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Rid Yourselves

Lett. Mode of Relinquishment

To the purpose here in question, the provinces conmprized by your

rulers under the denomination of Spanish Ultramaria may be divided into three

classes: namely

1. Those who at the time of the supposed decision in favour of

relinquishment, or rather at the time of the notification of it respectively, are in

a state of independence, whether or [...?] a body of men in arms contending for

independence, under an already notified Constitutional Code.

2. Those which not being in such a state as to be, as above contending

for independence, are in respect of any part of their territory contiguous to any

part of the territory of the Anglo-American United States, in such sort as to afford

a prospect of their obtaining admission into that union. Say Provinces susceptible of

Union with the Anglo-American United States.

3. Provinces not contending for independence nor yet susceptible of union with the

Anglo-American United States.
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    Protected form the importation of innovation protected even from that

    foolish and unmeaning note of censure from the duet between knavery and folly is this

    operation by a succession of laws and conventions which may be seen all together in

    the volume which I have before me of the laws of those United States, published in

    five 8 o. Volumes A o 1815 by authority of

    Congress. In the Index pages, under the general head of cessions of Lands I find

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    2. from the State of Virginia p. 472 A o 1784

    3. from the State of Massachusetts A o 1785 p. 482

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    5. from the State of South Carolina A o 1787 p.

    486.

    6. Articles of agreement and cession of land or territory between the

    United States and the State of Georgia A o 1802 p. 488.

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    relinquished territory, and of these alone: made to them to the end that to their

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    In no one instance does there appear any reason for the supposition that by any one

    of the men by whose suffrages the relinquishment /transfer/ was made any the smallest

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  • Title: [1821 Aug. 14 Rid Yourselves]
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    Analogous case - sale and purchase of good-will of a public house.

    As to the purchasers, there is but one nation in the situation /case/

    of which I see any prospect of the existence /can descry any the least probability/

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    1821 Aug. 12

    From Miss Wright

    Cessions of Power

    Miss Wright's Testimony

    Testimony of Miss Wright to the probity and generosity manifested by various States of

    the Anglo-American on the occasion of the various cessions made of territory and power.

    Fron the book intituled Views of Society and Manners in the 1 st

    edition 8 o 1821 London. pages 381, 382, 392, 393 394, 395

    Page 381 No state in the Union can point to a longer line of public services that

    Virginia: she rung the first alarum of the Revolution by the mouth of her Patrick Henry;

    she led the army of Patriots in the person of her Washington; she issued the declaration

    of independence from the pen of her Jefferson; she bound the first link of the federal

    Union by the hand of her Madison;- she has given to the republic four of the purest

    patriots and wisest statesmen that ever steered the vessel of a state.

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    first peopled by her citizens, and subject to her laws. The manner in wich she released

    Kentucky from her jurisdiction, pointing out the inconveniences arising to her people

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