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Excerpt from The Village at the End of the Road: A Chapter in Early Indiana Railroad History The Bloomington Post is mistaken in supposing that 'that strong and spirited writer, T. J. Barnett, still presides over the editorial department' of the Indiana Journal. On the contrary, the principal editor of the Journal for some months, has been Mr. Kent, formerly one of the editors of the New Hampshire Statesman, we believe. Aside from politics, Mr. Kent appears to be a gentleman, a scholar, and a good bit of a poet also, judging from some of the hob nail songs of which he is the author; and for these reasons, and with an eye to the just dis position oi rewards, should Mr. Clay, by any possibility happen to be elected - of which by the way, we have not the slightest fear - we cannot permit the honors of editing the Journal to be misapplied. The saddle should be put upon the right horse, and the panniers upon the right Jackass - and when the latter happens to be the case, the Editor of the Bloomington Post will be ready for a load.' With so much material available, the writer has felt justi fied in endeavoring to give the contemporary View of railroads by means of copious quotations. Some such use of its files was forecast by the daily Sentinel in its issue of April 30, 1851: we all know that bound files of newspapers become valuable for their antiquity. With what delight would the curious citizens of Indianapolis, two hundred years hence, when Indianapolis shall cover two or three townships, look over a file of the 'sentinel, ' and note the discussions in rela tion to new buildings, streets, railroads, &c. - the latter, per haps, being displaced by daily lines of balloons, to all parts of the world. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
