The southerner., 1854-07-29

there are some thirty counties IN the
State lying east of Raleigh, majority
Of which are larger in territory and po-
pulation and have sections further re-
moved from their respective Court
Houses than the county OF Edgecomoe
so far as know or believe this Is the
first and only project for new county,
which has been agitated in the eastern
portion of the State for thirty years and
ioneer-and the creation of new coun-
ties has the effect in divers ways to IN
crease the expense of administering the
State government.
Taking the above facts to be true and
do not believe they can be gainsaycd
in defiance of all ingenuity or sophlstry
they conclnsively establish the follow
ing propositions, any one of which ex-
ccpt the last (Which is introduced for a
different purpose and will be presently
explaincd) by itself is sufficient to over
throw and "crush out" the "New Coun-
ty"-and [ shall not trouble the reader
with the process Of reasoning by which
they are arrived at as it must occur to
every rejecting mind, but shall proceed
at once to state them.
lst. That the people of that portion
Of the county of Elgecombe which is to
be embraced within the bounds of the
uNev County" do not labor under
grieraace, whether their condition be
| considered by itself-or relatively to an
equal number of people who reside else
where in the county, or to portion of
the people in a minority of the counties
east of Raleigh
2ndly. That if they d. labor under a
grievance either positively or relatively,
the remedy for which they ask ought
not to be applied as the plan of the ':ncw
county unjustly discriminates between
the counties Immediately concerned for
the purpose of centralizing Wilson and
securing the Court House there, when
another point will answer as we'll AMI it
will leave in the county of Elgccombc
as many people lAboring under Il srni-
. lar grievance whose burdens will be in
creased and who will thereby be pre-
~,
: otu'!r N'' '''' '''.o'I'"' ~ '"1 p1'.
pic of Wilson and Of the vicinity and
l'o' 'c'"''o "''o a9,'tcu 'no
n'''e",o"' i'f It n'" oou"'J am i
/, Sn''''' s"''cou' S'"c, III 'J'F''y OF "
'"o coo''''I' c'S' VI na'c's" contain
P>'p'c WHO are l" s''h'lar pFca'c'-
" mt SONIC o' "h''h ~ lc'S' VIII nave
'''ic !cs''u ''' s''c'' own interests
thsh tue "el'arc @! t"e puol'e' prece-
dcHt VIII oc cse'oi'shcu walc" Will lead
u similar PROJECTS thf0oo1ou' that sec
. "on !" ,ne m o'a!e-
), 4'h' n'' IL II DC 'r"c 'nat tncrc arc
any people III tue county OF Il locc7mbe
! VINO are iaoorin5 under grievance be-
cause OF thc distance at which they re
Side from tu"'r C"urt House, it's equal
y true OF portion OF tue people IN a
myar'ty OF the counties east of R'lelgil
, ana therefore any action winch may b.
h'd ny Tue legislature on the suhJ"ct
, should be general anil not spccial-in
, other words, it should embrace the
Whole OF that sc1tion of the State and
not particular portion of it, by form
ins as many new counties one with ref
erencc to another, or changing as many
boundary lines as shall be necessary to
, the relief Of all the poople-othcrwisc
as in the county Of Ell lsecombc, it may
add to the burdens of us many people
iw similar circumstances as it will re-
licve.