Maumee City express. [volume] (Maumee City, Ohio) 1838-184?, 1839-09-28
For the Mnumee CITY EApren..

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woo, our voice is stincd in that Of the multi
tudes operating On the same question. We
consequently are liable to disregard our re-
sponsibility as voters.
1t happens however, that this year, we
hnve submitted to us, by our Legislature, n
question of really great importanceto to eve
ry inhubltant ofthe county, and all who may
hereafter become such.
The question amounts to this in effect
to wit: Shall majority ofthe people ofthe
county of Lucas, as often as it may be ne
cessary for them to visit the seat Of Justice
of the county, be compelled to go ten miles
further than they would need could the
seat of Justice be removed to the best loca-
ton in the county. On this question you
are called to act on the 9th ofOct. next,
bv putting on yonr ballots for or against
q removal of the scat Of Justice.
There has never been no question before
the people of Lncas county, that has excited
half the general interest, that this las, and
aside from personal feeling on the subject,
every clcctor ought 10 feel that he Is called
upon as juror to do nm act of justice to
the parties concerned.
Let every one then place before him a
map of the county, and make 1t study Tor
ten minutes, where is the seat of Justice!
There at the northeastern extremity OF the
county, for though the the township OF Or
egon on the south side of the river, contains
about GO sections of what is called land, the
most of it, to say the least, consists very
little desirable for settlement, is Of very qucs-
tionable character.
Who has business at the seat of Justice
from the south and east OF Toledo! The
people of Oregon. Who from the N. E.
down the river! The people OF Manhat-
tan. Who from the S. w. up the river!
The Teople of Maumec, Monclova, Water
vile and Providence. Who from the west?
Those of Tremainesvile. Sylvania, Am
boy, Royalton, Cheste' field, Gorham, Ger
man, Clinton, York, Swan creek, Wing and
Springfield. Draw line through Toledo
North and South, and OIL the East side of
such line there will be one tenth of the ter
ritory of the county, calling that land which
may or may not be land; and on the west
side Their will be nine tenths of said terrific
ry, and most of il the best md most desira-
BILE land in the county.
In the mean time there is no good reason
for continuing the seat of Justice at Toledo.
Eligible locations il abundance, are to be
had much more central and IN every other
respect equally commodious. If it should by
the commissioners be thought advisable to
fix the scat of Justice Oh the river, Maumee
City and Waterville, or some point be-
tween them, would be more central, and Ell
ther Maumee City or Watcrvile could well
acco immediate the public business. Water
vile with the presents limits of the county
is rather nearer the centre than Maumee
City, but taking into consideration the San
dnsky road and other roads from the interior
of the state, the bridge across the Maumee,
the proximity of the seat of Justice of
Wood county, and the roads west and
northwest, and up and down the river,
from the bridge of Maumee City, that would
probably be the point, if established OIL the
river. But it is more than probable, that
ere long the boundaries of the county will
be altered, and how must they be atered1
ugreeably to the constitution, they cannot
be SO altered as to leave less than four hun.
drcd square miles in each county. Now
look again at the map. The north line of
the state must remain within four miles
and a half of the centre Of Toledo. No
more territory can be obtained ON the east
or south, bnt it is probable that the non-dc-
script part of Lucas county on the south
side of the river, will he attached to Wood
and Sandusky counties. But including
that, and you will perceive, that about one
hundred square miles only are nearer Toie-
do than they are Maumee City, while adj
mittiug the county to contain just four hun
dred square miles, three hundred of them
will be nearer to Maumee City than to To-
ledo. This is in inevitable, in any way you
can fix it. Neither is Ii very easy to form
a county out of the present territory of Lu-
cas- including Maumee and Toledo in which
Maumee City will not be as nearly central
to the county as any town OH the river.
The question then recurs, why should
the people Of Lucas county submit to the cx-
pense aud Inconvenience of continuing the
seat of Justice at Tuledoi
Isit because they have particular regard
for the foreign spectators, who have erect
ed so many buildings to stand tcnnntless
unless something is done for their relief? Or
is it on account of The seif-denying hospital
ity and politeness, the rigid morality and
decorum Of its fluctuating popula,iona
Fellow citizens it ought not to be thus,
and it must not and will not be thus. Let
the Legislature ofthe state understand, that
what we have 60 unanimously asked of