is the correct amount of these
bonds?
3 Are there suits pending against the
State for tne whole amount of these oond8f
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iu viewui me icwru ui jnur.uu,
Republican candidate for Vice-President,
and Dockery, the Republican candidate
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for Governor, in regard to these bonds,
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these questions are of espial appropriate-
ness at this time,
n e answer i ucui uncujr
f0lows
First: The special tax bonds were is
sued for the ostensible purpose of bnilding
new railroads and extending lines already
built. It was proposed by the Radical
legislators t0 honey.l0mb the State wi,h
railroad8 and thu8 to brini prosperity to
the doors of the people. They were to
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build these roads by taxing s
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amuipovensn-
tax bonds were issued. They were called
bonds because a special tax of
96 cents on the $100 was levied to pay the
interest on them. I
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Second. The amount of t' e bonds an
,thorized tobe "f"1 was between 35-"
qqq ooq and 2,poo,000. Before they
M waned, hdwever, several causes
01ierated to prevent the i8SUance of' the
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whole i amount. I lhesupreme Court de-
cided that bonds issued to corporations
the proposed corporations. They came into
disrepute in various ways and in fa t, of
the twenty-five millions authorize I to be ",.., ... u uu ue-
Issued, only 14,000,000 were actually Im'tJx! V
J 'he will give to Mr. Morton. If Mr. Mor-
teue . The interest on then, bond, toD Ket it, be will only ,et what the Re-
amounts; to $16,000,000. making a total publican arty promised him; if the SUte
of $30,000,000 which the Kadieal party
put upon the State as a debt, aud gave
this debt priority over all others by levy-
ing a special tax to pay the interest. In
the . Constitutional Conv ntion of 1875
Gov. Jarvi offtr- d an amendment t- the
Constitution forbidding the Legislature to
pay or adjust these bonds without first
submitting it to the people. The amend-
ment was rejected. Oliver H.
Dockiry,
present Republican candidate for Gov-
ernor, VOTING AGAINST IT In 180,
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by the Constitutional legislative majority
of three-fifths of the General Assembly,
the following, forbidding the payment of
these special tax bonds, was adopted. It
is part of .J rticle 1, Seciion 6, and reads:
'-.Nor shall the General Assembly assume
or pay. or authorize the collection of any
tax to pay, either directly or indirectly,
expressly or implied, any debt or bond,
incurred or issued, by authority of the
counties ot the year looo, nor any aeot or
bond, incurred or issued by the Legisla-
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session of the year 1868, or at its regular
on8T ofJh? 'fln'.l
18 0, except the bonds issued to tund the
iuteost on the old debt of the State unless
thnmrumitmv thp im ahiill hav
flwt 8nmit tl e Rnd by
mem raiineo ovine vote I lue qusuiueu
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voters of the state, at a regular election
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If ,t ,s deeded that these special txes
will have to be paid it will require
that the people of the Stte shall
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sixth of all the personal and real property
stocks and bonds in the State. The total
'uon oi an tne property in aortn
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uaroima is aooui two nnndret minion aoi-
i,i r,;r ,ht
Iars- "would require that we give to
Morton, Bliss & Co , every foot of land,
s-n rvr.HV pif.ck or pfrist. priipidtv
including skillets and rabbit dogs, in
twenty five of our smaller counties with
Wake and Mecklenburg thrown in. To
put it differently: Suppose the property
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iu jwm i-anmu wnUMi) uinuwi. m
order to pay these special tax bonds. Mr.
Morton would say to every seventh man
,n the Stat- "Give me ever thing you
have. It belongs to me," and the man
would have to part with his all. Butevery
man would suffer, as more than ooe-s-v-
enth of all he has would so into the Dock
The Chronicle asks every man who is
thinking of voting the Republican ticket
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uut uui mj r. iunw ni uo u suing
for' il l,ec,,Q8e the I)enoc,
f? l! Tu
bonds cannot be paid without the consent
of lhe people. The Republican party n
North Carolina tried to confiscate one-
seventh of the property in the State in the
flush d'9 of tbeir Htealage. If the Dem-
Wr.a .u uu mt , u-
pie the pajment of this large sura, it does
not make the crime of the Republican
less They did all they could to saddle
this tax upon the people, and levied and
! "Pial tax of $203,407 in 1870
to pay the interest on these fraudulent
u fa no, to tW credit of the p.
pubijt.in arty that the Democrats pro-
nounced these bonds fraudulent and re-
pudiated them, and they cannot escape
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the odium that attaches to their betrayal
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resisted tne payment even Mine
interest,
thibt Th. i unit now rwndin tr
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fact there are two sujU brought by Mor-
RIUj Ar Pn in th.FI .nrt r,.
