Tax and Debt Rebellion

In my opinion the Occupy Eugene Community made a hasty retreat to Alton Baker Park. I tried to tell whomever that history was on their/our side, in regards to the murals in the Post Office. But, history is for old folks, and when I was a young Hippie Radical, I had all the answers I would ever need.

Occupu Eugene may already be HISTORY. I wrote the following Sept. 24, 2009. Jesse Benton, who kin influenced the mural inside the Post Office, is leading a REAL tax rebellion. Seantor Thomas Hart Benton was the Administrator of the Oregon Territory, he sending the Pathfinder to make a road inorder to bring Americans to Oregon, and push out the British. I GIVE this family history away to anyone who has the guts to use it!

Jon

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In the last twenty four hours I made three amazing discoveries. Here is one of
them. Jesse B. Benton was Secretary to Lord William Tryon who instigated and the
War of the Regulator that proceeds the American Revolution.

Tryon is most noted for suppressing the Regulator movement in western North
Carolina during 1768 to 1771. Tryon stopped the North Carolina Regulator
uprising, which had been caused partly by the taxation imposed to pay for his
new governor’s mansion.

Why we have not been told about this armed rebellion may have something to do
with the fact those who began it were not completely happy with the formation of
the United States of America and tried to secede from the Union in 1785.

On May 16, 1785, a delegation from these counties submitted a petition for
statehood to the Continental Congress. Seven states voted to admit the tiny
state under the proposed name Frankland.

Last night CBS News reported on a Debtor’s Rebellion that is sweeping America.
Here is the TRUE Tea Party of The People. The Tea Party of Traitors is backed by
Big Business, Big Church, and their think tanks that anticipated this a debtors
rebellion and wanted to make sure they led it down the their flase path into
oblivian. They new tax payers had come to won most of the Big Banks due to the
Obama’s Bailouts, and wanted to take away our power by demonizing the President
of the United States! For a year I have been promoting Debptor’s Rebellion in
regards to my Jubilee Jesus and Bohemian Bank.

Four days ago I repeated my threat to a higher up at Version Wireless, that if I
get one more harassing call from their Bill Collector, I will begin to blog
about this harassment with the intent of diverting customers away from Version.
I have not had a call hence. I assume the powers on high have got wind of the
Debt Rebellion. Bank of America has stopped squeezing its customers like an old
tea bag.

On this day, September 24, 2009 I declare the Tea Bag rebellion coming from the
Christian-right and its think tanks owned by Big Business, null and void, and
declare the Benton Rebellion the true rebellion, `The Benton Jubilee Rebellion’.

I am a True Prophet who reads the future, not with tea leaves at the bottom of a
cup, but by looking deeply into my Rose Line. “History repeats itself.” Many
true Christians hope this is so.

Jon

The Nazarite Prophet

To him was born Jesse B. and Catherine. The latter never married, both born in
North Carolina U.S.A. Jesse B. Benton was sent to England and educated. On his
return from England, he was appointed (by the Crown), Secretary to the Lord
Tryon, Governor of the Province. Afterwards an ugly British General in the
Revolutionary War, Jesse B. Benton broke with his chief in the War for American
Independence, and was an officer in the American Patriot Army. He, Jesse B.
Benton, was married during the War for Independence to Ann Gooch, the daughter
of a disreputable English officer under Lord Tryon. Her mother was named Hart
and was American born, and Ann Gooch always said, “I came from a family of
Harts.”

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/09/23/eveningnews/main5333442.shtml

http://rougeknights.blogspot.com/search?q=jubilee

iii. Barbara Gray was born in Bertie Co., NC May 31, 1726. Barbara died April
15, 1768 at 41 years of age. She married Jacob Blount in Bertie Co., NC, 1748.
Jacob was the son of Thomas Blount and Ann Elizabeth Reading. Jacob died August
17, 1789 in Pitt Co., NC.

