Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1851-03-29
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% iicfsn$ District are respectfully so,
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se aothe H0i,ordble the Senate end
Horse Of Representatives: s3 aA
The humble Petition of the under
signed, citizens ofAPickens District,
shoWeth 10, your Honorable, BODY,
that PIckenS Di ,tslrt (extendine East
and West, orfrom the sSaluda TO the
} HugalooIriyer, sixty miles, and North
and South, or from North, Carolina.
10 the understanding thiity!ivdmie q J
embraces within lis limits an area Of
N lerrllorymuch more extensive than
that which is usually contained with
lInthe limits especially of mountain
District: Your Petitioners fiiflherbeg
70 be permitted 10 show to your Hon
,oraPle Body, that this great extent of
territory occasions much and serious
lpGonyenience-heightenedby by theme
cuIiar geographical and topographi-
cal characteristics of the counlry--to
2 : large majority of the people ofthe
DIistrict' and 10 crave that you will
take into consideration the proprieiy
,ot Dividing the same into Two Judi
clal Districts, 10, be called, the one
Calhoun, and the other Plckens, or
10 be called ~ any other names
which 70 your Honorable Body shall
seem most meet and proper. ...s..
Your Petitioners also desire to sug-
gest the KeoWee River as a suitable
hne Of Division, and to submit that
the territories included between tie
Saluda and Keowee, and between
the Keowee ard ,FugaIoo, being re
spectively. OF an average width, OF
thirty miles, and in length varying
from thirty 10 forty miles, and respee-
tlyely containing Twelve Hundred
Voters, are glii sufficient FOR The for
NATION Of two Districts of conyeaient
and respectable size. ~ IN, teat
. The eXtreulemconvenience arising
from IFS present unwieldy size, will
hecome apparent, when 1t is remem
bered thas the eastern and western
borders are by far the most populous
Parts OF the District, and thaLpersons
residlng on either of,tilase must pass
over twenty-five or thirty miles to
reach the Court House.
These difficulties and disadyanta-
ges are still further heightened by the
unfortunate location of the Court
House, which being situated in the
midst of a considerable extent of
rough and ba rren country, is an
Proached from no one point of the
District with ease or convenience.
These, and many other djsadvan-
tages, arlSmg from the same cause,
ny preventing persons alta distance
from settling amongst US, and thus oc-
cupymg, reclainlilgi and bringing i'm
to market the many llhonsand acres
OF ftlllabIe lands, which now lie waste
and nncaltiYated around as, prevent
or delay the development Of lis re-
sources, and gIeally Fetard the pros,
perity oftlie District, while I6e whole
State suffers /, proporlionate loss,
from the lapgor and depression of
one me OF us pa rts These causes have,
also coniributed 10 drive many, OF our
best citizens, TO hunt new homes in
the South aud West, where their in,
{ cdlqstEy, Woula be tranlnelled. with less
InIc5o1lnive9Ienee; and thus, and f ON
iI!s inSsea ,t ,s;|afeSa While their, epergiss
nave i7AS lent ag6dlllpnal iimQpelgslo The
RAPID deyelopment ofneM States and
Iefrllories, pure drops have, been
hraihed from the, lIfe,blood, Of our
State aud She has, lost forever the
benefits of tlleif labors and, counsels
r ,.lP peace Z & snaqI il in war Of lhsir sirepgihI
~ would be ipresvmptuous were the
Undersigned II even TO bint 10 your Hon,
orable Body what ii SO well under
Itands, viz thai7TlIkely TO be placed \
n g hostile altitude io 1he General
.5SoIyyerliGlGnt, andsurrolGded by cold /
riSespds II not secret ensmiesvrit is the II
rye policy pff The, State, lby fostering !
ne pecculiarF interestSsof the various |
oartspt the comqiupity,tp render ler1b /
III as far as may, be, Independent ell,
sll iOrelegll,aId or exlgsneogs assis,E
ance; and no where isthe, ,truthj,
liore clearly cp5pprebenSed Than by
iolig hgo,tl9Eapble body, that one great
iteptoWards this = desired I indepep- /
ietllc elhaSS been taken, wpep by wise \
ND g gtpppaRrfisl legl glslati0n the epsosper.I
", ,oi the gram i. owing Districts has |
)een perm Is secured. 4 M
.,,.,,.. BelIeygilt as they do, that by, (
lcceding TO tlieii prayer ittwiIl great,
y advance the, interests of The peonIe |
j Pickeps Districts and calling 10, |
nllld The many aslons upon VhicllI
,oSlr |, g9lf, loa9Eab,e Body has eYjneed