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to that time. Then now is the time for ac- tion-now is the time to petition, discuss, and agree upon every thing necessary to be done, that bidder for the contract may know what to expect from a grateful people. l would then say to the counties of Pulaski, Jefferson, Arkansas, and Desha, come to the rack, fodder or no fodder; let us unite upon this subject; let us say to our members III Congress, with the voice of at least two thousand freemen, aid us in this measure or expect our united exertions against you in the fall of '46. Let us also procure the statements of all our river men upon the practicability of conveying the mail in small boats on the Arkansas river, and let us for ward those opinions on with the petition to the Postmaster General, and if they are fla vorable to our project, he will grant our prayer without doubt, if they are not, then let him grant Us the mail by land and water alternately: by water when there is plenty by land on horseback or in stages, (as the law disregards the model when the river is low. The mail is our riget, and therefore let us earnestly, but respectfully, persevere in our prayer, and flatter myself with the belief that we shall succeed.

 JEFFERSON.