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�To His Highness the Governor of the State of Maine and Commander in Chief. We the undersigned having been informed through the [?] of our public prints, that the State of Georgia have as a Body, arraigned Capt. Daniel Philbrook, before their Tribunal, and by [?] false wittnesses, have found him guilty of the crime of Slave Stealing. Your Excellency is perfectly aware that no measures however [?] would naturally be resorted too, to accomplish their purpose by the [?] Brain, of a slave holding [?], who being incensed with what they consider an infringement upon their rights-Secured to them (as they say) by the constitution of the United States. Our Opinion is, that Capt. Philbrook was perfectly innocent in the [?] [?] doubt his having any knowledge of the slave being onboard of his vessel, untill so far at sea as to render it impracticable to return. Capt. Philbrook is a [?] young man, and likely unfamiliar