Year: 1875

| From an Occasional Correspondents


NEAR LAGRANGE, TENN, April 90
! Having noticed several communications
| in your columns relative to the proposed
new county of Bell, and nothing, as yet,
| having emanated from Lagrange or its


vicinity, drop line to your popular
and widely-circulsted paper, that the


friends Of the movement may know that


we feel as deep an interest in its success,


and will labor as earnestly for its accom-


plishment, ss Lafayette, Salisbury, or


any community within its limits. The


varied and important advantages to be


derived from the establishment of Bell


county are almost too manifest to re-


quiTe explanation, as any one possessed


Of even ordinary power Of perception


can readily see the benefits to result, and


will as cheeriully acknowledge the same


unless self-interest or some vain and


cbimeTical delusion intervere 90 to cb-


scure the view. AS your correspondents


have heretofore shown, the great incop-


venience and expense to the people OF


Bell in attending court at SOmerville


and Bolivar is no Insignificant item,


and when we further consider the fact


that upon the establishment and or


gaLizatiOn Of the new county the


several towns aspiring for the posi-


ton of its "capilsl" have siguified


their willingness to donate grounds fer
public buildings, and aid materially and
gratUitOusIy in the erection of the same,
1t makes the prospect even moe iRvit-
ing and enhances the esteem In which
the movement is regarded. But the


benefit to thus accrue Is only the condi-
ton precedent to others of much great.
er and far more substantial importance.
Bell county, in proportion to area, will
have more miles OF railroad than any
county III Jne OUato, Lho hIoIHpni5 ana
Charleston tTaversing its entire extent
from east to west, for distance Of sixty
miles, aud the Mississippi Central from
north to south. By an act Of our last
Legislature these roads are taxable, and
the revenues arising from this source
would, in the case Of Bell county, be so
considerable as to render the rate Of tax
alton on real and personal property too
insignificant to admit of complaint.
This is fact, Messrs. Editors, patent to
every one capable OF discernment, and
as your paper is read daily by q vast
number Of the voters Of Bell, wish to
submit it to their consideration through
your columns, and earnestly hope they
will give it the attention and weight it
so Justly merits. The commissioners
duly empowered to act in the premises
have ordered an election as to the new
county on Saturday, the eighth day OF
May next, and from observation and
report / think the constitutional majOTi-
ty in its favor will be secured
beyond preadventure. In 1871 the vote
at the Lagrange box was two hundred
and eighty seven for the new county,
thirteen scattering, and l opine the scst-
teriDg will be 80 badly demOraliZed on
the eighth prOximO that they will
abandon the idea Of leading fOrlorn
hope, and after the election will not
"seat themselves on the ragged edge Of
despair" but rather recline in ease and
comfort, as they see, feel and mediate
upon the advantages and blessings con-
ferred upon them by the majority. That
there Is some fsctious opposition in the
towns to the new county Is apparent,
though this numerically is Insignificant,
while the unanimity OF sentiment in Its
favCr in the country is almost uDparal-
leled, and Notwithstanding the enact
ment permitting the election construes
the vote of every man remaining away
from the polls as opposed to the move
ment, still we feel assured that enough
and more than enough will attend the
election to secure the triumph Of the new
county. The census of the voting popu-
Iation OF the fractions OF Fayette, Harde-
man and M'Nairy to be included in the
new county, has been completed, the
frivolous pretext on which the move
ment came to grief in 1871 cannot he re-
pested, the masses will again reiterate
their demand for Bell county, and 1t is
reasonable to presume that 1.-THE voice Cf
the people"thus legally and emphaticaily
expressed, will be respected. In word,
Messrs. Editors, the opposition to Bell
county is 80 very minute that it Is In
sufficient to ores.e enthusiasm on the
part Of the advocates Of the new move
ment, and that we will have new
county, and continue to subscribe for and
read the APPEAL, you may set down as
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