Excerpt from Ad Valorum Taxation: Speech of Moses A. Bledsoe, Esq., Of Wake; Delivered in the Senate of North Carolina, on the 12th January, 1859, on the Bill to Alter the Constitution So as to Enable the General Assembly to Equalize Taxation The fifth objection to altering the constitution is, that young negres ought not to be taxed because they cannot make a sup port, and are unprofitable. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.