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tice should be yours, will secure to us your co-operation in carrying 

 out successfully the great objects of the voyage. Our country, 

 never forgetful of the claims of her children, will, we cannot doubt, 

 in the end award you all that is so justly your due, however it may 

 be attempted to deprive you of it at present. Trusting that our 

 appeal, therefore, may produce the desired effect, we remain, dear 

 sir, with the highest respect and esteem, 



" Your sincere friends, 



" Alfred T. Agate, Joseph P. Couthouy, Reynell Coates, James D. 

 Dana, Asa Gray, J. W. Randall, James Eights, Horatio Hale, 

 Raphael Hoyle, W. R. Johnson, Charles Pickering, J. Drayton." 



Sir, in sheer compassion for you, I will suppress the evidence in 

 my possession, additional to the preceding, that you were address- 

 ed directly and personally, in reference to my appointment, by the 

 Hon. Thomas Corwin, of Ohio, and will close this letter with the 

 remarks of the Cincinnati Republican, a paper that had uniformly 

 given you and the president an able support. 



" This appeal or remonstrance, for it is a little of both, was sent 

 to the president early in May last ; but its publication has been 

 withheld until the present moment, in the hope that justice would 

 have been done Mr. Reynolds. But we learn that it is determined 

 that Mr. Reynolds shall not accompany the expedition, and the 

 communication, though signed by a majority of the delegates in 

 Congress from the West, who are friendly to the administration, 

 has not received the courtesy of a notice from the president. 



" When we take into consideration the uniform support the ex- 

 pedition has always received from the West, and especially from 

 the Ohio delegation, who took an interest in the enterprise from 

 the fact that it had been originated and successfully prosecuted by 

 a native of Ohio, the conduct of the executive seems almost unac- 

 countable. Here are the wishes of the almost entire delegation of 

 the northwestern states strongly and manfully expressed. On 

 what ground of petty jealousy are the demands of this letter de- 

 nied ? Was it to gratify a secretary notoriously opposed to the 

 expedition from the moment it was projected, and whose ground 

 of hostility to Mr. Reynolds was mainly owing to the fact that he 

 had again and again defeated him before Congress ? We assign 

 no other reason for the conduct of the president in this case. 



