Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1851-04-19
PETKTION.

Of our State at ats neat sitting, and
to acbich the signatures Of the citizens
Of Pickens District are respectfully
solicited
"s To The Honorable the Senate and
House Of RepresentatiUes:
The humble Petition of the under
signed, citizens Of Plckens District,
showeth To your Honorable body,
that Plckens District (cXtending East
and West, on ffom Tic 'Saluda 10 the
Tugaioo river, sixty miles and North |
and South, or from North Carolina
to the Anderson line thirty-tivl miIes)
embraces within its limits an area of
Territory much more extensive than
that which is usually contained with
inthe limits especially of a Judicial
District: Your Petitioners furtherbeg
TO be permitted to show to your Hon
orable Body, that this great extent of
territory occasions much and serious
Inconvenience heightened by the pc
SSiii;siiafr Sii;ssiiaafr t;;e t;eS Sgrap phical and Topographic
cal characteristics of the country--to
4 large majority of the people of the
District, and TO crave that you will
take into consideration the proprietY
of Dividing the same into Two Judi
cial Districts, TO be called, the one
Calhoun, aud the other Pickens, or
TO be called y any other names
which TO your Honorable Body shall
seem most meet and proper.
Your Petitioners also desire 10 sug-
gest the Keowcc River as a suitable
line Of Div sion, and to submit that
the territories included between the
Saluds, and Keowee, and between
the KeoWee aud Tugaloo, being re-
spectiyely Of an average width Of
thirty miles, and in length varying
from thirty 10 forty miles, and respec-
lively containing Twelve Hundred
Voters, are qnitc sufficient or the for
nation Of two Districts Of conycncnt
and Respectable size.
The extreme neDcopvenience arising
trom its present unw;e!dy size, will
become Apparent, when it is remern
.hered thai the eastern and western
borders are by far the most populous
parts of the. District, and that persons
residing ON either Of these must pass
over twenty-five or thirty miles to
Feacbthe Court House.
.gtThese difficulties and dlsalyanta-
.ges are still further heightened by the
unfortunate location Of The Court
House, Which being situated in The
midst OF a considerable extent oE
rough and barren country, is ap-
preached from no, one point Of the
District with ease orconyenience,
y, .,'lThese, andd, many Other dissdvan-
,tages, arising from the same. cause,
by preventing persons alta distance
from settling amongst tls, and thus oc-
cmpying, reclaiming, and bringing in
to market the many thousand acres
'OfGllable lands, which sow lie waste
anduncultiyated around, us, prevent
or delay the development of It's re-
sources, and greatly retard the pros
perity Of the District, while the Whole
State suffers a proportIonate loss,
from the langor and, depression of
one ofits ptrts. These causes have
also contributed to drive many ofour
best citizens tohunt new homes in
the South aud West, where their in
d,lstry wouldbe tyammelled with less
Inconvenience; and Tins, and Inm
these causes, while their energies
have lens additional impetus TO the
rapid deyelopment of new States and
Territories, pure drops have been
drained from the lfe-blood of Our
State, ard she has lost forever the
benefits os their labors, and counsels
.irl peace, and il warsof ,helr strength
and actlylty;ll9 ,lo0tas9sl laijao8,
.be 4 would be presumptuous werethe
undersigned even 10 hint 10 your, Hon
.orable Body what il 50 well under
stands, viz; that--lkely to he placed
in r hostile attitude TO the General
Goyernment, and surrounded BY cold
frIeIids iE not secret enenpiesr--it is the
true policy of the State, by fostering
she peculiar interesis,of the various
parts OF the conaliinity, tprehder her
SELF, as Gar as may be, independent OF
ali foreign aid or extraDeous lassis-
Iauceg and no. where is thea truth
mofeclearly comprehended thantiss ,
your honorable body, that one greaI
step towards this desired ipdeped-
denee has been taken, when by wise
q and Impartial legislation tIse prosper
ityol the grain growing Districts has
been nperlflanently secured. 4sfS'4t
galig Believing as they do, that by
Ia e L n ! ' r.