The daily gazette., 1879-02-24
FIFTH EDITION.
LETTER FROM sAML TOWNSEND
For the Gazette.

OF tno 0axette.
M. JOHNSON III was pleased to read
your remarks on th- new Court House
project, IN borrow OH bonds first $aO0,OOO
(snd probably take another hundred
thousand before IL would be done.) The
published stat. ment Of William Her bert
County Treasurer, living in New Castle,
showing the state of our finasces, and
the trouble and delay in collecting tue
taxes. Ii porbably would not he out Of
place for me 10 say few words on this
old Court House ques' ion. When first
began TO vote, there was & eat agitation
to remove the Courts from New Castle to
Wilmington, knew 1t would cause tho
people of Appoquninink hundred or q
more miles TO travel, and pay toll at
Wilmington bridge to get TO Court. /
therefore opposed i, and the people Of
this hundred stood at my hack, or, In
other words, sustained me In my opposi-
tion. These we're furious lines, the
Wilmington papers opened the walls Of
wrath against me. / at once saw
II bad either to throw away any
ambition l might have for Office to
get the support of Wilmington, or throw
all feeling for Office, il had any, under
foot and stand by and with my people Of
this glorious old hundred, l at once de-
cidcd, let come what would, To stand by
my people, and no person that | have
ever heard of has called me traitor to my
hundred. In the course of time John
A. Alldcrdice introduced a bill into the
Legislature to apport on representation
according to population. 1t alarmed
some DemocI ats in Kent. l was written
To from Dover to come down. l went,
and in meeting proposed to make two
lcounties out of New Castle county
Brandywhe, Christiana, Mill Creek and
Wilmington to make one county. and the
six then lower hundred, one county, with
court house and county buildings same
as New Castle county. The Kent
Democrats at the conference were we'll
pleased with my suggest on, and it had
the effect of tiding over the then pre-
sent Legislature, and after that III. Kent
county Democrats went back on my
proposition, and some years afterwards
there was county division ng he Id
at Middlctown. AT that meeting Mr.
George gray proposed including Mill
Greek hundred in the lower county.
did not Ike It, for IL appeared New Cas-
tie hundred was afraid of Appoquini-
mink hundred, after Appouuinimink X
hundred had stood by New Castle so
long. then made up my mind that
could i've In one county, and II the peo-
Pile wanted two counties let them say so.
The late Governor, at the close OF his
term, 1 believe, proposed county divi-
sion, but not Que move has been made
since. except small meeting ia Mill
Creek hundred, saying they did not wish
To be put in the lower county. We, of
this hundred, never wished them to be
and now whilst there is a luil in ihls mat
ter 1t Is not dead, for county division is
deep seated and gaini.g every day, but
whilst in "A lull in these hard times New
Castle se"ks to thk. advantage b, getting
upa bill to compel the Levy Court to ssu ne
slOO, 900 III bonds to put up new county
buildings, that wouid,if such reck less
bill was passed, cost another hundred
thousand dollars before finished, when
the present county buildings at New Cas-
tie would last tine lower county one hun.
dred years, with very little repairing OF
Woodwork. Now, after nearly all my
political life has been spent in support OF
New Castle, II she does 50 mean a thing
as TO try to prevent the making of two
counties out of New Castle county, by
asking bill for large sum OF money
from an already tx-ridden people TO
build new county buildings whist We
have now far better county buildings and
offi ces, than the generality Of counties,
! am done with New Castle, and saw To
the Wilmington men II the project OF
two counties being made out of New
Castle county is to be- blotted out hy the
heavy outlay of money from people now
too heavily taxed, to buili one new ex.
tensive courthouse ami conny building
for the county you Wilmington men en-
ter into the contest, Ring your bells
blow your horns, AID demand the nc "
Court house to be built in your citv and
let New Castle take the cons-qu-hces OF
the whirlwind she has raised. But the
best thing would be To ask tho Legisla-
ture To nip the New Castle scheme In the
bud, and to kill the bill as dead AN a dooI
nail.
SAMUEL TOWNSEND.
Townsend, Del, Feb. "A, 1879.