SOLON ROBINSON, 1845 517 



I saw friend Greely 1 and several others catching the 

 ideas as they fell from the speaker's lips. 



Some other interesting remarks from several other 

 gentlemen would have been made, but before the reading 

 of the reports could be finished, the promise of rain that 

 I alluded to this morning, was redeemed in the shape 

 of a violent thunder gust, that dispersed the crowd as 

 suddenly as a little real fighting would some of the Texas 

 war cocks. 



Upon the whole, the whole affair has been a grand 

 festival of farmers, that ought to be fostered and kept 

 up in this State, and extended into every other, upon a 

 more magnificent scale. 



What can, and what will you do in Ohio, thus to "ele- 

 vate the character and standing of the cultivators of 

 the American soil?" 



Solon Robinson. 



Advice to Western Emigrants. 



[New York American Agriculturist, 4:354-55; Nov., 1845] 



[October 6, 1845] 

 Will that portion of your female readers who are 

 intending to leave the "old homestead," and seek "a new 

 home in the west," accept of a little plain advice from one 

 who has grown grey in the emigrant's log cabin, and if 

 from experience he has learnt wisdom, will be able to 

 give advice which will be practically useful. 



In the first place why are you going to the West ? — For 

 I hold it to be "self-evident" that no good husband will 

 abandon the old home for a new one, contrary to the 

 wishes of his wife, and therefore the question is to her. 

 If the object is mainly to find husbands for those 

 "young ladies" who, in consequence of false pride, and 

 foolish fashion, have been reared in idleness, and taught 

 "all the accomplishments of a fashionable boarding 

 school," let me tell you that you are going to an over- 



1 Horace Greeley, editor of the New-York Tribune. 



