258 [Oct. 5, 
Robinson, } 
indebted, at a comparatively early period of life, for 
both reputation and fortune, and the importance of 
which, in the future to his country and the world, he 
fully appreciated. 
In speaking of Mr. Seybert’s will I am reminded of 
his delay and difficulty in determining its provisions. 
This was the result of what he believed to be informa- 
tion from on high; that though he had long since 
passed the three score and ten years allotted to man, 
enough more years would be allowed him to enable 
him to witness great moral changes in the world, and 
the commencement of the “Heavenly Kingdom on 
earth.” The excellent health he had for many years 
enjoyed, due to his regular habits and even temper, 
naturally aided in encouraging this idea, and but for a 
protracted illness growing out of a very slight cause, 
he would probably have postponed indefinitely signing 
and executing a will, which, in such a contingency, he 
would probably have deemed superfluous and perhaps 
undesirable. 
The slight cause alluded to, was his wearing for the 
first time, about three years ago, at a dinner party in 
the country, some twenty miles from Philadelphia, a 
pair of boots not before used, the pressure of one of 
which for six or eight hours (the day being warm) 
upon a bunion on one of his feet, produced a serious 
swelling ending in inflammation of the whole foot and 
its suppuration, by which he was confined to his house 
and bedroom for many months; preventing, during 
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