Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1871-05-06
For the Clarion.
The New County of Catoctin.

valley are quletly discussing Iue ques'
ton among themselves, shall Frederick
county be divided, and the new county
of Catoctin be erected into separate
organization?
There was time in the history o.
this county when the citizens of the
valley of the Monocacy and Conoco.
cheague had to 60 to Upper Marlboro
to get their deeds recorded and attend
to their land patents and county busi-
ness.
An old deed of my great-great-
grandfather, shows that it was record
ed in the archives of Prince Georges
county, in the town of Upper Marl-
borough.
In process of time it seemed good
that the county of Prince George S
should be divided and it came to pass
in the very year of the great prosperi-
ty Of the Maryland colony, when
Frederick Prince of Wales was born,
that the inhabitants of Frederick
county petitioned the Royal authori-
ties for that object, and in 1913 it was
granted.
The people then residing about
Upper Marlborough and Annapolis,
SAID it would be bad policy to divide
Prince Georges county, for it would
put the inhabitants Of the Western
frontier part of the State to the trou-
ble and expense of building a Court
House and Jail, and would increase
their taxes, which they were too poor
to bear. But nevertheless they per-
severed and secured the division.
Again in l776, the very year that
our Independence as q Nation was
proclaimed it came to pass in consid-
Grafton Of the great services rendered
to the country by Washington and
Montgomery, that the Upper and
Lower Districts Of Frederick county
should be separated from the Middle
division, that the authorities of the
state at Annapolis thought it best
they should be erected into new coun-
ties; and their PRAYERS We're granted
Again in 1889, Allcganv thought ii
best that she should be separated from
Washington county, and the prayers
and petitions Of her people were gran
ted.
In 1886, the people embraced with
in 1Ae present limits Of Carroll county
thought it wise and expcdicnt, on &C
count Of the great distance the people
of Westminster and Noodlc-doo-sic,
had to 90 to attend Court in Frcdc-
rick, that the county should be divided.
We all know in 1884 and 35, when
the subject was agitatcd the people Of
the central section said Nay T. it will
increase Your taxes; and the building
Of a Court House and Jail and Aims
House will cost a great deal Of money,
more than the people of Noodle-doo-
sia and Pipe creek will be willing to
bear Still Isaac Shrivcr and John
Fisher and Joshua Cocliey, Jr., Vim,
Cost Johnson and good many others
thought quite differently. "Go to
now, and let us practice the virtues Of
industry and frugalitv,' said the peo-
pie Of CARROLL so shall our citizens be
happy and our county be called
blessed. They perscvered and Carroll,
named in honor of the last surviving
signer of the Declaration Of Indepen-
dence, was erected into a new county.
Th-se are all matters of history, un-
denied and undeniable.
Shall the people residing within the
proposed limits Of the new county Of
Catoctin be refused privileges which
We're granted to other citizens Of the
State? The opponents Of the measure
have no ground even for suspicion
They spread an alarm they do not
believe and inspire fears and jealous
les they do not feel. A division Of
the county will not injure Frederick
city, any more than the building Of
the Littlestown Railroad will damage
the interests Of the Baltimore and
Ohio Corporation. Neither will it
cripple or retard the prosperity Of the
people Of Westminster or Hagerstown.
Now when it is proposed, on ac-
count Of the great distance the people
OF this section Of the county-near the
mouth Of Toms creek-and Har-
baugh's Valley and Hauver's District
and Eylcr's Valley and Emmitsburg
and Mechanicstown Districts, have to
90 to attend Court, and the trouble
and expense Of getting there, than we
are told by some people who profess
to be our guardians and friends that
our taxes will be enormous and that
the citizens will be bowed down and
couch like Isachar's ass, between two
burdens-our load will be greater than
we can bear In fact the old cuckoo
cry about Heavy Taxes will be again
raised Will their "rawhoad and
bloody bones mover down? Our
burdcns who is there who believes
that our burdens will be increased OF
that our advantages will not be vastly
augmented 2 Now when the people
hear these things / am inclined to
think they will arise in the majesty
Of their might" and say to one