The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1871-11-23

The New COUNTY, The Tullahoma
Times, of the 18th inst contains the fol-
lowing
"The Winchester Home Journal Of last
week says the movement for new county
lately %inauguratcd in portions OF Frank
lin. Bedford, Lincoln and Coffee was got
ten up In the interests OF the few and to
the detrimcnt of the many. The result OF
the meeting a. L%ynchburg last Saturday
does not look that way, rs there were 9Si
petitioners signed their name asking the
Legislature to give the people the right to
lioll an election on the question Of form
ing said county. a large majority Of the
voters Of that portion Of iranklin inter
cStCd in the movement put their names to
the document. The truth is the people of
Franklin, west of Elk River, are tired Of
paying taxes for the improvement Of the
eastern part OF the county. Il thing they
will always have to do 50 long as they re.
main in Il county where they are so large
ly in the minority. They have had
enough Of. this sort of thing. and are de-
termined to bring about Il change by vo-
ting themselves into n county where their
voices can be heard, and their taxes APP
propriatcd to the improvemt nj of their
W section. We are not surprised TO
hear this expression from Winchester, for
by the confessions of the Home journal in
former numbers. the people OF that region
are sadly lacking In enterprise and public
spirit, and it is quite natural for them to
desire to hold ON to all the territory which
helps to keep them alive, and costs them
nothing to support. The hard working
people OF western Franklin will be heard
from. and you will save yourselves much
~vcxation OF mind by preparing to submit
with good grace"
Now, in reply, we would simply say that
if a majorttv Of the citizens in the section
of Franklin county wanted in order TO
make the new county, desire to leave us
let them 90, and Heavens blessing follow
them. We based our article, in regard
thereto, upon the assertion of several
prominent men in said section that they
were opposed to the ncw-county move
mcnt. And so tar as those who want and
those who do not want the new county are
concerned, we repeat that the movement is
for a few against the many, for 4 majority
of the people Of Franklin county would
vote against such n movement. But the
Times says 4 majority of the citizens in the
coveted portion of our county want to
leave lis, and it concludes. therefore, that
they ought to be permitted to depart in
peace. Upon the same principle we would
ask the Times what should be done with
the large minority, in said section of our
county, who do not wish t. be cut off from
us? And why should a portion ola county
not be allowed to sccedc when its choice
for a county or State officer is not the
choice of the whole county or whole
State? Evidently the Times editor has
drifted into Abraham Lincoln's doctrine
that a county ha 5 as much right to secedc
as Il State.
AS to any favoritism in the internal i'm
proyement OF our county, we were not
aware of such. Outside of the improve
mcnt of our Courthouse there has been
none for years that we know of, and sure
ly the Courthouse is, or ought to be, the
care of the whole county. We have long
thought that bridges across the river
should have been built by the county, and
n spirited movement in this direction
could have secured them long since. But
when the Times charges the majority of
our county people with desiring to hold
to n section which keeps them alive
and costs them nothing to support" he
shows his ignorance of facts, and does in
justice to the majority. Nevertheless,
Tullahoma wants to be the capital of the
new county, ani it is natural that some
showing should be made in said behalf,
And if the people in the adjacent portion
ofoUr county want to go, we i'll not OBJ
jcct. As Abraham said to Lot: Let there
be no strife between Us.