Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1911-04-06
Third District.
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tue way OF peblLlOn 20 MoNo Tue
county seat to South Pittsburg. / am
led to believe that the good citizens of
South Pittsburg will vote against such
move as that. l will guarantee you
leaders down there that we will fight
it to finish up here. We believe
that the county seat is beyond ques-
tion far enough down the line and is
in the most convenient place situated
at Jasper where all can reach it, with
high school located at the same place
with all the advantages that people
! like us need. What in the name of
common horse sense do those South
! Pittsburg leaders mean down there?
In other countries they would be call
ed grafters. You know, citizens, that
South Pittsburg leaders sprung up
that bond issue and played the devil
\ in general in Marion county. put a
! heavy tax on all of us taxpayers for 30
years, and we got the county treasury
robbed under that move of $3.50, 000
and only "a miles of road scabbed ov-
er, and we failed to be represented in
that robbery. Now they are not salts
fed but want the court house, the
county treasury, picked up and set
down at their home at South Pitts
burg near the state line, so a ticket
from the upper end of Marion County
there and back would cost 81. %, and
hotel bill added 1t is 26 miles from
the upper end of Marion County to
South Pittsburg. We would have to
travel so miles to go there and return.
We would sign petition to bring the
county seat to Sequachee, nearer the
center of the county the next best !
and most suitable place, and which |
would accommodate all the tax payers
and citizens OF this county at large. |
We are for Sequachee first, last and all |
the time if the end of it should come |
to a show down. 1t would be just as |
near for us citizens up here to go to |
Chattanooga to attend our courts and |
other courthouse duties as it would to |
go to South Pittsburg. If this move
on the part of the South Pittsburg
leaders should prove successful, we
Just will stretch out or hands and say |
to Chattanooga and Hamilton County,
come and get us, for we are ready to J
attach ourselves to your county. You
can take a horse to water but you
can't under any consideration, force
him to drink, is the way we feel
about the moving of this court house
procedure, SO when you petitioners
have labored so hard in vain with
such great mental strain in the final
end up the end will be case of cold
hands and feet, for there are enough
left of good old patriot citizens in Ma
rion county that helped build this
county up to what she is now, who
will never vote or sign any measure or
movement that's on foot to make the
county seat near the state line. We
believe South Pittsburg has got, as a
whole, as good citizens in that town as
in any town in Marion County, and
we haven't word Of criticism to pass
bit we say, "Woe unto those leaders
that get you and me in to such trouble
as has been in the bond issue, a tax
raiser and burden on the tax payer.
He can't get rid of the burden unless
he runs away or dies out of it or few
other things | could NAME Keep your
eye open on the last move for l tell
you some corporation or the tax pay
ers from some portion of Marion coun
ty will have to pay this $780, 900 to
build that new court house down
there. These leaders sometimes get us
into trouble even in politics, and it
costs the taxpayers great deal to get
rid of their mistakes and what they
cram on our citizens. say they will
open at night, is my advice. We feel
that we are citizens and tax payers of
Marion county and have voice in
this court house moving business.
Hope no one will get offended at our
views and the way we feel about this
matter up here. / was asked to out
lin our views by citizens and readers
of the News, and any action on the
part of any representative in either
house over the protest and will of the
voters and real estate owners of this
county will be Judgement rendered
against the actor that never can be set
tied while we live, and will he looked
upon by the rising generation as an
injustice, and last of all will financial
ly tear up and ruin the good old coun-
ty of Marion, the dearest spot to me
on earth, the place of boyhood and
childhood days, and the sacred place
Of my birth, and the first name l ever
heard when on my mothers knee was
Marion county in the dark days of
1862. Oh, how bad would hate to see
all the legal documents changed on the
heading to Hamilton County. Bad
movement and bad leaders caused the
late civil war, and just now a bad
would cause a civil war in
Marion county that would last for
years Please pardon me for being so