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the Arts applying a power which although not primary and enative is doing much to produce new and embellish old establishments. It would have been considered proper to have produced a Statistical view of the results, except that it is known that an hand has grasped the subject and will present a map, calculations, and reasoning which cannot but meet the wishes and encouragement of the Legislature, as such objects have received the encouragement in several of the other States, and as they must receive encouragement or fail.

  What has been done and what may be done will all be directed to satisfy persons abroad as well as at home that hare isafied for their enterprise where equal rights and with some local exceptions equality in the social condition is enjoyed, where industry finds its certain reward within the reach of the plough, where virtue gives ranks and where the highest objects of philanthropy are accomplished by imparting to every mind that religious and literary instruction which prepares it for earth and heaven. 
 In the number of our resources is one so conspicuous that it must early attract your notice. It is that of a wild and fertile territory, embracing about six millions of acres. It is not necessary now to attempt to show how evidently it is subject to your jurisdiction, nor to speak of its distinguished natural advantages which impart to it the capacity of sustaining 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 the claim to it which unfortunately now stands opposed, under the difficulties of an ingenuity which has endeavored to obscure the line & an opposition, which I trust you will dispassionately authorize to be resisted under the limitations of a cautious & prudent yet decided policy. But withdrawing our views 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