Vou bhall pay the taxes to the la.-t
dollar which )ou owe the fctate and
counties and tow na. We may or may
not enforce the ptniltiea and de
maud iuteretit as would be done with
ordinary citizens under like condi
tions. Uefore you can come here
asking for farors and for franchises
without which you cannot live, you
shall pay the taxes which you owe
and some of which you have evaded
by sorry subterfuges and criminal
concealments. Do this and do more.
Surrender your claim to exemption
from taxation in the future. Do
this and do it quick ; or we will
knock the bottom out of your prop
erties and privileges and franchises.
When that uiuhh: had sounded, the
Wilmington X. Weldon liailroad
wouhl have begged lor terms in
tones louder than those of Robe-pere
whose voice, as he sto4d before the
Revolutionary tribunal beting for
his life, was said to have been heard
across the Seine. Rut no. The
Boys who had got to the Legislature,
leHvinr at home the men who were ,
elected, did not see itthusly. They
knew that thev had parted coninanv ,
with the people, and that in the fu-
ture they must look to the machine
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trol the machine. And this is just om. uliUiou fuur hllUt,red anJ ninv.
what is iu the mind ot every Judge iwu thousanti e()pU.s, iin entirely
who distorts the law by ruling in j una-pproached record, and has doub
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jui ui ui'ii'ounc luiviitTfo aganiBL
opular rights. Some glaring and
recent cases of this might be given.
