SECRETARY SEWARD'S ARABS. II9 



York State Agricultural Society if the society would 

 pay the expenses of their importation. It was a poor 

 return for Mr. Seward's generosity — even when ex- 

 cused by the great excitement attendant upon the 

 breaking out of the civil war — that they refused to 

 comply with his very just proposal. In this emer- 

 gency, as he had sought, in the acceptance of the 

 gift, to benefit his country, he presented the two- 

 year-old colt to Mr. Ezra Cornell of Ithaca, N. Y., 

 and the stallion to Hon. John E. Van Etten of Kings- 

 ton, N. Y." 



And what of their progeny? 



" The stallion was known to be the sire of only two 

 animals. One was a gray filly, bred by Judge West- 

 brook of Kingston, and the other a colt, bred by a 

 nephew of Judge Sackett of Auburn, N. Y. The 

 colt was shown as a three-year-old in the State Fair 

 at Rochester, and won a special gold medal for being 

 the handsomest horse on the grounds. Subsequently 

 he was sold to Canton, Ohio, where he died leaving 

 two fillies only. They are now owned by the Myers' 

 stock-farm at Canton." 



What became of the chestnut colt? 



" Ah, poor fellow, he died simply from neglect, 

 the war just then causing such absorption of all 

 men's thoughts, that all things else seemed of little 

 importance. At that time many of our best and 

 most noted trotters were always spoken of with pride, 

 as coming from Arab ancestors. Morgan was an 

 Anglo-Arabian, and the dam of Dolly Spanker, an 

 inbred Morgan mare, while Sherman Morgan and 

 Buckshot were doubly inbred to Morgan. Gano was 



