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80 History University of Illinois Farmer'8 college in Ohio to which he had paid a visit only the month before. Coming from a practical farmer and an educated man who had been thinking along these lines for several years his suggestions are interesting. 84 Some of them were embodied in a bill that was introduced in the legislature the following winter. By no means all the important activities of these men during the year 1854 have been mentioned. For example, Turner lectured in St. Louis and other places; he prepared or at least he said he was going to prepare a university bill for presentation in congress at the request of Richard Yates ; 85 he journeyed through various parts of the state talking with men on the cars and in hotels, directly or indirectly influencing them to think and to act for the cause of industrial education. That the league leaders were hopeful and enthusiastic at this time is shown by a letter of Dr. Rutherford to Turner from Danville, Illinois, under date of November 10, 1854: ?? The Work goes bravely on. The wind stands on every tack in the best quarter. More has been done in the last six weeks for our cause than in the whole year preceding. We have circulars published to the various county agricultural societies at the expense and under favor of the State Society. Two more are to be issued one to call a convention and the other to ask for aid.*! In the same letter Rutherford said that he was meeting with the best success wherever he went. In Urbana on a notice of half an hour he had an audience of from forty to fifty, and so pleased were they that they arranged to have him return in a few days for another meeting. In Danville on November 9, a day or so later, he had an audience of 250 and they passed a "smashing" resolution unanimously. Before the close of the year Dr. Rutherford was lecturing in the northern part of the state again and had gone as far west as Galena. The Buel institute, which had started the ball rolling, showed its continued interest by passing resolutions approving the activity of the industrial league and endorsing its plans. 36 These '* suggestions'' are included in a letter of Murray to Turner, October 20, 1854, Turner manuscripts, Springfield, and printed in the appendix, p. 435. "Tates to Turner, April 14, 1854, Turner manuscripts. ••Illinois State Agricultural Society, Transactions, 1:182, M HfekJSn
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