Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1852-02-27
Fcom the Barre Patriot.
Division Of the County Of Wooeste

OF worcester whose history ana unity have
been marked and hallowed by cherished re-
signal prosperity in her
industrial ind pecuHiary interests, and by
her political and moral influence, not sur
passed, If eQualled, by any agricultural
county in the State, rendering her name
honorable wherever that of Massachusetts
is knowns it seems highly proper that pub.
lie attention should now be drawn 10 the
subject with so near a trial in prospect.
If aSa unit the cennty has lust claims
10 This signal prosperity, respectability.
and lnfanence, land il cannot be controyer,-
ed,) does IL not become a grave question to
thar portion which is 10 be severed from
this time honored county and annexed TO a
trsgment-trom another county-what eff.
fect 1t must have upon its future growth
andinterests, especially in taxes and pri-
pileges?
While it is question whicl ought 10
have its origin and consideration exclusive.
ly as zone Of public expendiency and nee
ceSsfty, the evidence is TOO clear 10 be mis-.
understood, that 1t has its origin and adyo-
catestrom considerations oflocaI and privsse
interests at Fitchburg and with some osllets
'of the county ia running for the chances in
the distribution of new set of county
officers and emoluments. In corroboration
.oi thls, give the following exh1rcls from
letter written by an Intelligent citizen of
Fitchburg short time since.
"The old political hacks and Real Es.
tate owners of this place have again COM
menced their meetings about the division
of the county. They are iIfnly attended
but all the capital that can be made for no.
litical purposes is being aade, with a great
effort at the same time to humbug the a,ee-
pie of this we'll disposed town.
lhey are all attempting TO make sIte pee
pie here eefseRe that taxes will be gradually
aeSSeEed, while their property viii be in
creased IS per centor $500 eco in one wear
--sEsus you see one of the strong motives
Taney urge and many OF the people Of Fitch
burg believe it. They have published
circular OF statistics of expenditures. Sc. ef
the county, and compared them with those
.ot ether counties which without a careful
Persudl win be apt TO deceive. Thisr report
whichis somewhat ingenious, has cost the
lown some $500, and a seasons labor of as
able committee as could be raised which
by e'way was composed of Real Estate
holders and men seeking .emolumeut by The
division.
There is one feature sin 4his move which
deservesEpecial notice, and by which the
people here are decejved-au those who
were the most rabid for the alivisien were
those who received the most Of The SUBJ
scription money for their services-souee to
thesamougTt,o of about. $780,
The most,pr0minent move at this time is
the appointment of this committee 10 col
'lect funds, claiming thai the peeitiens of last
year can be made available and therefore
tile work in great measure is done.7
Now | think l. speak the sentiments OF
all parties engaged in the contest of last
year, and many more which will come ia
this'y ia saying it will be matter OF
deep regret to be called upon TO fight the
battle over agains but if thus compelled, II
will be done with a spirit and feeling oil
.determaqltH resistance which will rankle ID
the public mind fer long iime-iustly in.
.dignant at the logged determination of the
mowers, to dragOon the public into the sub
mission OF a measure ia which they have
gust been signally defeated after long ane
protracted trial, under circumstances more
favorable than they can ever start again-s
measure which has been, and can be made
from precedegts, statistics and arguments
plain as mathematical demonstration mus
result in the permanent and everlasting in
Jury injury both 10 the old, and more es
,pecially the new for while distance, as 4
claimed by Kossuth lis no longer reckones
by miles but by time." the most remot
part of Worcester county is now within
less Than half its former distance from it
shire, with moral certainty that in tim
1t will be reduced another haIf-depent
npon it the public will fight and not forget
Let Worcester county remain a nuit il
interest. in strength ard in her action for in
aerRal improvement and growth--a prouc
SnonuEaent as she always has been Eof tn,
benefits of this union and power, resuliin,
as it has, and always must in great eff
cient and Intelligent county only agri
cultural county in the Stale able TO measur.
herself i'll power and influence, politica
or otherwise, with the commercial countl
of Suffolk-the only county extending from
State line to Slate line: constiiutiDga broat
belt mnifing with our sister states on III,
north and on the soGti--geographfcaii,
central between the east and wesl--thers
let her remasn as she is, the heart of thu
Commemorative and should the element
of discord ever arise between the east ant
the west, may she by her moral sirengll
and influence, be able to say to tie waves
as they rise on either side, thus far are thu
bounds, and no farther shalt thou come
united, this prosperity and distinction MAJ
he oars, divided we fall, and no party bene
flied but Fitchburg. CoEsERvAroR.
y Miss Milford, in her late book of literary remi