Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-01-07

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Nh. EDITOR: My second proposition
was to suggest a plan for the erection of &
new Court House. This is a much desired
improvement, for without 8 structure of the
kind Delaware, one among the first coun-
ties of the State in Intelligence and enter
prise, and possessing in q large degree all
the essential elements of q prosperous eoun-
ty, is behind every member of the extensive
sisterhoed-as not n of the eighty
two counties of the State (ours excepted) is,
if l am correctly advised. without a Court
House. All admit the necessity Of erecting
a building o: the kind, and no one will OBJ
ject to it being done, provided he is not call
ed upon to help foot the BILL To effect the
object money must be raised; and how that
is to be accomplished is the important point
in issue. There is a great difference of
opinion among the people on the subject of
raising the necessary funds. Some regard
a Court House as the Lawyers shop, and
think there would be as much justice and
propriety in their building their own shop as
there is in the manufacturer building his.
My opinions on this point are more generous
| think they ought not to bear more than
one half of the burthen. We II ave a large
and respectable bar OF some fifteen or more
legal gentlemen, residents of our county
1t has been estimated by Dir. Cadwalader,
a competent architect, that a building saita-
Bile TO the purpose can be constructed for
the sum OF thirty thousand doll airs. This
would make the proportion to be borne by
the diciples of Blackstone fifteen thousand,
something like one thousand dollars each.
THE rafbar n f1rsa1a. hIa St,r1 -
the professione brotherhood, but | propose
aiding them a little in the way of a valuable
suggestion. Let each one get up a sub
scription paper and subscribe himself to the
extent of his ability, then circulate it around
among the generous and wealthy citizens 0
the city of Delaware until the required sum
is raised; and when that is accomplished,
hand them in to the Commissioner and
have them assess a tax on the county for
the other fifteen thousand. Let me urge
upon our Hons. the late NJ. c., and presen-
Senator and Representative, and other dist
tinguished members of the profession, to
take bold of this matter and see if they
cannot do something for their shop, for il is
just as much of a disgrace for them to meet
where they do as it would for a tailor to take
MS WUfh out unueE d LDoFH OuSH. L WOulQ
like to make a stump speech for Chase,
Seward 81 Co., during The Presidential cam
paign of 1860 and would be g%ratified to have
the opportunity to make it in the new Court
House. Respectfully &c.
ak. H. CASTOR
KINGSTON, Jan. 3, 1859.
P. S.. | see that my old friend of the
"Democratic Standard is alter me again.
| have not much time to devote to him
just n~ow-having more important work on
hand Tor the present. But when l get
through with my present undertaking, |
stand ready to meet him in discussion upon
any subject he may suggest, religious, NOR
all political or scientific, on the rostrum or
through the papers. And, lest he should
again conclude that "discretiop is the better
part of valor," and decline an encounter, as
he has heretofore done. | extend the chal-
ienge to any personal friend he may select,
of equal polemic pretentions and respecta-
bility with himself, be he a native and TO the
manor born,' or an importation from 'Bingen-
-on-the- Main,' Frankfort on-the- Rhine
or any other portion of that land, prolific OF
modern Democratic orators and statesmen,
from which old King George III procured
the valiant band of patriots Commonly
called Hessians) who Jared so badly at
Trenton in "days lang syne."