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| − | to avoid | + | to avoid collisiones, inevitably unfortunate, in any result. At the same time it cannot abandon its obligations, its title deeds, & its rights. It cannot allow the citizens to be incarcerated in foreign gaols. The State would shrink most dreadfully under the shame of such a submission. For the sake of being fully informed it has for several years solicited the documents possessed by the general government in relation to this subject. It is with great confidence that I urge its consideration now in as much as all that has been requested, has been supplied agreeably to what was understood to be the wish of the last Legislature. That invaluable mass of documents. Now in the Secretary;s office. and the copies of communications between myself and others contain nearly all that jean offer. The delicate nature of the subject induces me to ask a particular examination in reference to publication, if that shall be proposed, yet, there is no wish on my part that what has been written by myself shall be disposed of in one way in preference to the other. On the most thoughtful revival. I find no past deviation from my existing sentiments, and am bound to sustain the most rigorous responsibility. |
Amidst the views urged has been a primary one of that nature requiring its being submitted to you for correction if desires. It is in relation to the undefined and perhaps undefinable line of rights between States and United States authority, along which construction is constantly urging disputed claims, and in general has much advantage in irruption and upon the States. The erection of the union has been considered as disposed to submit the question of the boundary of Maine, with a perfectly friendly intent, but without regarding her as a party. to the umpirage of a foreign authority. The submission itself admits the possibility of an unjust and disastrous decision. While it is not presumed to cast a shadow of suspicion on the integrity with which that authority may be exercised nor upon the motives of any person whomsoever it has nevertheless been deemed a suitable precaution to urge the following propositions. It cannot be arrogance which asserts them as materials of a monument of the rights of our employers, which will become firm by time, when properly combined and cemented by your reflections. | Amidst the views urged has been a primary one of that nature requiring its being submitted to you for correction if desires. It is in relation to the undefined and perhaps undefinable line of rights between States and United States authority, along which construction is constantly urging disputed claims, and in general has much advantage in irruption and upon the States. The erection of the union has been considered as disposed to submit the question of the boundary of Maine, with a perfectly friendly intent, but without regarding her as a party. to the umpirage of a foreign authority. The submission itself admits the possibility of an unjust and disastrous decision. While it is not presumed to cast a shadow of suspicion on the integrity with which that authority may be exercised nor upon the motives of any person whomsoever it has nevertheless been deemed a suitable precaution to urge the following propositions. It cannot be arrogance which asserts them as materials of a monument of the rights of our employers, which will become firm by time, when properly combined and cemented by your reflections. | ||
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to avoid collisiones, inevitably unfortunate, in any result. At the same time it cannot abandon its obligations, its title deeds, & its rights. It cannot allow the citizens to be incarcerated in foreign gaols. The State would shrink most dreadfully under the shame of such a submission. For the sake of being fully informed it has for several years solicited the documents possessed by the general government in relation to this subject. It is with great confidence that I urge its consideration now in as much as all that has been requested, has been supplied agreeably to what was understood to be the wish of the last Legislature. That invaluable mass of documents. Now in the Secretary;s office. and the copies of communications between myself and others contain nearly all that jean offer. The delicate nature of the subject induces me to ask a particular examination in reference to publication, if that shall be proposed, yet, there is no wish on my part that what has been written by myself shall be disposed of in one way in preference to the other. On the most thoughtful revival. I find no past deviation from my existing sentiments, and am bound to sustain the most rigorous responsibility.
Amidst the views urged has been a primary one of that nature requiring its being submitted to you for correction if desires. It is in relation to the undefined and perhaps undefinable line of rights between States and United States authority, along which construction is constantly urging disputed claims, and in general has much advantage in irruption and upon the States. The erection of the union has been considered as disposed to submit the question of the boundary of Maine, with a perfectly friendly intent, but without regarding her as a party. to the umpirage of a foreign authority. The submission itself admits the possibility of an unjust and disastrous decision. While it is not presumed to cast a shadow of suspicion on the integrity with which that authority may be exercised nor upon the motives of any person whomsoever it has nevertheless been deemed a suitable precaution to urge the following propositions. It cannot be arrogance which asserts them as materials of a monument of the rights of our employers, which will become firm by time, when properly combined and cemented by your reflections.