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furnished with little or no expense if timely prepared. 

 This is, an abundance of new Straw. I hope your Com- 

 mittee will urge on their farmer friends, to preserve and 

 send in a supply. 



I hope an abundance of grain and provisions will be 

 upon the ground for sale. I suggest that you make an 

 early publication that such will be the case. 



I would also suggest, that the order of encampment 

 should be marked out, and the programme published, and 

 Marshals to attend to the arrangement. 



This would afford convenient facilities for finding the 

 delegations from different counties, and prevent any 

 confusion. 



I offer these suggestions, not in the spirit of dictation, 

 but in the feeling of a most ardent devotion to the cause, 

 and as hints that may enable your committee, to add 

 greatly to to the comfort of those who may in a measure 

 be considered in the light of guests of yours. 



Tho' personally a stranger to you and the members 



of your committee, yet there are times which should 



make all the 'log cabin boys' feel like brothers, and as 



such with affectionate regard, I am most respectfully, 



Your friend, 



Solon Robinson. 1 



1 After commenting on Robinson's valuable suggestions, the editor 

 continued: "We are authorized by the Whig Central Committee 

 of our county, to say that active and energetic measures are now 

 in progress to secure, for those who may attend the Convention, 

 as great an amount of comfort as practicable for so large an 

 assemblage as may be expected on that occasion. The 'Log Cabin 

 Boys' of our town have made arrangements to build ... as early 

 as the 15th inst., a huge 'Cabin' for a store house for provisions 

 and baggage: and a committee . . . has been appointed to collect 

 and store . . . such provisions and other necessaries as our citizens 

 may see fit to contribute. And we have no doubt that the other 

 suggestions of our 'Log Cabin' brother will be attended to by the 

 Farmers of this and the adjoining counties. We know that they 

 have an abundance, and to spare, of better provisions than it was 

 possible to furnish to the soldiers in the campaign of 1811." 



