The Kalida venture. [volume] (Kalida, Ohio) 1841-1865, 1848-03-14
"IIoNEsTY THE BEST POLICY
1 TALE OF NEW COUNTY YmAKrse, WITH j

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Tits reflection IN passing stream, made .
grab at the bone he fancied he saw in The
waller, and in doing SO, lost the bone he
had in his teeth, has a strict likeness TO the
case of our unfortunate neighbors in Van
Vert County. They were in possession Of
a promising Territory, and no reasonable pros
pect Of disturbance or difficulty, but they
had also half Of Section Ten, thriving
village, Of which the other half was in Put
nam County; and they became coyetous, like
Ahab of old, and nothing would answer but
they musthase tho village territory in Put
nam county, TO add 10 theirs; and SO they
thought they would be cute, and intrigue a
little and bargained with certain Doctor,
and Robi. Skinner, Of Waupaukonetta, and
promised to aid themb pettions,representc-
tons, &c. before the Legislature, 10 make
the new county Of Auglaize, well knowing
that its erection was only sought "to benefit
Gas they now declare some would.be "na-
bobs" Of eWaw-paw-kaw-nap-taw.n This
they did on condition that the Doctor would
"divide The spoils' with them, when he sue
eeeded in the scheme fplundenng Putnam
county. sRel sa g fP A'ssa'Re''r'.
We have no Observation-Disclosures ngreed to
all they asked, and that they considered that
If their claim was not clean one, it was at
least stiong. But there's many slip be-
tween the cup and the lip. The Van Vert
petitions for the plumber of Putnam County
we're got M, sent to the Legislature, and
had their full effectin determining the erec-
ton ofthenew county. But Bob &the. DR. had
labored unsuccessfully for years in this bad
work, s. SO they concluded ihoy would seize
the first instance 10 settle ths matter in the
easiest way they could and save their own in
tcrest, and in SO doing the Van Vert folks
failed TO get Section Ten, which went TO AL
len county, and lost one half ofone of their
best townships, and received in lieu thereof
"nine sections from Mercer county," which
they declare "is worth just so much and no
more, than SO many acres in the centre of
Mercer county reservoir Thus instead of
sharing the plumber with them, Bob and the
Doctor actually skinned their all 'es. This was
abominable. Honor among thieves has been
provelb If, not practice, from time when
the memory of man runneth not to the
contrary. but in this case il proved what Black
Dan calls an "obsolete idea;" and the in
teres,ing plunderers Of Van 9,Wcft county,
we're "done brown" by mates of their own
choosing.
But the best ofthc joke is to come. Like
the dog that bit the stone that was thrown
al him, and not the hand which threw it, in
their last Bugle they blow every body bu,
the Waupaukonctta DR.. and Bob, who uncov-
cred the lions hide from their shoulders.
In their blind fury they attack our fellow
citizen, DR.. G. M. GodGey, who neither de-
signed, or knew, and who never desired or
approved the arrangement by which Putnam
county was dismembered, and their territory
taken. and who in principle was strong op-
ponent of new counties, and charge upon him
and our citizens the i'll success of tter GU
.pidity, simply because the Legislature did
not visit upon properiysholders here all the
evils which they aimed to bring upon them.
They also light with sledge hammer force
upon certain innocent, whom they in
form us TO be "George Marsh, Esp who at
Columbus went from member TO member oil
the Legislature, 10 assure them Of what was
not prima facie evident, ,tha he "was tic Eep-
resentative of Van Vert County, entrusted
by letters from that county especially 10 pro.
.ect the interests ofis citizens, "yet agreeing
TO whatever DR.. Holbrook, &c. required. To
accuse him of accomplishing any purpose is
cruel, and can only have resulted from the
irritation which failure in bad cause always
brings.
The moral OF all this is, that the good
folks of Van Vert who went in for despoil-
ing Putnam County, with desire to share
in the plurder, have been bitten by the SER
peni they warned to accomplish our injury,
and that those who for a knavish purpose put
their trust in knaves and fools are very apt 10
learn by experience that honesty is the best
policy.
How THEY INCREASE THE POPULATION
IN PENNsYLvAN1A.-H Hon. Mr.. SAUERKRAUT
made speech in Harrisburg, the other day,
on the bill for making several new counties,