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Ail kiArKof JOB WORK done at the lUxjtTATOH" office, in the . neatest M vJ.-, ai(d on reasonable terms. Bills for ti'v-nUihg considered due when pre- rVom the R.Ueigh Sentinel.) Taxes ! Taxes ! Taxes! NOTHING HUT TAXES ! AM , All -iexico,l Over the-Jand, .from Maine to from Florula to "Minrmcf setts, to hear the I WHAT IS IT ALL FOR ? 1 unit va wailinir. ' from thh cod-fishy shores of Massachu- the -golden vales of California. groaning and moaning of a people Crushed beneath their govern mental burdens. On every turn, from every hill-side, plain ley, hear the sighing and the -r-one . long, vast, universal storm note of-. woe, one bitter, end- rh-Hs, heaven-piercing cry of national lamcnU,tion. ''Taxks! taxes ! noth ing hu : taxks!" A tax ere the poor inan has the right to labor: they call it a liccu.se, or a poll. A tax on the por mm's hanj-earned pitancc ; they fill! it income tax., A tax on even bite thit, out of the scanty remnant of .his trebly -taxed earnings, the poor man buys to eat. A tax on every rag he buys to wear. A tax on everything he sits, stands or lies upon. A tax on everything he touches, tastes, , sees, smells Or handles, from the lace cap his babe is christened in, to the bed he dies on J and the shroud and lxx he. e pays federal taxes. He pays State taxes. He pays city tuxes. He pays revenue taxes. He pays dirt-road . taxes. He pays rail road tr.xes. He pays white school taxes. He pays nigger school taxes. He pays poll taxes, and in many cases gets kicked from the polls. . He pays direct tae. He pays indirect taxes. He? payk taxes to feed, clothe, educate' 1 , - nn and white-wash the nigo-cr of the South. He pays t-txes to hold down thousands of his white country men in Alabarnja and Louisiana, beneath the accursed bondage of bayonets and baboonft. He pays taxes to fill south ern legislatures, States senates, lieuten ant governors chairs, and supreme . lnche9(.Ht,,nierbarrs.bootblacks and fieid.hands. He pays taxes to de fray the) cost of making a nigger boot- black Secretary of State in Mississippi ; and 0 sending a nigger barber to rep resent h ?r in the Uniteil States Senate, so-callc'j HepaystaxestoeleVatean clo-shinJel, woollv-pated Pennsylva nia darkey to the Supreme judgeship of SouthCarolina. He pays taxes to foist a mulatto lucenaiary and 'Voodoo debauchee into the lieutenant govern ortrip o" Louisiana. He has for years paicV taxes to enrich a honle of per jured, gajiows worthy, conspirators and thieves, styling themselves the u Con gress of the United Statcs"-every one of them solemnly sworn to " support and raai itain" that constitution, which their every wont and act has been designed to overthrow, has paid taxes toj foot their monster land-grabbing bills; their Alaska iceberg and San Domingo earthquake jobbing bills ; their gigantic railroad gobbling9 bills ; and Uieir universal squanderage and rictry b Us. He has paid taxes to foot their whisky-shop bills ; their fifteenth condemnedment enforcement bills ; their ganibling-hell bills ;.' tbelrjopon drely naval-appropriation bills, to fur. nish old Robeson and Ulysses three termer jwith roval. tabs for drunken dead-head cruisis with their tinseled crews o revelers and wantons ; their female-boardingouse bills; their free i. ?ti . . . - . 1 1 0111s ; inelr. nigger-arminfr and militarv banditti; bills ; their stealage fraud. awimumg-ancl-bribery bills ; their per jored witness-hiring biUs ; their uigger- caaei-rondling. West-Point-invesUga- uuu mjis; tneir Southern-outrage hatching mmittee bills ; and their ten thousand other loyal deviltry bills. tie nastpaid taxes to support the dregs of the free-nigger bureaa, with its owarms ot sneaKmg, sniffling "Rever- enti thieves, and its millions of indo lent and insolent African vagabonds- He has paid taxes to sonnort f h r. cpnstrucUon'deviltry, with its irrespon sible satraps and standing army of ruthless janzariej;. He pays taxes to fill with jingling, glittering gold, the insatiate cotrers jf New England bond fiolders, Yanked ignobility. who nav not a dollar of taxes for any purpose On earth. A hunjired' and fifty millions of dollars a yean in gold, as interest on an accursed, unconstitutional, mon- strous aggregation of national, State, county and municipal debt conceived in iniquity ami begotten in sin creat ed by ft lawless horde of scape gallows conspirators, in jhe prosecution of the rnost horrid crusade of robbery and murder, that evei- befouled