Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Mass.) 1828-1830, 1828-03-25

grievance NOWHERE else endured Wltnln 6ne
limits of the Commonwealth. The Editor
of a respectable paper in this County has
recently stated that Worcester is the largest
County in New England: if SO, might say,
a similar state Of sufferance is not found in
New England A portion of our fellow
citizens in a neighbouring County, few
years ago, obtained from the Legislature a
similar relief from burden of the same
kind, though much inferior in degree. No
part of old Hampshire County was forty
miles distant from its Shire. There was
opposition then; but since the time that
Franklin and Hampden were incorporated
as Counties, there has never been day
when the inhabitants of these Counties
would not have given a full vote in favour of
the division which was made: and of Hamp-
shire itself the same may be said, excepting
the single town Of Northampton, and of such
ofice-holders in various parts Of the County
as derived mach gaia, from the former state
of things.
The delay of the citizens in obtaining
Right and Justice in the Courts of Law,
which, at the present time, is felt in this
County, in such an unexampled degree, is
an evil which presses equally upon all the
citizens in all parts of the County. The
best, if not the only, remedy for this, is most
obviously division of the County. All who
feel this evil ought, at least, to be satisfied
with the measures which are designed to
afford relief
| 1t is not easy to discern any disadvan-
tages that can result to the towns and citi-
zens generally Saving and excepting always
shire-towns and ofice-holders) from the OBJ
ject sought by the petitioners. 1t is said, it
will dissolve old connexions. 1t is not per-
fectly clear what connexions are intended !;
but if an annual Agricultural Feast and Cat
tie Show be what is meant, the objection
will have little weight with those who have
long been willing to be divorced from a
union which imparts no benefits and imposes
no duties. IT..
Again: it will impair the influence of the
largest County in the State, it is said. This
objection will deserve consideration, when
it is made to appear that five Senators from
Worcester more naturally coalesce on any
question of National or State politics, than
any five Senators from as many different
Counties in the State. The County taxes,
and all County expenses, to be betrayed by
the remaining towns, will not be varied, be-
cause the towns to be set off probably occa-
SION about as much expense as they pay.
And it should not be overlooked by the pc
titioning towns that no additional expenses
are to be apprehended by them, for the
County buildings will doubtless be erected
at the expense of that town which shall be
finally designated for their location. If,
then, no possible evil will result to any party
from the formation of the contemplated new
County, and the advantages to be derived
from it to the petitioning towns are SO OBJ
vious, it would seem but an act of justice in
the residue of the towns to give their con-
sent to the separation of the petitioners !;
and but an evidence of sanity and reason in
the latter to manifest the interest they feel
in this subject by such an unequivocal ex-
preston of their wishes, on the first Monday
Of .4pril, as will be heard in the Halls of the
coming Legislature.
A CITIZEN.