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inducements therefore, you may deem proper to offer for such a purpose tending to advance the best interests our constituents will command my cheerful support. The subject of our North Eastern Boundary, which has long been in controversy with the Government of Great Britain remains yet unsettled. The reference of this question to an Umpire without the consent and against the protestation of this State, having resulted in an obvious departure from the terms and purposes of the submission, I cannot but consider the way as now open for the ultimate attainment of our rights: The determination of the present National Administration "to submit to nothing that is wrong: in its negotiations with foreign powers, furnishes a guaranty, that the territorial and jurisdictional rights of Maine will not again be put in jeopardy by any arrangement to which this State is not a party, or to which its assent shall not be first obtained. What considerations may grow out of the negotiation now pending, to induce the people of this State to assent to any proposed modification of their rights, I will not presume to anticipate. If any should arise in connexion with a proposition of that character, our obligations as public servants acting under a Constitution which gives to us but limited powers, point directly to the people themselves, both for instruction and for the measure of authority that will be essential to a proper action upon the Subject. Experience has fully demonstrated that