the face of God's beautiful jearth; with fraticidal blooil; . $150,000,000 a year, in gold ; 12,500,000, every month; 2,881,615, every week ; $4lj2,88, every day ; 17,- 79, every hour j 286 in. gold, every minute ; in rain, ami in sun ehine, in in sickness am! health, in prosperity and adversity ;-J-wrung from the toil hardened hands of honest industrv, and cast into the remorseless treasury maw jf the " best government the sun ever hone on," to pay the interest on a debt of blood and outlawry, perjury I unevery, trauU ajnd notry. Two hund red and eighty-sipc dolhus iu gold every niinute ! Hear it" clink ! clank!" as it falls into the swollen and ever swel ling chests of plunderers, corruption ists and usurperjj ! Clink ! clank !" Gold ! gold I It; tells a tale of ruthless extortion and dastardly submission rjotous revelry and soul crushing pov- lordings and cowering clank !" There goes tho poor man's dole. the orphan's penhy. "Clink! clank!" That's the tear of the sewing woman. the sigh of the fatherless, the croanof the destitute, cdined into' gleaming gold, and gone to swell the annual trib ute of a subjugated people, to their masters. Taxe$ ! taxes ! limitless taxes ! to elevate ruggers and tramnle down rvhite men to free barbarians, and enslave ourselves! Thank God! the tax-gatherer'j visits are doing what prayers, entreaties spelling books,baIlots,- arms and offices to three millions; of asafcetkla perspir ing niggers; - Roll on ! Roll on ! Riot ! squander ! fast .'steal ! ravish lwhile you may! Bat ah! there is an end to such atrocities ; jthere is a limit to even American' astardliness, -submissive- ness, slavisbness; somewhere, some time.' The people the long suffering, patient, but omnipotent people-the laboring men, the farmers, mechanics, merchants ' and ; artisans,-the hod-car riers, donkey-drivers and triors the one-legged, defrauded soldiers the m'en who till the soil, do the fighting wiir ere long, rail vino- around the glorious banner of Recon ciliation", Retrenchkext; Reform, Honesty, Pukity and a Universal 0-ERTHR01V OF USURPERS & TinEA'ES" sweep you, and all your scoundrel ex alting, poor-whjte-man-beggarinw-and crushing develtries, back-pay grabs, credit mobo-oMiars and whiskey rings had been decided tiat they were not TIm i SVi'iImm 1 1 .1 i I f . wTw uui ma : same question had been discussed by the doD holders in the various precinctsi--the UwiJbeinj? variously construed bv dif. fereiit poU-tolders,:ana yet there -was no tallchere of accusing Ih'em of corropt mouTcs in reaciung theirr: deciiioa, or ot indicating them therefor.' ,-.U Counsel f?r the defence then briefly re-eniorcea certain points in his1 casg that had been, pie vioualy-d welt upon. r- Judge CantwellJtheA availed himself ofhis ncrhtto mite th build the cities and His effort occupied over an hour in tLe delivery, but at its conclusion our mind had fAiled to be impressed that tho gen eral line of the defence had been! met and answered. ? We fear we reo)aui as blindly wicked in our opinion of the meaning of tlie law as did the Commis sioners of Robeson , after listening to counsel. . j The Court, howevftr. r-W to a figurative Tophet as endless and testimony prsented was sufficient to bottpmless as the literal perdition, to which, if there is any justice in the universe, ten thousand of your, loyallv royal leaders, your brightest exemplars, your sublimest chieftains, are inevita bly bound. He's a fool who doubts m . : "cak icrm oi cne l it. The people are moving. Forward Court at Raleigh. One of the banner I THE ROBESON COUNTY CASE. erty of insolent serfs. "Clink! the widow's mite logic, eloquencej and expostulation have all failed to accomplish; and as bnch excursion and stamping tour the scales, b'vj blacking-box lids; or donkey ears have at last, a long, long at last, begun to fall from the eyes of the toilins. hard- handed, sweat-browed masses. The farmers, the people, from ocean to ocean and from the gteat lakes to the gulf, are banding .together to sweep away the dominion of pickpockeU and pi rates. They have begun , to see the gigautic iniquity which is crushing their very souls out through their ral ged boot-toes. And knowing this, is ! ment the Repub it strange, that the fanatics Ami ml. I i aora nf ju. 4.uii.iuiu, aim nje radical conspirators Of the capitoL whenever finances and reform are men tioned, squirm like a nest of vitroj sprinkled vipers f Is .it strange that they are ever skulkingand dodging the U. S. Commissioner's