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and cry of threatened ruin) to part with their property. 

 — It is an old game, and has been successfully played off 

 before to-day. Let no man be deceived by this mad dog 

 shout ; but let all bona fide purchasers — all cultivators of 

 the land — all who intend to cultivate them — be assured 

 that the law will be faithfully carried out in all its legal 

 and rightful bearings. 



I am apprised that there are a few persons who have 

 assumed to speak for the purchasers of those lands, (and 

 you are not of the number) and who have taken upon 

 their shoulders the made-up weight of this affair; but 

 they are not the real friends of those they profess to 

 serve. Many of them, I fear, are land specidators, or the 

 convenient instruments of others engaged in that line of 

 business, who will "take the Lion's share," and leave the 

 balance for the hard working cultivators of the soil. 

 These men are understood in some places, and will be uni- 

 versally known before many months. — A hint here is suf- 

 ficient. 



You are mistaken in saying that the Indiana Journal 

 only contained the advertisement. It has also appeared 

 in the Indiana Sentinel, and in the papers at Wabash- 

 town, and perhaps at Logansport — The advertisement 

 should have appeared in the paper most convenient to the 

 lands, and this neglect will doubtless be remedied in 

 future. 



This is all that I feel called upon to say, and it is said 

 upon the individual responsibility of 



A Citizen of Indiana. 



Agricultural Tour South and West. 

 No. 1. 



[New York American Agriculturist, 8:18-20; Jan., 1849] 



[November 14, 1848] 



To the Readers of the American Agriculturist: — I am 

 again out upon a tour of observation, directing my steps 

 towards a clime more congenial to my health, than is that 



