132 ABBOR DAY. 



FROM PROF. A. L. PERRY. 



WILLIAMS COLLEGE, 

 WILLIAMSTOWN, MASS., April 5, 1888. 



My first personal acquaintance with Mr. Morton was 

 made in 1875, although more than twenty years before 

 that we were both members of the same affiliated college 

 society, he in the University of Michigan, and I in Wil- 

 liams College, and I remember very well with what pleas- 

 ure and laughter the letters from the Michigan branch, of 

 which he was secretary, were read here. In 1875 he was 

 president of the state agricultural society of Nebraska, in 

 which capacity he invited me to deliver the annual 

 address at Omaha. It was a long journey to take for the 

 sake of making an hour's talk ; but I never found occa- 

 sion to regret either the journey or the talk, because the 

 latter, " Foes of the Farmers," was soon after published 

 by the society that procured it in two successive editions 

 and widely scattered, and was also printed by the Chicago 

 Times and other newspapers, so that something like a 

 quarter of a million copies were circulated. 



The main reason, however, why I have never regretted 

 that journey to Omaha is, that I thus was enabled to 

 make the personal acquaintance of Mr. Morton himself 

 and his most estimable lady, since departed, to both of 

 whom alike, as I understand it, Nebraska and the whole 