Court The De- FENDANTS, INCLUDING Gen. Co.t ( ! !) Held to Appear Before the Cie cuit Court A New Style of Pro. ceeding to Follow Nolle Pros. At the opening of Court yesterday morning, Col. French said it Lad escap ed his memory to call tho attention, of the Court to an important consideration during his argument ou the previous day. This was, that the evidence had shown that when the Commissioners assembled for the purpose of canvass ing the returns, the latter were brought before them, each! sealed in its particu lar envelope, with the seal unbroken, just as it had been sent by the poU hol ders ; that the room was crowded at the time with citizens belonging to both political parties ; jthat the returns were then opened and considered before them, without leaving the room or any oppor tunity for forming a conspiracy or en gaging in secret consultation ; that the opinion of the sworn counsel of the Board was then asked upon the legali ty of and propei1 procedure uponthe returns presented ; that the counsel ad vised and the Board acted unon that out the returns from precincts as irregular and suspicious, and that the result-in all the precincts was then and there announc ed, together with the total vote for each candidate. Then Dr. Norment had come in ; asked if these townships had een thrown outi was informed, they had; asked if the decision was final was informed it was not ; asked if he would be heard, for a reconsideration create a reasonable beleif that a cons, piracy had existed between all the de fendants, with the exception of Thomp son, to warrant their arrest and deten tion, and to require them all to appear at the next term of the U. S. Circuit them I Gen. Cox resides there and can be reached at any time during the sitting ofi that tribunal ; the others will be required to give bond and security in the; sum of $2,000 each for their appearance. The Court was satisfied that others had aided and abetted tho conspiracy 'with guilty intent, but as the District Attor ney had heard all the evidence ana was ibility tl ad vice, and threw these four uiuimmas tomeir ua this Court, the question of bringing them before the Circuit Court was left in the hands of that officer. Judge Cantweil desired the Court to bind over the witnesses, also, to appear on the trial. Then, apparently reflect ing that some of the witnesses had tes tified here-in a manner likely to prove disastrous before a Court bound by strict ! rules of evidence, he amended by say ing only the material witnesses would be required to be bound over. ! The Court decided to cito the witness Mr.B. W. Stark, the ltaleigh telegjarph operator, to appear before tho Gixcnit Court, and to bind over to that tribu nal Dr. Norment, the prosecutor,; ,jri'"cu aru, tue Kegister of Deeds, and Col. W. Foster French. WU. Mar. tion of the board nndShirbed, and tnat for the reason that WweW still of the opinion that they had acted strictly ac cording to law. I, wish that Dr.-Nor-went had not aprn-Oached me as a'Ma son, for -if he had riot T would freely and fully stat evrrthin tnat Wr ml' Commissioher Cas&idey and one Van Solen were in LumbertonJ and h threats were frequently made' bv Re publicans that their ' purpose I was to arrest the commissioners of Rohnn county. Neither Cassidey '' j nor Yan Solen so far'aa" wt 'know 'made anr such threats.' Then--party! brethren, however, did state that suchl was their purpose. The commissioners ho wev. er 'wouldnt scare worth a cent. ! Now as tony condition at the time I nfer you to Giles Lcitch, Es;, woamear- ed on the opposite side tf tho case. 'O COmmiSsiunnr rtaLl ' ft ctrr j IJIT-J iJU JJ or that opinion norwrw m'oner named "aiiacuon. "i am very sorry that I was prevented from attend ing the trial in consequence of ling at Columbus court, to which pls am compelled to 1 m attendance on Tuesdny (to-morrow.) Just ijcro I will state that I Inow the counfv comtmV. sioners m their action in this matter were only anxious to do what thev bo- lie ved was their- lawful duty. I In my opinion I gave what I then "conceived to be the law, and in this opinion men learned in the law1 coincidcdJ No me then to be picking at the commission ers through revenge. Now that the prosecution against them is! too thin, someone must come in for a share of the venomous spite and it falls on mv .4 lut noucingtnis -chict counselor. xa.s 10 piace the wniimssioners whei-e they now are right before the public. 