APPENDIX.
Rev. Samuel Ware’s Certificate to the Public.
“This is to certify that the certificates which have appeared in public in relation to my daughter’s sanity, were given upon the conviction that Mr. Packard’s representations respecting her condition were true, and were given wholly upon the authority of Mr. Packard’s own statements. I do therefore certify that it is now my opinion that Mr. Packard has had no cause for treating my daughter Elizabeth as an insane person.
SAMUEL WARE.
Attest, Olive Ware,
Austin Ware.
South Deerfield, Aug. 21, 1866.”
The reader should be informed that the above certificate was given after I had been a member of my father’s family for six months, thus affording him ample opportunity to judge of my real condition, by his own personal observation, since Mr. Packard, and his co-conspirator, Dr. McFarland, the Superintendent of the Asylum, both insist upon it, that I am now in just the same condition in reference to my sanity, that I was when I was kidnapped and forced into my prison. Therefore, when my own dear father’s eyes were fully opened to see the deception that had been employed to secure his influence in support of this cruel conspiracy, he felt conscience bound to give the above certificate in vindication of the truth. Another evidence of my Father’s entire confidence in my sanity is found in the fact that about this time he re-wrote his will, and so changed it that, instead of now giving me my patrimony “in trust” as before, he has bestowed it upon me, his only daughter, in precisely the same manner, and upon equal terms every way with my two only brothers.