The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1841-01-12
CHERRY GRovE, CARROLL Co., Ill
December %, 1910.

december 20, lo4U
DEAR Sin Enclosed you will receive So, which
hope will be received in full for my subscription to
your influential and now widely circulating paper
have been reader of the Madsonian from the first
number until now, and have been both instructed and
gratfed notwithstanding am now, and always have
been admirer Of Mr.. Van Buren, and his tavorte
measure The stand the Administration took against
the two distinguished Senators from n York and Vir
gna, and the advocacy you gave them both personal
y and officially has been the greatest inducement for
my continuing your paper however, always said if
Mr. Van Buren, carried the bill, and it become popu
lar, Mr. Allen, of the Madsonian, would be entitled
to great share of the credit Of it from his open ho
nest and untiring opposition, bringing out all the talent
that could be enlisted in its favor and spreading the
whole argument before the public The controversy
ended and do trust for the interest and honor
of our common country that the Conservatives may
have their due weight and influence in the councils
and halls of Legislation If the Wings in the moment
of power, and whilst flushed with victory forget to
whom and by whose influence and exertions the pre-
unparalleled event has been brought about, they
most certainly will share with the fate they have
heretofore done and you will, to be consistent, be
compelled to oppose, as General Green did, the party
| YOU have been greatly instrumental in bringing
into power Although withdrew my name from your
| list | did it not until | obtained good name as
substitute. By sending it TO -, you will
intelligent and attentive reader; thorough
going, staunch Wing, and, above ALL one who is
"the change" is felt For my own part, I'll wait and
see before subscribe for another paper.-Some lS
months since asked you to publish extract from
my letter, relating to the Maryland Colony in Ogle
county, and to the Seminary, the corner stone of
which had been laid about that time, July, 1889 |
now have the qualification of that Colony, to
inform you that through the active exerons aid
firing zeal of the two pioneers in making the settle
ment in the occupancy of the building,
under the direction of first rate steward and two
competent teachers frome Lime Seminary, New York.
We have 60 Students about 25 of whom board in the
house at - so per week. and they daily coming in.
The session opened on Dec. and before New Year
Day we will have 80 scholars.
The healthfulncss and beauty of the situation, the
cheapness of boarding and tuition the excellence of
the arras gements the capabty of the teachers,
all caulated to make the B. b. Seminary at Mount
Morris. After Bp. Morris ofthe NJ. f. what ] told
YOU in my former letter, situation for obtaining
education second to in the west and again say
that what has been done is guaranty, that what
they promise they will perform In giving Messrs
Hit and Swingy the prominence they deserve 1t Is
but just to others to say, that with laudabe zeal
r.early the whole neigh5orhood have done something
to further the of education in community by
giving more or less to the Seminary.
About the time you begin to quarrel with "the
powers that to be- is likely may again become
a subscriber
With sincere wishes that you may still continue an
honest and faithful Waterman the walls of the
Republic, who will cry aloud and spare not bid you
adieu.