SOLON ROBINSON, 1842 337 



Be assured Messrs. Editors of my personal esteem, 

 and earnest hope for the success of your journal. 

 I remain yours, &c. 



Solon Robinson. 

 Lake Co. H., la., Nov. 4th, 1842. 



The Non-Enclosure System. 



[Chicago Union Agriculturist, 2:99; Dec, 1842] 



[November 7, 1842] 



"Judge Robinson" — "Judge" him not — but judge his 

 arguments upon the non-enclosure system. 

 Mr. Editor — I have neglected so long to notice an arti- 

 cle in your September No. that it may now be out of 

 place. But I cannot accept the title of "Judge," so hon- 

 estly bestowed upon me by "F. West," 1 which I suppose 

 means "far West, as no local habitation is given with 

 the name. I beg to assure friend West and all others that 

 I claim no title, civil or military; and though in conse- 

 quence of my holding the office of clerk of the courts 

 of my county, or that of Postmaster, I am sometimes 

 called 'Squire, I am in no wise proud of the title — I must 

 prefer the plain cognomen given to me by a Connecticut 

 mother, whose memory is always called pleasantly to 

 mind whenever my friends address me by the familiar 

 name of Solon — particularly if, as did Incog lately, they 

 prefix thereto a "God bless you." And I have no doubt 

 that succeeding generations will bless my name and that 

 of every other of the advocates of the non-enclosure sys- 

 tem. For however those that are now settled around the 

 groves, with plenty of timber and other "fixens" upon 

 the present plan, may honestly (self -interestedly) differ 

 with us in opinion, the time will come when the majority 

 will be able to see that our system will produce the great- 

 est good to the greatest number, and that is one of the 

 benefits which I conceive cannot be estimated in dollars, 

 even if the term millions be used. 



'"The Non-Enclosure System," Union Agriculturist, 2:75. 



