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I cannot come before you to plead my cause and I there- 

 fore pray you not to heed the false tongue of my enemies 

 who may seek to win favor by opposing this claim, think- 

 ing perhaps by robbing me they may be enabled to gain 

 votes from those whom they may convince how great a 

 sum they have saved the treasury by pursuing such an 

 unfair & dishonest course. 



I claim that Lake County is justly, fairly and truly in- 

 debted to me at the very lowest calculation. Two Hundred 

 & Fifty dollars, and therefore ask, not as a favor, but as a 

 right, that that sum shall be credited upon said judg- 

 ment, and then the ballance shall be paid without further 

 delay. 



Should you refuse to allow my claim. I pray that I 

 may be informed of the grounds for your reasons, why I 

 am not entitled to be paid, so just, fair and reasonable a 

 demand. 



Trusting entirely to your disposition to act impartially 

 as arbitrators in the matter as you would between man & 

 man, I confidently submit my claim for your decision. 



I am most respectfully your fellow citizen & Humble 

 servant. 



Solon Robinson. 



Crown Point Nov. 11. 1851. 



New York Markets. — No. 2. 



[New York American Agriculturist, 10:364-65; Dec, 1851] 



[November ?, 1851] 



In our March number, we took you with us upon a 

 morning stroll through Fulton Market.' We now pro- 

 pose to carry you to the other end of the same street, and 

 give you a slight view of another great bazaar, where the 

 products of many thousand farms are concentrated upon 

 one point, by the power of wind and steam, which move 

 great fleets of vessels and long trains of railroad cars, 

 freighted with food to fill the mighty mass of moving 

 life, that must be daily fed in this great city. 



M«fe, 443ff. 



