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To contend with this mammoth company in the federal Court, was entirely out of the power of the colonists-to have attempted this was virtually to surrender their homes, and worse than madness. Twenty five thousand souls through their delegates in this convention-by them, in deliberative bodies, chosen for this pur- pose, now ask your Excellency to convene an extra session of the legislature, that they may have the relief, for which, through long years of anxiety and suspense, they have looked in vain. That the law of the 10th of Febuary 1852 was properly intended, will not now be questioned by your memorialists. Yet it is found to make "confusion worse confounded" and instead of quieting titles to land, it has been the firebrand which ignited the just resentment of an outraged and long abused people, and caused them to commit an act which they hope no similar necessity will ever impose upon them. We are now in the condition of being in the possession of lands, justly our own, and have no titles for them, and living in the prospect of continued vexations by the Peters Company. We would also suggest to your Excellency, that our beauti- ful and fertile country-unsurpassed in loveliness or richness and strength of soil, is languishing under the baneful influence of having no titles to our lands.-the resources of the country are not being divelloped.- The farmer cannot reclaim and prepare for cultivation the land not his own.-he cannot build either the mansion or cottage without the prospect of enjoying the reward of his labor or of transmitting it to those over whom God has ap- pointed him guardian. The Loom, the anvil and the press find no encouragement in our midst. Commerce and the arts and sci- ences tardily drag their emanciated forms in our country, which God has blessed with all the elements of wealth a_nd happiness and upon whose fair face he has implanted the bewitching smile, which says, to all, "Come and I will give it thee." By this unhallowed state of affairs, the citizen is deprived of enjoyment and the state of a handsome revenue. The morals of the community are endangered by this lethargic incubus- The youth of the country must grow up uneducated-unim- proved. The temple of Justice must be polluted,-the altars of religion desecrated-the fanes of science and education immo- lated-the eagle of liberty (to the colonist) stript of its plumage -and the stars and stripes of our ccmntrys banner, will not meet
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