[67] “The extreme irregularity which has attended the transmission of newspapers from one place to another for several months past has been a subject of general complaint with the editors of all parties. It was to have been expected that, after the adjournment of Congress, the evil would have ceased to exist. Such, however, is not the case. Although the roads are now pretty good, and the mails arrive in due season, our eastern exchange papers seem to reach us only by chance. On Tuesday last, for instance, we received, among others, the following, viz., The New York Courier and Enquirer of March 1, 5 and 19; the Philadelphia Times and Saturday Evening Post of March 2; the United States Gazette of March 6; and the New Jersey Journal of March 5 and 19. The cause of this irregularity, we have reason to believe, does not originate in this state.”—Ohio State Journal, March 30, 1833.
[68] Ohio State Journal, August 9, 1837
[69] It may be found upon investigation that the portions of our country most noted for hospitality are those where taverns gained the least hold as a social institution. Cf. Allen’s The Blue Grass Region of Kentucky, p. 38.
[70] The Virginian House of Burgesses met in the old Raleigh Tavern at Williamsburg, in 1773. (Woodrow Wilson’s George Washington, p. 146.)
[71] For advertisement of sale of a Cumberland Road tavern see Appendix D.
[72] Mr. Edward P. Pressey in New England Magazine, vol. xxii, no. 6 (August, 1900).
[73] Grahame’s The Golden Age, p. 155.
[74] “The proper limits of the road are hereby defined to be a space of eighty feet in width—forty feet on each side of the center of the graded road-bed.”—Law passed April 18, 1870, Laws of Ohio, LVIII, p. 140.
[75] Everett’s Speeches and Orations, vol. i, p. 202.