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Chapin, Esq., 1 Rhode Island; Hon. Thomas B. Osborn, 2 

 Connecticut. 



On motion the meeting adjourned. 



Solon Robinson, Chairman. 



J. F. Callon, ) 



John A. Smith, } Secretaries. 



Washington City, Sept. 4th, 1841. 



By this, my friends, you will see that the ball is now 

 fairly in motion. I hope I have been fortunate enough 

 in making a selection upon the spur of the moment, of 

 the gentlemen named as a committee, to secure the serv- 

 ices of such as will act promptly for the good of this 

 great cause. I hope that they will interchange views 

 with one another, and at the day appointed for the meet- 

 ing to organize the Society, I hope they will come to- 

 gether, and have the satisfaction of meeting the largest 

 body of the real friends of agricultural improvement ever 

 collected together. 



I most earnestly hope that every individual friend of a 

 National Agricultural Society, whom bounteous nature 

 has provided with the means, will attend the first meet- 

 ing. I hope every Agricultural Society in the Union will 

 send special delegates to the National Society. 



I have and shall recommend that the price of mem- 

 bership be fixed very low, as the great and grand object 

 is to enlist a great number in this bond of brotherhood, 

 and by concentrated effort of mind more than with 

 money, to produce a happy effect upon society. 



1 William C. Chapin, Providence; Rhode Island, son of Deacon 

 Josiah Chapin, banker, and cotton and cotton goods merchant of 

 Providence, who also engaged in extensive farming near Pawtucket. 

 Became a partner in his father's firm in 1839 and carried on his 

 business after the latter's retirement in 1844. See sketch of 

 Josiah Chapin in The Biographical Cyclopedia of Representative 

 Men of Rhode Island, pt. 1:222 (National Biographical Publishing 

 Company, Providence, 1881). 



2 Thomas Burr Osborne, born in Weston (now Easton), Con- 

 necticut, July 8, 1798; died September 2, 1869. Lawyer. Repre- 

 sentative from Connecticut, 1839-1843. 



