White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1859-02-03
Annexation % Brown Comfy.

northern corner Ot tuls OOuutyB NdOOus
one fourth of Township and annex it
to Brown but as there is terrible fut-
ter over it, we have no hope that it will
prove successful. The petition was sign
ed by nearly every voter living in the
part Of Doniphan proposed to be cut of.
and By many voters Of Brown Comfy.
It set forth. briefly but plainly, the rea-
sons for desiring the change. We are
away up here in one corner, just on the
border of Brown County. and scarcely in
Douiphan. We live farther from the
County Seat than the people of any other
part of the County. There is a rough,
bad and long road leading to Troy, re-
quiring about half day to travel it. To
the County Seat Of Brown, the road is
good, and much shorter than to Troy.
Again-many persons living here have
lard near town, but it is in Brown Cnun-
ty. While living in Doniphan, they are
paying their taxes in another County /;
and they desire to live in the same Coun-
ty where they have their property and
pay their taxes. Our interests are almost
identical with those Of the people Of
Brown; but on the other hand, the peo-
pie of this corner have scarcely feeling
in common with the balance of the Coun-
ty; and we are rarely taken into consid-
Grafton in the. County arrangements. ex-
cept when it comes to the collection of
taxes. There are several other reasons
for desiring annexation, not necessary to
recount here.
Some persons about Hiawatha got up
remonstrance against this movement,
and obtained numerous signatures to it
through Brown County. Their pretence
was, that White Cloud wanted to take
the County Sent from them The same
men are continually haunted with the
idea that somebody wants to take the
County Seat from Hiawatha-they think
and dream about it, and sleep with their
eyes open, lest somebody should come in
the night and steal the County Seat.
They oppose every thing, no matter how
it affects the interests of others, that they
think would have the remotest tendency,
within the next century, to take the
County Seat from Hiawatha. This is
what they held up to the people; SO that,
in reality, the signers of their petition
did not demonstrate against White Cloud
going into Brown, but against the Coun-
ty Seat being removed. These signatures
were obtained under false pretences.
White Cloud had no desire nor intention
to interfere with the County Seat. They
were perfectly willing to let it remain at
Hiawatha. They want to get into Brown
because the County Seat is at Hiawatha,
as they would much rather go there than
20 Troy. They even proposed, that if
the people of Brown desired it, they
would have a clause inserted in the bill,
providing that the County Seat should in
no wise be interfered with. Therefore,
the getters up of the remonstrance had no
Just cause for it. When men are actua-
ted by such selfshness, and resort to such
unfair means to accomplish their designs,
they are always the losers by it in the end.
But there is also violent opposition to
the movement in this County A re-
monstrance was gotten up at Iowa Point,
and was signed by the people of that
place and Highland, but contained not a
name, so far as we could learn, of per-
son living in that portion of the Town
ship proposed to be cut off. This remon-
STRANGE was carried to the Legislature by
a citizen of Highland. Now, the annex
alton would not affect Doniphan County
in the least. 1t would not throw Troy
out of the centre of the County, nor
would it change the relative positions of
Iowa Point and Highland in the Town
ship. We can readily account for the
course which Iowa Point has pursued in
the matter. 1t is but another exhibition
of the relentless hatred which she has
shown towards White Cloud ever since
the latter was projected. They have
hesitated at nothing to injure our place
and discommOde our people. and no ia
vor was asked nor expected Of them. We
verify believe, that if they thought there
was any possibility Of having law pass
ed declaring it illegal for persons to settle
in White Cloud, they would have cheek
enough to get up q petition to that effect;
and they could get plenty of signers at
other towns, which they treated with
contempt until they thought they could
use them, for any purpose they chose to.
But the conduct of the Highland people
we cannot fathom. The interests of
White Cloud do not in any way conflict
with their interests; and our people have
ever taken lively interest in their pros