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no doubt that, long ere this period, he would have been both promoted and 
otherwise rewarded. _ Preferr ing, however, the federal republican Gov- 
ernment of the United States, aictee may be the evils inseparable from 
* institutions, to any and all other forms of government in the world, he 
erts to his own unrequited sufferings, not as a matter of complaint, ‘but 
pa a subject of regret. He, avcrthalees, cannot close this topic without 
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Botanical Garden and Pattern Plantation, near Havana, by the ro yal Gov- 
ernment of Spain. He would further by reared Oo ‘the attention of 
the committee to some official letters of the Hon. Louis McLane, while 
Secretary of State, in 1834; and to the diiron of the Legislature of 
Louisiana, on the 11th of March i in reference to the extraordinary 
services of the subscriber. 
ed the second head, the subscriber refers the committee to the act of 
ress “ to promote the introduction and encourage the culture of the 
Sthe? a single extra-tropical plant, which did convey to J. J. Dufour and 
1is associates, foreigners, a certain tract of very rich soil, in a very valauble 
situation, by which soil and site said foreign grantees were greatly bene- 
fitted, although their experiment did “| and to the fact that the subscriber 
has solely solicited an equivalent ac “to encourage the introduction ‘and 
cultivation of all valuable tropical sincaat which may convey to himsel 
ociate Americans, an equivalent quantity of absolutely sterile anes 
in an esliniali worthless situation, by which the native grantees 
entirely ruined if their experiments should fail. 
He further refers the committee to other acts of Congress, among the vol- 
umes of printed laws with which eats are eo net a more familiar than the 
subscriber bas ever had an opportunity t 
Under the third head the subscriber gible at refers, firstly, to the repert 
‘of the Committee of eA of the House of Representative, No. 
the first session of the 22d Congress, accompanying the bill in his behalf, 
which exhibits the thes of that aeons relative to the worthlessness of the 
lands in tke peninsula ai Florida, to the general opinion of both the 
ida land would be a rend on the soldiers ; to the report on file in the 
departments relative to the obstacles presented by the surface of the country 
that penin sula. 
He thinkes it will thus be shown that, for actual sailed or common — 
culture, all the surface of southern Florida is worse than useless 
so 
Government that, nevertheless, for the most valuahle soils and sites under- 
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