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Excerpt from Memorial to the Congress of the United States, of the Executive Committee of the Convention Held at Chicago, July 5, 1847: With an Abstract of the Proceedings of the Convention, on the Improvement of Rivers and Harbors
That your memorialists were instructed by the said Convention to transmit its proceedings to the President of the United States, and to both Houses of Congress, and to communicate such information as the said committee might be able to collect, to guide intelligent and just legislation.
In obedience to these instructions, your memorialists now trans mit herewith the Declaration of Sentiments adopted by that Convention with entire unanimity, excepting the last clause of the fifth proposition, and expressing, as your memorialists believe, the universal Opinions of the vast constituencies represented in that meeting. These circumstances, together with the calmness and de liberation which marked the discussions and proceedings of the Convention, and the enthusiastic approbation which the principles it avowed, have received from all quarters of the country, must entitle them to the respectful consideration of the Representatives of the People and of the States in Congress assembled.
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