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sustaining some hundred thousand yeomen. Valuable, or rather invaluable, as it is, we ought without hesitation to surrender it if we cannot with justice support that claim to it which unfortunately now stands opposed under the difficulties of an ingenuity which has endeavored to obscure the line, and an apposition, which, I trust, you will dispassionately authorize to be resisted under the limitations of a cautious & prudent yet decided policy. But, withdrawing out view, for a moment, from this unpleasant topic, permit me, if you please, to ask your attention to the tracts of the same character, which are situated on this side of the disputed territory. They furnish not only an asylum for the poor, in which they subdue the wildness and become independent yeomen in a short time; but they invite that native enterprise and talent which frame their own character and fortune unmolested by the artificial distinctions sometimes found extremely embracing to genuine worth.