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hold ourselves at liberty to leave your cotton on your wharves" and perhaps it might be well to add "your sugar." Let us be friends, but we will not allow to your impatient order of temperament any of severing this Union. We will command such means that you shall not presume to hope anything as to impairing the Constitution our fathers bequeathed, from the fears of an interested connection in June passing chasing and setting." To unequal duties however, to an unfair revenue system, if you can call me to concurrence in any other objections, it will not be refused. Yet it seems to me the fact, that the sufficient appeal is to the extensiveness and 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 ambitionor proscription, no dishonorable competition; but that they should be resisted always by means calculated to perpetuate the blessings and secure the glory of the country.

Belonging to the subject of education is the dissemination of knowledge in evry form. It becomes of consequence a duty to commend to your patronage two works my acquaintance with one of which convinces my judgement that its wide distribution through New England would so add to the spirit of immigration and the value 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 be illustrated by a map appur