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From DigitalMaine Transcription Project
nation into a bloody and fratricidal war attended with unalterable woes, may be finally put at rest.
I congratulate you personally that in your character as the constitutional representatives of the people of Maine, the felicity is vouchsafed to you, to give effect to their will by voting for the extirpation of a system utterly at variance with every other American institution, offensive to the best instincts of our species, founded in disregard of the first principles of human justice and in violation of the laws of God.
Sam'l Cony