The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1880-03-25
Correspondence Of the News,
that TURNPIKE Law AGAIN.
lIa. BRITTON HAS TIE FLOOR.
UNION TP., HIGHLAND Co, o., :
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UNION TIP, HIGHLAND Co., OIL
March Il, 1880.
EDITOR NEws-It Is an old saying that
even Doctors disagree hence, It is not
surprising that your humble correspondent
should take issue with his old friend, DR..
johnson.
First, we want to correct a mistake caus-
ed by our carelessness in sending a com
munication to the Hillsboro Gazette, with
out giving our place of residence. Being
mailed at aNew Vienna, the Editor sup
posed the writer resided there. No, DR..
The cold oaks" still wave their noble
branches above our heads.
Second. The Dr. attributes our suppos-
ed flight and opposition to the Pike law Of
'79, to the fact that an effort was being made
to get certain roads not leading past the
said "F0rsst Home" built under the odious
law Of March %, 1879, &c. Now, the fact
is, my neighbors insisted on our petition
ing the County Commissioners to bald one
past "Forest Home" to connect with our
HHlsboro pike. drew the petition, and
after quite a number Of names had been
procured to it, persuaded them to give
up the hope Of getting the county to build
It, for felt it would be impossible to get
1t done; but to throw all our effort toward
getting the gap in the New Market and
Snow Hill road passing "GreenlaWn1 in
stead Of Forest Home, piked under said
law, and We would ask the privilege of pix
ing our own road under the one mile svs-
TEN. Nearly all the land owners within
the bounds signed the petition, and the
Commissioners now have il under consider
alton, but We have scarcely a hope Of being
allowed the poor boon Of building our own
road, not through any fault Of the Com
missioners, but through the missrably
bungling laws, (on constitutional and 9th
er grOunds)
These being the facts, we leave the pub
lie to judge of the justice Of the Doctors
charge. But the right of private Judgment
being not only a constitutional, but an ir,-
born and natural right, We fall out with no
one for exercising it.
1t is nevertheless true that probably
less than One-third Of the taxpayers Of our
county have paid, OF are bonded to pay.
over half a million Ofdollars, forthe build-
ing Of pixies for the convenience of them
selves and the rest Of the county. Some Of
them in DOdsOn, Union Penn and prob
ably other townships, have paid more per
acre on their land, as pike tG1, than much
Of the poor land in the southern part of
the county would sell for if put up under
the hammer When such men, and such
communities as these, are still to have their
personally re-taxed and dOuble-taxed. to
build for men that have never helped
themselves, We fall to find any standard
Of justice, either divine OF human, with
which we can reconcile it.
But some say, "Oh it amt much % OH
ers say "it's good law; it catches all those
rich fellows about HillsbOrOp % Shades Of
the departed Shall iniquity Justify her
self in rObbing the poor, because 'it aint
much, ," and plundering the rich, because
they have plenty? When my mouth can
be padlocked by a moiety of my neighbor's
hard earnings, in the shape of a pike, be-
ing thrown at my door, think the sooner
Gabriel blows his trump TO call me hence,
the better for the world behind
As to being "of his eggs" 7 win lust
leave it to the DR.. if Britton's eggs don't
generally hatch. As TO our gentlemanly
Commissioners, I certainly esteem them s5
highly as the DR.. can. But I Do object to
any law imposing the responsibility upon
three men that this one does. All the
saints in the calendar, while property is
regarded as valuable) if here, could not
execute such a law, and do Justice to all.
Now, Dr., since you find We are still in
the old woods, bring down Mrs. j. and We
viii kill the fattest henin the barn-yard.
Forest Home, o. j. BRIfION.