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Owing to the union a faithful adherence and liberal support, there is at the same time due our constitution is a manly assertion of their rights. You will not therefore fail, to revert to the subject of the debt of the United States on account if the services of the militia employed during the late war. Its payment is of lass consequence than the acknowledgment of its justice and the encouragement of that Militia through a recognition of their merits and may surely with a proper self respect, be presented to the attention of a Congress too proud, magnanimous, and intelligent to be sordid or prejudiced. The Claim is truly that of citizen soldiers of the United States, driven into action by its measures engaged in its service, exposed to its enemy, and employed for its benefit. Had it not been that an odium against the Executive of Massachusetts prevented, the claim would probably have been allowed long since, and the virtuous and faithful soldier who has paid