Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-01-15

any horse that trod American soil. We
have a stallion in this State, gradson
of Blackhawk, Highland Gray, Is years
of age, that has sired many horses that
have beat 30" Now we suppose that
poor old Spencer actually thought that
these astonishing statements were true
he had seen some information on those
matters and that was the way he remem-
bercd it.
Again under date Sept. >, 1885, Mr..
Spencer favored us with letter on this
same subject which he prefaces: ~
take it you are the man who the Ameri-
can Cuitirdtor gave such thrashing be-
cause you doubted over the initials wv.
ii. B. that Black Hawk was sired by
Sherman Morgan" Now in fact the ini-
tials referred to in the previous weeks
CultirdtOr were "E. +. b." But this
man who remembers these conversations
with such striking accuracy though not
called to his mind for thirty-eight years,
does not remember those initials while he
looks off from his newspaper on to his
manuscript.
But did Mr.. Spencer hear these admis-
sions? GLOW much he has improved -
exclaimed Mr.. Lewis when he saw Black
| Hawk; but could he have seen this story
as Mr.. Spencer pcnned it to us, and as it
appeared four months later in the Spirit,
he would have INDUCED in even more
fcrvid Explanations at the Improve
ment." In that letter Mr.. Spencer sup
posed he was writing history, for he
says he understands we are getting up Il
history of Morgan horses; and he doubt
less penned it with the greatest care and
remembered all he could. He purports
to tell the whole story; yet there is not a
word in that letter about the alleged con-
versation with ''Mr. Hill of Boston," lie
has recollected that since. Stranger
still, he does not in our letter claim to
have heard or to know what David Hill
said to Mr.. Lewis or Lewes, whatever his
name may be. Here it the story as nc
tells it to us in that letter:
''1hc day before the fair was sitting
upon the steps of the old Mansion House
conversing with an old friend, Clark n
Lewes, an old stage agent at Lowell
Mass. he was native of Poultney
When David Hill drove up in sulky
with Black Hawk, Mr.. Lcwes at once
said: that is the very horse Mr.. Hill OF
Boston bought out of a wood yard in
Lowell and sent to his brother in Yer
mont. lie ich me. went to Mr.. Hill. con.
vcrscd about the horse some time. whel
the horse went to the barn. he came back
10 me, says: that is Mr.. Hills brother
and is the same horse; then he told me OF
his coming to Lowell in drove of French
horses" &c. The italics are ours. Thi,
is the same story and the whole Of The
same story that Mr.. Spencer tells in tn,
Spirit and it seems by the "unimproved'
statement that it was Mr.. Lewes or Lew
is, or whoever he was, that made tn,
statement to Mr.. Spencer, and that wha
Mr.. David Hill said was not in his pres
cnce, and that so far as he then remem
bercd Mr. Hill of Boston" said nothin.
about it. There is Il certain class of PEG
pie that should have good memories.
No, Mr.. Spencer, we must tell you il
all candor that your evidence would no
chang man. Men are not hanged
nowadays, on account of the gable o
an idiot about what two other men sal,
in conversation forty years ago that h
did not oVerhear; nor yet for his asser
tons of what "a man from Grand Isl
county" in that remote period though
or suggested.