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1839 Aug 7. continued. proposition; unless it was intended that no voice should be heard in the matter excepting theirs. They protest that the late emigrants had no de-sire whatever that the old settlers should "yield to their will and pleas-ure", "but that both parties could meet in the full possession & enjoy-ment of all their powers & pre-rogatives, and without yielding up any right, or destroying any thing that was valuable in the institutions or resources of either, to combine the virtue & wisdom & advantages of both, and to render the whole available to the general welfare; but the writers add, this desire was not reciprocated: on the contrary, at the general council,