Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1867-11-21
A ROUGH COUNTRY.


the Kentucky Legislature to create new
county. The effort produced much discus
sion, and drew forth the following witty
speech from Mr.. White, member of the
House. .. .,.... ..
81 predicate my objections to this new
county on different grounds, one of the
main and most important of which is that
I am confident it would not be entitled to a
representative in the next fifty years. Mr..
Speaker, did you ever visit the territory
sought to be created into the county of Car
ter? Did you ever have an opportunity Of
beholding it's multifarous beauties and ex-
amining its boundless resources Well, sir,
have have been all over it, and around
it. and I do say here openly, and definitely,
that there is not level ground enough within
its entire limits to build apig-pen on. The
soil is so poor it wonld NOT grow penny
royal Sir, you might NOW the country
with razor and rake it with fine comb,
and you wouldn't get enough fodder to keep
a sick grass-hopper through the winter.
"Sir, they plant corn with crow-bars,
and hold their sheep by the hind legs while
they nibble the grass in the cracks of the
cliffs. Sir, the terae nature of that Sec
ton are principally ticks, and I must in
Justice say that that variety ofinsects attain
o splendid size in this new county of Carter,
the smallest that ever fell under my obser-
vation being at least as big as saddle-bag
locks. AS to internal improvements in that
section, this House can form some idea when
assure it that the only thing resembling a
road that I ever saw there, was when one of
the barefooted natives dragged wild boy
seven miles through the snow. With such a
country as this, Mr.. Speaker, they propose
to make new county, and the reason given
for so doing is, that their convenience will be
promoted thereby. Sir, if it were possible
to hold their courts under shade of post
oak and black; jack saplings-to keep a
clerks Office and the records of the county
in the recesses of hollow sycamore, and to
make jail out of some of the dark and sill
my caves beneath the craggy hills of that
rough country fit were possible to estab-
lish machinery for doing county business
out of such materials, we might entertain
the project as feasible and plausible.
But, alas! even such advantages as these
are denied by nature to this country. 1t
is true, there would be no difficulty about
the caverns for a Jail, but the necessary
post-oak and blackjack sapplings, to sup
ply with their foliage canopy for the au,
gust tribunals of justice, cannot be found
They are not in the county. And as for
the sycamore tree suitable for a depository
of the archives of the county, it would be
sought in vain. The winds even refuse to
blow sycamore pods in that direction. And
the idea of the people ever being able to
build houses in which to transact business
is deeply, darkly, prodigiously and prepos'
terously absurd.
HssF A Canadian boy in the quiet town Of
St. GATHERINGS had been punished by his
father with solitary confinement for lying
He showed on his release that he had been
employing his time in theological reflections
instead of using it for Standardization.