Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1872-01-13

that there Will still be parties, anC
that they will give more earnest heed
to Economic or Industrial issues thar
they have recently done. Heaven
speed the day
The New County Of Cntoctin.
We wish the public to know and
the members of the General Assembly
at Annapolis, particularly to under
stand, that the meeting Of the people
in the Northern portion of Frederick
Carroll and Washington counties, look.
ing to the formation of New County,
are engaged in no child's play. This
is an age Of progress and general uti-
Iity. The public good and the con-
venience Of the people imperatiyely
require the erection Of New County
in the present juncture of affairs
History informs us as far back as l745,
when Frederick, Washington Montgo-
merry Allegany and part of Carroll
county were included in Prince
(ieorge's county, and The seat of JUS
tice WAS at Upper Marlborough, when
an effort was made to erect the New
County Of Frederick, and establish q
Court House ut Frederick, that ii met
with oppos'tIon, and it was not until
l74S, before the measure prevailed.
1t was urged that the valleys Of the
Monocacy and the Conocheague and
Antictam, were too remote from Anna
polls, and Upper Marlborough, and
that the country was too thinly popu-
'ated and that the people We're too
poor, and lived too far in the back
woods to have a new countv--that
they could not build n Court House,
a Jail and Poor House, and that the
taxes to be imposed would be too
heavy for them to bear and all that
sort Of thing; and, moreover, that
there We're not men of sufficient intel
hgencc, education and experience to
fill the county otiires--such as Judge,
Clerk, Sheriff, etc And that the far
lners We're too gnorant of public ai
fairs, and that they must first receive
their cue FROM the King and Parlia-
nl"nt of Great Britain and the Cover
nor General and the unlcrstrapperS
Of the ROYAL Government at Annapo-
lis. Besides, it was urged that there
was an antl-BritiSh faction residing
near "Tasker's Chance,' close by
where Frederick City is now 10 'ated,
whom it would not do to trust
Again it was limited by the men hol-
ding office at Annapolis and Upper
Marlboro that here We're too many
instances recorded in history, Of fac
tions which took rise from the most
trivial circumstances and seldom en-
ded but by the total subversion of the
Government in which they existed !;
and that men will for the smallest
supposed difference ruin themselves.
and the Government under which they
live.
But Notwithstanding the above, and
y hundred other obj acJons, urged by
the men Of Annapolis and Upper
Marlborough, Frederick county was
erected into new county, severed from
Prince George $, and officers appoint
ed to carry into effect the will of the
people of the "backwoods' Of Mary
land. John parnall was appointed
Clerk, and George Scott, Sheriff; but
who the first Judge was is not 50
clear.
The County Government thus es
tablished was carried on under TIE
reign of Queen Anne and George III
and the British rulers in Maryland
from l74S to l776, without creating
any general CONSERVATION, but rather
promoting the convenience of the cl
tizens of the valley of the Monocacy
takes We're paid and people lived
along very cleverly according to all
accounts. Montgomery county was
Topped off from Frederick and so WAS
Washington; and the people still liy-
ed and prospered.
In l797 and l7oS, an effort was
made, but without effect, by the citi-
zens of Taneytown, Cniontown, Mid
dleburg and Pipe Creek settlements
etc, to divide Frederick county, and
establish county seat at fancy
town. 1t was charged in the Freder-
ick papers, that John Ross Key, John
McKaleb, John Gwinn, Henry r,
Warheld and other leading men were
at the head of this movement. West
minister opposed it then, because they
wanted the county seat at that point.
In 1921, public meeting was held
at Woodsboro, of which Maj. VIM. B.
Head was Chairman, and Mai. Thom-
as Sappington, Secretary, the object
of which was to count noses on a
new county project, and to obtain a
redress of grievances Of the mode and
manner in which the Courts OF Justice
were carried on at Frederick, and the