http://labach.tripod.com/grayanc.htm#i5889m

CBS) Ann Minch’s YouTube video was the shot heard round the World Wide Web. “I’m
staging a debtors’ revolt right here, right now,” Minch says on the Internet
video. When Bank of America raised her credit card interest rate from 13 percent
to a whopping 30 percent, Ann went viral, reports CBS News correspondent Ben
Tracy. “I could get a better rate from a loan shark,” she said online. So she
gave them her terms – lower the rate or she won’t pay. “Stick that in your
bailout pipe and smoke it,” Minch said. The video was viewed a quarter million
times. Thousands responded complaining about their own banks. “Capital One, you
can just kiss my a**,” said one angry customer on an Internet video. American
banks are easy targets. They got billions in bailout funds and are now raising
rates and fees on those very same taxpayers. “Banks are doing whatever they can
to squeeze the last dollar out of consumers,” said Ed Mierzwinski of the U.S.
Public Interest Research Group. This year banks are expected to make more than
$38 billion in overdraft fees alone, up from $18 billion in 1999.

http://www.mostateparks.com/benton/genealogy.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Tryon

http://randolphhistory.wordpress.com/tag/revolutionary-war/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_England

After assuming the office of governor, Tryon worked to expand the Church of
England in North Carolina.[3] There were only five Anglican clergy members in
North Carolina at that time.[3] Tryon pushed for the completion of abandoned
construction projects of Anglican churches in Brunswick Town, Wilmington,
Edenton, and New Bern.[3] Tryon appointed members of the clergy for these
churches and encouraged the construction of new churches, especially in rural
areas.[3]

There was a strong opposition in North Carolina to the Stamp Act of 1765. When
the Stamp Act Congress was held, the colonial assembly was not in session, and
hence delegates could not be selected to this congress. Tryon refused to allow
meetings of the Assembly from May 18, 1765 to November 3, 1766 to prevent the
Assembly from passing a resolution in opposition to the Stamp Act. Tryon said
that he was personally opposed to the Stamp Act and that he offered to pay the
taxes on all stamped paper on which he was entitled to fees. Tryon requested
troops to enforce the act, but instead he was informed on June 25, 1766 that the
act was repealed.

Tryon is most noted for suppressing the Regulator movement in western North
Carolina during 1768 to 1771. Tryon stopped the North Carolina Regulator
uprising, which had been caused partly by the taxation imposed to pay for his
new governor’s mansion, Tryon Palace, at New Bern (which Tryon made the
provincial capital) and partly due to tax abuse and fraud by officials.[3]
Tryon’s militia defeated 2,000 regulators in the Battle of Alamance in May
1771.[3]
Tryon executed seven alleged Regulators, approved by Judge Richard Henderson.[3]
He had most of the men tried for violating the Riot Act, a crime temporarily
made a capital offence by the General Assembly. The executed men included James
Few, Benjamin Merrell, James Pugh, Robert Matear, “Captain” Robert Messer, and
two others. Six other Regulators – Forrester Mercer, James Stewart, James
Emmerson, Herman Cox, William Brown, and James Copeland – were pardoned by King
George III and released by Tryon. The Regulator uprising is viewed by some
historians as a precursor to the American Revolution. Tryon then raised taxes to
pay for the militia’s defeat of the Regulators.[3]

Tryon’s governorship ended, and he left North Carolina on June 30, 1771.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulator_movement

During the quiet period, then, the Regulator movement seems to have developed a
tradition; an esprit de corps; a certain understanding of their potential. This
is evidenced by the words of the Anson County petition of 1769, which pushes
Regulator grievances further than ever before.
The writers complain

That the violation of the Kings Instructions to his delegates, their artfulness
in concealing the same from him; and the great Injury the People thereby
sustains; is a manifest oppression…
The petition goes on to indict the governor and council for several
irregularities in assigning and accounting for land grants, asks that taxes be
made payable in produce, and suggests location for tax commodity warehouses in
which to store these goods. Several of the locations mentioned are outside Anson
County–a strange inclusion, unless there had been previous consultation with
other Regulator groups. Further, the petition recommends

That Doctor Benjamin Franklin or some other known patriot be appointed Agent, to
represent the unhappy state of this Province to his Majesty, and to solicit the
several Boards in England.

