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and break down the government which you have, by your own free will & choice, established for the Security of your freedom & common welfare. _Will you break sticks to put into the hands of the President to break your own heads with?_ This is the true question submitted for your decision under the President's invitations. I have too much confidence in your wisdom, honesty and patriotism to believe that you can be duped by such serpentine insinuations. It only remains for you to rise in your respective neighborhoods, and declare your sentiments freely and openly upon the subject to the United States Agent, with suitable resolutions, to ensure the payment our our public annuity into the Treasury as heretofore. _It is due to our late Delegation to say to you that they have discharged the duties of the mission with integrity & ability which will not fail to reflect credit on the character of the nation as well as upon themselves individually. I once more admonish you to be firm & united in sentiments and action, and to meet your oppression & wrongs with fortitude and untiring forbearance, as you have already shown by your prudent conduct. Our cause will ultimately triumph. It is the cause of humanity and justice. It involves a question of great magnitude & one of the most extraordinary character that has been agitated in the United States, and it will necessarily consume time to bring it to a final issue; but if the President will sustain the opinion of the court, as he ought to do, the question is already settled and our troubles would ease. And if he will not change his pollicy to sustain the opinion of the court, the next Congress will, in all probability, put an end to this grievous controversy.