Vermont daily transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1868-1870, 1869-04-14

by all virtuous, true Republicans, with
equal interest and sensibility. We are
at a loss which most to admire, the
manly and correct sentiment II contains,
or the gentlemanly, classic al d elegant
style ia which it is written. 1t needs
not the aid of the pen ofpanegyric-the
production itself Is the best comment
upon its merits. Republicans Friends
Of the best interests of your country,
read and reflect - Vermont Centinet,
June Sd, 1908.
TO THOMAS JEFFERSON, ESQ,
President of the United States |:
Il MEMORIAL
OF the Inhabitants of the Tovn Of 81.
Aibans.
To investigate in Il becoming manner,
the measures of Government, and with
Republican frankness to ask redress of
grievances, are privileges guaranteed by
our happy Constitution, and of which
we, as freemen, cannot be deprived.
Animated with these sentiments, and
with ardent wishes for the honor, pros
perity and happiness of their country,
your memorialists, inhabitants of the
Town of st. Adams, in the North
Western District of Vermont, beg leave
respectfully to represent That in an
agricultural State like this, that part of
their productions which the inhabitants
do not want for their own consumption
is generally rendered valuable only by
the commerce of the Maritime States
that q people situated as are your memo
rialists, at SO great distance from the
Atlantic seaports, must at all times ex-
perience many and great commercial
disadvantages that to surmount these,
and many other difficulties incident to
their local situation, your memorialists
and their fellow-citizens of this District
have depended alone on their agricultu-
raj pursuits, on the manufacture of pot
and pearl ashes, and the timber of their
forests that oy the persevering toll and
unceasing labor of hardy, Independent
fresmen, the gloomy wilderness which
but recently covered this part of the
State, and which but few years since
was occupied only by the savage and
the brute, had given place to agricultu
raj enterprise; and the face of the
country, from the lakes and rivers to the
heights of the Green Mountains, exhib-
tied the plentiful fruits of industry,
from which the cultivators of the soil
began to enjoy the good of their labor.
That after the Act of Congress of the
22d Of December last, laying general
embargo on the commerce and shipping
Of the United States, the inhabitants of
this District, no longer findin! in the
maritime States profitable market for
their articles of expectation turned their
attention to Canada, as commercial
intercourse with that place afforded
them the only prospect of exchanging
their surplus productions for many of
the cOnveniences and even necessaries
of life. That in the midst of their ex-
ertions to realize the advantages which
they promised themselves from this
trade, they were unexpectedly arrested
by another Act of Congress of the 18th
of March last, prohibiting all CONNER
cial intercourse by water or land, be-
tween the citizens of the United States
and the adjacent territories of foreign
powers. That from Iaudable determi-
nation to provide, as far as in their
power, against disastrous events, they
had employed a great portion of their
property in this trade with Canada.
That now, cut off from the only market
that could reward their enterprising la
bors, and from all the prospects arising
from this commercial intercourse, let it
not be imputed to them as a crime if, in
this hour of adversely, they have in
dulged that anxiety, dependency and
fear which are inseparable from their
unhappy situation. That the compli-
Gated difficulties under which they la.
Dor have justly awakened in them de-
Hberate and manly enquiry into the
wisdom and policy of the restrictions
by which those difficulties are OCCASION
cd and that they have, with freedom,
exercised that watchful jea lousy, which
Is ever characteristic of real Republic
cans.
But after an impartial investigation
OF the subject so far as they are capable,
your memOrialists cannot conceive how
the object of the general embargo, which
was the protection of our " vessels, our
seamen and merchandise on the high
seas" can be in any way connected
with the provisions of the law of March