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fully soliciting that the members of the commiittee will each suggest objec- 
tions, note apparent inconsistencies, and demand every explana tion in his 
power to 
Very respectfully, 
Your obedient servant, 
HENRY PERRINE. 
To the Hon. the ComMIrree on AGRICULTURE 
in the Senate x the United States of America. 
To the honorable the Committees on Agriculture of the oR and House 
of Representatives of the United States of Americ 
WasurinerTon, D. C., 
January 31, 1838, 8 o'clock A. m. 
GanTLEMEN: Understanding that a second joint meeting of your com- 
mittees will be held at 10 o’cloek this DIS the subscriber begs leave to 
present the following short address: ‘The subscriber has repeatedly re- 
on the merit of his claims and the importance of his enterprise, until both 
topics should receive the most rigid investigation which in Ramps sus- 
picion, or animosity, could suggest. Until recently, the ateanket = 
it was universally known that all southern Florida was not ae a cent 
an acre for the cuyiieation of our actual staples, and that all the He sites 
were private property, under Spanish grants. As, however, he ay 
. understood, that some member of your committee still believed that the 
of himself and associates would be fatal to the ultimate views of his patri- 
otic ambition. he is anxious to dissipate even the shadow of a doubt ora 
suspicion which rae rest in the mind of any member of either Rug a 
ry member 
both committees will frankly exp ess. an a ost hidden doubts that exist 
Ps report, founded on an unanimous conviction of the merits or demerits 
” of himself and of his ie 
, however, still begs the just privilege of discussing all te in 
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the prese nee of the whole committee, and of submitting all official docu- 
ments and authentic details which may be relevant or necessa ary. 
‘i: he subscriber boldly repeats, that he comes before Congress wie a 
offer, than to receive, favors, from his Government or his country 
does not wish any law by the terms of which the United States will not s 
benefitted, in the proportion of a thousand to one, on the part of himself 
and pees 
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shi of our ae “fertile soils ; neither will he now advert to preceden 
of equivalent grants to foreigners and_ their associates, of fertile soils 2 