1 ii mere was no more consmraev tn lAfVa,i ii lown. uue man inerci wus to as sassinate U. S. Grant. " i i N. A. McLean. Lumberton, March 20tli,;IS7G. JtnUiyh Xeic. tc a ternblo thins Wirrow A .iU: fll!. WILLIAMS. 1 ' f ! ' 1 4 Mr' never write' Ie'tersIYcR: REPO NT. '" ,r-'1 r.n. Tli'is'fs riot- suicide; but assassiiiai t ton.-JoTLy B. ! Henderson. 1 l Itl had ' only' been born twins V could have maile just twice aimuchJlLl Orvtl L. Geaxt; " Some love to tossi roer th dikA.' foam, but as (brmei give me a wormi eaten hull in a snug harbon "iWazJ. sox.:.. is '. , . ; Don't weep for me, Tm glad to get out of the, wUdemess. Mect meon! the happy huntingronndsIELAXd.i Tell a Butler I died happv. br'raJ ciareqnest.-KH; Dana m Look not on tho still who n st ;'. crooked. Joun McDonald. -They say tho streeU of the New Je rusalem are caved witii'M ? tO gO. BOSS SlIEPHARB. ' t Who would have tliought that cold tongue would kill a man? Jabbemxo Jim Blaine. .-. , ThU is a sacred tldng. Dea'cox McKee. . , : ... ; A tanner won't last you more than eight jcars. Baecock. i : I go where "mum's . the word.- Joyce. v . : . -, . ', , . . . lore fraud being Jug up ia every department of tho government, . The world will soon begin to supect that the whole thing is a stupendous fraud. Dana declines to appear before the senate committee and scoffs the idea of his honest y being .'questioned by a den of tiiirv- nil). ' ti . i w.v mm inswi xiuiicr as It has Just been discovered that tho t hey acted nnder my advice rfPment has a patent style was no more W1nn;ro,tf J lf l)00'kPS poctiliar and onlv iU Boutwcll once oniemf a clerk to balance a discrepancy on the books of $200,000 by a simple flourish of tho pen. Neat, cheap and ezsy.J?x BELKNAP AND LOUD BAjCON. Oath in tin; .New York Graphic Orantism is compjunded of low greed, obtuse moral sentiment shod. !dy display, the uso of public ofllcefor The nearest precedent to Beiknai,8 ! P"Vat? ain the rewarding of those .. - ... . i who male a vti t . i DR. NORMENT TO SERVE THE RADICAL PARTY CREEPS IN THE CLOAK OF A MAON TO INTERVIEW A DEMO CRATIC LAWYER. The following . letter from Col Lean, the Democratic lawyer and ad ser of the Robeson County Coinmisi sioners, we use from the . Wilmigton Journal, and it will abundantly speak who and Mc- VI tor itself. Let the plain people love truth and admire manliness i . . . . i uesmse sneats rnri thia was informed h wnnTrl wi nin . . t . . " fu , ior tnemselves. Ijut remember : rrtx and having argued the 'case himself without effect, counsel which was the Commissioners. asked to be heard by also granted by After the arjni- ican member what had assisted and concurred in, and vot in this connection .- now . thojight the casein from w probably thaof Fran- 3'U Presents by places of cis Bacon, lord Verulam, viscount St !ll0Por antl tras the enrichuig of aU Albans and lord chancellor of England relatiyw at the expense of tho all tho cesofvice president! rhipri4nG;M e a. ------ jvv vi. '"kl Minister and chief p'ri- vate counselor of the kill the chancellor is tre rr sovereign. ason; To as to kill the Queen. Lord Bacon was the' great est ot English political intellects, the friend of Elizab-th ! and Jamta ii, a re puted author' of Shakespeare, and W tftMinwn, rich, IeArneI and noble. He had the greatest! omce in the land, ha boatonsir Ed4mj Coke m rivalry, received rich prints and legacies, and maruei rich, j jVct, gir- iug( way to voluptuous improvidence in the year 1G21, he took bribes !dir-t to the number .f twrhty four cases, in one case receiving 00 and tn anoth- th 'ie Xorment is now the JTau .r1 Jatcat ojice holders are dancing around tn tKexr efforts to rath the Peo ple. Here is Col. McLean's letter: In the Wilmington pairs of the -11- l.th ..i-nstI find that Dr. Rj M. announced that he votes of these pre er 'rOO. high that Public ejecitement ran so better public opinion, the conception i that high office is a reward and not an obligation imposed-jn fine . that tli I Clovernment is to be s'lminisierei in I the selfish interests o'f. the governors ! and for their adgrandizemenL ' It is ' an innovation which does not seem' to ' provoke admiration either at home or i abroad. A". K .Sun. me arrest in Alabama, under tho Ku Klux act. of a number of citi2cni (Democrat? exclusively) who are ac cused of having committed acts of law Icssness six years ago. is sadly feimfi. cant. It is stated that these icrns have not been away from their homei for six years, but the bAk-crs" as was the case in the Bacon -anddircad cani'. high that. Bacon's; health, failed