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"We are induced to hope that we shall not be altogether
considered as foreigners having no particular affinity or
connection with the United States; but that trade and commerce,
upon which the prosperity of this State much depends, will be
preserved as free and open between this State and the United
States, as our different situations at present can possibly
admit....
"We feel ourselves attached by the strongest ties of friendship,
kindred, and interest, to our sister States; and we can not,
without the greatest reluctance, look to any other quarter for
those advantages of commercial intercourse which we conceive to
be more natural and reciprocal between them and us.
"I am, at the request and in behalf of the General Assembly,
your most obedient, humble servant."
(Signed) "John Collins, _Governor_.
"_His Excellency, the President of the United States._"
[American State Papers, _Vol. I_, Miscellaneous.]
CHAPTER IV.
The Constitution not adopted by one People "in the
Aggregate."--A Great Fallacy exposed.--Mistake of Judge
Story.--Colonial Relations.--The United Colonies of New
England.--Other Associations.--Independence of Communities
traced from Germany to Great Britain, and from Great Britain to
America.--Mr. Everett's "Provincial People."--Origin and
Continuance of the Title "United States.
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