Mexico Missouri message., 1903-06-18
EDITOR MESSAGE:

see it going the rounds thru
the papers that Mr.. Haworth at
Decatur, ILL.,, has recently died,
being the first inventor of corn
planter in this country. Now /
wish to correct this error. Mr..
Haworth was probably the first
inventor Of the check rover at
tachment for a horse planter, but
not the planter. Give to Caesar
that which is Caesars.
No records run behind my claim.
In 1852 and 1853 the Hughes
cOrnplanter was born in New Lon
don, Rails county, Mo. There
may have been some attempts to
make a cOrnplanter before that, |
but all such resulted in utter fail
ure.
My plant was moved to Palmy-
ia, Mo-, in 1857, and the planter
made and improved upon from
time to time until the war broke |
out. l then leased my plant and
patents to others to manufacture,
and went south to live, rather than
so bmit to the tyranny then i'm
posed upon the people by the U.
S. army, there being citizens i'm
prisOned for no Offense and some
being shot by McNeal and others.
This act on my part was II terrible
crime and one so great as to jus
tify the government in violating
its own statute laws aud they con.
fiscated my patent for the years
1869 to 1876, seven years of its
legal life. This was done thru
the corruption OF the commissioner
of patents who was bOodled by a
cyndicate in Quincy, ILL.,, who had
appropriated in my absence my
patent and made and sold the
planters by the thousands during
Z the war and had realized fortune
= from the sale. The government
3, has the same constitutional and le-
a grail right to cOnfiscate seven years
= of my last patent issued in 1902
e for an improvement on washing
8 machines which is as far superior
+ to any others as was my plant er
t superior to other attempts in 1852
. or 1853 or up to 1861. But this is
e not all the violations of its own
t laws that this government is guilty
e of thru its corrupt officials. On the
: 18th of Feb, 1868, 1 patented at
n Richmond, Va, a breech loading
S gun. At the downfall of the Con-
federacy these resources were cap
tured by the Federal army, and
v my invention has been apprOpri-
}. ated aud now used by this govern
ment. To prove my claims the
reader is referred to the Scientific
American supplement of April 80,
1898, where can be found the en-
cravings and description identical
Il with my Richmond patent, which
| have framed and which now
k hangs on the wall of my residence
S in Vandalia, Mo-, for the inspec-
IS tiOn of any pasties whose curios-
i. ity leads them in that direction.
d There is no record to show that
IS this government ever made a de-
: fence breech loading gun OF
&c manned a battleship with such be.
d fore 1888, The fact is they cap
n tured the patent Office records at
le Richmond. Va, and found the
:, drawings aud description of my in
n -vention and have it to-day on all
= their heavy defense coast aud bat.
l. tleships armed with breech leaders
D. 1t seems that / have been a par
n ticular victim of circumstances
l. This glorious and humane gov
m ernment advertised aud sold at U
If S. marshal sale at Pueblo, Colo.
al in 1868 my interest in the st
ie Vrain and Vigil Land Grant, sit
to uated on the south side of the AR
re kansas river, containing abou
'e two million acres, south and eas
at Of the now city Of Pueblo.