lit 1 JT7 "acon-ana-Ur Iielknap'sMimt.audev.n Kil :r.. 1 ai-n in refund bail and ' took iiisyHcnj io iiunisviJie. cincts should be counted, and asked and ! commissioners throws his flings.'at me. On the Saturday oa which the Votes were counted by the' commissioners I i . ... as aiannea awi lasted tkit he should plead guilty, which h did, follows: I do plainly, and ingpnioinTv! con. I beseech your lordship to1 be fmerciful to a broken reej." received permissidn to change his Vote, was called on by them for Consultation The arguments presented seem to have j I decided the returns were irrcAikr and should not be counted. I refer of tariff bills, the funding bills, and the ! -truck remainfnS four Commission-1 innumerable infernal revenue bms ' nera IorclDIy ancl tbe then decid' which their villainy, has rendered uec essary ? Not a bit of iL Yankeedom's weakesUspot is its treasury. Their fears are well founded. On. on. vp robbery fattened villians I On with ed to adhere to their, original position, aud let the case go up to the Conven t: the dance. r rpvplpr in n rutiAn'c . t . , r , . . miseries. . On with jour deviltries.-1 '".ue.",u "-7 ne om your bills guaranteeing the bond holding buccaneers of .Massachusetts two dollars in gqld, for every one they expended in rags and green ink.- Pass your bills bestowing millions and tens of millions, aye, hundreds of millions, of acres of xA ptoptfi lands, upon coantless corporations of . rail road thieves, in which every one of yon Is a stockholder an4 fund-snatcher. Pass your bills taxing white men to furnish course to the i townshios involvfil in this controversy. After the action of the Board. Dr.iR. M. tion for final settlement, as in doubt, j peared and wished to procure the aid What, he asked, could be fairer than j of the counsel.' This was ready agreed entire proceedings ? What room was f to. Mr. Leitih at some length argued w cuarge a conspiracy m uxor of counting the vote?, and I against ; the result was that the tiwn shife, when the returns were not ac cording to law, were not counted. Tow the Court and declared to be innocent What had the others done more than this one? The only difference was that he had done all that they had and one act more of acknowledging that he thought he had previously done wrong. There had been doubt in the minds of the Commissioners as to wheth er the returns were legal when not ac companied by the poll-books. After as to my communication with Mr. Norment, he (Norment) having ap preached me in my office as a master Mason, as he this day admitted, sought this interview with me he must tell the interview ; I khall not. I did tend after D. S. Morrison, chairman cf the board some : few 'days after the votes were counted, when' we had aii intef- argumcnt bj counsel on both tides it ' vi-w which resulted in leaving the an Alabama is a Democratic State, and has a Dem ocratic government. The State eleel ;tx j ! tl0a P ? Angus?, and thpixi to overawe tho wldtes and turn tho State over to the Republicans. 1 1 Tfl f Tounxnl. lie was sentenced ; to pa a fine of f 10,000 and to go tojail, bothjof Which j Gov. Letcher, of Virginia, who wa penalties were remittal, but she nevf-r - stricken with iai-aIytU some two or recovered standing nor raked Lii head j three weeks ago, is improving we are again, and dieU neglected and brokeo- glad to learn. . He UanoUe oW Ito- hearted, although it wM an age of j man, or Virginian, which is the Iresr nts ; and bribes; Bacon same became j thing. so T-oor that he was 'ifinsM I.t- hv ! nobleman near his obscure Hodg:ng, Sna . of M'asiachceUs last and yet he protested that, thouglfguiL j Wednc'l!ir optM a woman suffrage ty, ho. was the most lonest cianccllor ' amendment to the . Stale ConstiruUori Eilaiid had known. j j by a vote of 18 to id it has gone to i ' my , ,. the House for its coacurrcnce i i LAST WORDS, j The following are the dying word of some of our eminent states men,'re centlv decease! : i Shed no muleteers for The game is pbyed out.i-PoicE FonteneUe " thus daintily compM menti 'the sex': w hen he ccm pares wo- mea and cloaks: Tho Iatter serve to point out the hotir, and fDrmer t Bob Schcsck. 1 Two Spencer county gentlamen have j married, their pretty : step-dautera. Stand ly your rradershlps. jand two others hare married ttfdrw Teat t Armic. BlXEf XT J 1 - 1 1 widows. Thare'a a frl rrr: I amgladthatl dieycnngj It would al tree for ron.IndianaTXiti, Xeu
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