Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1832-01-07

TO THE EDITORS or THE ENQUIRER
In your paper OF the Goth ult communication over
me signature OF "a Citizen, addressed the members
Oh ue Legislature from Buckingham-but which was no
doubt, intended for the whole Legislature The commu
mcation was so silly that it would not have been noticed
nut Tor the misrepresentation some facts and tho ;n
cent personal ausion some gentlemen who reside in
the bounds OF the proposed county-From informo
oh' The plan OF forming county OF part, of the
couhues oil buckingham, Charlotte, Prince Edward and
Campbell was agiated upwards of forty years AGO lone
before The writer OF this communication knew any thing o
me county; and in 1925, petitions presented from
me counties before mentioned, for county with il
Is believed, almost the precise boundaries that the present
petitions ask for is true the petitions of that wear were
rejected not because the petitioners did not lahour
grievances but because at that period, the Legislature
was pehoned TO have call of Convenon-One of the
causes assigned Tor calling Convention was that the
Eastern side oil the Blue Ridge had more than its adeouate
share oil representation and that the number of the House
oil Delegates was too numerous These causes have been
removed by the Convention, and the claim of the petit
TONERS now stands upon the naked question: whether thev
are iabouring under grievances or Motif any member
oil the Legislature will turn 10 the map of VIRGINIA he
will the distance that the people in e ppe ends of
bucknSham Prince Edward and Charlotte and the lower
end oil Campbell, have 10 travel their County Court
houses-many OF them have to travel upwards of twenty
hVe miles, and Is hisno grievance would rcouire the
acute mnd oil Citizen, to prove TO intelligent pco-
ple that was no grievance travel upwards of twenty
hve miles TO their Courthouse is well known that orr
roads are none of the hest Although the petitioners fool
great interest in the of their petition and tbnt
Notwithstanding the lucid view taken by ga Citizen. .
hat they are iabouring under grievances yet if they
iuict greater injury upon any other community they
would withdraw it. O'
Now, what are the reasons assigned by "a Citizen, y
why the new county should not be formed? One is that
the county OF buckingham has laid 500 900 in public
buildings and that if you take part of that county into
the new one the Courthouse will not be in the cen,ro
ana some oer parts OF the county will be disqueted'
II IS strange iat il had not occurred 10 Czen that
renewing the people in the upper end of the county would
not place the people in the lower end of the county
farther from the Courthouse. As 10 the aroumenf to
the county had lately expended 800 900 is one for the
people h'lng IN the new county weigh and not those
HnS IN heold county, particularly as the whole or tbe
money has been paid II expected that few ner
sons living within the bounds of the new co,In ,vo
pectcd the sricvalty in a short time and tho i4ye,s ;
ing at inc COuri-houseS, and those who hold Offices would
be opposed 10 county because their profits would
he curiaed ii was quite natural that they should re-
monstrate and If this had been done in decent terms no
Dody would have complained, and the would have
been left to an impartial tribunal, composed of members
from other counties, TO decide between the petitioners
and those demonstrating, who do not reside i'm the Unite nj
the county. If the people in the new county arc ao
grieved they ought TO be relieved even if a majority of
the people in the remaining parts of tho old counties
should oppose them Right, and power, should he the
governing principle. Upon this question there should not
have been any feeling. There was no necessity for it,
None but heart fostering with malcyolence would have
attempted TO draw the minds OF the members OF the Iegs-
atre from the true question before them TO the humble
individuals selected by portion Of the petitioners TO put
INC Legislature Ia possession Of the petitions and docu-
ihes "a Citizen says, that the people are opposed TO
new county, aud that the polls will shew that they are
cgudly opposed TO Of the new countv
' any gentleman sec what the last polls had TO do
WIN the new county That the gentleman alluded TO was
nor elected, was matter Of public nooneyno from any
ieeings OF opposition TO hin-bccause between him and
Wv people o. me county there has existed far as he
knows, the hndest feelings AZ the last election Inc bcd
opinions ON one subject which did not accord with tbc
opinions OF majority Of the peoplc-and they acted
consistently The gentleman alluded TO, il sorry tb,t
the people did not concur with him i'm opinon nnon
that SUBJECT but never entered into his mind bat
mad created feelings Of hostility the truth is mot mani
lest that Is because the "Czen" thinks the COUNTY
wi DO christian county, that ne is opposed 10 IT, But
itreoly seems to "a Citizen. II people would count the
cost Of setting or The KiDgdom and would Danish