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fathers bequeathed, from the fears of an interested connexion in purchasing and selling." To unequal duties, however, to an unfair revenue system, if you can call me to concurrence in any other objection, it will not be refused. Yet it seems to me the fact, that the sufficient appeal is to the extensiveness & fertility of our lands. In our population occupying them, and its character is always a healthful security, Maine ought to be a republic safe in itself. It is not designed to swell this communication by unnecessary remarks, and it is therefore only subjoined on this topic that the confiding and respectful regard which should be paid to each other by the States, and by them to the nation, should not be considered as executively compromitted by what has been urged. Yet on the other hand, that there should be no trespassing violence, no sectional ambition or proscription, no dishonorable competition; but that they should be resisted always by means calculated to perpetuate the blessings & secure the glory of the country. Belonging to the subject of education is the dissemination of knowledge in every form. It becomes of consequence a duty to commend to your patronage two works, my acquaintance with one of which convinces my judgment that its wide distribution through New-England would so add to the spirit of immigration and the value of our Lands as to throw out the consideration of the cost. I allude to a statistical work by Moses Greenleaf, whose eminent ability and distinguished topographical knowledge will be also illustrated by a map appurtenant to the work abovementioned. It is with pleasure too that the liberal spirit which instruction and the diffusion of knowledge has been acted upon, is offered as warranting the recommendation to your encouragement of a History of the State, by William D Williamson. As such, & it is only known to me that one is nearly prepared, it cannot, as is respectfully suggested be less than honorable, if a revision should authorize such a sanction, and the character of the author leads against doubt, to aid in extending its circulation. The production will be submitted to your consideration. From respect to communications made to me and to the nature of the subject, it has become almost imperative to