22 THE MORGAN HORSE 



This attempt to palm off counterfeits is the highest evidence of the value 

 of the genuine blood. The ready and general objection in the West, with 

 those who are not familiar with the Morgans, is want of size, forgetting 

 that their size should be judged by their weight, and not by the length of their 

 legs, and that the same bodies, upon longer legs, would look much larger. 

 Wishing you success, and hoping that you may be instrumental in causing 

 the whole of our fine State to be filled with horses of pure Morgan blood, 

 I am, Sir, your friend and servant, 



M. O. WALKER. 



" We might continue to adduce testimany of a similar character to al- 

 most any extent, but we think the foregoing extracts from the highest sources, 

 from persons uninterested in these horses, and residing in quarters of the 

 country where they have not been bred, amply sufficient to establish the fact, 

 that the Morgans, as a race, are possessed of great powers of endurance, 

 and are admirably adapted for the road and general use." 



This closes the extracts used by Mr. Linsley in this connection. We 

 have selected the following, carrying the commentary down to later dates. 



Samuel Jacques writes to John Bellows of Charlestown, Mass., under date 

 of March 24, 1831, as follows : 



"As respects your Sherman Morgan horse I think he would do well at 

 the Ten Hills Farm. I have no hesitation in saying that I consider the race 

 of horses so generally known in our vicinity by the name of Morgans to be 

 one of the most useful kinds of horses for all purposes, to New England, that 

 there is in this or any other country." 



In the "Spirit of the Times", vol. 14, R. L. Allen of Buffalo writes : 



" New England has in former times possessed horses of unmatched qual- 

 ities. Among many so distinguished pre-eminently stood, longo intervallo, 

 the famed Morgan horse of Vermont and his more ancient compeer, the im- 

 ported Barb, Ranger, or, as he was subsequently called, Lindsey's Arabian". 



And on page 33 of the "Spirit" in 1840 is a letter from Buffalo on the 

 breeding of horses for the purpose of utility, in which the writer says : 



" The Yankees have not been altogether idle in the matter * * * 

 I cannot speak certainly of any characteristic race as existing there now, 

 although there is no portion of the Union where better roadsters and the 

 everyday farm horse are found in greater proportion. A race existed a few 

 years ago in Vermont called the Morgan Horse ; valuable, enduring, active, 

 and every way fitted for farm or hard road service, of good action and of rea- 

 sonable size and appearance. These horses have been repeatedly tried at the 

 South and West by stage contractors on stages, and it was found that they 

 would go much faster, give a harder pull, and endure twice as long on the road 

 and in service, as the larger horses, without known blood, bred there. A memor- 

 able instance of this kind took place on the road between Baltimore and 

 Washington. About ten years since a new line of stages starting with Ver- 

 mont horses in opposition to the old line with the long-backed, leggy, and 

 cow-headed Pennsylvanians, reduced the time between the two places one- 

 half". 



The following letter appeared in the same paper in 1847 : 



Mr. Editor : I have been much interested in the numerous communi- 

 cations which have appeared from time to time, in the public journals, relat- 

 ing to the original Morgan horse, and giving description of his stock. 



I was born in the town of Randolph, in this county, in which the Justin 

 Morgan horse was owned, and there lived until I was forty-one years of age, and 



