The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1872-05-25
COURT HOUSE AGAIN-To .sJ.'


letter, a you would have me believe, IN the
PALLADIUM Of last week, came duly to hand,
and take few leisure moments to an
swer IL.
In the first place, let me assure you that
so far as you attempted to interpret, quote or
eonstrue my former article in the PALLADIUM
of the week before, you misrcpresen:ed me in
every particular. stand by every word and
letter in that article, and / challenge you. or
any other man, to refu:e any fact therein
stated. @
You have, however, in your letter betrayed
yourself, and but very little uneartbInE,
think, necessary to expose the hideous de
formi,y .of your demagogical cant, to the
most obtuse intellect in or out Of the county.
The burthen of your labor in the prepara-
ton of your letter was, TO show that |, and
others who oppose the change of the county
seat, act from considerations of seiishness
alone and you, and those who cooperate
with you, in seeking to effect the change, are
acting for the public gool, Invested of every
feeling sordid or selfish. You may be vain
enough TO suppose that some one CT more
readers Of that generous lett.r, will believe
that Richmond inaugurated this more for
the general good OF the county; but If so,
they should be transported to well known
public house, west CT the Capital.
neither placed my opposition to the re-
moval of the county seat, npon the grounds
that the removal would operate against the
public convenience of the people generally,
nor, because it would result in financial dis
aster to many of US here but gave it as my
op inion, that the public interest would not be
subserved by the change, and that II an, of
US in and about Centreville would suffer great
less thereby in TIE depreciation of our prop
erty. The latter reeson is selfish one. but
tecause of that fact, it is not without its
! force. The man who resists the rebber " hen
he says, "Your money or your 1ife," acts
from selfish motive, yet he is not to be con-
demned for it-not even censured for it.
Private interests, selfish considerations. must
give way when the public good demands them,
| otherwise they are sacred to every man, and
| none but the craven AID the coward win yield
! them, except by force. When ffty.fve per
|
any other proportion of the voters, establish
! ed by law, of their own free will, demand the
removal Ct the county seat from Centreville
4 to Richmond, am bound as good citizento
respect their demands, as an expression that
the public Interest will be subserved by the
change, ard that the sacrifice of myself and
others is for the public good; but until then,
l anil others will contest every inch of ground.
/ Let me, my dear sir, suggest, that had your
motives in springing tn IS question of removal,
been for the public good merely, you betray-
cd great weakness, as it appears to Eae, in
proposing through the public prints and
otherwise, that you, Richmond, would pay
every dollar for the grounds on which to erect
the public buildings in Richmond, and also
pay the appraised value Of the real estate and
public buildings at Centrevile. aad that the
people sutsida of the city would DO required
to pay nothing. -.s..
Does this have the coloring of selfshness
aboutit? Was it fer the love, the dear love
of the people 7. or did you suppose that the
voters outside of Richmond, were SO sordid
and selfish that they would not each contri
butte mite for their own good Agsiu II
the convenience of the people generally OF
the county would be subseryed or promoted
by the change, would it not most Likely have
been bought forward and pressed by some
other part of the county other than Rich.
mond? A nd would not such move origin
, ting in other parts Of the county, have beer
: evidence, that the public veal was being
sought after ?
!, l am not blaming, charging or in anywise
censuring yon Tor being selfish. l am trying
to show what think the facts conspire to es-
/, lish. You have right to be selfish, and
n have right to be the same, yet, as [ insist
: neither OF US has the right to carry that self
/ ishuess to such an extent, az Will injure gu
neighbor, unless the public good demands i,
You say in your letter, that 1--WE Il suppos
8 Richmond }. pay nearly one half of the whole
! tax" and this, | presume, you intend as a
sort of cordial to the people of the county
= that they may the more readily consent tina
you shall pay nore. would not controver
this proposition were it true, but think upo
= a CAREFUL examination of the tax duplicate
r. as am informed, the city does not pay one
fifth part OF the State and County revenn,
q and that the city and township Of Wayne pa
n but tride over One-fourth of the State an
County revenue. It may be, that you mad
le mistake in this particular. You, perhap.
h intended to say, "we, (the peop'e Of Ricl
mond have nearly one-half the delinQuel
Of taxes of the county standing against us.
q, This statement would have been SO near Il
truth, that !. should have let it pass unnotice,
9, motives Dix tell YOU in my former articl
7 or did ever tell you, that ] had deep symps
of thy for the taxpayers of the county !?
n have assumed nothing of the kind. For OF
tax payer, do have a sympathy--do ca
ne something for, aud this hope you will nc
,r deny. That sympathy, that respect far th
taxpayer, is of kin, i doubt not, 10 that, for
bowels are made yearn,to because OF the lars
"suns expended, in wear and tear Of horse
burgies, and harness" in going to Centr,
vile. said before and | repeat, that if
court house, jail and other county Building
at are built at Centrey lille. or at Richmond, til
d. VIII be so built by the taxpayers money
the county. Do you deny it The people
a the county are Indifferent as to my sympat
for them, suppose all they ask OF me
justice, and in return, have claim up
nd them for the same.
10. Why all that mouthing and whining in 20
40 letter about the county jail7 And why char
lot me and my allies, and the Board of Coun
a. Commissioners, with pledging our hone
not to appropriate money to the building Of
g county Jail, and then making shipwreck
,cs that pledge. when every word OF it is falls
7eS Ask d. B. Crawford Of your own CITY, W
I'd, was then Commissioner, if ever approat
,o- ed him, or the Board, in spersrn or ty t
IVA upon the subject Of the erection Of cou,
tor jail Ask him whether he pledged his hon
inv as sworn officer of the county, not TO
as propriatc money for county jail or any otl
en- purpose, and afterwards violated his plcdg