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.