Middletown transcript., 1869-02-06
The Kent Rail Read--The shire Town.
The Kent Press and Kent tCorrespendeHts.


caption Of a somewhat acrimonious article
in the last Chestcrto,cn Transcript, intend
ed, We suppose, as rejoinder to our cor
respondents :" Stakeholder" and Sina-
pis," both Of whom have had somewhat to
say, through our columns, about that an
cient and highly respectable borough. If1
this caption were reversed, and made to
read g Chestertown VS.. Middletown," we
think it would more nearly accord with
the facts and circumstances which have
given rise to this correspondence, and to
the labored leader in the last number of
the Chestertown organ. We are unap-
prixed of any antagonism in this commu-
nifty towards Chestertown or her interests.
Certainly we feel none, and should rejoice
with her citizens, (among whom we have
some esteemed friends) to witness her ad-
vancement and prosperity. Kent county
is Justly considered the garden spot" of
Maryland. Her intelligent and energetic
agriculturists have brought her soil up to
high state of cultivation, and she excels
in productiveness, in proportion to her
area, any other county in the State. This
prosperity will naturally react upon Cines-
tertown, unless by an adverse policy she
interposes to prevent i. And it is prob
ably to guard against such a result, that
our correspondents above mentioned have
resorted to the press. The interests of
Chestertown are not isolated; they are in
timately connected with those of the coun-
ty at large. Whatever is injurious to her
is also an injury to the county; and what
ever is beneficial to the county is also a
benefit to her. Her press and people,
!. therefore, ought to be willing to listen to
the voice of admonition, and even of re-
proof, coming from citizen whose inter-
ests are identical with their own, and who
meant it TO be wholesome and salutary, no
doubt, or he would not have administered
(, 1t at all.
The editor is utterly at fault as to the
, author of " Sinapis," He is not a % trans
plant from the forest of Delaware" (and
none the worse if he were) but Kent
countian, "to the manor born," who was
identified with the prosperity of Chester.
town while the editor of the Ttunscrip
was yet in his nurses arms; and whose
stake in society, there, we venture to say
is quite as great as that of his assailant
But our correspondent is able to take car,
o.. Of himself, as the editor will find. w,
have deemed it proper to say thus mucI
of him, only to disabuse the mind of tn,
editor as to the source from which thi
corrective comes.
The personal illusions to the editor O
this paper, are out Of place, in bad taste
and foreign to the subject matter of thi
correspondence. We acknowledge no re
sponsibility for the articles of 90 Stock
holder" or 60 Sinapis," beyond that G
inserting them in our columns. We di
not procure them; they were voluntar
offerings, and we accepted them. w
publish public journal, and whatever re
lates to the public interest is legitimatel
within the sphere of our duty. The mos
eligible route for Rail Road, and tn
means and appliances for building one
designed to unite more closely our respee
tive communities, are certainly matters
public concern, which may be discussed i
any newspaper by its correspondents, with
out subjecting its publisher to the sus
picion of desire to reconstruct" th
press and town of neighboring county
work for which we have not the slightel
aspiration. With as much relevance an
as much reason, might the editor have a
legged against us desire to reconstru
China or Japan.
!. As to the advantage to Middletown
making the terminus of the Kent Ra
Road here instead of Townsend, we new
were satisfied that any great benefit wou
result from it. Our citizens themselv
have been divided in opinion upon tt
subject; but those who favored it, ha
- urged it through our columns. To u
personally, it = a matter of indifference
but we felt desirous Ct subscribing the i
ferests of our readers, alol,g the propos
route Of the road. because they themselv
Thought they would be benefited by
That the road itself would be benefit
by it, we think admits of little doubt.