The State of Franklin was an autonomous, secessionist United States territory
created, not long after the end of the American Revolution, from territory that
later was ceded by North Carolina to the federal government. Franklin’s
territory later became part of the state of Tennessee. Franklin was never
officially admitted into the Union of the United States and existed for only
four years.
Contents
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1 The fate of Western North Carolina
2 Secessionist movement
3 Transition to Tennessee
4 Franklin in memory
5 In fiction
6 See also
7 Sources
8 References
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[edit] The fate of Western North Carolina

As the Congress of the Confederation was heavily in debt at the close of the
Revolutionary War, the state of North Carolina voted, in April 1784, “to give
Congress the 29,000,000 acres (117,000 km2) lying between the Allegheny
Mountains (as the entire Appalachian range was then called) and the Mississippi
river.”[1] This did not please the Watauga settlers who had gained an earnest
foothold on the Cumberland River at Fort Nashborough. They feared Congress might
in desperation sell the territory to a foreign power such as France or Spain. A
few months later, the Legislature of North Carolina withdrew its gift, and again
took charge of its western land because it feared the land would not be used to
pay the debts of Congress. These North Carolina lawmakers also “ordered judges
to hold court in the western counties, arranged to enroll a brigade of soldiers,
and appointed John Sevier to command it.”[1]
[edit] Secessionist movement

The spirit of the American Revolution was still very much a part of the frontier
world view, and increasing dissatisfaction with the government of North Carolina
by citizens in the territory west of the Alleghenies led to calls for the
establishment of a separate state. On August 23, 1784, delegates from the North
Carolina counties of Washington (that at the time included present day Carter
County), Sullivan, Spencer (now Hawkins) and Greene — all counties in
present-day Tennessee — convened in the town of Jonesborough and declared the
lands independent of North Carolina.

On May 16, 1785, a delegation from these counties submitted a petition for
statehood to the Continental Congress. Seven states voted to admit the tiny
state under the proposed name Frankland. Though a majority, the number of states
voting in favor fell short of the two-thirds majority required to admit a
territory to statehood under the Articles of Confederation. In an attempt to
curry favor for their cause, leaders changed the name to “Franklin” after
Benjamin Franklin, and even initiated a correspondence with the patriot to sway
him to support them. Franklin politely refused.

Replica of the Capitol of the State of Franklin in Greeneville, Tennessee
Locally, a constitution that disallowed lawyers, doctors and preachers from
election to the legislature was rejected by referendum. Thereafter, a
constitution modeled on that of North Carolina was adopted with few changes, and
the state was called Franklin.

A temporary government was assembled at Greeneville. After a swift election,
John Sevier became governor and David Campbell judge of the Superior Court.
Greeneville was declared the permanent capital. The first legislature met in
December 1785; Landon Carter (son of John Carter, an early Carter County settler
in present day Elizabethton, Tennessee) was the Speaker of the Senate, and
Thomas Talbot its clerk. Major William Cage was Speaker of the House of
Representatives, and Thomas Chapman served as House Clerk.

The legislature made treaties with the Indian tribes in the area, opened courts,
incorporated and annexed five new counties (see map above), and fixed taxes and
officers’ salaries. Barter was the economic system both de facto and de jure,
and anything in common use among the people was allowed to be paid to settle
debts, including foreign money, corn, tobacco, apple brandy, and skins (Sevier
himself was paid in deer hides). Citizens were granted a two-year reprieve on
paying taxes, but this lack of currency and economic infrastructure slowed
development and created confusion.

The year 1786 was the beginning of the end of the small state. Franklin was
placed in a precarious position by not being admitted to the United States. The
new “state” never met the Union admission requirements. Because it shunned North
Carolina’s claims of sovereignty over it, Franklin did not have the benefit of
either the national army or the North Carolina militia. North Carolina offered
to waive all back taxes if Franklin would reunite with its government. When this
offer was not accepted, North Carolina moved in troops under the leadership of
Col. John Tipton and established its own government in the region. The two rival
administrations competed side by side for several months. Loyalties were divided
among local residents. The only “battle” between Sevier’s supporters and those
of Tipton was fought in 1788 at Col. Tipton’s farm which has been preserved as
the Tipton-Haynes Historic Site in Johnson City, Tennessee.
Becoming desperate over the Franklin government’s inability to function due to
economic problems, Sevier sought a loan from the Spanish government, and along
with James White attempted to place Franklin under Spanish rule. The North
Carolina government was absolutely opposed to any foreign nation gaining a
foothold in Franklin and ordered its officials to arrest Sevier. Sevier’s
supporters freed him from a local jail but Sevier decided to turn himself in
February 1788. North Carolina was lenient and the only punishment given Sevier
was to require him to swear an oath of allegiance to North Carolina.