THE SONS OF MORGAN. US 



junction with the very best face that can be put upon the 

 original Justin Morgan's pedigree, all claim to any high stand- 

 ard of blood, even in that horse ; much more in his posterity to 

 the fourth and fifth generations, unless it have been introduced 

 from other sources ; in which case, the race and its virtues cease 

 to be Morgan. 



Now, it is alleged that there were but six known or re- 

 corded stallions, got by tlie Justin Morgan, which were kept 

 for service in the stud, Bulrush, Sherman, Woodbury, Kevenge, 

 and the Fenton and Hawkins horses ; of which the three for- 

 mer only were noted stock-getters, no stock at all being trace- 

 able to the Fenton, and very little to the Hawkins horse, or to 

 Revenge. 



Of the dams of no one ot these six Morgan stallions, of the 

 second degree, has any thing been authenticated, in spite of 

 attempts, the earnestness of which is shown by the number of 

 different versions promulgated. 



It is highly probable, that they were fine useful animals and 

 good travellers, but quite as improbable that they possessed any 

 considerable share of thorough blood ; for the reason, that, from 

 the beginning to the present day of American history, there has 

 been less of that blood imported into the ]S^ew England States, 

 than into any other quarter of the Union. 



This second generation, then, cannot be held to have con- 

 tained in their veins, at most, above one-eighth part of that 

 thorough blood to which the Justin Morgan owed his worth, if 

 he did owe it, as is assumed, to a cross of rich, pure Arabian 

 blood on the common stock. 



The next generation, or third from the Justin Morgan, would, 

 of course, contain, unless bred out of own sisters or cousins, 

 one-sixteenth ; the fourth, such as " Green Mountain 2d," 

 grandson of "Woodbury," and great grandson of Justin, one 

 thirty-second; the fifth as "Morgan Empire," son of "Green 

 Mountain 2d," one sixty-fourth ; the sixth as " Black Morgan," 

 son of " Morgan Empire," one hundred and twenty-eighth ; 

 and the seventh, as " American Eagle," one two liundred and 

 fifty-sixth part of the pure Arabian blood, which coursed in the 

 veins of the Justin Morgan, and to which it is pretended that 

 the merits and characteristics of this class of horses belong. 



