Excerpt from Biennial Message of Thomas A. Hendricks: Governor of the State of Indiana; To the General Assembly, Forty-Ninth Regular Session, Transmitted, January, 1875 During the two years since the last meeting of the Legislature, the people of Indiana have been blessed in a special degree with general health and bountiful harvests and I again invoke the continuance of a kind Providence over them. 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.