8ide over by jndge Bond who 'isde-
tested by North Carolinians as is noother
living man. One of these suits brought
hv th firm nt uhiph th Rnnhlieon ran.
for Vice Pre.sident the head,
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is brongbt in their own name in tne state
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eonrt. which havinr been removed to the
Federal curt was thrown out of court be-
8uit waf) in the name of A. H. Temple, a
oiti nf wL mi.nt thmn
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ing on to oe. nearu in i'ie reuerai court,
jndt:e Seymour, the District Judne. and
Judge Bond, the Circuit Judge, both be-
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ing on the bench, there was a division of
opinion. Seymour holding t at the State
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could not be sued by a citizen of lU own
or any other State, and Bond holding that
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citizei.s The case was certified to the
Supreme Court of the United 8'atea where
it is now pending The bonds bear on
their face that they are genuine. They
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were lssuea oy legislative euactment.
Tbey were given precedence over all other
State indebtedness by the levy of a special
tax with which to pay the interest. The
Republicans collected from an impov-
erished people in one year $208,470 with
which to pay this interest. These bonds
- wer old bv nt thereto ti,W ntb.r
bonds would nevei be paid, if they could
help it. Fortunately for the State up to
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u.m time.tne uemocrata nave saved the
'k' wiu. continue TO do IT at
any hazard,
The decision of the Supreme Court w
,waUed in North Carolina with interest.
If that tribunal should declare the bonds
genuine and order us to pay them it would
b"1 enforcin RaJical legislation. A
Kajji adm'nistration would rive effect
, their fo,me, wort wba, gj ht it
wouij be to see a Federal Marshal backed
Qp by a lot of blue-coated Federal soldiers,
wg ,ne mun mnd plows of the men.
.,, bread-trav of th women to
m Mr." Vice-President Morton
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try while that sort of thing was going on!
Under these circumstances doesany man
think it prodent on the part of North
Carolii.iatis to put more power into'tbe
bat'!" Mr. Uvi P. Morton than he now
posmvsen I u uo ll pui B buck id
l''ur enemy's htid to break your head
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wiih ?
Suppose Mr. Morton should become Vice
Preid nt and Mr. Harrison President of
h- United Stater, who knows bow soon
"theSuprt-roe Court of the United States
"watered" to carrr this suit in
favor of Mr. Morton? The millions be
mke out of it would be big thing
' "''"burse him for his present campaign
expenses and to create future campaign i
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tUtldS tor tne Kadlcai party. It Will DOl
do to sa, that Radical Presidents will not
water ine ouprerae vxurv 10 suit loeir
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own views, for that verr thin has been
own ,!8' ,,,r lnBl crJ lulB6 ueta
done, and . Radical President did it It
ma8t u remembered, too, that during the
next administration there will be an nn-
n!,u' lare number of vacancies. on the
Kunreme Court lient-h to be filled, in all
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humHn pribility. If Harrison be Prest-
dent he will fill them. Think you Morton
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on interest ? The man who does thjrk
so " H8uredi' verT "gfn "
If. therefore, the FedeialSuorerTe Conrt
should agree with the Circuit judge rather
thaa ,he I'"tnct Judi-ud should issue
its process to its marshals, backed np by
Fe-eral bayonets, lo collect these bonds,'
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lina, so lively tha' it is the part of the
commonest prudence to do everything in
our power to jfrevent its coming.
But perhaps our Northern brethren, and
our Southern ones, t03. of the Radical
p-rsuasion. Chink that as these bonds were
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