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of that great thoroughfare, creates a reciprocal obligation to meet their views and to complete the object, if any additional grant that shall be required. The last Legislature, for whom the feeling of respect for the intelligence with which it is devised, and the harmony with which it adopted its measures, cannot be too fully acknowledged, engaged in the most unreserved manner in support of the establishment of our North Eastern Boundary. There is reason to believe that the expression of its sentiments was so salutary as to have attracted the attention of the nation, and to have commanded its approbation of the exertions hitherto made, and which are pledged for preventing any usurpation. In addition to this the President has yielded every possible support. A garrison has been established on our frontier, an Agent from among ourselves has been appointed for purposes in which his diligence and ability have been calculated to be exceedingly valuable, a military road has been provided for, and the case of our fellow-citizen, Baker, has been assumed under the parental care of the United States. To that individual, in policy & justice there is due an indemnity for the violence which at one time seemed to have required that the gaol at Frederickton should have been opened by coercion. As affairs now are, it rests on the magnanimity of Congress not to allow him to suffer under the very mistaken application of foreign power, or on you to provide for him, or to permit the last and most exceptionable resort, that a man who has been oppressed under the injustice of a neighboring government shall suffer in the common cause. It ought also to be stated that the advances of money authorized by your immediate predecessors for the use of Baker, have been returned by a payment from the National Treasury without objection, and with cheerful acquiescence in the request, made more valuable from the Roman virtue displayed by the adoption, as a common one, of the course of a humble citizen, than by any other consequence. The decision of the dispute as to our North Eastern Boundary is referred to the King of the Netherlands, and