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of joy that now rent the air and rang piercing through 

 his ears. 



Reader — you can finish this tale. The Will which you 

 have read — the marriage certificate which was lost, were 

 found. The ring which bound the plighted faith of In- 

 diana to Western, graced her finger; and that, that late 

 was there, is now a holy relic in an Indian wigwam, 

 far beyond the Mississippi. 



Fortune Atwater died, as many a "spoiled child" has 

 died before — a sot. His Attorney still disgraces the pro- 

 fession he belongs to. Scott has made his Will, as 

 reader, I hope you will do. Part of the old Indian's 

 prophesy in regard to our "Great Father," has already 

 come to pass. That the rest of it may speedily come to 

 pass, is "the last Will and dying request of a 



"Citizen of Indiana." 



Female Influence 



[Chicago Union Agriculturist, 1:29; Apr., 1841] 



[March 4, 1841] 

 Female Influence. — ^here is another error, a fatal 

 error, into which your Society, 2 like their thousand and 

 one predecessors, have fallen. 



Vain and foolish man ! Hast thou forgotten that thou 

 wert born of woman? Are not the farmers' wives and 

 daughters suitable and proper members of Agricultural 

 Societies ? 



I hope your Society will take an early opportunity to 

 amend this error. Enlist the female portion of society 

 in your cause — enroll them honorary members. Have a 

 suitable medal, or engraved certificate of membership 

 prepared, that will make them anxious and proud to pos- 



1 Robinson showed an appreciation of women's rights in advance 

 of many of his contemporaries. Possibly he was influenced by the 

 writings of Frances Wright, which Von Schweinitz mentions hav- 

 ing seen in his cabin at the town of Solon in 1831. Journey . . . 

 to Goshen, Bartholomew County, in 1831, 233-34. 



2 Union Agricultural Society, of northeastern Illinois. 



